throw-the-towel

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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Why go see Rome when you can google up some photos? Why climb Mt Everest? Why have your own sex when there's so much porn? The answer is going to be the same it's always been: because we fucking can .
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Yes, but also no. On one hand, the possibility to make something genuinely new feels gone. There was always a huge crowd of better developers than myself, but still, they couldn't take all the ideas for themselves. Now they can. On the
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
I wonder if I'll live to see the evacuation of Phoenix and Las Vegas. (Or Abu Dhabi, for that matter.)
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
In my experience, we were typically affected just like everyone else. Maybe a public company with its market cap in the billions isn't big enough.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
And I don't understand why some people feel they need to be the Criticism Constable.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
IDK, when a system is very complex — which GH certainly is — this phrasing sounds kinda fine to me? It's recovering, but not yet operating fully as intended.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
It's hard and annoying to read though. Constantly beating around the bush, circling the point but not stating it, not unlike LLM prose.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
My experience with Uber is the opposite, FWIW.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
You've already seen Long Island Blockchain, now get ready for... Alaska AI Lines!
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
How come your air stays dry, when you're literally on the ocean coast?
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
I'd say everyone who's on the DEI Committee has a DEI Person job ex officio .
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
"Never" is not true, it used to be a major browser. Now, though, sadly it isn't major.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
I'm not sure I agree on the Black Brits part, but the general problem is real: too many US copycats, in situations where aping the US does not make a shred of sense.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Two minutes of googling got me this: https://www.equality.admin.cam.ac.uk/equality-and-diversity-...
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
This user is known to the state of California to post LLM text.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Thankfully, the Constitutional Council struck down the social media ID bill today.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Will? It's already happening, the EU is putting tariffs on China.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Good for you. It looks like you're very much an outlier though!
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Thank you for the detailed answer!
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Which log daemon do you use?
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Cool work, and I'd really appreciate a comparison to Atuin.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
OTOH Delphi 8 flopped so hard that the next version brought back Win32 support.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Early during Covid, some people claimed that the government inflated the victim numbers by counting every excess death if the person had Covid before dying, even if they also had a different perfectly valid reason to die. (Think terminal ca
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Are we now doing that "died with Covid, not of Covid" shite again?
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Can't help but laugh that even Amazon has someone who defends its honour.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
I'm not sure if it still does, but Delphi definitely used to support .NET.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
Because doing it manually sucks? Every website shoves a different bunch of dark patterns in your face, everything is buggy, nobody ever thinks about UX.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
archive.today and archive.fo is literally the same service.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
> the capabilities and resources that the police have to track us 24/7 are an order of magnitude less than Google or Meta has. This will be a good argument when Google or Meta are able to arrest you.
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by throw-the-towel 2mo ago
As much as I love Python, JavaScript (including TypeScript) is probably more popular.

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