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by toss1 2y ago
Umm, I also found it to be a remarkably bad analogy. More accurate would be something like: "The chef instructor telks us every time we cook this flaming oil dish that can flame over unpredictably at any time so we should wear the weld
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by toss1 2y ago
ChatGPT is way better than to need stupid ripoffs than this Sam should be ashamed to have ever thought of ripping off anyone's voice, let alone done it and rolled it out. They are building some potentially world-changing technology,
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by toss1 2y ago
Good info. I'd agree that several solar masses of energy could be put to better use. But we've gotta start somewhere, and this seems like an advance from stuff that does not exist (as far as we know) to 'just' large quan
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by toss1 2y ago
>>Is my kid really going to be a better student because she volunteered at a hospital or played high school softball? Yes, IFF the activity was pursued seriously, as in a serious sustained effort seeking mastery. There are lesson lea
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by toss1 2y ago
>>AeroSHARK replicates this hydrodynamic property on aircraft. It is a "special film" made up of "tiny 50-micrometre riblets that reduce aerodynamic drag during flight." While it's at this point obviously test
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by toss1 2y ago
The relationship to minimum wage vs cost of living has also changed since the 1950s. The minimum wage was originally designed so a single earner could, working 40 hours/week, support a (very modest) house, spouse, and kids. That, plus
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Nvidia CEO says future of coding as a career might already be dead, due to AI(windowscentral.com)
20 points by toss1 2y ago|34 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
As the VC pointed out, the key here is the two-months-old date. But not exactly for the reason he stated. It is not that he isn't the first, so he's got thin skin or wants only founders who thought he was the best/first VC t
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, it can be a real problem, that over-use. You can also fix this by using judicious aiming and throttle control and still be more efficient and easier on the exosystem vs raking. But you must first understand the issue and want to solve
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by toss1 2y ago
As many others said, assume that it does, by default. Do you have admin rights, including to the firmware? Can you, and did you setup from scratch the device that you received from the from the employer? If not, then it is almost 100% the
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by toss1 2y ago
Great visualization from Randall Munroe: https://xkcd.com/1732/ Literally everyone should see this. Edit: Evidently many people still do not get the point The point is that yes, climate has changed in the past, and
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by toss1 2y ago
I'm also quite sure that the longest monarchies have outlasted the longest democracies, but I think we'd have to define the "peaceful" qualifier. It seems the nature of hereditary monarchies helps moderate the despotism,
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes. The best, most effective form of government is a benevolent dictatorship. However, the mega-fatal flaw is that it is not reliably sustainable. Ultimately, every dictatorship becomes malevolent. Then, the need to protect the malevolent
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by toss1 2y ago
I wasn't conflating the two, I understand that the effects are different, and m recognizing that both are a serious present threats to the same system, but if you don't want to talk about EMP, ok. Even if we have a mild-Carrington
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, while I did not go to the USSR, the accounts I've heard from friends definitely sounded worse than hyperinflation. While hyperinflaion did rapidly make necessities rather difficult and required daily juggling, I didn't see t
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, can confirm. I personally know multiple people who have had that exact experience; one just mentioned it last weekend. If they knew in advance they traveled with an extra suitcase full of jeans to sell, not so much for the money, but
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Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account(qz.com)
86 points by toss1 2y ago|13 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, I did know that, and I did scroll down to the bottom. Even though it contained some good information, I just thought it was presented in a way that excessively got in the way of actually understanding and using the info, and that the
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by toss1 2y ago
I found it only marginally informative, the "interactive" map didn't work as well as I expected, and overall I found it disappointingly info-tainment-ish. I would not have said anything, but seeing the prior two comment, I re
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, the US Military is likely the greatest logistics organization in the history of the planet, and manufacturing would be prioritized. And sure, THEORETICALLY , we could install mitigating tech to instantly disconnect each transformer th
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, and the complaint is that news should be about informing, not about entertaining to make people feel informed [0]. This is more infotainment than information. [0] This concept implemented at scale by Roger Ailes, founder of Fox news,
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by toss1 2y ago
This 'simply use century-old manufacturing tech and make millions of units fast' skips multiple problems. Any large manufacturing effort will require moving the inluts to the mfg locations - difficult with extremely limited abili
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by toss1 2y ago
Seems the "Deck" in this context has an implied following phrase "of index cards", as in "the deck of index cards containing the salient points in the presentation"? Although I'm usually rather strict on
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, on the AI, I'm not so worried about the UI (as you say, it'd piggyback off Cortana), unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy, always trying to "help". I'd be OK with a local version as long as the mul
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by toss1 2y ago
Other than the approaching 14-Oct-2025 EOL (unless we want to pay for another year or two of support/patches), I'd definitely consider it They've made the Start menu far less usable. Worse, they eliminated the ability to mov
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by toss1 2y ago
Are you suggesting a flavor of Lisp? Because THAT could be very nice in a cell-format.
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by toss1 2y ago
Yikes Tests it with a stick first, and it breaks. Fair enough, it looked like a somewhat flimsy stick, so maybe his finger was stronger. So then why not test with a stronger stick first? Maybe look up how strong bones are and get a simila
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Woman follows advice to not exit Tesla during update – takes longer reaches 115F(usatoday.com)
6 points by toss1 3y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 3y ago
>>I think the typical Democrat-Party view that "oil bad" and "oil corrupt" lacks nuance. Right. That is why, after 3 years of a Democratic Presidency and Senate, the US is producing more crude oil than any country
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by toss1 3y ago
Great point. This seems like low-intelligence autocratic bullshirt more than anything. Does the CCP really think that the US military are going to use ordinary street msps to target their missiles and that this obfuscation will protect the

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