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2y ago
> But their actual deal is cookie-cutter counterculture, like it came out of a street punk paint-by-numbers kit. Whatever Albany is for them, they would never be caught there. There is a classic joke about that -- they all want to look d
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2y ago
There are other parts like that, like the gear struts that are designed to bend and snap instead instead of puncture through the wings, or the centering mechanism on turbofan shafts that's intentionally designed to break off if a blade
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2y ago
> It will, OTOH, be long before you can do that and get anything that would satisfy anyone as a movie worth watching, and even longer if you want something satisfying to anyone with a reason for including Lynch in the prompt other than
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2y ago
That's why I think it's a better challenge. AIs can create generic looking scenes but trying to do something that looks like a unique director style is more interesting.
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2y ago
> the back of Threepio’s golden head: the reflected light fills the screen, dims as the giant metal door closes behind them—just before we hear the sound of the door’s teeth meet, the light goes—for a long second, we see nothing but the
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2y ago
Dig slightly up so CO2 doesn’t accumulate in low areas and spread the tunnels around like a tree or a mesh? Work with your fellow sloth team, take turns, dilly-dally around. What else would sloths do ;-)
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2y ago
Exactly. Going from $0 purchase cost to $0.01 is a nearly impossible problem in many organizations. Paradoxically, they'll find a way to waste $100k on an "enterprise" stack to do the same though.
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2y ago
"Fast growing" companies pretend to be the friendly, accepting, and understanding, but usually comes with a dark side where it's hard for them to point out small issues early and correct them. Because that's "negati
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2y ago
Absolutely agree. I just replayed all the Half Life series with my kids and they love it. It's a game that's just so well done and I think it held well after all these years.
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2y ago
That’s a fair point however I could see it apply more if they were developing a completely unheard of system, I don’t know some fusion rocket or that whacky centrifuge launch system, but so far it seems they’re going after a traditional des
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2y ago
> Over time, you’ll develop an almost sixth sense for when an intervention is needed. You’ll become that person who can deftly guide conversations back on track when they’re derailing. > Overuse: If you’re constantly meta-commenting o
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2y ago
> which gives the not-so-great precedent that invoking social media was actually more effective at getting some sort of response than the technical debate that he actually said he wants. So now, the status quo is that someone with the po
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2y ago
> For example, there is no such thing as a natural monopoly, all monopolies are granted by the state in one way or another. I don't see that. They could just not care. As I said it depends on what state you mean. Are you thinking a
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2y ago
> The worst thing a corporation is likely to do (other than giving your data to governments) is to sell you something. That's all they want. They collect data so they can make money off you. That's not so scary to me. Governmen
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2y ago
> Then entertain his question and tell us what is? In this particular case, Hector himself with the blog post hints at it, but a lot of damage has been done already: "I am working on personal issues currently, I'd like to step
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2y ago
A person can be in a tough spot personally and then things seem to spiral out of control around them because that just cannot be 100% isolated from professional stuff or other spheres of life. It seems like this might have happened to Hecto
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2y ago
You can still upgrade, upgrade every year, or every month even. This doesn't stop you from upgrading, it just doesn't force you to upgrade because the version is not out of support.
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2y ago
> If the point of the research isn't to create non-individualistic racist policies or to tear down affirmative action policies on the basis of "it's wasted effort" then what's the goal? Maybe you're arguing
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2y ago
> two highly overlapping normal distributions with slightly different means It depends if we talk about means or tail ends. The GP post referred to marathon runners, presumably winning marathon runners, even within the Rift Valley in Ken
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2y ago
> Why does no one run a completely employee owned tech company. What is the disincentive for modeling your company as employee-owned and operated. It seems that would be the best path to an efficient company and a focused company that’s
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2y ago
> quite a leap there A healthy hop I would say, keeping in mind that this was showing off the best side of it in a commercial. So it just did a Google search, got a wrong factual result, the LLM couldn’t verify it was bogus, regurgitated
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2y ago
“How did you hurt yourself today?” - “I threatened Linux devs with social media shaming and publicly quit contributing to Linux to teach them a lesson. But it boomeranged, and now everyone is talking about my behavior”
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2y ago
I meant the whole “we are on the right side of history” and if you’re not with us you’re against us and we’ll wage a public drama campaign against you.
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> > The only reason Linux managed to survive so long is by not having internal boundaries, and adding another language complely breaks this. You might not like my answer, but I will do everything I can do to stop this. If a maintainer
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2y ago
> if Trump hadn't amplified allegations of this community as illegal immigrants eating dogs and cats, would they have been harassed and threatened? Agree you're probably right. I never watched that debate, thanks for the clip.
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2y ago
> If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas. That's just manipulative. Maybe it's just a moment of frustration and they'd take it back eventually, but blackmailing peop
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2y ago
Thanks for the link, that's helpful. > Claiming the new Haitian community threatened “the good White residents” of Springfield, Blood Trump members descended on the city in August during Springfield’s annual Jazz & Blues festiva
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2y ago
Uncle Sam wouldn’t even consider purchasing your product if it doesn’t tick some boxes. Now there are ways to get exceptions if you go high enough up the chain. But it is a miserable exercise all in all. As you’re implementing it, you think
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2y ago
> Oh please. Oh sure, anytime > Good faith requires facts, which this current administration does not use. I don't know, the OP (or GP?) post said they were wanted to continue discussing the issue in good faith. I'll take th
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2y ago
Everyone knows probably and the post alludes to it, but the author is the creator and maintainer of HAProxy. The implementation is there https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/blob/master/include/impor..
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