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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Late reply... I think lack of education is part of it. The other part is that we are bombarded with content designed to keep us glued to the screen, and the best to do that is to feed us stuff we either agree with or that causes us to feel
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Not sure how else I can phrase it... We have to stay away from false equivalencies. I am not, and was not, saying that we should tolerate fascism! We should not, absolutely not, and what is happening in this country right now is a travesty.
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
No, no, and no. This is exactly the problem! You define conservative ideas as fascism in one swoop and now "they" are all evil, all discussion stops, and you fall in exactly the trap you accuse the other "side" of. We
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
This Left vs Right - us vs them - does not serve us well. It seems to me that what the world needs is a mix of conservative and progressive ideas. Instead of calling each other names or label each other, we could also work together. In the
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
I fail to see what bearing the actions of other projects have on what the IA might or might not do. So far the IA is providing an important service: Insuring the historical data is not lost. Until this actually changes there is no need to g
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
This! Turned off "Discover" on my Android phone. Was weird first. I felt like I might miss out on something, some important bit of information. "Sometimes it does show me interested things" I thought. And, true, sometime
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended? Yes as long as they know to observe traffic and know how to use the subway. Almost all child adductions are parental kidnappings. This "will nobody think of the chi
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
I like the Lenovo P16 gen2. It's not cheap and rather heavy, but very powerful. You can get it with lots of RAM, a powerful graphics card (for LLMs), and a CPU with 24 cores (32 threads). And you can get it shipped with Fedora or Ubunt
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Fun. I started using Linux at 0.98 (forgot the patch level), in 1992. Had a modem and connected to a lot of bulletin boards. I felt very much a like "WarGames" hero, calling phone numbers and all :) I still remember the day when I
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
The US have lost their soul.
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
I agree. My apologies. I didn't mean to diminish the damage they are doing.
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Is that really a surprise to anyone. DOGE is theater, a stage show.
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Seems like a bigger delay is the #$%^&* hub and spoke model. Not too long ago I could catch a direct light to many, many cities in Europe. Now, I need to fly into a hub first - often passing right over my final destination (then having
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Is anyone surprised? It's not like it was a secret, and a majority of voters still voted this government in. Maybe most thought it'll be better for inflation and chose to ignore or belittle the crazy. It seems we're getting t
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
While I absolutely do not like what is happening right now, I cannot agree with your general statement. Could you elaborate? The US has proper separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. The legislative ha
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Oh man. So much fuzz over a site that shares video snippets. Is it just me? I feel like I am witnessing some kind of end of US society. Fear disseminated by politicians and social media (pick whatever we are supposed to be afraid of this we
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Regardless of what you think about this step I find it disconcerting that we can now disagree on facts. For example: - whether crime is up or down - whether the earth is warming or not - how many people live in poverty - what the rate of in
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
I dropped of Twitter, and Facebook in 2014 (or around that time); and I have not missed a single important event since then. People think they need Facebook, X, whatever to stay up to date. Not so. I have a few online newspapers/sites
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Slightly off-topic: I am always baffled with the widespread use of Chrome. On all my machines (including work) I use Firefox. Even on Android I disabled Chrome, so that the feed will have to use Firefox. Chrome is neither faster nor more co
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
“Every [democratic] country has the government it deserves.” ― Joseph de Maistre
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Parquet itself is actually not that interesting. It should be able to read (and even write) Iceberg tables. Also, how does it compare to pg_duckdb (which adds DuckDB execution to Postgres including reading parquet and Iceberg), or duck_fdw
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
"its" not "it's". "its" is a possessive pronoun in this context. Sorry, couldn't help it, please don't hate me.
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
I did various journeys - initially alone, then with an experience guide. Mostly to explore a childhood trauma - mild, but traumatic enough to leave me with a stutter. There were indeed some "bad" trips, although I really do not li
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Work for hire copyright duration of 95 years (from publishing) or 120 years from creation is outrageous. I just donated money to the Internet Archive.
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Sorry, that's what I meant, but formulated badly... Do people really think that Tesla has a 10x future revenue upside compared to BMW.
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And yet today BWM's marketcap is about $70bn (~53bn Euros) vs Tesla's $690bn. Is there really 10x the potential? Edit: My formulation is confusing. I meant whether folks really think that Tesla will eventually have 10x BMW's
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
So basically this is saying that the CAP theorem is irrelevant because a partition is not really have a partition (since the load balancer still can reach everybody). Hmm... I agree that in modern data centers the CAP theorem is essentially
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
My son got his first official letter when we was about two weeks old. It was a bill from the hospital for his birth: $8,000. He was directly charged on that bill, not us parents. And that was on top of the $24,000 bill that we had received
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Releasing some software open source, having it gain popularity (just from being open source) and then saying you can't make money of it seems disingenuous to me. The project would not have been as popular if it hadn't been open so
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by linuxhansl 2y ago
Why bring this us up now? This formula was changed in 1983, when Ronald Reagan was president and the interest rate was 9.09% (down from 12.24% in 1982). I'll note that Steve Forbes supported Trump in 2016, and claimed last year that Jo

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