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by philipov 2y ago
The ones you can easily answer yourself without the use of an LLM.
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by philipov 2y ago
especially as a programmer.
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by philipov 2y ago
Trump wants to be a king. No one is getting voting rights if he isn't stopped.
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by philipov 2y ago
White House Press Secretary said the quiet part loud when she announced that Canada can stop this tariff business by agreeing to become the 51st state.
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by philipov 2y ago
One of the things you said is correct, and it's not the claim he wants to increase GDP.
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by philipov 2y ago
Power follows wealth, regardless of whether there's a government or not, and while the economy is not a zero sum game, power is - economic inequality matters. The correlation between wealth and power is even stronger in countries where
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by philipov 2y ago
Suppose I come to your house and start breaking your windows, and I tell you that you don't need windows because it's so easy for me to break them. Is that a good argument, or is the real problem the person that's breaking yo
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by philipov 2y ago
"'Government is bad because it can be captured by malevolent interests', say malevolent interests involved in capturing government."
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by philipov 2y ago
While I am sympathetic to the notion that government is supposed to regulate corporations, it is a grave misunderstanding to conflate it with either unions or corporations.
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by philipov 2y ago
The customer is always wrong because the customer is too small to matter. Google's scale gives them all the power in the relationship, undermining the market's role in forcing them to compromise in negotions. We would need somethi
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by philipov 2y ago
Water-cooled reactors are the ones that are vulnerable to meltdown, but they're not the only way to do Nuclear.
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by philipov 2y ago
Different types of reactors have less risk of meltdown. Look up Molten-Salt Reactors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnik4gxrtM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor > MSRs eliminate
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by philipov 2y ago
That is also one of the many causes of the French Revolution, but on its own isn't enough to explain why it went down exactly how and when it did. Had the runway to bankruptcy been longer, a more decisive king than Louis 16th might hav
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by philipov 2y ago
> As a result, this adherence to learned patterns can overshadow genuine logical relationships, causing the model to rely on familiar sequences instead of understanding why one step logically follows from another. To be honest, even hu
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by philipov 2y ago
And that's the primary reason that Britain lost the war. The war was much more expensive for the British than for the Colonists, and became even more expensive once France joined. The British didn't lose because they couldn't
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by philipov 2y ago
Okay, so when you said official, you meant unofficial. Got it. I'm with you completely on the rest of it.
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by philipov 2y ago
I hadn't heard about anyone becoming officially an emperor recently. Who are you referring to?
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by philipov 2y ago
I recommend the Godot documentation. The manual is not just a class reference, it's an entire book about best practices: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/best_practi... Also scroll up a l
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by philipov 2y ago
Even if someone does like money, the line of argument Ruben examines is trying to convince you that the ONLY thing you should like is money. One can 'like' money, and still recognize that other things are more important than mon
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by philipov 2y ago
They can either have their cake or eat it. If they don't want to obfuscate the column names, they have to provide the data with the original ones.
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by philipov 2y ago
Almost as if it's intentional. As if its purpose is to create a thin excuse to fire people.
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by philipov 2y ago
> It's not really cheating The chorus line of every human ever attempting to rationalize cheating.
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by philipov 2y ago
plug in USB cable, drag and drop entire directory from one drive to another with file explorer, is the only reasonable way to manage photos. Get everything off the device at the end of each day. Why would you ever put things back on the p
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by philipov 2y ago
I suspect that this commonplace notion about the depth of our own mental models is being overly generous to ourselves. AI has a long way to go with working memory, but not as far as portrayed here.
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by philipov 2y ago
Is your cheaper phone unable to interface with a computer? I'm no advocate of an app-based economy, but your phone shouldn't be the archive for your photos.
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by philipov 2y ago
However, this quote is usually intended to be a warning, not an opportunity to run all the old scams again. These people hear it and think "You mean we get to repeat history?!"
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by philipov 2y ago
The big problem with this move is that it doesn't give people enough time to migrate, and they can't make new highlights while they struggle to download upwards of 3000 hours (in the multiple terabytes) of old video, at the same t
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by philipov 2y ago
I just picked up Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog, which launched on steam this week, and was made with RenPy. It's going great so far. Some of the lore reminds me a lot of Martian Successor Nadesico. https://store.steampowered
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by philipov 2y ago
What has changed is the population density of humans. Disease outbreaks aren't at thing you can understand by summing all the disease vectors. There is no needle - it only takes one case. While a megafarm may be a bigger vector, it can
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by philipov 2y ago
The salient difference is that Chrome kneecapped extensions, while Firefox has not. The more they get involved with ads, the more likely they become to mess with that. It will not go well.

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