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Use Cercube if you are on iOS (works just like Vanced, just need to sideload via altstore)
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95% of Americans aren’t entirely in line with cutting edge of American progressive thought
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Thing is... its just a day job for these people and they probably get paid less than us devs. They have families, complicated lives just like we do. Stuff gets in the way of doing a stellar job sometimes. I don't think lazy devs that c
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Twitter didn’t just make a simple communication platform, they made a platform and wrote algorithms that (intended or not) elevate extremist and divisive voices. If they just made a simple chat app your metaphor would hold but they are dire
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That’s possible but the article is a year old. This past year and a half I think if you polled the HN crowd you would even see a dramatic shift in perspective on proper policy for big tech antitrust legislation. It is not unreasonable to as
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When did the HN crowd become so defensive of copyright? I understand the concerns on copilot but it’s kinda weirding me out.
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> short squeeze on naked shorts Trading is getting really graphic these days
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A few years ago we would make fun of people who questioned global warming when it snowed… now we claim it is in fact global warming when it’s hot out? Edit: Politicization of individual weather events makes way for bad science no matter how
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I switched to Alexa just because I hated saying hey google. I do use the computer wake work and it’s indeed annoying but the fun makes it worth it for me lol
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If the thing you are trying to run has/had a Windows counterpart you could try using crossover which can run 32 bit Windows apps on Mac.
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> Real AI Agreed, also though the term is artificial general intelligence or strong ai. Despite what the 90s movies told us, artificial intelligence just refers to systems which exhibit intelligent behavior, not to human level general in
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So basically all technology is natural because it is an outgrowth of maths? That waters down the definition of natural to meaninglessness
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> AI isn't artificial Lol what? Well it’s not natural/biological intelligence. That quip fundamentally misunderstands the breadth of the ai field. Additionally, the critique of mechanized labor (regardless of its accuracy) is o
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*Looks like someone may have bought into the hype at just the wrong time*
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For most things absolutely- I’ve had great success with proton. There are a few holdouts, especially in the VR space where Windows is still unfortunately very necessary.
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This is why I treat windows as my gaming console at this point. I game on it, thats it. Everything important I leave to linux/mac.
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Yes and even then it doesn’t Additionally the claim wasn’t, ‘exceed the number of incidences of being shot on the job’ it was, ‘majority of [deaths] are traffic accidents’
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Even on your source they aren’t the majority
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It’s important to understand that this includes everyone in policing even those who work behind a desk not just those that are near the front lines so to speak. The usbls collects it for the entire policing sector not just the job of police
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Untrue at least for USA, only 28% are road related deaths. https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfar0020.pdf
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> This drone does not fit the description of any known DOD drone, so you should assume it’s classified. The DOD is meticulous about only flying classified aircraft in restricted airspace I think the most likely explanation is somewhere b
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I would say google is closer to the new Oracle than new ibm
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Cercube which is basically equivalent to youtube vanced on android (no ads, background play, downloads etc) - its not on altstore (nothing really is) but you can use altstore to sideload it
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For me at least Firefox is a no go on every laptop I’ve worked on - the fans start spinning up and I start losing battery life really quickly (especially on macs). Works fine on my desktops though.
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How about the entirety of the US medicaid program? If you literally have no income you get free healthcare, even if you have limited income you may qualify for Medicaid or a heavily discounted marketplace plan. https://en.m.wikip
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If you aren’t earning an income you can get free healthcare
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IMHO continually calling google (and their employees that are on HN) out on their BS is a net positive even if their BS is starting to get repetitive.
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If you aren’t raking it in personally you can just get a cheap option from the exchange - if you are raking it in you can afford it
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The horseshoe strikes again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
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Again though, ”manual curation of data for supervised learning tasks” is just a fraction of the ai research being done today. Making these claims as to apply to all AI is either ignorant or sensationalist regardless of the truthfulness of t
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