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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is a privilege that many of the morons I share the road with seem to take for granted. If they are allowed to drive then I want their plate identifiable on video from my dash cam. Automated mass surve
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Detroit is nearly in Canada.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
How is that clickbait? The title appears to be completely supported by the content of the article.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
That may be so, but remember that Ukraine is fighting for its very survival, and Iran may be as well.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
No justification is necessary. Their goal for voting for him was to give a big “fuck you” to “the libs”. So they already got what they wanted. Any downsides can be blamed on “leftists”.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
> The idea of subfolders just doesn't make sense in a filing cabinet analogy, Sure it does. The document is located in Building C, Sub-basement 2, Room 123, cabinet 415, folder labeled "Accounts". And a physical folder can
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I think a lot more people than most HN readers realize simply struggle significantly with abstract thinking and reasoning. It's natural that people who enjoy programming and hacking and related fields are very comfortable with such abs
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
> But today, the very first touchpoint with "the internet" for younger folks is a smartphone display. The even do homework on this small screens! I saw a tweet recently that perfectly encapsulates this: for most people over 30,
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Arguably that’s no longer true.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
The moon is tidally locked with the Earth, which means the same side always faces the Earth. So, for example, when the moon is between the Earth and the sun, the far side (from the perspective of Earth) would be fully illuminated by the sun
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Using GPU for compute is nothing new or unusual these days, not for quite a while.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
In many places home purchases are also public records and sometimes even published in local newspapers (online these days).
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
There is obviously some minimum level of competence and intelligence required to be wealthy (not losing all of it), but for many becoming fabulously wealthy is as much a matter of circumstance than anything else. I would guess most people h
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
So it would be a small personal sacrifice for huge societal benefit, and you wouldn’t even do that?
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
You’re conflating counting and language. Many animals can count. Counting is recognizing that the box with 3 apples is preferable to the one with 2 apples. Yes, 2 year olds might struggle with the externalization of numeric identities but i
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I don’t really get the nostalgia angle as it seems as many of those who are into this kind of thing are too young to have ever been in such a space, let alone worked in one. I’ve worked in a place like this that was well past its prime and
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
> i.e. no available getAllExtensions() or somesuch) vs. something inherently sinister (e.g. “they’re checking to see if you’re a Muslim” But I bet they could reliably guess your religious affiliation based on the presence of some specifi
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Is there anything you can watch on premium that can’t watch on YouTube for free?
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
> Can't imagine having to live with anxiety of just staying alive. Constant diseases, infestations, starvation, animal attacks. If you wanted, you could ask any of the people living like that today what it’s like. You can find them
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I’m not even talking about WoW expansions. The game has been so thoroughly modified and improved over the years it is simply not the same game it was at the start, though it retains many familiar elements. Is is essentially a sequel in all
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
The “sequel” to WoW is already here. Compare modern WoW to the original. It is essentially a sequel, rebooted several times times over.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
A civilization increasing food production to feed itself is civilization scaling with food production. There is no extrinsic food production with which civilization can scale. All food production is intrinsic to the civilization. All food m
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I’ll take a clumsy sentence written by a non-native speaker any day over LLM generated mush. At least I know you chose those words specifically so it gives me some insight into your state of mind and intended meaning. Any native English spe
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Imagine if everyone did this. Then when you’re in court for a crime you didn’t commit the only people on the jury would be those too stupid to have failed to be dismissed from jury duty.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Depends entirely on what you're doing. 8GB of RAM is very insufficient for 3D texturing workflows, for example, where you can have many different 4k textures cached in memory. For other things, 8GB is probably a lot.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Given the actual outcome it’s hard to imagine what they actually did. It would be less embarrassing for them if they had said they did no additional investigating.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
In my experience in the real word, VR is a lot like racing sims. No one I know owns a VR headset, no one I know talks about it, no one I know is very interested in it at all, but both exist as ticketed experience at places in and around mal
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
In this case it sounds as though AI could have been used to generate preliminary leads. When someone calls a tip line with information, police don’t just take their word for it, they investigate it. They know that tips they receive may be i
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Some basic investigatory police work (the kind they did before AI) would have revealed the mistake before an innocent woman’s life was destroyed.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
For the one I have the app is completely optional. It doesn’t add any capability, it just lets you control it remotely. It will perform all its capabilities just fine without you ever taking your phone out. For the subscription you also get

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