smegger001

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by smegger001 9mo ago
Grok even if it were technically superior is hampered by it being owned and run by a mercurial racist narcist who in drug infused mania keeps accidentally turning it into Mecha-Hitler in attempts to make it fit his political views or turnin
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by smegger001 9mo ago
The burgers are fine at the one accross the road from my job but the Burger King here has to most bland frys I dont think they salt them at all they are crispy but lack taste.
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by smegger001 9mo ago
it the natural results this site catter not just to tech nerds but one chasing venture capital money. its an inudustry that has never seen a dark patern it didn't like. we have gone from "don't be evil" to "be evil
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by smegger001 9mo ago
if cosmic ray bit flips were so rare then ecc ram wouldn't be a thing.
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by smegger001 9mo ago
Who decides where the art erotica boarder is? There is plenty of content that would straddle that border, I have seen art that could legitimately called pornographic and pornography i would describe as art. Who decides? And then you have pr
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by smegger001 10mo ago
Sort of like how the movie Charade staring Carry Grant and Audrey Hepburn is public domain (due to failure to file back when that was required in the 1970's) but the soundtrack is not. So the music is in the pubic domain only when play
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by smegger001 10mo ago
we automated fortune telling a long time ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_teller_machine
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by smegger001 10mo ago
yeah before potato they had lots of lots of turnips and rutabagas, it is little wonder they went out exploring the world looking for anything better to eat. the new world gave tonnes of food not just nightshade family plant mentioned earlie
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by smegger001 10mo ago
maybe some proof of work scheme to load page content with increasing difficulty based on ip address behavior profiling.
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by smegger001 10mo ago
realistically you can't ban computers for home work as you dont control the environment. and as for banning them for exams that may work for most of the humanities math chemistry and physic, but good luck trying to teach a computer sci
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by smegger001 10mo ago
Well that and decades of being the only industrialized nation not carpet bombed in a world war we have been riding on that and being issuer the global reserve currency for decades.
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by smegger001 11mo ago
Game of thrones problem wasnt going on too long quite the opposite. The show runners were assholes to the author of the books their show was based on and he wouldn't work with them anymore then when they got an offer from Disney they d
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by smegger001 11mo ago
"Maxflix" sounds like a name for a pornstudio but it is i guess better than the alternative of "NetB.O."
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by smegger001 11mo ago
obligatory xkcd is today's oddly enough. is OP Randle Monroe? https://xkcd.com/3175/ seriously though customer support from mega corps is almost non existent anymore unless you are big enough to have lawyers negot
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by smegger001 11mo ago
I dont know "billionaire realestate mogul and serial criminal gets elected president" is the quick bio of both Lex Luthor and Donald Trump. Larry Elision buying up Hawaiian islands sure looks like a Bond Villian if you squint a li
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by smegger001 11mo ago
Grandma, if she is on linux I probably set it up for her and left myself ssh access so I can update/fix it for her. Katie from HR shouldn't touch settings she should file a ticket and wait for the helpdesk monkey or IT to fix it.
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by smegger001 1y ago
Human form robots are a case of Jake of all trades and master of none. Sure I have a dishwasher thats more efficient at doing the job than me but I still end up doing dishes because the cast iron frying pan can't going in there without
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by smegger001 1y ago
Not if its all being sent to the same address as always
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by smegger001 1y ago
I know its not uncommon at small business to ad a surcharge for using cards on purchases below a certain dollar value rather than a discount for cash.
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by smegger001 1y ago
No but they do eat at them.
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by smegger001 1y ago
Also read (future tense) and read (past tense) being pronounced differently despite the same spelling.
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by smegger001 1y ago
problem is who gets to decide that both sides are bing presented fairly? do you think that Fox Newsmax and OAN are going to be under the same pressure to give the liberal viewpoint as MSNBC and CNN will to show a righting viewpoint?
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by smegger001 1y ago
well the question i answered was "Why would anything that isn't Intel implode" and an AI winter and another dotcom boom would do that to everyone not named Intel.
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by smegger001 1y ago
a plateauing in AI development leading to another AI Winter causing dotcom bubble 2 electric boogaloo.
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by smegger001 1y ago
Most people low and middle class people I have met my whole life drink unfiltered tap water unless there is a reason not to (safety or particularly foul taste). you might be in a bit of bubble. Not that it matter though as most bottled wate
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by smegger001 1y ago
my cheap budget android smart phone has a removable battery micro sd headphone jack, the ads well that a function of what apps i chose to install, firefox with a adblocker and beig selective on my apps a i encounter minimal ads, thrid party
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by smegger001 1y ago
sure if you don't mind waiting around anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour for a transaction to be confirmed you can replace cash. sure if you don't mind your every transaction being published on a immutable public ledger and linke
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by smegger001 1y ago
i mean on the one hand yeah on the other its not that big of a technical problem. having one game vs hundreds well torrent trackers have been doing that since forever, and yeah you would need super seeders but isnt that still less load than
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by smegger001 1y ago
What I don't understand is why Steam and others don't use a torrent-like protocol on their back-end to reduce their bandwidth requirements large numbers of customers downloading the game at the same time. Back in the day WOW used
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by smegger001 1y ago
I would imagine there is some sort of incentive structure for the megamillions being offered by meta to these people not just throwing all of the money at them upfront. Payout structed around meeting measurable goals not just show up and co

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