palmotea

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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Funny how this logic doesn't seem to apply to Republicans. They run the absolute worst candidate I've seen in my entire life -- in any democratic country -- and they get everything they want. Complaints about the other side w
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> 'Compromise' is strictly just code for becoming Republican, and I'm not going to vote for a Republican. No it doesn't, and thinking that was shows the lack of "strategic sense to productively participate on a t
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> "How?" <- It shows a lack of curiosity? We're talking about a codebase, here. How does "lack of curiosity" about LLMS "make a mess" > "probably know enough" <- that's exactly t
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> AI/LLM knowledge without programming knowledge can make a mess. That makes sense. > Programming knowledge without AI/LLM knowledge can also make a mess. How? I'd imagine that most typically means continuing to program
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> or private interest who wanted to repurpose these radio bands would cause such a wonderful service to go away IIRC, the radio bands are some marine VHF channels. I'm not sure if those can be repurposed.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
Is this the Canadian equivalent of the US NOAA Weather Radio service? If so, that sucks. The last Tornado Warning in my area did not trigger the weather alert of my phone, but it did trigger our weather radio. It's also very useful f
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I have to admit, nowadays Google AI Overview's accuracy is so good that I often don't check the links. It's scary that it got from 'practically useless' to 'the actual google search' in less than two
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Why do you think you have the strategic sense to productively participate on a topic like this? In short: I'm talking about compromises, not fantasies of partisan purity. > Who even are you? What are your sources? Someone who h
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Well, I'll just say this: I was a "vote blue no matter who" voter following Trump 1, but after seeing the complete limpness of democratic leadership in Trump's proto-fascist America, I'm not sure I could actual
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> In other words, it is largely a propaganda push by the right. Who cares? It works, and why does it work? I tell you why: it works because the Democrats give them the ammunition. Edit: I see you edited the line I quoted to: > In othe
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The apportionment between states gives small right-leaning states outsized representation in both the house and senate relative to their proportion of the national population. That's not a bad thing. The bad thing happened when th
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I'll get downvoted by both sides but this is what a winning political party policies look like for most of Americans not in NYC or in SF Bay Area, LA, SD, Seattle, Portland: I don't agree on all the specifics, but I think tha
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The problem isn’t that the candidates are appalling. They’re not. It’s that the left is shit at messaging. The "the left is shit at messaging" is an excuse to distract from having a bad message (or at least a message with bad
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Dating is kinda like founding a startup or getting a job, in that you have to kiss a lot of frogs, but you only need to succeed once. The point's to eliminate all the unsuitable prospects in the pool and find the one that is a mat
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by palmotea 8mo ago
It looks like the interceptors hit it, but missile was only damaged and not destroyed. No one's a perfect shot: the misses aren't waste, because some misses should be expected.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> There was a clip of one of Iran's missiles dodging 3 Patriot interceptors to hit the US base in Bahrain. Link?
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Even if this does violate some treaty somewhere, we need not wring hands over the death of an objective dictator. We absolutely should. It's a key principle of international law that brutal regimes should not be disturbed, until a
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> but it's still true that most of those examples don't answer the question That's because the question is bad. It was meant to challenge the benefit of government, and a non-answer was meant to be interpreted as "gov
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I know that the next step is you explaining why these don’t count, or saying “wow only 3” or whatever, but Oh, there's more: Medicare, Social Security, the highway system. The whole food/medicine regulatory system is also a b
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> - Microstamping requirements for guns—printing a unique barcode on every bullet casing (Glock gen3 cannot be retired, thus, the auto-mode switch bug cannot be patched...) I don't know much about guns, but I assume that would be on
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> Well, you see, that's completely different. Nvidia agreed to give them money! Also I believe NVIDIA's supposed to pay the US government 15% of its revenues from Chinese sales: https://www.ft.com/content&#x
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The thought seems to be there are elites/productive types that deserve it all, and the rest are just parasites and fuck 'em. Yeah, the misanthropic individualism is really getting out of hand. Also, the irony is a lot of peop
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The difference in philosophy between NASA's current approach and SpaceX is quite stark. SpaceX has launched 11 Starships in the two and a bit years, with a lot of them blowing up. Where as Artemis is trying to get it near perfect
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Also I wonder what's happening with democracy in the US, with this level of presidential control to mess up everything, is US moving towards dictatorship? I mean maybe, but not because the president can decide to cancel a contract
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by palmotea 8mo ago
FYI, even though you have a new account, you were banned from your first comment and all your comments automatically show up as hidden-by-default to most users.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I was just applying the same false dichotomy and "so your argument is" logic you've been applying to others in this thread. I was wondering whether it would 1) appeal to you, 2) make you realize the error of your approac
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The page in the book you mention has a non-detailed cartoon depiction of a teenager giving someone a blowjob for the first time, as part of a plot of them figuring out their identity (which is given far more page time). Especially take
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> We have had a giant bubble in white collar bullshit jobs the last 15 years and AI is going to pop that bubble incredible fast. Even if they are "bullshit jobs," they are what keeps food on the table for many people. So the qu
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I'm seriously worried there won't be more elections. Not hyperbole at all. Why? That's a an unrealistic fear, driven by the insanely overwrought political rhetoric of 2026. Think about it: elections will be the absolute
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Is your position that a proportionate response is a national book ban - to violate the 1A with a law that permanently, negatively impacts millions of Americans ? I didn't know it was a First Amendment violation for the government

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