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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
Even expensive restaurants in Japan use disposable chopsticks. And you only get splinters on your chopsticks because you're rubbing them in your hands and making pieces break off. In all my decades of using chopsticks, I've never
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
An annoying extension of this is opening a Google maps link on mobile. It always prompts to open Google Maps (the app) no matter what. If you click no, its bugs the fuck out and opens an App Store link. If you click yes, even if you have Go
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
What makes me not want to use it is I assume Mozilla has a legal presence all around the world. Two huge reasons people use VPNs is piracy and saying things/accessing content that's not legal in their country. If that company has
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
A lot of people thought France was just being arrogant for not going all in on becoming dependent on the US and maintaining their own ways of doing things. These past few years, it's been paying off for them. Hopefully other countries
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
A country has no obligation to make its medical system cheap and affordable for tourists. Your mention of "foreigner" was wrong because foreigners have access to all the same health care as a local. No matter what country on earth
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
This is absolutely not true. I pay the equivalent of about $40 for X-rays and blood tests. A simple consultation is about $15, if that. I recently got diagnosed with asthma, and the whole set of tests plus a month of medicine came out to ab
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
So now they're standardizing it, cool. Would Ukraine still be around if they had not fought defended themselves initially with cheap toy drones and waited until they had 4 years of QA, non-combat testing, verifying shelf life, etc etc?
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
If you think shelf life, QA, safety, blah blah blah matters when a rocket is 100 bucks, I have just three words: you will lose. The Ukraine war is being fought with a bunch of cheap toy style drones dropping grenades everywhere. The US got
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
With AI running rampant, it seems security through obscurity is basically the best thing we have. Everyone knows reddit, facebook, xitter, etc so any clown can and does have bots running loose. HN is "obscure" in that most normies
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
Taxes coincidentally causing a 3x price change right when private equity buys a company is quite unlikely. Especially since I doubt every other company has tripled their prices.
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
Probably a bigger sign to look for would be average age of bank tellers vs other occupations. If it's trending higher, then it's likely just people who've been doing the job for a long time and serving other older customers.
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
The only time you set violent criminals loose on another country is when you desire genocide of the people of that country.
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
It can output books verbatim. It often "mistakenly" embeds watermarks from famous artists into generated pictures. Arguing that it's not stealing because a bought and owned legal system, which worked at a glacial pace even be
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
Courts pretty much always rule in favor of rich corps that steal from individuals, and increasingly so. AI companies have money. Artists don't. That makes AI thievery fine, doubly so since AI corps have financially contributed to the g
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
Apple just seems to be in a rush to launch half-baked features then keeps them in a weird state of stasis for years. The globe/FN key changes the keyboard layout when tapped, which is very useful since I type in multiple languages, but
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
They're different questions. One is whether they support the way Trump is doing it. The other is whether they support a war overall. Their reason for supporting a war but not the way Trump is doing it could range from it being too extr
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
A lot of people voted on a platform of pissing off a lot of people. A lot of people are pissed. Polls on the day of the invasion indicated a lack of support; since then a lot of people have shown that they're pissed, and now that voter
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by kdheiwns 7mo ago
How much sauce are you putting on your food though? 17% sugar is bad in a drink where it adds up fast, but for a hot sauce where you're using maybe 2 teaspoons max (likely less), that's like 1-2 grams of sugar. Essentially a round
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
A more likely and immediate use case is having these mini humans autonomously pilot drones in which they'll kill big humans.
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Elephants have 3x the neurons of a human. Bees have about a million and they have complex relationships, emotions, and can remember the faces of humans. Neuron counts correspond more to body size than actual cognitive abilities. And brains
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Taiwan, Japan, and Korea import the vast majority of their fuel from that region. If any of those three countries run out of fuel, the impacts would be larger than if any single Western European country lost energy. The world as a whole dep
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Tech has also changed to become an all encompassing thing. In 2000, loads of people didn't have computers or cell phones. Maybe they owned a CD player and watched TV. Tech was avoidable then. But now everyone has a phone in their pock
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Yes. I never really see people say wtf they're making. It's always "AI bot wrote 200k lines of code for me!" Alright, cool. Is the project something completely new? Useful? A rushed remake of a project that already exist
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Most of the purpose of pixel art is that it's hand crafted and every pixel matters. Not much point to pixel art if you drop that aspect.
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Engineers will go back in and fix it when they notice a problem. Or find someone who can. AI will send happy little emoji while it continues to trash your codebase and brings it to a state of total unmaintainability.
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Yep. All AI has done for me is give me the power of how good search engines were 10+ years ago, where I could search for something and find actually relevant and helpful info quickly. I've seen lots of people say AI can basically code
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
There's a subset of people that likes collecting tabs and thinks it's some impressive measure and I've encountered them more and more recently, I guess as some attempt to brag that their computer can handle something? It&#x27
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
Yesterday was my first time trying it. One thing that felt a bit strange to me was that I asked it something and the response was just one paragraph. Which isn't bad or anything but it felt... strange? Like I always need to preface Cha
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
I got an M5 and it unfortunately had Tahoe preinstalled. Out of the box, Quicklook is choppy. My non-Tahoe M1 is buttery smooth. I don't know how Apple managed to ruin a feature that's been running smoothly for decades.
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by kdheiwns 8mo ago
I said that myself. Read the sentence that followed

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