kamikazeturtles

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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
I don't know what an "AI Engineer" is, but, is reading research papers actually necessary if the half life of the relevancy of many of these papers is only a few months until the next breakthrough happens? I have a feeling, u
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Lenin Following the news feels more and more like watching a very entertaining tv show, especially with all the plot twists.
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
While I like frameworks like Rails and Django, Golang with AI makes me very productive. Especially because of how Golang codebases don't use too many dependencies so an LLM never recommends code that has an old dependency or mismatched
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
> The National Guard - along with thousands of firefighters (many of them prisoners working for $10 a day or less) - have been deployed to help tackle the conflagration. I hope their compensation is a little more than $10 a day! By the l
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
Surprisingly, Facebook has 2.1 billion daily active users. I primarily use the app for its Marketplace feature as an alternative to Craigslist.
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
> Turkey had a well functioning democracy Turkey has a functioning democracy it's just that most of the population loves populist rhetoric. Erdogan's party lost mayoral elections in all the major cities. > Solid economics Tu
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
I've experienced living with bed bugs during my boarding school years. Despite getting multiple bug bites a week consistently for a couple years, I never actually got to see a live bed bug. Bed bugs are no joke
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
>leaving Gaza alone for 15+ years There's been a blockade of Gaza. The Israelis determine the caloric intake of the inhabitants of Gaza. Everyone in Gaza has an Israeli issued ID card. I thought Israel's strategy as it related
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
An estimated 70% of buildings in Gaza have been either damaged or completely destroyed. The majority of the population has been displaced from their homes. Civilian casualty estimates range from 40,000 to 186,000 (according to earlier proje
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
Of all the presidents I've seen in my lifetime, I think President Carter might be the only one who felt genuine and didn't exhibit narcissism.
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
I found LLMs to be really good for Quran studies. Especially for questions where Google is unreliable. In one instance I was trying to remember if it was in the Bible or the Quran where, in the story of Abraham, the pagans are asked why the
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
All the jobs I got over my career, I got by filling out a non-conventional long job application form. I always assumed it's because that's where most job seekers would drop off. It's how I got a job as an HVAC tech without an
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
“If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
Did the fact that Christians from Western Europe looted Constantinople in 1200 play a role in the Eastern Roman Empire's decision to stop identifying themselves as part of the Catholic Church, or were there already deep theological and
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
Python is used for much more than just web dev and Django, whereas Ruby seams to only be synonymous with Ruby on Rails. Do you think Rails is still worth using when investing in learning Python and Django has a much higher roi?
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
I find problem with when people chalk up all the civilian deaths to "sectarian violence" as if carpet bombing whole cities, including even bomb shelters designated for civilians, hospitals, and press offices ... , doesn't kil
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
There is a video clip from the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5xL_6_GlU4 The US intentionally took out water and sewage treatment facilities in the Gulf war and placed particular sanctions to make sure the popu
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
I find it hard to believe the US cared about civilian life in Iraq when the US military took out Iraq's water treatment facilities in the Gulf war then imposed sanctions to make sure they can't be repaired, killing 500,000 childre
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
I love this sort of writing. Bringing attention to something you don't pay too much attention to, even as a muslim. My prayer rug has tessellation patterns, probably a testament to God's infiniteness. Where I'm originally fro
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
According to the Lancet medical journal, the Gaza deaths are closer to 200k but other sources say it might even be higher. No one knows because most of the hospitals are not operational, the dead from collapsed buildings can't be retri
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
When we bomb, it's called a preemptive strike. It's only considered war when the enemy responds. Welcome to the "rules based international order"
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
It was closer to a "regime change" proxy war with thousands of imported fighters, rather than a "civil war".
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
According to Israel's Dahiya doctrine, civilian targets are legitimate targets in order to put pressure on opposing governments.
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Are you referring to the South China Sea or Israel?
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I'd find it hard to believe all the cities in Spain decided to expel the Jewish people all on the same day. The inquisition began decades earlier so there probably were indications something bad was going to happen
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India must've sounded nicer than the Ottoman Empire
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
The Spanish inquisition began in the 1470s so it makes sense he would hide his ethnicity. What's really interesting however, is how the same year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, 1492, was when the Ottoman Empire accepted 60,000 Jewish
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by kamikazeturtles 2y ago
In Syria, Obama armed a bunch of "moderates" as he put it. They were all just extremist terrorists. Our media covered for him. Why don't you equally distrust our media?
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There was no reference to Luminati or Hola VPN which, iirc, were exposed to be working together to offer scrapers "residential proxies" by using their free users internet as proxy servers
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All sources are biased to some extent

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