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by optionalsquid 8mo ago
Two of the three examples listed in the article appear to involve real children: > A selfie uploaded by a schoolgirl was undressed by Grok, turning a “before school selfie” into an image of her in a bikini. As of January 15th this post w
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by optionalsquid 8mo ago
> It has ceased making its iconic beverage and now only sells a variant that tastes crap. It looks like they reintroduced the original recipe in 2021 (and previously as a limited release in 2019), under the name Irn Bru 1901. Or does tha
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by optionalsquid 8mo ago
In addition to what chainingsolid mentioned, I believe that you lose access to most of the standard library. But I don't have actual numbers on that
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by optionalsquid 8mo ago
My (likely unfair) impression of D is that it feels a bit rudderless: It is trying to be too many things to too many people, and as a consequence it doesn't really stand out compared to the languages that commit to a paradigm. Do you
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
Of course the kid is at fault. But everyone knows that kids do stupid and reckless things, which is why drivers are generally expected to take more care around schools and similar institutions. If robotaxis are not able to do that, then the
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
What is being rejected is not evolution by natural selection. What is being rejected is untestable, just-so stories invented to explain why certain biological traits evolved. Or, as is the case here, to explain traits that are assumed to
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
> I'm not sure how they count 6000 citations, but I guess they are counting everything, including quotes by the vicepresident. Probably 6001 after my comment. The number appears to be from Google Scholar, which currently reports 626
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
> If the US was genuinely concerned about the security of Greenland they should have discussed this with the EU and encouraged them to reinforce the island, and/or offered a joint base. This is where it gets stupid... well, stupider
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
Greenland already has the right to independence from Denmark, via chapter 8 of the law for the self-governing of Greenland, that was enacted in 2009 [1]: > The decision on Greenland's independence is made by the Greenlandic people.
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
The best we can do for the dead is remember them as they were , good and bad, not demonize them nor write hagiographies for them
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
My impression of Adams, based on his writings on science and more, is that he turned out to be more of a Pointy-Haired Boss
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
> So after rent you're left with what, 1860 euro? Good luck getting through the month with that money in Berlin. I live in a higher cost-of-living city than Berlin, and could easily make it through the month on 1860 EUR, once rent a
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
According to eurostat [1], > In 2020, 70% of the population in the EU lived in a household owning their home, while the remaining 30% lived in rented housing. So it does not seem like the price situation is as dire as you suggest, though
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
I do basically the same, but instead of keeping everything around I just keep the last two drives in rotation at the same time: One kept at home and one kept at work. One of them failed recently, while I was performing a backup, so I just g
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
That's true. But if they are stored unpowered for a couple of years, then you clearly aren't doing regular backups. OTOH, it's doesn't seem unlikely that the average person would leave a disk gathering dust, so advising
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
Denmark doesn't have submarines, if that's what you mean. We had two , one which even served in connection with the US led invasion of Iraq, but they got retired in the early 2000s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
It wouldn't completely prevent data-loss, but most "normal" people would be a lot better off if they simply copied their important files to an external HDD or flash drive on a regular basis
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
But local solutions can also cause file loss, if you don’t know how to use them correctly. For example, rsync and rclone will happily overwrite/delete your files if you mess up the argument order. The problem with OneDrive is not that
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
Using cloud services, in addition to local backups, is an easy way to guard against events that could damage both your PC and your local backups. Such as fire, flooding, electrical failures, or theft
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by optionalsquid 9mo ago
> The only one who [fell for it] was Tony Blair I wish that were true, but as somebody from Denmark I can tell you that it isn't
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
The firehose only ever pointed at "everyone" back when Valve was hand-picking every game that got released on Steam. Back then we only saw a few games released every week, and because of that they got that much more attention. But
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
You could use pixi instead, as a much nicer/saner alternative to conda: https://pixi.sh Though in this particular case, you don't even need conda. You just need python 3.13 and a virtual environment. If you have uv ins
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
> You'd think PyPy would be more popular, then. PyPy is hamstrung by a limited (previously, a lack of) compatibility with compiled Python modules. If it had been a drop-in replacement for the equivalent Python versions, then it&#x27
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
You can also use pixi[1] if you want conda with uv's solver, that does appears to be faster than the mamba solver. Though the main reasons I recommend pixi, are that it doesn't have a tendency to break random stuff due to pollutin
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
Office politics happen when the number of people at an office exceeds 2
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
Speed is one of the main reasons why I keep recommending uv to people I work with, and why I initially adopted it: Setting up a venv and installing requirements became so much faster. Replacing pipx and `uv run` for single-file scripts with
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
You could also include day, month, year, and how close we are to destroying the world [1]. [1] https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
> So are we banning all advertising to children? Or only banning them from communicating and posting with each other? Kids are not banned from communicating and posting with each other; the ban exempts a number of direct messing apps, as
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by optionalsquid 10mo ago
You can turn warnings into errors with the `-Werror` option. I personally use that in CI runs, along with the `-X dev` option to enable additional runtime checks. Though that wont solve the author's problem, since most Python devs don&
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by optionalsquid 11mo ago
This is not quite what you asked, I think, but GCC is able to remove duplicate functions and variables after code generation via the -fipa-icf options: > Perform Identical Code Folding for functions (-fipa-icf-functions), read-only varia

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