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by sph 4mo ago
> Distributed systems can be useful but does anyone really believe that they are simpler or easier to develop and maintain? I believe that programs written in languages made for distributed systems are simpler and easier to maintain. Als
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by sph 4mo ago
I am anti-racist, son of immigrants, son of a mixed race couple, yet what scares me is the mobbing of people against other that have a different opinion than yours, as seen in this thread. Plenty saying they cannot in good conscience suppor
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by sph 4mo ago
The Mastodon post itself. I get a 404 error. It was fine when this reached the frontpage yesterday or when was it. Looks like the author deleted it. EDIT: nvm it's rate limited
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by sph 4mo ago
The post linked has been removed, so I don't know what more we can speculate upon, 650+ comments in. It's strange to see HN mods allow this much attention to a political, and contentious issue.
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by sph 4mo ago
Europe is not a country. Given how many times we must have this conversation, I wonder if you guys are even taught geography in school?
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by sph 4mo ago
> Tidal will accept AI-generated music Tl;dr. Another one bites the dust.
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by sph 4mo ago
Why would you willingly turn off ad blocking? Get Youtube Premium if you want channels to get some revenue out of you, but why would choose to get blasted by ads, with these complicated rules. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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by sph 4mo ago
Which other platforms? Age verification affects everyone equally. Any alternative platform that caters to young people that grows large enough will get the ban hammer, unless somehow someone manages to run a Facebook alternative out of Russ
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by sph 4mo ago
It does taste very much like coffee (though it's also easy to tell it's not caffeinated) and placebo effect is real. I have been experimenting with reducing/abstaining from coffee and I am well aware of its effects, and I dou
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by sph 4mo ago
"J.F.C. [the professor in question] has been an invited speaker at conferences organised by Bromotech, Yakult and Nestle and has received research funding from Nutricia, DuPont/IFF, and Nestle. G.C. has received honoraria from Ja
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by sph 4mo ago
Yes, that's how stimulants work. The first hit, after abstinence, is always the best.
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by sph 4mo ago
What does Meta get out of enacting mass surveillance of the entire Western world (not even for their personal benefit)? That they can avoid spending 6 months implementing ID checks like porn sites have done? Also can I see an example of tho
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by sph 4mo ago
No, Martians wrote it as counter propaganda
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by sph 4mo ago
I started in an outsourcing firm (body rental actually) but I definitely get your point. Maybe they optimize for real world experience, or rather, how one is used to workplace politics and logistics. The top grad will have higher expectatio
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by sph 4mo ago
> a quote that seems relevant to this forum with its anti-grind-culture ethic Are we reading the same forum? I have noticed that my anti-work (or anti-AI, or left-leaning) comments tend to do better when EU and East Coast are awake, and
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by sph 4mo ago
They are so idle, I wrote them to say their RSS is not working, and they never got back to me. I cancelled my subscription because I am too lazy to go on their website to read their articles. - Here’s some propaganda for the prospective idl
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by sph 4mo ago
Hopefully so that people like me, that dropped out of high school yet have had a successful career as a self-taught engineer, have a chance. [1] Just kidding, my resumes are sent to /dev/null like everybody else’s. —— 1: In fact,
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by sph 4mo ago
That Facebook story is an AI generated attempt at astroturf that has gone viral, but we shouldn’t probably continue perpetuating it. It is not Meta working across the globe because they’re too lazy to implement age verification. Previously:
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by sph 4mo ago
What is funny is that it has been pushed by the social democrats. See also what Labour have been doing in UK. Whatever we call centre-left today we would have placed much further to right a couple decades ago. At this point even the US Dem
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by sph 4mo ago
Marie Antoinette didn't have mass surveillance. This is why they're trying to rectify the situation.
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by sph 4mo ago
They would be exempt, along with military and intelligence personnel. So they can enact mass surveillance, stop any form of dissent before it has a chance to grow, while themselves remaining above the law. https://europeanpirates
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by sph 4mo ago
There's a lot of flip-flopping. I'm surprised Italy changed their mind when they were very in favour until recently.
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by sph 4mo ago
I don't want to enter into conspiracy territory, but it seems that there's a big insistence from whomever is behind pushing for this to pass at any cost. First it was Denmark, now the EU parliament president, a Maltese. What'
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by sph 4mo ago
What is wrong, looking at the first screenshot? I got confused by the line numbers initially, but looks OK to me. Keep in mind it's counting from 0
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by sph 4mo ago
Not only romantic scenes, but any emotion. We are watching actors, any emotion on display is some measure of fake depending on how good the actor is. That said, we all grew up watching movies, and one could argue their way of expressing emo
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by sph 4mo ago
I assume that capitalism is viral enough that no alternative can be realistically by established on a global scale. Ignoring wealth differences is another instance of dreaming of a magical world where greed has disappeared. A good read is M
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by sph 4mo ago
> Because if spread equally and used responsibly That ‘if’ is Atlas carrying the entire world on its shoulders. It should be clear by now that at global scales and with competing interests, the entire premise is impossible.
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by sph 4mo ago
Why do we need constant innovation?
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by sph 4mo ago
Very weird (or funny?) to use statins as an example of a ‘good and effective’ drug.
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by sph 4mo ago
I had to move, haven't settled yet, so my entire setup of Radarr/Sonarr/Kodi + torrent in a VPN container is gone and I miss it so much. The result is that I haven't been watching any movies or TV show for the past year

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