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by jddj 1y ago
It won't be novel the 100th or 1000th or millionth time, and standards will rise accordingly. But for now it is, or at least 2 months ago it was. Someone created that relatively coherent 5min animated story largely by communicating wit
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by jddj 1y ago
I came to the same sort of conclusion when watching Kitsune, which I think was one person and VEO https://vimeo.com/1047370252 Granted, 5 minutes isn't 1h30 but it's not a million miles away either.
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by jddj 2y ago
At least two Australian elections in recent(ish) memory were heavily influenced by illegal immigrant rhetoric. In particular the children overboard scandal and stop the boats.
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by jddj 2y ago
Yeah, the bond market started saying firmly "stop fucking around" and an adult seemingly appeared in the room
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Leaving wealth to one side, do you think value creation is a lie?
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by jddj 2y ago
> finding a droubt tolerant species which concerns itself with pesticide production may be difficult Tobacco, no?
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by jddj 2y ago
Not to take anything away from this witty comment, but I think Harris is more on the doomer side? Maybe that's what you meant after all.
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by jddj 2y ago
Fyi the three dots menu popover for the documents opens up mostly off screen to the right. Firefox android
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by jddj 2y ago
Interesting. I recently picked it up for the first time and had no issue whatsoever getting it to do what I needed it to do without any guidance. Are tooltips abuse now?
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Professional indemnity
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by jddj 2y ago
Who covers the PI in these cases? Edit: noticed you said insurances, is PI included?
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by jddj 2y ago
> You've recommended Marginalia search so many times, we're starting to think you're either the developer or just really enjoy websites that look like they were designed in 1998. Actually quite funny. [1] https:/&#x2
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by jddj 2y ago
This sounds like the market has reached equilibrium with the average dual income family paying 35% of their gross income on shelter. 35% is a touch high but not out of line with the 30%ish recommendations from banks/estate agents over
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by jddj 2y ago
> Our support team is here to help at support@humane.com through February 28th, 2025. If someone had written this as satire when they released the pin it would have seemed a little harsh
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by jddj 2y ago
Worthwhile is a hard measure. To make money though it just needs to have a large or important audience and a means of convincing people to think, want, or do things that people with money will pay to make people think, want or do. Ads, in o
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by jddj 2y ago
> Depending on who is doing the research, it is said that the US has raised its debt ceiling (in some form or other) at least 90 times in the 20th century.[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United
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by jddj 2y ago
The C# and F# bit is LINQ (language integrated query) and it's a lovely piece of engineering.
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by jddj 2y ago
No one in particular. Russia would be one current example, Israel (and others in the region at various times) another, the US and Germany historically, the Romans, the Ottomans, China, Japan, Britain, Spain, warlords in the western sahara,
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by jddj 2y ago
There are peaceful strategies that are temporarily stable in the face of actors who capitalise on peaceful actors to take their resources, but they usually (always?) take the form of quickly moving on when an aggressor arrives. Eg. birds ab
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by jddj 2y ago
If your oracle can tell me (and everyone else) the prevailing price of copper in 6 months in a manner which accounts for the reflexivity of everyone suddenly learning what will be the precise prevailing price of copper in 6 months, you&#x27
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by jddj 2y ago
> LLMs are a GPS, not a highway. I love these analogies and I think this one is apt. To adapt another which I saw here to this RoR thread, if you're building furniture then LLMs are powertools while frameworks are ikea flatpacks.
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TR's autobiography is in the public domain, for one
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https://marginalia-search.com/ is worth a try
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by jddj 2y ago
I agree with your overall projection. I'm skeptical that a revolution (either social, political or economic) where the proletariat manages to end up in a drastically better position than they are in today can happen in a (for now still
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by jddj 2y ago
The narrative is running away in every direction. There are popular infographics floating around today which explain to the layman that deepseek invented MoE.
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by jddj 2y ago
The interesting thing is that the death of individual responsibility didn't make people (in aggregate) any happier. It could have, or you could imagine a world where it could have, but the kids and teens are (apparently) reporting that
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by jddj 2y ago
You write very well, and there are some nice insights in there. I clicked through out of curiosity but ended up reading a lot.
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Outside of the US this optionality does have some value to deserve at least some premium. Hire an extra dev for the same money looks good on paper, but employment being the trapdoor function that it is in some jurisdictions does muddy the
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#10 on the list there is team
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by jddj 2y ago
It definitely worries me. We're firmly at post-truth, and very much also at post-shame, particularly for the billionaires, which is a concerning place to be. All I can do is try to be thoughtful with my words and actions and live accor

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