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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers read, annotate, and process your Bard conversations. ... *Please do not include information that can be used to identify you or others in your Bard conversations.* Eek! Was
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> I love when authoritarian nations just block internet. Much better to just have control over the popular platforms, have a revolving door between them and the government intelligence agencies, and do your communication control that wa
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> He's going to be the Deng Xioaping of India. This is my one hope for India. I disagree with pretty much everything else you've said, but I'm not as worried for India's future as I was previously; because I've c
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> The idea of a Muslim state had had been stewing for decades in certain circles. How much of this was fostered by the "divide-and-conquer" approach the British took to ruling the country, including the partition of Bengal on r
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Imran was openly insistent about releasing Pakistan from being under USA's thumb, about the nation needing make its decisions for itself. Just a couple days before his ousting, he made comments about how some countries treat Pakistan l
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Not so sure about that last part. He's definitely an incredible force in terms of coding, project management, stuff like that. The Julia package ecosystem wouldn't be half of what it is without him. But "best damn advocate&qu
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Or, if the polars library is any indication, Rust.
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Your parent comment wrote "it's better", you said "it's getting better". This is a common Motte-and-bailey argument in Julia discussions: The "it's better [now]" is most often given as a respons
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> software baked into the display now the display can directly serve ads!
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
This is the final nail in the coffin for "Julia as a replacement for Python" in my eyes. Maybe I'm very late to that conclusion, maybe the writing's been on the wall for a while, but I still held out hope that Julia coul
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Some people will have their fix anyway, while others will find that the friction starts to change their habits away from it. Unless you believe access friction has no psychological impact at all. And the friction is going to be especially
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. I love Julia as a language (not as an implementation, which is a pain-in-the-ass to work with), but there has long been a pattern of responses which in practice amount to gaslight
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
This is not even a prude thing, based on further replies on this thread, I actually find it disturbing how they can take the most innocent of images and find it sexually suggestive. The only requirement to trigger "semi-nsfw" seem
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
Just to be sure, is this the image you're seeing: https://krita.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/electrichearts_... That's the one that comes up on the splash screen for me, and if you see that a
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
"It's not from my culture and I find unfamiliar things scary, so I'm gonna call it NSFW"
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
I'm only seeing this now (so not sure if you'll read this), but: The thing is, vast swathes of the world doesn't know what that word means. I didn't know it until I learned about this controversy. If the name had been th
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by nojonestownpls 3y ago
> the piece not only acquired a new, female identity but also greater powers. There's w0ke media for you. Changing existing characters into "strong female leads", making them OP for no reason... Unacceptable! (/s)
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
I based that off a HN comment I read in the past, but looking into it now, that doesn't seem too far off base. The changes mentioned in the release notes[1] are all about rebranding - replacing on-screen text, logos, docs, etc. There a
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
> I definitely think the choice to keep it has always been childish, ridiculous, and perhaps literally the greatest barrier that has kept it from being a much more serious competitor to Adobe stuff. I seriously doubt that. There's a
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
So if she's a puppet that can't really change things for the better, why this enormous thread with so many people gushing over her? If she was just another paper pusher and camera model in a world filled with them (like you seem t
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
Who decides what's "empty positive" vs "empty negative"? What you frame as pro-monarchist vs anti- can be as easily framed as anti-egalitarian vs pro-egalitarian. So anti-egalitarian empty comments were allowed, whi
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
> What if the escaped guilty persons cause more than one innocent to suffer? Seems like an obvious flaw in this aphorism. It's a principle of justice that was arrived at through a lot of thought and experience. It of course takes in
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
Yeah, there's two ways to look at this: * The US is doing better than you might expect from an influential, powerful country, that could be abusing its power much more (but that's how empires fall, and the US has learned from the
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
Not just that, he publicly made claims like "the US thinks they can control us and make our decisions for us, but they can't". Just a couple days after that, he started having problems with parliamentary support, that eventua
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
It would be very interesting to see a parallel universe version of this thread where the subject was a Chinese company and a Chinese intelligence agency.
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
> I have all the three connections bonded/balanced for my home connection using a very simple router. Can you give some pointers (to someone who has practically no networking knowledge) on how to set something like this up? I have a
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
Scientists discover a bagel on the surface of the Moon! Search for black hole ends with a bagel hole?! [Become a paid subscriber to read the full story.]
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
You're entirely ignoring the cost vs benefit view that the original comment brings up: > Why are small planes necessary? Am I wrong to believe what it seems like, that the overwhelmingly popular purpose is entertainment ? There&#x2
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
The title is highly editorialized (by the news agency/Reuters), and the article reads like something from a content farm - which I suppose is what a lot of smaller newspapers are. There's a vague attribution to "municipal aut
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by nojonestownpls 4y ago
> He seems more willing to tolerate nationalist flamebait when America is the target of it. I thought you were gonna say when Americans are the ones doing it. (I think you mean the opposite, when non-Americans are flaming the US - let

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