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you don't see why having the privileges revoked creates pressure? Well, let me chart it out simply : If you have something you like taken from you, but the captor is deaf to your complaints, you'll complain elsewhere. The concept
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2y ago
>I think the idea that the human body and brain is somehow inherently immune to any effect from radio waves, with no such mechanism even proposed as to why this might even be the case, is just as much a belief in faith. it's an easy
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2y ago
>Where did you get this stereotype of farmers? it's not a hard guess even if you don't share the opinion ; nearly every movie where 'farmer' is a plot point demonstrates a rural-living poorly educated family living in
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2y ago
it's a weird differentiation , part of how they do that is by reading back what they said - someone trained in doing so could essentially abuse this characteristic themselves to do the math in a simplified step by step way if they had
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2y ago
>P.S. the website and the probably AI generated logo is giving a sketchy vibe about the project :) certainly some reasoning would be more constructive than a smiley face, because I looked at the website, I looked at the logo[0] - I didn&
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2y ago
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying with a caveat; I do not think that the concept of technology requires human progenitors. so with that said, and the addition of 'simulation theory' or some other such never-knowab
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2y ago
> Museum Workers Rescued from Trash Artworks Mechanic Mistook for Garbage source headline is a whole lot less awkward reading than the headline used here. (my opinion, of course.)
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2y ago
less educators produce less educated, that's absolutely how it works. the incentives, the logistics and finances of how we get to a point like that -- well that's where it gets muddier.
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2y ago
as someone who absolutely loves SE -- please don't. the orbital and planetary mechanics kind of suck. They're meant to provide a decent 'arcade realism' for the sake of player/player interactions and pvp/pve. i
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2y ago
'notebook computer' is so ambiguous as to be useless. go find one of those 'notebook computer's that the dev team uses (probably a few-generations-old thinkpad or dell) and go see what the experience is like if you'
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2y ago
was right handed for 20 years, got paralyzed, became left handed. of course relative to the physical therapy/rehab that was easy -- but it still surprised me how quickly it became fluent. it kind of made me think that it's more ju
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2y ago
>My family's computers (my dad's, my mom's, my sister's and my media PC, because I was lazy) are all Xfce. same. why? they all grew up on Win9x and the visual metaphors used by XFCE just click , they could all care l
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2y ago
model fitting and extrapolation from large data sets seems like it would be exactly their wheelhouse.
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even on a monster machine the turn-times get exhausting at the end of a large-map game on VI.. Maybe they're focusing on graphics so that we have more pretty things to stare at while awaiting the 45s turn end while it calculates the ot
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2y ago
as someone with lots of impressively credentialed braggart friends.. that's not always the case. although w.r.t. myself? absolutely agree with the sentiment. I would wash out in half a week with that kind of workload.
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well then tell Valve to create sensible guidelines for how and why and when an update occurs. talk to some Steam workshop developers as ask them about update concurrency within Steam -- and then realize why this double-launcher-syndrome exi
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I don't think it's funny , but I do feel it's entirely more palatable than "WOOPS SOMETHING WENT WRONG <cute_dog_picture.jpg>" scheme that Amazon and other dotcoms use. Regardless, the Lennart tirade added int
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2y ago
I sort of laugh when using chatgpt/claude to code anything, if you ever mention to it that something isn't quite working right it'll pepper the entire code with printed debug statements rather than assisting you with any more
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2y ago
i'm similarly irritated whenever I login to Amazon and once a year get guilted with "Have you bought your mother's day gift yet?" for my dead mom. you would think that a company that prides themselves on their customer i
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2y ago
why? are there any other people that started in stand-up and ended up being worth over a billion dollars? sure we can rate what pinnacle of success means in comedy -- maybe he's not the funniest -- but generally we rate success in most
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2y ago
waste of a gpio connector? that's the whole point for a lot of us, otherwise we'd just use one of the billion other SBCs. If the requisite is "I need an sbc to jam into a keyboard that has a modern vid-out" there are ple
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2y ago
this whole thing produced some useful tools, if nothing else. I'll be able to use a few of them to keep warm during the next AI winter -- much like every other AI winter. did anything good come from wework?
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it's frustrating that things like this get released from oAI but one still cannot use voice on the web-app, nor any of the advanced voice model stuff, without essentially emulating a phone. it's hard to know who oAI is working for
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2y ago
Seems good at trivia and easy-to-answer medical/engineer stuff. Fails hard at most logic or puzzle-y stuff I throw at either sized model. I got it to break consistently by asking "Good work, by any chance do you have the time and
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might be something to it. Aileen Getty is a major donor of Climate Emergency Fund, which backs Just Stop Oil.[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil
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a non-technical person wouldn't consider the implications of a history log with regards to security or data hoarding, they just see it work and think of it as a convenience. this value sell shifts in the mind of the non-technical perso
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only if you're familiar with the CAD package. presumably a big benefit here is that all it really takes English and geometry knowledge.
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>This reminds me of smart refrigerators that can notify me when the door is ajar. I'd rather have it constructed so that it just closes automatically. a world of liability is escaped by avoiding that feature add. This is similar to
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2y ago
it feels more like a way to sweep liability away rather than a real warning.. ..which also does not inspire confidence.
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okay, but now plot it out when the example human has greater than 0% idle time. strive as we might , none of us are 100% effective at converting time into money. I agree with the greater point that money is important and that time is even m
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