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by spritefs 4y ago
> 1 "systems engineer" (not sure what this means, but doesn't seem like it involves programming since they taught themselves Python after getting laid off) I met someone who was a "systems engineer" at a job orie
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by spritefs 4y ago
> about removing Pro-ana websites what is pro-ana? pro anorexia?
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Freeloaders have a right to be worried: It’s also been reported that Netflix will potentially block IP addresses that don’t match the IP address of the main account holder. Couldn't someone just set up a proxy for family with a di
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by spritefs 4y ago
Something else that's odd is it will sometimes mix up icons in the force quit menu. But this was around prior to ventura At the same time, there's so much stuff going on in macos that there's a very wide surface area for rand
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Government basically uses marketing tactics to portray us all as a big inclusive happy family, but that couldn't be further from the truth. It's the same way in the US with native Americans. They teach you about the genocide
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by spritefs 4y ago
Question for Australians here: is racism against aboriginals widespread in Australia? How does the govt work to prevent it?
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by spritefs 4y ago
> We desperately need more attention on climate change or the human race will die out. Imo renewable energy and and EVs are worthwhile because of air pollution, but we can do without the fearmongering about the world ending. Historically
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by spritefs 4y ago
> LegitScript revoked its certification for Cerebral and Done this year, and the two companies face Justice Department investigations after the Journal reported that some clinicians felt pressured to prescribe stimulants. Patients and th
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by spritefs 4y ago
Parent wasn't making a legal argument. A bunch of the comments in this thread are about trust. Do you think it's good for trust to have "for profit companies policing their content to attain maximum ad revenue"? Is maxim
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by spritefs 4y ago
If people don't trust a system that raised them, there are inherent flaws with the system that it is either unable or unwilling to address
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by spritefs 4y ago
The craziness surrounding covid was somewhat predictable Here in the US (and likely other places), you have a pharma industry shoving amphetamines and antidepressants in people's faces. You have a complacent government that's too
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by spritefs 4y ago
> have concluded that they aren’t helpful or interesting to them as a concept Yeah they aren't. This site has a little bit of technical value and debate. Any of the big social networks are full of idiots that I'd rather not dea
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by spritefs 4y ago
Something interesting that I don't see in the comments here are comments Dijkstra has made about using natural language for telling machines to do things[0] > Instead of regarding the obligation to use formal symbols as a burden, we
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by spritefs 4y ago
- RISC V will become more common. We won't see it moving to most phones and personal computers just yet, but it will be used in some embedded devices and wearables - Google will AB test the search product with NLP generated answers and
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by spritefs 4y ago
> I can't fathom how a software dev could not "care about users". In a large company, there are so many layers of abstraction between you and the users that it's difficult to see how something could benefit them. Also
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by spritefs 4y ago
> You're correct, this is the exact kind of story scary right wing monsters amplify and use to suggest that any day now we'll be stacking the corpes of the homeless in carts and rolling them off to the landfill. I don't th
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by spritefs 4y ago
ChatGPT really isn't bad. Just went and entered some questions regarding libraries I worked with on a recent project and the information itself was afaik correct. The code examples were missing context though I don't see this repl
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by spritefs 4y ago
> via suicide prevention measures (nets under bridges, restrictions on drug purchases etc.) Those are all negative, in those cases you're not allowing someone to do something (which is different from forcing someone to do something)
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by spritefs 4y ago
> and then I read elsewhere that this is the isolated practice of individuals whose behaviour is being hauled over the coals at tribunal hearings into "this is how not to do this". Ahh yes, it's only a couple of bad apples
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Whether you believe a person has a "right" to choose to die or not, people are fully capable of making the choice, and whether you believe they have to right to or not, people are going to do it. It's one thing to be abl
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Those who choose to die should be allowed to make that choice in a way that’s safe, painless, and that minimizes the effects on others as much as is possible. But should doctors (or anyone else) be allowed to suggest it to patients, an
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by spritefs 4y ago
I disagree with this: > A person must have the right to chose the terms of their own existence. In the sense that a person doesn't have the right to choose to die, and shouldn't have the right to make that decision on behalf of
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by spritefs 4y ago
> But human rights advocates say the country’s regulations lack necessary safeguards, devalue the lives of disabled people and are prompting doctors and health workers to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it
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by spritefs 4y ago
See this https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c63... > But human rights advocates say the country’s regulations lack necessary safeguards, devalue the lives of disabled people and are prompting d
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by spritefs 4y ago
> But the pay is so much more too. This means you can retire sooner and then use the free time to find meaning. This spiel about waiting for retirement to "find meaning" is a load of BS. Telling people to sit around and wait fo
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by spritefs 4y ago
> I don't agree with this sort of cynicism at all, and I very much do believe that while it is very flawed, democracy ultimately is still doing its job. Democracy is good, yes, but blindly asserting that USA == democracy is an incre
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Have you seen journalists attacking a dictatorship while living there, and go unpunished? Have you seen the same, but on democratic countries? After Glenn Greenwald reported on the 2013 leaks, the IC and news media started up a bunch o
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by spritefs 4y ago
The legality of this kind of tracking is one thing. What I think is most egregious about this though is that ByteDance said this before: > TikTok has never been used to ‘target’ any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figur
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by spritefs 4y ago
> This is happening already with PatronScan which is being pushed agressively into schools, and bars The linked article mentions bars, where does the school bit come from?
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by spritefs 4y ago
The weirdest thing about this to me isn't that they kicked her out because of the litigation, but that they were able to see who she was based off of the facial recognition alone Like where do they get this data from in the first place

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