smackeyacky

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by smackeyacky 6d ago
There is a torrent. Objectively it’s uneven but the I’m biased toward it because I watched it on release. Space Bastard Travis is a terrible villain but Servalan is very attention getting. The simple fact that none of the characters felt
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by smackeyacky 7d ago
I don’t know about this. If you were doing a recipe app on DOS likely you were using dBase or a clone of it and all those apps looked the same because of the character based limitations of the PC. Borland environments were similar.
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by smackeyacky 8d ago
When was the last time you saw a Chinese laundry?
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by smackeyacky 10d ago
I don’t think we have a wide enough Overton window when it comes to economic discussions, the neoliberal revolution of the 1970s killed a lot of little levers of economic control in most post social democratic countries. Instead we were pr
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by smackeyacky 10d ago
I don’t understand why central banks seem to use such a blunt object like interest rates for every inflation problem. It would make sense to rise if the cause of inflation was accelerated economic activity, not price rises due to supply re
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by smackeyacky 11d ago
West Indian migration put an end to that[0]. Unintended side effect of good old British racism. [0] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-...
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by smackeyacky 11d ago
We’ve seen this doesn’t work nearly as well as the homogeneous culture people would like us to believe. Ambrose Bierce nailed it (paraphrasing) the bible is an excellent book for your neighbour.
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by smackeyacky 11d ago
It is a total fantasy that Australia would throw back in with the ghost empire that is the UK. They literally have nothing to offer us apart from a figurehead head of state.
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by smackeyacky 11d ago
Almost the entire tech crew who were working for Honeywell in Canberra seemed to be from a team that worked in Port Moresby in the late seventies to maybe the early eighties. Their stories were mostly a mix of late stage colonialism and ma
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by smackeyacky 11d ago
There is no apt response other than for the over 50% of Americans who voted in favour of their current situation to all suddenly change their minds about gay frogs and space lasers and stolen elections. I can’t see it happening.
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by smackeyacky 13d ago
How can these models do anything close to RSI when they can’t even self check their output? Gemini for example is so self confidently wrong about 30% of the time for me on certain tasks. I tell it that its answer is wrong and it issues a
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by smackeyacky 13d ago
Maybe. Perhaps they are trained on the loudest and most extreme of us. I think we saw that with mecha hitler.
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by smackeyacky 13d ago
Because nobody showed him vi?
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by smackeyacky 15d ago
Time and progress have overtaken them. At the time they were likely correct but I certainly wouldn’t bother with react native any more when the LLMs have gotten so good
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by smackeyacky 19d ago
There are ignorant takes and then there is this. A country that can build the Rafale independently is not to be trifled with.
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Boards are not involved in day to day decision making unless something has gone very wrong. The CEO shows up every day.
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
It’s well documented that the handling of dead bodies at the time was relegated to temporary facilities due to the increased volume.
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Slop from the article
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
So what are the Pop!Is guys doing wrong? Their plain X environment has none of the gaming issues wayland has
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Whatever environment Pop!Os defaults to if you tell it not to use wayland
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Screen share doesn’t work on my setup. Difficultly: nvidia
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Me too. I really wanted to like Cosmic but the hassles wayland causes with ordinary things like zoom is just not worth it. Plus all the progress with gaming that has been made on Linux, wayland ruins. I’m back to X and get off my lawn et
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
I don’t know about that “adults” comment. Microsoft grew their operating system up from a very low base where the “adults” moved theirs down. For most users, windows NT was ridiculous overkill. At the time most users and businesses didn’t
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
That’s interesting. In most western slaughter systems for beef or lamb the trend has been to make the animals as calm as possible to avoid “dark cutters” https://www.beefresearch.ca/fact-sheets/dark-cutting-beef/
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Didn’t the Apollo 13 crew make an air scrubber out of duct tape and hope? Surely a cardboard box, a box fan and a hepa filter covered in tape gets you 90% there
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
It’s a long, desperate and complicated tale as the Windows team, frightened by their own shadows, attempted to head off any and all possible competition. From web views to tablet interfaces and every other mistake you can see the legacy of
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Which is true, so the distribution of the software cracker would have been fairly limited I would have thought.
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Who is the customer in this business model. Does that change the way you might think about prisons that must make a profit? You might argue that it drives efficiency but what does efficiency mean in the context of a prison? Cheaper food f
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
Sounds simplistic but I found a multivitamin helped me with speed of recall that I noticed creeping up on me.
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by smackeyacky 1mo ago
In retrospect the inability of the empire to hold Singapore against the Japanese in WW2 and leave Australia in the hands of the US was the unraveling of the British empire. The Dutch one as well with the fall of the Dutch East Indies.

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