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Chinese propaganda full of nonsense falsehoods isn't better diplomacy either. > Guo noted that the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was an important part of the World Anti-Fascist War. 80 years ago
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It would be brilliant. Currently the Paris-Milan train line is barely competitive with flying between the two; knocking off 2-3 hours from the trip would make it around 4 hours in total, which is very competitive with flying (1h30 flight, b
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The problem with just taxing them more is that they'll make the algorithms doing all the personal and societal damage even more agressive to compensate.
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We know this doesn't work, and it's insane Americans still pretend it does. Goebbels himself said it while they were abusing the Weimar German freedoms and protections of democracy to take power with violence. They were very happy
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No, the only Level 3 self-driving system is Drive Pilot by Mercedes. They have it on the S-Class and EQS sedans, so one ICE/hybrid and one EV. It even comes with legal liability for the car manufacturer, that's how confident they
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> On diplomatic trips, it often 'lectures' others, rather than listens. Like when?
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> they're suing because of allegations that OpenAI trained on copyrighted material which can be reproduced through prompting Are OpenAI even denying this?
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> protects ... the rights of creators So all those creators that OpenAI plagiarised from, and are suing them, they just needed to pay them to get protection? Sounds easy!
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> I love how people think Azure is somehow worse than AWS when the latter isn't even a single portal, it's many, each of which shows just one product in one region Yep, which means that even an entire AWS region being down has
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Baring them using specific marketing terms (so you have EC2 for what are basically virtual machines), for which both the docs and the portal itself provide helpful information, what do you mean? I find GCP's console and whole set up to
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> When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison. Really? Did he serve more than a month? Because if the people who committed My Lai for off with slaps on the wrist, I can't im
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> It's certainly better than the EU just rolling over for King Donald, which as a EU citizen is embarrassing. I'm seeing it more as buying time thing. In sourcing as much as possible in the EU is already in progress, as well as
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To obtain what? Deepseek's newest open source model before they release it?
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> Whoa there, Bloomberg; just because the USA bans the sale of something to your country doesn't make it banned in your country. Many Americans, including their government, seem to think that US laws apply globally. They have extrad
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Mexican cartels were branching out into the avocado trade, so why not.
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> and actual neighbor of China), tried Ebay India too Eh, you'd have to cross the Himalayas and go through what is kind of a military zone. Kazakhstan and Vietnam are more suitable candidates, but neither has actually good infrastru
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Or a Strix Halo Ryzen AI Max. Lots of "unified" memory that can be dedicated to the GPU portion, for not that expensive. Read through benchmarks to know if the performance will be enough for your needs though.
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It's still called "Le Chat" (which means The Cat in French), hence the occasional pun with a cat icon in various places on their website.
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> I do think we need more Source Available licenses in the world. Certainly I would greatly appreciate being able to browse the source of the many proprietary software systems I've administered over the years. I think we need more d
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> If you don't want start a business and make real money from your software then denying that to others is antithetical to the concept of open source and free software. What if you do and have done so, yet you're competing with
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> Personally I think differentiation between "open source" and "source available" is good Maybe, but I think that "source available" isn't detailed enough and can mean many many different things. > S
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> But at least ChatGPT doesn't try to rush you through and ignore your worries just because they want to make their next appoint. But it is a sycophant and will confirm your suspicions, whatever they are and regardless if they'
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I'm guessing this is the USA with the absurd healthcare system, because otherwise this part is wild: > You need to go to the emergency room right now". > So, I drive myself to the emergency room It is absolutely wild that a
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Setting aside that it's a continent with widely varied tech scenes (UK vs Sweden vs Netherlands vs Greece vs France vs Bulgaria; the startup scenes in some of those are pretty impressive and if they had the same amount of capital throw
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But you're talking about a free open source application without guarantees, that's not comparable to a SaaS vs self-hosted "paid" software in model. And even for the cases where you it is, even with a modern language lik
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> IME on a Pulumi for IaC team, writing infra in a real language (TypeScript) is MILES better than- you can do conditions, have typed outputs, etc and not have it be a bastardized imperative YAML mess. You can have conditions and types w
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With a SaaS, you have one platform that you fully control. Broken dependency? Need to update/rollback? It's all in your hands. Local software has to target multiple OSes, multiple versions of those OSes, and then a million differe
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This is the more flexible and secure (specific aud) replacement for CI_JOB_JWT which has been there since at least 2017, if not before. Functionally it was exactly the same, a JWT token per pipeline allowing you to authenticate to third par
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> I've not understood the propensity for using yaml for CI pipelines and workflows in general. A decent programming language would be a big improvement. Because it's clear to write and read. You don't want your CI/CD
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Who is everyone? As with pretty much every GitHub feature, GitLab had them beat by a few years.

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