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by octopoc 1y ago
Don’t billionaires normally buy newspapers, media and even politicians and let their voice be heard that way? By contrast this is refreshing, vulnerable and…kind of cute. Oh that all billionaires were this undevious.
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by octopoc 1y ago
If committing genocide puts the genociders in a tough spot, then I’m actually cool with that
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by octopoc 1y ago
Pair programming is a form of communication, it's a way for people to teach each other. Some people really work well with this learning style, and if you're one of those people, I would absolutely find ways to do it regularly. Whe
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by octopoc 1y ago
The proper way to solve this would be to have a cloud provider (possibly based on AWS or Azure) whose UI simply edits an auto-generated IaaC script. That way ALL changes go through the code. And if there's a need to do a 3-way merge, i
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by octopoc 1y ago
I've been wondering if enough people would be single issue voters on the Israel question that we could actually get some sort of candidate who attracts a ton of voters from both traditional parties. It's ironic because (IMO) peopl
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by octopoc 1y ago
Obviously, but Hamas needed Israel's help to maintain power, which Israel was happy to do. This happened recently, like in the 2020s. In case there's a paywall preventing people from reading my sources, here you go: > Most of t
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by octopoc 1y ago
Netanyahu literally propped up Hamas at the expense of other options, which you would know if you even just read the headline on the first source I linked. So you disagree with the Times of Israel? Care to elaborate on why you disagree othe
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by octopoc 1y ago
Not all evangelical Christians are like this. There are two main branches: covenantal and dispensational. Dispensational theology is basically the same thing as Christian Zionism, and was invented in the 1800s by John Darby and his follower
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by octopoc 1y ago
Also, Biden explicitly stated that he is a Zionist[1]. [1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/12/j...
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by octopoc 1y ago
Israel interfered in Gaza politics to ensure they had no option but Hamas[1] [2] [3] [4]. If you screw yourself, you shouldn't blame anyone else when you get fucked. [1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu
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by octopoc 1y ago
Because they aren't buying off Western politicians in bulk, but that's exactly what Israel is clearly doing
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by octopoc 1y ago
The vast majority of Germans had no idea about the holocaust. It wasn't even well known outside Germany until a decade later IIRC. What's happening in Gaza is different because now we have cell phones and the Internet, and AI isn&
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by octopoc 1y ago
“Subsidized” is inaccurate. A more accurate way to describe what’s been happening is that international students drove up the cost of tuition, forcing American students into debt or out of college. The reason I characterize it this way is c
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by octopoc 1y ago
WebAssembly is about an improved Developer Experience. It lets us write in the languages we like :) I can't say how many times I've reinvented pieces of Common Lisp to do my job. Now I want to start a side project with this.
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by octopoc 1y ago
Anecdotally, I had a Hispanic friend once who had been a professional thief (not when I knew him but before). His grandfather had won the lottery so he had a guaranteed income, but he did it for fun and because that’s what the cool people d
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by octopoc 1y ago
The etymology of the word 'pagan' originally meant hillbillies / dumb country people. It was a slur because the towns and cities adopted Christianity before the country people did. So, 'pagan' typically means the pr
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by octopoc 1y ago
I was listening to a podcast the other day where Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed about Gen AI, and his take on Gen AI is that it will make the Internet a lot funnier[1]. I guess he finds this funny. Edit: Also, it looks like this was origin
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by octopoc 1y ago
There's a resurgence of patriotism in the political right in Britain from what I hear. They have a few years yet before the next election so we'll see where this goes, but I wouldn't count out the English people yet.
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by octopoc 1y ago
Democracy is like Communism. Every time you point out a problem with Democracy, someone else can point out how it isn't True Democracy(R). For example, in the West there are massive support for applying pressure to Israel to stop the g
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by octopoc 1y ago
Because they're English, presumably. Homelands aren't interchangeable cogs anymore than people are.
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by octopoc 1y ago
Police track crime stats. By your own admission they are corrupt. Do you think there might be a conflict of interest here?
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by octopoc 1y ago
> The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the
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by octopoc 1y ago
Yeah I’ve heard that you can legally use corn with alcohol poured over it as bait for wild pigs in some states. When they’re good and drunk, you turn your headlights on and start shooting. Playing the national anthem while doing it helps di
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by octopoc 1y ago
I’d like to constrain the output of the LLM by accessing the probabilities for the next token, pick the next token that has the highest probability and also is valid in the type system, and use that. Originally OpenAI did give you the proba
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by octopoc 1y ago
> This site can’t be reached link doesn't work
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by octopoc 1y ago
Then it's an investment in future war profits. Ka-ching!
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by octopoc 1y ago
Calling it "extremely idiosyncratic" is not indicative of reality: > Black people are the most likely to experience domestic violence—either male-to-female or female-to-male—followed by Hispanic people and White people.2 Center
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by octopoc 1y ago
The article doesn’t say, but I assume these are SOTA AI chips? If so, it’s a huge deal that American can build them. Another interesting point: > AMD and larger rival Nvidia Corp. recently gained a reprieve on restrictions imposed on shi
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by octopoc 1y ago
Double plot twist, I need to VPN into a remote network and now all the CI network activity goes through the VPN as well, and some of it gets blocked (true story)
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by octopoc 1y ago
Move faster so we get there first and control what breaks

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