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It is word but it belongs somewhere in contexts like this: "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
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Merriam Webster: Lesson: something learned by study or experience
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I find it upsetting the word 'learnings' is replacing 'lessons' in corporate speak. The term is ugly and uncouth to me and lessons is far more suitable and appropriate in this context. It would be like if school was star
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I feel like we'll be having the same arguments forever. Sure LLMs bring some issues but programmers will always find ways to write bad code no matter what tooling or techniques we have available. His critique is basically the same as &
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>We can point at a media company, call out its vested interests, scream about its bias, protest in front of its office, sue it for slander and misrepresentation. Right but the previous election had Russian servers spinning up fake news w
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Why is this concern more important the what people interpret from the media, social media and the dissemination of information in general where lies and fabrications are also commonplace? Like surely people will always fall for nonsense, li
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Other countries aren't getting it -- afaik that was a possibility regarding fall back mechanisms should their primary argument collapse before this ruling. The EU has won their primary case and thus Ireland must be forced to collect an
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Where are all the 'nano meters' is just marketing guys the way GHz became back in the day that Intel ended up obsessing over. Are we using these values as proxies for performance now? It was true back in the day -- is it still tru
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For those who want a quick reference to options we have in Europe for tech solutions: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to edit: updated url to be more relevant/specific.
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I will say a status page that gives out red flags at least makes me trust it more. The AWS status page might as well be static until there is massive outrage on the internet that shows it is completely down, then a single green light will t
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If I learned anything from expo -- get signed up so you can get grandfathered in to future plans. They're almost gonna certainly increase prices.
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Isn't electricity and magnetism the same force?
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>France just lost $10-20B over the arrest of Pavel Durov. That's not what 'suspended' means.
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They aren't in alphabetical order. Simply looking at the list will confirm that.
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You would think a Bank CEO would have more financial acumen than falling for this nonsense. 24 years seems appropriate.
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>I think Google can win this easily by using the public opinion against the regulators. Apple levels of arrogance. Apple tried the same approach when the EU was slapping them down with DMA and few were having it, calling Apple out for th
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Here is how Ireland is trialling to pay some artists: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemploymen... tl;dr: Just give artists with body of work a basic wage and ask for nothing in return. See what
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Netherlands is one of the most agriculturally productive nations on the planet. They simply have the greenhouse industry, port and rail infrastructure to ship out what they grow very efficiently. You can get the best tomatoes in southern Eu
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I definitely recommend "Life on Our Planet" produced by Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman. Covers all the extinction events in Earths history in a way that would enthuse and educate laymen on this issue.
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>Ryanair is against free market. They want to have monopoly, to raise prices. This is the goal of almost every business and that isn't against the free market it is the free market and the precise reason we have regulators to ensure
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>They won’t come back magically when they will need them. With the kind of goodwill they're building here I'm inclined to doubt that. People want to naturally cheer for the good guy and it's hard not to see an open source
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Is there a Jelly Cloud solution? i.e a company that deploys Jellyfin to a EC2 instance and hooks up an S3 and gives you custom domain e.g: username.companyname.com and charges you a monthly fee for the S3/EC2 costs + other costs? I was
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>Most contemporary journalism is just not worth archiving Considering how much historians love ancient rubbish bins, one mans junk is another mans treasure. Even the junk produced during and before the Trump/Brexit 2016 election&#x2
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That's not what the BRICs are best known for; Brazil, Russia, India and China are all best known for being emerging super powers. I see plenty to disagree with here -- from conflating the 'richest' with the 'most talente
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>big engineering/science schools probably regard undergrads as largely necessary annoyances I recall one definition of a school including elementary right up to University being an institution that passed knowledge from one generati
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>as the organization did not believe it was a good direction. Kinda infuriating -- almost arrogant -- we're behind the US in space technology yet the ESA is insisting it knows the right way forward when a very promising path was act
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It's enlightening to see read comments from this forum when GDPR was being introduced. It was just seen as pesky legislation designed to trap people needlessly in red tape and not legit privacy protections. I think a lot of Americans a
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Switzerland has incredible trains and train networks. Just before people chime in with "Trains are good but mountains are too much of a challenge so might work in other places better with a flat geography". Sounds reasonable until
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I wonder if GDPR fines will get issued. If so hopefully the EU slaps on some processing fees and digital delivery fees and some admin fees and some notification fees on top of the fines.
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It's a bit like when a big chain goes bankrupt - the profitable restaurants don't close another buyer comes in and takes over. Like Red Lobster and the staff in the profitable restaurants stay the same the renters stay in the same

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