robthebrew

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by robthebrew 5mo ago
it is ironic that the website vigorously insists on data collection, as it is based in Germany, the capital of personal data protection.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
how can this go on, in the so called leader of the free world?
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Did I misunderstand? This fungus lives on insects? Also, profit $$ for the megapharmas, yet again.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Just ditch Chrome and then the website owners see shrinking traffic.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
And individual debt in America versus Europe?
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
This is patently absurd. US AI companies are investing non-existent money on huge infrastructure with negligible income. This cannot be sustained. And if/when it fails it will take down the economy of the US and probably any other coun
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Now persuade the poor Cobol maintainers to do the same. A bank goes down for 30 seconds = millions lost.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Moore's law applies ONLY to Transistors, not software or indeed cloud services.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Why not give ideas on where to start? Like links, heaven forbid.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
It is ugly. "I didn't used to care" versus almost everything, including the "I used to not care"
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
There is an interesting story (only slightly relevant) about glycerine. It was a pure liquid, held in many labs throughout the world. Until for some reason it crystallised in one lab. Wishing a short amount of time all the world's samp
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
yes, but Trump is winning, and Melania isn't a skank. Right?
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
haha. Because Trump is Making America Geriatric Again.
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Economically? Excluding your time, what do you think it cost? In tokens?
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
Welcome to the stone age, America
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by robthebrew 5mo ago
I used to say "big as a barn", meaning something large. How wrong I was!
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
the inner teenager in me is giggling over this headline.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
Dang. Hope the recovery goes well. I snapped an achilles during covid. All good now though. As to grounding, apple sell extension cables for duckhead chargers, that are/were 3 pin grounded.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
It is staggering how many people cannot engage critical thought.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
gemini was close for me
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
The skill and timing of the photographer were outstanding. I make no comment on the so-called sport though.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
Donnyass surely?
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
advert?
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
Honestly, your post is spaghetti. No such thing as paragraphs?
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
most google sponsored results for MacOS lead to a dodgy curl that they want you to blindly paste. Google needs to get its act together, or lose all trust.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
Does your charger have 3 pins or 2? It could be a grounding issue (which has gone on forever). Or you have carpets and plastic shoes? You are the problem. It is not dangerous, just annoying to those who sense it.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
For me the only benefit of philosophy is teaching critical thought and inventing pointless words that nobody else will use.
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
Could someone (like his doctor) finally admit the guy has dementia?
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
Intelligence has only a cursory relationship with academia. You cannot conclude that because Einstein wasn't (initially) an academic, that all academics are less worthy. Heck, my cleaner knows much more about household chemicals than I
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by robthebrew 6mo ago
does this work with local LLMs?

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