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by nimih 9mo ago
That's a pretty lazy analysis. As an easy counterpoint, no one pays to look at Facebook or Instagram posts, but both Meta and (at least some) individual influencers are able to run profitable businesses based on that media consumption
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by nimih 9mo ago
FWIW, this is usually called buying either "life insurance" or a "life annuity," depending on whether you want to take a short or long position. The underwriters of such bets tend to be reticent about offering them to 3r
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by nimih 10mo ago
For complex music, sure, but if I'm looking up a folk tune on, say, thesession.org, I personally think a plain-text format like ABC notation is easier to sight-read (since for some instruments, namely the fiddle and mandolin, I mainly
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by nimih 10mo ago
Well, that seems like a pretty reasonable thing to be pissed off about, thanks for taking the time to elaborate. I think the overlap between the bureaucratic technologies developed by people who, by all accounts, are genuine lovers of the
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by nimih 10mo ago
But, Netflix did lose their content by choice! Way back in the 00s, you could pay Netflix something like $5 a month, and they would mail you physical DVDs of almost any movies you could ever want to watch. In fact, my recollection is that t
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by nimih 10mo ago
What, precisely, is the point you’re trying to make here?
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by nimih 10mo ago
Do you not factor in the risk of government tax policy changing when you make large financial decisions? I certainly do (for instance, when I choose between traditional and Roth contributions for my 401k, or when I was purchasing a new car
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by nimih 10mo ago
I think in that case, you, the hypothetical wage worker, got hoodwinked pretty effectively by the beancounters when they were able to get away with compensating you in contracts that are apparently worthless to you.
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by nimih 10mo ago
You'd have to be moving pretty fast to red-shift IR radiation into microwaves, I think.
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by nimih 11mo ago
I don't hang out in my hotel rooms either, but an iron, ironing board, and closet with hangars help me not look like a slob when I want to put on some nice clothes and go out for the evening.
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by nimih 11mo ago
That's how I was taught, and Wikipedia agrees (and even provides audio clips alongside the IPA and English phonetic transcriptions).
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by nimih 11mo ago
They certainly paid someone to run the so-called AIs.
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by nimih 11mo ago
It provides a nice interface for managing and editing tags that integrates well with other command-line tools and keeps your file system well-organized/up-to-date as you edit the tag contents. The batteries-included integration with da
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by nimih 11mo ago
This is the answer I arrived at myself a few hours into importing my own music library. Cleaning up metadata for commercial releases is a nice feature beets offers, but the real value (IMO) of beets is it's a powerful toolbox for manag
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by nimih 1y ago
> Because if it is indeed an impossible scenario, then the lack of coverage shouldn't matter. At the point where a load-bearing piece of your quality assurance strategy is 100% branch coverage of the generated machine code, it very
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by nimih 1y ago
> If you’re convinced the code branch can’t ever be taken, you also should be confident that it doesn’t need to be tested. I don't think I would (personally) ever be comfortable asserting that a code branch in the machine instructio
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by nimih 1y ago
The Lancet article the GP is probably referencing is probably this one: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by nimih 1y ago
They're losers, but you have to give them due credit: their company is now worth a bunch of money.
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by nimih 1y ago
As someone who paid the $5-10 in 2014 for the same app, I think I would've just preferred it no longer updating, to be honest. When NPR bought the app, they spent the next year adding a number of features I never used (a few of which m
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by nimih 1y ago
It's the thing you do to apply for the visa. You may worry that, because there is no language in this section specifying which visas this travel restriction applies to (newly issued/renewed, etc), and because of the inclusion of t
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by nimih 1y ago
You may want to read the section on enforcement: > Section 1. Restriction on Entry. (a) Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United State
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by nimih 1y ago
I have no idea how Plex runs their servers, but I've worked at companies where new systems are rolled out for new users/accounts, but old users/accounts are left on the "legacy" system (usually with the plan to migr
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by nimih 1y ago
The copyright on this text seems to be 1977, not 2002. See: https://web.mit.edu/15.053/www/
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by nimih 1y ago
For that matter, sometimes it's a social/political problem and not a technological problem.
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by nimih 1y ago
It’s completely revitalized the group text I have with my siblings: seemingly every week, there are novel and extremely stupid uses of LLMs for us to discuss. For instance, earlier this month my sister spent hours posting entertaining excer
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by nimih 1y ago
Do you have any other half-remembered urban legends to share with the class? I heard that Marilyn Manson had some ribs removed so he could suck himself off.
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by nimih 1y ago
> But if you can manipulate my helm chart why can you not also place the malicious code in the helm directory? If you can manipulate my helm chart, why not just do the RCE directly in my kubernetes cluster or whatever?
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by nimih 1y ago
Presumably, you take the employees who were supporting Rosetta 2 and Intel macs, and you either move them to some other team or fire them, and now you've reduced your payroll expenses somewhat, which leads to a relative profit.
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by nimih 1y ago
Penrose published “The Emperor’s New Mind” some 16 years before YouTube existed as a website, so you may need to clarify which particular theories about quantum consciousness you’re referring to.
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by nimih 1y ago
The IRS is also presumably factoring in increased wear and tear on the vehicle and increased insurance costs.

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