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by nomdep 1y ago
Emojis are about ideas. Believing that a skin color can tell everything there is about you (and thus "identifying" with one) is incredibly racist.
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by nomdep 1y ago
Political corruption entails at least one of: - Bribery - Embezzlement of public form - Nepotism, cronyism, or patronage You can accuse him of beign inmoral, but “corruption” has a very specific meaning.
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by nomdep 1y ago
He made that with the business he already had and some legal cryptocurrency investment based on capitalizing his fame. How on earth you call that "corruption"? Are you even aware of what the word means?
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by nomdep 1y ago
You are living under a rock if you think current journalists are trustworthy at all; nowadays, they don’t even bother to pretend.
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by nomdep 1y ago
A simple search yield dozens of propaganda pieces from the usual suspects (CNN, NYT, etc.). An image search, however, lead to actual photos like: https://x.com/USBornNRaised/status/1913325866764902738/photo...
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by nomdep 1y ago
So the gang tattoos he has were just an unfortunate coincidence? Give me a break
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by nomdep 1y ago
If you REALLY want to aim for realism, gravity should depend on all quads on the planet. So, if you were to build a huge floating island, the gravity between it and the planet would be less than the usual
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by nomdep 1y ago
So you do agree with me
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by nomdep 1y ago
Not true. Most technologies have a learning curve and make you less productive at the beginning, so you totally have to force yourself to go trough it.
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by nomdep 1y ago
Best thing about Omarchy is that is just a set of config files for Hyprland and Waybar plus bash scripts (even the screensaver is a bash script running in fullscreen )
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by nomdep 1y ago
I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all to ask. I wonder if the reaction was similar when word processors were introduced in the workplace
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Asyncio-thread-runner: you can have a little async (as a treat)(death.andgravity.com)
2 points by nomdep 1y ago|0 comments
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by nomdep 1y ago
> And since every illegal immigrant is already a criminal... Not to be pedantic, but by definition it is, isn’t it?
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by nomdep 1y ago
Hard and vehemently disagree. Subtitles are not commentary tracks. The artists are the writers, voice actors, and everyone else involved in creating the original media. Never, ever, a random stranger should contaminate it with his/her
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by nomdep 1y ago
The real problem is the "distributing the results", but in most schools that’s treated as a serious offense. 20 years ago you could swap faces in Photoshop and it also wasn't a big deal. Ultimately, it’s the school and paren
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by nomdep 1y ago
I’ve said it before: those who despise the porn industry should be thrilled with AI-generated porn, as it will likely destroy the human-generated porn business. But I suppose what they truly despise are the porn consumers.
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by nomdep 1y ago
She asked for a “spicy” image and she got exactly that. Somebody has to stop this nefarious Internet thing. Think of the children! /s
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by nomdep 1y ago
Some people in my circle see “supporting the people of Palestine” as equivalent to “supporting the people of Germany during WW2”. In other words, until a total surrender , they see the deaths as justified and a necessary evil.
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by nomdep 1y ago
Or maybe, 2011? https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2011/11/1/us-halts-unesco... (Yes, Obama did it first)
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by nomdep 1y ago
How ironic coming from The Guardian, a big source of rage bait
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by nomdep 1y ago
If you know you have time blindness and you still arrive late it is worse, because you knew it will happen and did nothing to prevent it
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Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
399 points by nomdep 1y ago|450 comments
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by nomdep 1y ago
Mozilla is no longer a better actor than Google or Apple, just smaller
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Elixir/Phoenix Liveview was a mistake(swyx.io)
8 points by nomdep 1y ago|4 comments
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by nomdep 1y ago
AI-generated porn cannot be “dangerous” for the same reason a dream cannot be dangerous: they are not real, no matter how weird it is
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by nomdep 1y ago
Which is why Once.com only offers free updates for a year
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by nomdep 1y ago
Well, for starters, partially owned by the Saudi state. It might be common to take a lot of money from them, but I personally think it’s morally wrong
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by nomdep 1y ago
/s He is right, we should just crawl under a rock and die instead. Remember the JFK "We choose to go to the moon" speech? (I wonder how many of this defeatist articles are financed by China somehow).
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by nomdep 1y ago
He was a hugely talented writer, but I hate all his books because of how depressing they are.
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by nomdep 1y ago
Most (all?) the terrorist groups of Latin America were self-declared marxist/communist, like "Shining Part" in Peru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path

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