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Beyond Ukraine: Why Europe is preparing for a wider conflict(cnn.com)
12 points by rawgabbit 5d ago|2 comments
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Spending on data centers and hardware now exceeds housing investment(fortune.com)
4 points by rawgabbit 5d ago|1 comments
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Japanese mayors challenge each other to nighttime ninja battle, now recruiting(soranews24.com)
2 points by rawgabbit 8d ago|0 comments
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by rawgabbit 8d ago
Oddly enough. I found ChatGPT to be good at making slides. I prompt it with the text I want and some "stage direction" about the aesthetics and it makes good slides. It also makes good PDF documents as well; I feed it my markdo
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by rawgabbit 9d ago
As an American, because of Trump's actions, I identify more with "European" culture and feel I am a stranger in my own land.
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Fed approves interest rate hike, signals one more to come this year(cnbc.com)
18 points by rawgabbit 10d ago|1 comments
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by rawgabbit 11d ago
https://www.habitat67.com/en/ I find the Habitat67 brutalist apartment complex in Montreal to be tasteful and livable?
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by rawgabbit 12d ago
I am not a front end dev. But one question I always had is why px and not em? I thought em as a relative distance would be better than hard coding px?
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by rawgabbit 12d ago
Google’s cash cow is ads. I think the writing on the wall is ChatGPT and other AI search engines will dominate. It is to be seen how Google will respond. But in the end, their monopoly on web search is coming to an end.
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by rawgabbit 13d ago
In the United States, clergy never had formal political power. Religious movements did play major roles in the abolition of slavery and Prohibition of alcohol. The United States had campaign-finance laws to limit the political influence mon
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by rawgabbit 14d ago
Any advice on how to use or not use AI?
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by rawgabbit 17d ago
My first thought is what happens when I drop a $1999 device and break it.
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A Doctor Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He's a Senator(nytimes.com)
13 points by rawgabbit 17d ago|3 comments
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by rawgabbit 18d ago
I found this nugget on page 315. It seems to say the OECD acknowledges students are just blowing off this test. For most students, PISA is a low-stakes assessment: they can refuse to participate in the test with no negative conseque
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by rawgabbit 18d ago
From what I read Texas will have larger and more intense heat domes. On the plus side, this high pressure shifts tornado alley towards the east away from Texas. On minus side, Texas will be the new Arizona.
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by rawgabbit 18d ago
I have a hard time believing this site also. When I looked at their methodology at how this list was created, it said " Please fill out our Methodology Request Form, and a member of our team will get back to you, typically within one
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by rawgabbit 18d ago
Quote PISA 2025 was the largest assessment to date, involving 760 000 students across 91 countries and economies. What were the sample sizes in previous years and their related demographics?
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
TLDR. 15 years ago they avoided SQL and created a language for streaming. Today, the industry decided that SQL materialized views with a “freshness” or time lag promise is the correct mental model.
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
It's the 2026 version of Jerry Springer freak show cum reality TV.
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
The charitable take is she is an expert in method acting; she has become the fantasy she invented. The less charitable take is that she is a sociopath lacking the ability to realize the danger and harm her fraud is causing.
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
She would have made a terrific actress playing mafiosi. I can see her giving that death stare while knifing Johnny nine-toes and pulling out his entrails.
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
Thiel says Zuckerberg is special. He is the chosen one. He will lead an entire generation etc. This is a master class in ass kissing.
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
That says more about the US software industry than anything else. You “win” by being hostile to consumers while you lawyer up and bribe the powers that be.
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by rawgabbit 19d ago
For all the pontificating, Zuckerberg is disliked more than Musk. According to this 2025 survey: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/19/how-ameri...
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iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones(theverge.com)
1 points by rawgabbit 20d ago|0 comments
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by rawgabbit 22d ago
Bread and circuses. Can’t afford the bread but we have games.
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by rawgabbit 22d ago
Quote: A perfectly optimized system that produces incompetent operators is not optimized at all. It has simply moved its failure mode somewhere the spreadsheet can’t see it.
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(George) Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts(lucasmuseum.org)
5 points by rawgabbit 22d ago|1 comments
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Online Sports Betting Is a Public Policy Issue and a Public Health Issue(jamanetwork.com)
5 points by rawgabbit 23d ago|0 comments
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by rawgabbit 24d ago
The ancient societies you mentioned, were not anti-intellectual. If anything, they placed too much power in their intellectual elites e.g., monks becoming bureaucrats in Charlemagne's kingdom, scholars becoming mandarin officials in C

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