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Yes, waste is an English cultural concept, especially in the US. In this concept, waste is viewed as a sign of affluence. So ironically, the more one wastes the more "conservative" one is considered to be. Pretty much the opposite
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I also found quite a few of these in Tokyo. Many-block-long ped tunnels that connected nearby subway stations together, but also served as a way to cross town without being out in the blazing heat and humidity. The skyway in Minneapolis was
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So, the gist is, adoption of intolerant christianity doomed the roman empire 8-/ Not too surprising really, given that religion has been central to almost every war since then. I would refer once again to Ernest Cline: https:/&#x
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> "shouldn't the peer reviewers and proofreaders at a top journal catch this error?" You're absolutely right. I guess I was trying to speak to a broader issue, of why do we see so much blatant copying. I don't ag
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I agree, just leaving the 'l' out could easily cause an auto spell check to change it to "seafood".
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Much of the www is composed of copying. I recently corrected an error in this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Shionomisaki Which stated: "Geologically, the cape is a flat uplifted seafood pla
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In the feed today: AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic/
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Maybe my statement wasn't clear. The point is that the server operators pay for all of the bandwidth of access to their servers. When this access is beneficial to them, that's OK, when it's detrimental to them, they're p
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That's all pretty impressive, for a bunch of monkeys... Dance, Monkey, Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLNA7MRdjlw The monkeys feel alone, all 6 billion of them... The monkeys shave the hair off of their bodies
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Why would anyone downvote this? Obviously, someone on the intertubes was being a jerk about jounce!
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My biggest bitch is that it requires JS and cookies... Although the long term problem is the business model of servers paying for all network bandwidth. Actual human users have consumed a minority of total net bandwidth for decades: https:
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To me it seems it happened the other way around: a reduction in the valuation of mastery preceded, and facilitated, the acceptance of LLM output as "good enough". What was called "move fast and break things", is one exam
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> When Fascism Comes Wrapped in the Flag and Carrying a Cross Doesn't it always?
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I use tabs, and lots of them...
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The information in the article is shocking and disturbing, and largely known to most informed people. So I'm not sure what's meant by the "got away with" part. It's hard to call it "getting away with", whe
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Double-click then middle-click How much more universal could it get? The mark/splat functionality is one of the things that drew me to early linux...
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Original publication: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/fr...
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I'm sure it's a success for someone 8-/ Mostly IBM. It's certainly been a successful takeover of all of the userspace runtime by one giant integrated set of executables. Pwned off as an init replacement, then feature cre
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> You don't need to develop a new programming language to develop a decent browser engine. Thank You! Just one additional suggestion: Stop throwing plug-in developers under the bus! p.s. I'm writing this in seamonkey... and sti
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The article seemed more apropos to the US automobile industry than SaaS.
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I agree with the complaint. I feel though, that the typical racist hyperbole of his rants are a side show to the ongoing condemnation of any person or policy that aims to send anything less than all economic output to ownership. FDR is stil
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What the hell, we elect world leaders based on misinformation, why not add s/w features for the same reason? In our new post truth, anti-realism reality, pounding one's head against a brick wall is often instructive in the way the
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Not to mention the rear facing blind zones. The backup camera is a very poor substitute for actually being able to see out the back of the car, which in even small cars is so much more difficult than it used to be...
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Wow! This is a flashback! Hope you're doing well Andy W!
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In the long run, it all pays for itself. Every homeowner should pursue it. The sooner the better. Especially once complete independence from an electric utility is achieved. I totally agree with you that the time to install this stuff is at
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With the car, my back of the napkin calculation, says it will pay for itself in about 5 years. At ~10K miles/year, and San Diego gas prices of ~$5/gal.. It's hard to judge with the mini-split, since the house didn't have
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I just paid about $12K to install mini-split heat pumps on a main house and ADU. Two separate systems. That's about 1/2 of the "minimum" cited above, and it's for 2 buildings. This is so similar to the EV panic. I&#
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> political sides-ism ? As opposed to what? "Why can't we all just get along"? It would be so great if the cycle of corruption could be interrupted to prevent the fall of civilization; but when has this ever happened? Ple
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Autodesk is also famous for decommissioning the infrastructure for moving a user's "perpetual" license to new machines. Anyone who wouldn't take the offer to convert to subscription billing just had their "perpetual
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The article seemed a little fluffy, and I wondered if at least part of it was LLM generated. However I do agree with the general sentiment. I find the current hype cycle of LLMs to be similar to the petro industry: there are many useful app

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