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by tdeck 2y ago
Soft deletion doesn't satisfy the company's obligation under the CCPA.
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by tdeck 2y ago
The most successful chorded keyboard of all time is the Perkins keyboard used to produce braille. If you already know braille, it's much quicker to learn than touch typing on a regular keyboard because they keys correspond directly to
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by tdeck 2y ago
It has the words "police state" right in the title. Is that a term you've never heard before?
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by tdeck 2y ago
The simplest for sure was using ActiveJob in Rails with Clockwork for scheduling and Postgres for queueing things up.
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by tdeck 2y ago
The tone of this article is so strange. It's like the author is lamenting the fact that fewer Russians are signing up to violently extort and oppress members of their own communities on Putin's behalf. Apparently the jackboots get
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by tdeck 2y ago
Frankly it's no worse than "mebibyte".
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by tdeck 2y ago
Many BASIC dialects had this too, which could make some code a bit easier to read e.g. DIM X(5 TO 10) AS INTEGER I recall in one program I made the array indices (-1 TO 0) so I could alternate indexing them with the NOT operator (i
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by tdeck 2y ago
Just to add one more example, the anti-trans frenzy led someone to call the cops on a cisgender lesbian woman who was using the women's restroom, where the male cops barged in to arrest her: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/
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by tdeck 2y ago
FWIW Amtrak's policy is 15 minutes, but they're not known for being on time: https://www.amtrak.com/on-time-performance It's interesting how much effort here is dedicated to explaining that it's the frei
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by tdeck 2y ago
I wonder how many of these are still lying around somewhere. When I was in college in maybe 2012, I was looking for something in our ACM lounge. Opening a drawer, I was confronted with multiple CueCats! I couldn't believe I recognized
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by tdeck 2y ago
> I don't know if it's true There are polls about this that you could easily look up. Is your position that if most Israelis affirmatively support atrocities like this, the rest of the world should just pretend like we never sa
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by tdeck 2y ago
Nothing you wrote actually refutes my point that these people not only escaped consequences, but they were protected by rioters and then becane celebrities in the Israeli late night circuit. Remind me which other countries had a debate in t
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by tdeck 2y ago
It's a good time now that many of Google's employees might have their visas revoked for criticizing Israel. The era when companies felt they had to pretend to have humanist values seems to have come to an end.
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by tdeck 2y ago
In Israel, a "normal civilian" sees the Sde Teiman video and thinks "those soldiers are heroes".
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by tdeck 2y ago
You mean how much of this is theater so you won't think about how this company MITMs a meaningful percentage of the internet's encrypted traffic?
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by tdeck 2y ago
What is this baaed on, vibes? I don't see an official position on nuclear power from XR. All I can find is discussions like this where people discuss a diversity of views about nuclear power. https://old.reddit.com/r&#x
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by tdeck 2y ago
Of course as is typical this comment comes with no evidence. Meanwhile we're supposed to believe that Trump supporters care about corruption when he did this? https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/g-s1-47817&#x2
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by tdeck 2y ago
I know it's not a key part of your point, but I'm curious if there's actually a place in the US where milk is $11/gallon. Here in Seattle it's remained around $4/gal.
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by tdeck 2y ago
It was somewhat common in the 1970s and before for programming languages to support abbreviating variable names when you referenced them. So for example, you could say patients = 400 x = pat / 2 And x would be 200. This se
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by tdeck 2y ago
That's because it's not a definition, it's simply a summary of a description of one characteristic.
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by tdeck 2y ago
Can anyone say which of the LLM companies is the least "shady"? If I want to use an LLM to augment my work, and don't have a massively powerful local machine to run local models, what are the best options? Obviously I saw the
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by tdeck 2y ago
It might be basic, but I found the Wikipedia article to be a good place to start: > An important aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigism,[35] meaning an economy where the government often subsidizes favorable companies and exer
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by tdeck 2y ago
The title and description are very vague. Could someone summarize for those who like to know what videos are about before watching them?
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by tdeck 2y ago
It seems to only recognize symbols when sent at the exact rate that it expects, which is extremely slow. That wouldn't be much of an issue except that the actual signal is lost, so the only way to communicate is through the site's
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by tdeck 2y ago
There's a fascinating thing called aphantasia where people can't picture things at all in their mind, but such people are able to lead normal lives and may never realize there's something different. This feels like a similar
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by tdeck 2y ago
Wasnt that exactly what they tried to do for the first 30 or so years, but it wasn't very fruitful?
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by tdeck 2y ago
> Curious how quickly people forget, and I'm sure we'll have to relearn these lessons yet again. I think some of this forgetting was attributable to the Biden administration's decision to suddenly start acting like COVID d
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by tdeck 2y ago
> I remember working for a gent years ago, who was stressed out that my output was so low. He declared "I started this business in my living room let me show you I can do any job in this building" > He came to my workspace,
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by tdeck 2y ago
A lot of what's in the article resonates with me. Specifically, I've seen cases where managers unwittingly use coding (a problem they feel comfortable with) as a way to escape from facing more serious manager responsibilities (pro
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by tdeck 2y ago
> they hold up all of these technical accomplishments and quality of life improvements they have made under their one party system. But now over here is Taiwan that never bought in Never bought in to one party rule huh? It seems like peo

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