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by tdeck 1y ago
> It seems like that changed somewhere around the turn of the century, whereby businesses started to decide that it was better to cut down on customer service, and in some cases, go so far as to ban customers. You missed the first step,
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by tdeck 1y ago
Just jumping in to point out that thus had 6 points before the hasbada bots swooped in and now it's at 1.
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by tdeck 1y ago
He was interviewed by the feds after his arrest and mentioned his upcoming flight in the interview transcript but still was allowed to leave the country.
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by tdeck 1y ago
This only works for Israel because members of the Israeli government expect to be above the law. They need to offer only the flimsiest pretext to get away with anything. Look what happened with Tom Alexandrovich.
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by tdeck 1y ago
The Daily WTF is going to enter a new era soon. (For those not familiar https://thedailywtf.com/ )
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by tdeck 1y ago
You may prefer the ABS Orb https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5424/Orb-Computer-Th... http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/icl53t
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by tdeck 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
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by tdeck 1y ago
It is worse. Imagine if you were trying to learn English from this phrasebook, written by someone who didn't speak English: https://www.exclassics.com/espoke/espkpdf.pdf Wikipedia is prominent. Wikipedia articles
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by tdeck 1y ago
It makes no less sense than any other work done to protect or restore something created by human beings. This comment is no more insightful than saying "cathedrals burn down, do artificial attempts to 'restore them' make sens
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by tdeck 1y ago
Google translate, relevant paragraph: > Through the consultation process, it became clear that our member organizations do not feel that this year's Peace Prize laureate is in line with the values of either the Norwegian Peace Cou
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by tdeck 1y ago
And let's not forget the original Macintosh, which Steve Jobs insisted shouldnt have a fan and likewise tended to overheat. Of course, that was only after learning the lessons of the Apple ///, where > Jobs insisted o
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by tdeck 1y ago
This sounds like that betting game in the Stormlight Archives books that's meant to circumvent the religious prohibition on predicting the future.
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by tdeck 1y ago
This is a great example of how pure FP folks tend to communicate and why their languages aren't more popular.
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by tdeck 1y ago
I'm curious how the soldiers had extra insignias and patches to give away as souvenirs.
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by tdeck 1y ago
I seem to remember that the civil rights act and voting rights acts got passed through congress and upheld by the supreme court during the 20th century.
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by tdeck 1y ago
The limit to separation of powers is that many people will align themselves with the most powerful existing entity as the easiest path to self advancement, and this results in a natural consolidation of power even when that consolidation is
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by tdeck 1y ago
Bonus points if it fits in 38911 bytes.
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by tdeck 1y ago
But universities want their graduates to be employable, is the thing.
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by tdeck 1y ago
> User Experience of Command Line Tools Is this a good place to complain about tools with long option names that only accept a single dash? I'm thinking of you, `java -jar`.
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by tdeck 1y ago
At least at my grocery store the workers don't tend to look completely miserable.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Also im the US builders routinely create a separate shell corporation for each job so it can simply go bankrupt if they get sued rather than paying out.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Seems like a missed opportunity. Why not fill a built in sponge with that paint instead, and when the sponge is fully saturated it's time to throw out the whole machine and buy another one?
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by tdeck 1y ago
Better add some AI to that pitch.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Also reminds me of how they fit Pitfall into 4k. A lot simpler game but the platform was also much more limited. This is a great talk for those who love such things: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1OK6VAIU
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by tdeck 1y ago
I wasn't just talking about Trump.
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by tdeck 1y ago
When you are repeatedly shown that there's no consequence for illegal behavior by an administration, why not do it?
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by tdeck 1y ago
Open Tax Solver has been around for years and is still maintained and updated each year. https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ The UI leaves a lot to be desired, but it does work and I used it one year.
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by tdeck 1y ago
I have done this a few times, but for me it takes several hours and I always am worried I have made a mistake. If you have simple investments you can still run into confusing things that are very hard to follow.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Unfortunately many PDFs don't even internally represent text in a contiguous way.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Because it's less effort to get an MVP set up. Instead of having to test on a bunch of different PDFs and figure out how to address the right location in the text, just write a paragraph asking the LLM to do it. Of course, there are ce

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