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by ralph84 2y ago
If it’s a bracket in the wrong place that is a syntax error, sure, that’s easily detected and fixed. A bracket in the wrong place could be a logic error though. If you need examples of misplaced brackets leading to logic bugs just ask ChatG
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by ralph84 2y ago
> It’s a debate in which legitimate scientific arguments vie for attention with partisan attacks and wild conspiracy theories. But so far, there is no smoking-gun evidence to definitively resolve whether COVID-19 spilled over naturally f
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by ralph84 2y ago
This comes across as gatekeeping by the historians. Why don’t they make more accurate videos themselves. The same tools are available to them.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Big surprise, the CEO wants another Industrial Revolution. As long as muh GDP is growing, the human and environmental destruction left in the wake is a small price to pay for making his class richer.
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by ralph84 2y ago
The University of San Francisco’s baseball field is a block away from where this stadium was. I guess they benefit from playing most games in the early afternoon and the college season being complete before the summer gloom fully sets in.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Yeah even putting aside the Temu specials, a belt and suspenders approach to not killing people does not deserve the derision this article gives it. The built in ground fault protection is there to protect the equipment not humans. In the r
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by ralph84 2y ago
Import Chinese companies, get Chinese working conditions.
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by ralph84 2y ago
The data doesn’t have to be unbiased to be useful. For anyone who’s actually ridden in a Waymo this confirms the intuition of our experience that it’s much less likely to do something stupid than your average human driver. No activity has p
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by ralph84 2y ago
Ok, well you’ll have to help me out with your good vs. evil decoder ring because all three of those countries are allies with each other so I’m still not clear who we’re supposed to be white knighting for here.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Why should “we” have anything to do with a flight between Azerbaijan and Russia that crashed in Kazakhstan?
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by ralph84 2y ago
It’s their asset. It came with their $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun. I know it’s popular to hate on Oracle, and it’s deserved in many cases, but any company in this situation would defend their IP. Obviously it has value or somebody wouldn
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by ralph84 2y ago
Way too many people. Surprised they can make any decisions.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Not the West, just the US. Free speech outside of the US isn’t really a thing. The UK in particular has been very aggressive in censoring speech recently.
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by ralph84 2y ago
When you uploaded your code to GitHub you granted them a license to host it. You can’t use DMCA against someone who’s operating within the parameters of the license you granted them.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Eventually we all die and our heirs if we have any tend to value our possessions closer to the market rate ($0) than we do.
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by ralph84 2y ago
There are specific requirements an unpaid internship has to meet to be legal. If the majority of the staff are interns it’s very unlikely the requirements are being met. This guy is ripe for a lawsuit.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Main event hasn’t even started yet. Traffic will probably 10x for that. They’re screwed. Should have picked something lower profile to get started with live streaming.
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by ralph84 2y ago
There were rumors that at one point piper included source code licensed from Perforce. That could make open sourcing it more difficult if any of that code is still hanging around.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Some things are more important than free market capitalism, and making sure you’re not dependent on hostile countries for key technology is one of them.
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by ralph84 2y ago
I got news for you, power lines interfere with AM radio too. Guess we need Congress to do something about those too.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Obviously this is just broadcasters wanting to maintain their captive audience. The “what about the apocalypse” argument is just the standard “won’t someone think of the children” misdirection. In an emergency a 120V AC inverter is far more
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by ralph84 2y ago
Government spending on those items is >$3 trillion per year in the US.
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by ralph84 2y ago
> So the "government propaganda" is... unprepared statements by individuals Yes, when those individuals are the president of the US and the director of the CDC presenting half-truths and exaggerations to further their agenda, t
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by ralph84 2y ago
Sure. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-governm... https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/21/politics/walensky-comment...
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by ralph84 2y ago
> I don't know where people got the idea that vaccines prevent all infection, transmissions and symptoms. The government propaganda when the Covid vaccines were launched said exactly that. Sure, people shouldn’t be so stupid to acce
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by ralph84 2y ago
Microsoft and NVIDIA are guaranteed an ROI since it comes right back as revenue for them.
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by ralph84 2y ago
It ended spectacularly well for all of the people who got Facebook equity.
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by ralph84 2y ago
Isn’t the FedEx hub private property? What are the police even doing there? Did FedEx cut a deal with the police that they could hang out there and steal shit?
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by ralph84 2y ago
Simple fix to running out of H1Bs would be to ban body shops from the program.
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by ralph84 2y ago
$5k/year is cheaper than an IRL relationship.

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