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by smolder 2y ago
The promise of computing that never materialized was having software to track everything you've ever done, and leveraging that data for your own benefit and no one else's.
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by smolder 2y ago
Off the top of my head I can't offer examples, only my impression. In general Google seems better at narrowing in on what I'm looking for especially with more complicated queries, but in some cases the DDG results will turn up les
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by smolder 2y ago
They really don't, though Kagi costs $. Even ignoring that it's a bit unclear, since in many cases DDG or bing give better results.
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by smolder 2y ago
Hence the decades of inaction and even subterfuge to prevent action.
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by smolder 2y ago
Look at how the early 90s Ford Tempo resale value compared to Toyotas of the era. Trash cars don't keep their value. Toyota could then charge a premium because they were known for quality.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is a poor analogy. Historically there is a significant cost to making bad cars with frequent repair needs.
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by smolder 2y ago
It's called Llama because it has L L M in it and is cute.
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by smolder 2y ago
Your baby is crying over the intrusion of big tech into their private life before they even have object permanence.
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by smolder 2y ago
I played that game for the first time not long ago and found it funny how redundant statuses stack up when a creature gets something on them. It's a weird thing to not have changed after so many years of development. Something like: Ur
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by smolder 2y ago
They can't do all the same climbing routes, but keep in mind that having your strength concentrated in 2 or 3 limbs instead of 4 doesn't necessarily mean you have a worse power-to-weight ratio. An athletic wheelchair user will hav
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by smolder 2y ago
> "conspiracy" A better term here would be "fringe theory", since it's unclear who would even be conspiring.
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by smolder 2y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, as they say. I have tried to make guesses that turned out to be right, with negative returns, because price was detached from value. I don't think that's how securit
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by smolder 2y ago
If it has heat pipes/vapor chambers then yeah, it's like the chips are heating elements for a little low temperature, low pressure boiler.
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by smolder 2y ago
ECC support wasn't good initially on AM5, but there are now Epyc branded chips for the AM5 socket which officially support ECC DDR5. They come in the same flavors as the Ryzen 7xx0 chips, but are branded as Epyc.
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by smolder 2y ago
> the disbelief made I assume you mean the suspension of disbelief ? I.e. immersion. Suspension is a key word there, as in, your disbelief is halted, allowing you to be immersed.
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by smolder 2y ago
> That's the primary reason medicine is so expensive. My aim isn't to make a long thread out of the topic but: while I'd agree it's one reason, I'd dispute it's primary. Demand for medicine is pretty inelast
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by smolder 2y ago
Winning elections is only a part of why the US President must be an effective communicator. Even with the greatest staff supporting them, poor communication will hamper their ability to do the job, especially in a crisis situation.
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by smolder 2y ago
Pleasure and pain, along with subtler emotions that regulate our behavior, aren't things that arise from word prediction, or even from understanding the world, I don't think. So to say human brains are just prediction models see
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by smolder 2y ago
This may sound hyperbolic but I think the US is a failed state. Humanity is facing a mess because the hegemony is falling apart in the hands of extremely incompetent leadership. Generations of nepo-babies have led to incompetency. In very s
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by smolder 2y ago
Yeah. A related/sub-trend is pet owners buying those buttons for pets to press which play sounds, allowing them to "speak" by proxy. Some people who buy them act like their cat pushing "food" "food" "
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by smolder 2y ago
That is all branding. They greenwash themselves publicly but still to this day show PowerPoint presentations to investors about how they are working to undermine renewables and electric transportation in order to fatten their wallets. (Sour
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by smolder 2y ago
No, it's not "on the end user", in my not-so-humble opinion. We should have been much more heavily investing in renewables & carbon neutrality (factories to make batteries and solar, nuclear, anything) by the time the fra
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by smolder 2y ago
No, you aren't. You compared windows laptops to Apple generally. Apple laptops are expensive.
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by smolder 2y ago
> using an url shortener Do you speak this way? I notice a lot of "an" usage online which is not in line with how people speak, e.g. "an horoscope". "An url" is likewise not reflective of normal English pro
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by smolder 2y ago
You have submitted a lot of words with no tenable logic. Good luck with your campaign here.
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by smolder 2y ago
I don't think any of your arguments are left unexplored. They are inadequate to absolve Boeing of wrongdoing. The idea about unions sharing some blame is especially absurd and the suggestion of it makes your post very difficult to take
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by smolder 2y ago
The other day I recommended someone try out pixlr as a free image editor, as I remember it being a nice tool, and they told me "I don't want an AI tool. I hate AI." I was confused, went to the site, and saw it is plastered wi
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by smolder 2y ago
With ads/analytics, Google and the site operator know you're hitting certain pages at certain times, but assuming what they wrote under "privacy respected" is true, none of your content is uploaded. That's an import
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> surely a money-seeking apparatus can form a justified expectation? Hiring managers have all sorts of opinions and expectations. Often they use lazy heuristics because hiring is hard work. Gauging passion (for the business domain or par
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by smolder 2y ago
It definitely is a terrible idea, but it follows naturally from the "browser is an operating system" approach the industry has been taking for quite a while. With this, Goog gets to offload AI stuff to clients, but can (and will,

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