thunderfork

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by thunderfork 2mo ago
I do exactly this all the time, and know many who also do this all the time, yes. So, this refutes the bailey: >None of the AI haters (or haters in general) are willing to put money where their mouths are.
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
It's their choice among other viable choices, so the "problem" is on their end. If the law mandated exactly one thing, then it'd be the law's problem. Since it doesn't, of course the choice of how to comply can
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
I disagree, on the principle of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
Motte and bailey; "none" -> "vast majority" I know plenty of people (including myself) who pay for good human artwork :)
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
You can't be reddit-posting and then complaining about replies being reddit, man
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
It's fine by me (sample size 1 Canuck)
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
It'd depend on what you're selling, surely? I've never had any problems of this sort with basic retail product, for example
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
>caused accidents vs >"disrupted" This equivocation is noted but not compelling
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
Off the top of my head, I know there's more than one ;)
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
My understanding is that a parody has to actually parody the original work. There's a distinction between "parodying" and "using the songwriting with different lyrics". You see a lot of people doing riffs on "W
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
Decent physicians recommend exercise among other preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of emergencies. Therapists will likewise encourage you to build up resilience so that "a relationship ended" is not a crisis, and also
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
A Shopify monopoly (and thus a shopify payments monopoly) would be very rough for a number of reasons
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
>Jamstack is an architectural approach that decouples the web experience layer from data and business logic, improving flexibility, scalability, performance, and maintainability. >Jamstack removes the need for business logic to dictat
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
>github repository You have already lost the "normal people" audience
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
Accounting is generally both easier to do correctly and easier to verify than security practices, unfortunately
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
"throw away all software written before 2026" does technically solve this problem, if you ignore everything else the article is talking about (deployment and continuity of service)
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
IIRC, in many containers embedded subtitles will be interleaved with the video and audio atoms/boxes/packets/etc., and so pulling out the subtitles requires scanning the full file. Not quite as expensive as decoding or re-enc
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
I'm inferring that "banning skipping commercials" is a restriction on the part of the service provider, not on the part of France's legislature
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
BOINC isn't really built for "small tasks", afaik. Once you get small enough, the work the server is doing to manage the tasks gets to be around the same cost as the server just doing the tasks itself.
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
environmentalists well-known for instituting fire lane policies
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by thunderfork 2mo ago
You have to look to the people for whom those decades brought joy, and realize how grandly that outnumbers complaints... and if you find yourself blessed enough to be in that position does the road, then "reading HN" is a problem
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
See table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#Additiona...
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
It's generally considered rude to stop reading one sentence into a message in order to shoot off pithy replies
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
* Jurisdictional: Food stamps can't be adjusted by NYC itself (as far as I know), so if they're insufficient this works around that issue * Store access: Food stamps don't necessarily solve the problem of "there's n
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
As a counter-example, the LCBO (Ontario government liquor store) has been demonstrably fine for decades. Failure modes exist, but I don't think they're guaranteed.
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
I'm not interested in having "nuanced discussions" about whether the Roma people have some kind of Nuisance Gene that makes discussion of extermination valid If you'd like to make an argument that isn't just "e
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
"it's not ethnic cleansing because this time the Jews really ARE evil, okay"
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
And there's been almost no fiber laid for the last two years after Bell bought up the companies that were actually doing innovative rollout :/ "Cable is equivalent" only if you don't need/want a symmetric conne
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
Unfortunately I haven't heard much about build-out since Bell bought the company that was laying all that fiber (Start.ca) I had to move to a place that didn't have fiber but by all means should be getting it Real Soon Now (urban,
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by thunderfork 3mo ago
>I think there's such a strong difference between remigration and ethnic cleansing you can think what you want to think but this is definitionally incorrect

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