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by riffraff 18d ago
I am not sure it's correct to lump apple and Mistral's strategies together. Apple's business is selling hardware/services and their stores, but Mistral's business is AI. Apple's strategy seems to be "wait
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by riffraff 18d ago
Don't BSDs accept new contributors and patches tho? A long time ago I worked in the freebsd documentation project (translating th handbook) and it was pretty easy to join the core group. And ooenbsd pioneered anoncvs didn't it? Fo
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by riffraff 19d ago
Interesting, in various European languages those tend to be "Turkish": turkey hens (the bird called turkey now), Turkish corn (maize), Turkish beans (long beans). Again, trade routes.
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by riffraff 20d ago
Well, the far left extremists also used ISPs, mobile phones, energy infrastructure to do this. Are those terrorist organizations too? Moreover, ask yourself: why hasn't Germany accused A/I of being co-responsible of the attacks?
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by riffraff 20d ago
Not forever but long enough: there's no foreseeable future where the USA becomes an economy small enough to not be worth trading in. For most banks the ability to sell financial instruments which end up interacting with the US financia
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by riffraff 20d ago
Well, you can interpret revolution as happening only when convenience breaks down too much.
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by riffraff 20d ago
well, you can publish and consume ActivityPub from any wordpress instance. You can likewise publish to ATProto, AFAIK. It's more convenient to use mastodon.social or bsky.app but they're not inherently "centralised blackboxes
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by riffraff 21d ago
You could but why deprive you of previously imagined giant scorpions if you're making them up anyways https://youtu.be/ErG-xSnO5EA?t=71&is=iGgyivZjRoYWDsaf
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by riffraff 22d ago
The point of this thing is you never need to reroll ties
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by riffraff 22d ago
Well there's cases of diets which came to prominence and caused issues,.from the obesity epidemic of modern west to the pellagra-riddled European countries consuming maize. It is conceivable that social/natural changes might bring
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ZJIT GC: Inlining GC Fastpath in ZJIT(railsatscale.com)
3 points by riffraff 23d ago|1 comments
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by riffraff 23d ago
Italy is the third country with the largest gold reserves since the 50s or so, and most of their gold is in the US. The idea of repatriating it comes up from time to time, but the truth is that it's s logistical and diplomatic trouble
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by riffraff 24d ago
Seems there's no mention of Russia in the article, but they seem to have a rich tradition of small reactors[0]. My understanding is there's still ongoing research/commercialization work but the fabled "many and cheap&quo
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by riffraff 24d ago
V5 seems to have been released about a month ago.
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by riffraff 24d ago
It's been ruby for a long time. I recall at some point the author started working on yet another version which used its own language instead of a ruby DSL but I don't know what happened with that https://www.patreon.com
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by riffraff 24d ago
an unemployment rate of about 3-4% is considered "full employment" aka "we're good". If you switch the perspective to this other rates it shows there's a lot of work to do to reach "true full employment&qu
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by riffraff 27d ago
For what is worth, I had an IKEA kitchen for 12+ years, we disassembled it and gave it to some people that could reuse it, and it's still fine. OTOH my IKEA couch fell apart in half that time, but my wife fixed it up and it lasted unti
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by riffraff 28d ago
> Greek homeowners would be left with unpayable euro mortgages Just fyi, Hungary had a ton of homeowners with loans in EUR and CHF and when the HUF collapsed the rates became untenable and the government just said "eh, fuck the bank
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by riffraff 28d ago
Also Andorra, which has an agreement since 2006 to mint their own Euros.
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by riffraff 28d ago
Kosovo and Montenegro adooted the Euro unilaterally, but various micro countries use the Euro through special treaties (Monaco, San Marino, Vatican etc). Iceland is 10x larger but this in principle possible.
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by riffraff 28d ago
Ah, touché!
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by riffraff 28d ago
Perhaps different from mind's eye then! But alas, I can't do that either.
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by riffraff 28d ago
Well, dbm (database manager) is basically that and has been called that for almost 50 years
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by riffraff 28d ago
Because it doesn't matter anymore for current models and they want to show goodwill, probably.
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by riffraff 29d ago
"Benedetto’s Buffalo chicken mozzarella sticks" is pretty insane too.
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by riffraff 29d ago
isn't this true for most formats? You'd use a string to encode a date or version in JSON just like you would in YAML[0]. Either you have an infinite spec, or you always have things outside it. [0] YAML would allows you to tag the
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by riffraff 29d ago
nah, you walk to a machine at the airport and get the tourist one. I had to get 4 as I was traveling with kids who don't own phones and could get cheaper rates, took a few minutes, you waste a few yen but get to keep the souvenir.
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by riffraff 1mo ago
Fwiw, I can visualize things, I can hear noises in my head but I cannot, for the life of me, smell things in my head. So it's easy for me to imagine people who don't have other "mental senses", maybe that works to explai
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by riffraff 1mo ago
The Apple test is great, my wife found out with it that she, and our daughter, have aphantasia, we kept bringing this up with other people and turned out quite a few do, and also quite a few do not have an internal monologue. It's very
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by riffraff 1mo ago
Holy cow never realized it was him, absolutely terrifying for me as a kid

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