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by rnk 3y ago
This is troubling, and becoming ever more widespread. In Seattle people jokingly say we have a fifth season now, after summer comes the smoke season, when the dry end of summer leads to forest fires that come with smoke hitting us, and then
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by rnk 3y ago
There's another important part of this though, oil companies pay scientific researchers to publish views against the veracity of climate change, research and predictions. That's why they say it's science denialism because tho
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by rnk 3y ago
Plenty of people realized that eugenics was unacceptable who were in the scientific world then, just like plenty of people understood that slavery was wrong. Which doesn't take away from the fact that plenty of terrible policies came o
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by rnk 3y ago
I disagree with that attitude. I think most scientific information that comes to us through the media is reliable. If people stop trusting science (or they continue to stop trusting science), we are just left with superstition and religion.
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by rnk 3y ago
I bought the prev generation for that kind of purpose, about 3 months ago. To get 2tb disk/128gb ram cost over $5k. Curious about new prices. The perf seemed good running 65b models but not 16bit. You need the ram and disk space, but t
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by rnk 3y ago
I also can't load archive.today. Both sites fail with dns error. I'm on comcast. Someone is blocking them, comcast or their dns providers?
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by rnk 3y ago
I lived in Arizona, they have these checkpoints everywhere, many miles from the border. They just stop everyone and harass whomever they want. This is not "at the border", this is 30 miles up the freeway. They questioned my friend
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by rnk 3y ago
Probably both.
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by rnk 3y ago
In the US, avg income is something like 55k - so 5.5 figures?, but most people manage a car and phone. But we can't design society assuming everyone has one of course.
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by rnk 3y ago
I have a Tesla from that timeframe and it has an am radio and it just works. Somehow they managed this in 2012. Others can do it too. Software is not always easy but we persist.
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by rnk 3y ago
We sure could save a lot by cutting social security for old people, reduce medicare payments, cut down food stamps for people with kids that's a few trillion right there. Or we could just cancel recent tax cuts that were focused on we
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by rnk 3y ago
Why would it cost more to do warehouses? Not discussed here.You could say we should do nothing except full scale land solar, stop houses for example. There's actually a movement to block solar at farms by the Petro industrial complex,
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by rnk 3y ago
They fired entire orgs that were working on metaverse at facebook. Spoke about it with a sad friend yesterday. At least the facebook metaverse has been cut down.
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by rnk 3y ago
Don't forget the other reasonable part, testing that 50 caliber machine guns can't penetrate the safety of your home walls. That's pretty normal too, right?
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by rnk 3y ago
It's pretty much a rite of passage as internet millionaires to have a safe room with 9,000 lb safes isn't it? Who doesn't have a house with a ballistic safe room? I'm just trying to put the helicopter landing pad on my
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by rnk 3y ago
How does one get a blue sky account? I requested one. All I see is people offering to sell you one. That seems terrible.
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by rnk 3y ago
Isn't that the right way, going back to the greatest compact dev env ever, turbo pascal!
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by rnk 3y ago
Can we spin a story about Google and their failing to take advantage of AI opportunities, open AI plus Microsoft coming up crush them in search? Apparently Google hasn't really tried that hard to commercialize their AI stuff and they h
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by rnk 3y ago
Good call on the site. Articles are almost onion level "we drove 8 lambos in one day, here's what we figured out".
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by rnk 3y ago
"It was easy..." - that doesn't sound that easy to me. I've honestly never had to do something like that to get linux working. Or maybe I'm too lazy and tried to work around things like that.
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by rnk 3y ago
Still, it seems like it is a kind of lock-in (intel only), to save 10 cents or something. What's expensive about standalone wifi?
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by rnk 3y ago
Haha - at the same time many libertarians / conservatives want there to be no infrastructure owned by the public! Another way we are at war with ourselves in the good old semi-public private USA.
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by rnk 3y ago
Great point, this is also true about other states now. I've noticed generally only large multinationals are listing salary ranges online, smaller companies aren't doing that and they resist when you ask. In Colorado and Washington
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by rnk 3y ago
I recommend repeated viewing of Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. And avoiding llamas.
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by rnk 3y ago
I used an induction stove and it turned me into a Newt. But I got better.
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by rnk 3y ago
If you want to, you can find coastal elites that dislike anything, even say electric stoves. So what, why do people have all these grievances because of a sense that someone somewhere doesn't like their choices? I'm from the south
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by rnk 3y ago
Obviously getting rid of gas stoves is good for the environment. In the US, the only conceivable use I see for them longer term is camping stoves and extremely remote houses that don't have electricity. I'm guessing you have some
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by rnk 3y ago
How about 134744072, that hits my favorite am-I-connected site. I never knew you could put an int representing the 4 bytes together until today, this is really fun. Even hex works, but doesn't hit a site that responds: (ping 0xcafebeef
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by rnk 3y ago
That article points to an attempt to archive the images, https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur . This is a good idea in general, but we need a reliable mechanism. Foundations with massive budgets are a great cen
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by rnk 3y ago
I strongly disagree. This is just big companies artificially separating their market segments to argue against too large of a market, and preserve their enormous profits with their huge percentage take. The world would be much better off wi

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