ur-whale

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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Modern Monetary Theory Modern Monetary Theory basically enshrines the fact that scamming the general public of its wealth is a perfectly fine practice, especially when they don't notice it's happening, boiling frog style. It
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Am I a terrorist too? Not yet, but give it time.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Bash is riddled with absurd footguns I agree, shell programming is ugly and very unsafe. > Anything more complex than that? Python, Perl, or any other proper programming language is there for you. I disagree. First, there are cert
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Love the fact that the camera says YES when you can shoot, but "NEIN" when it decides you can't. Saying "no" in German carries just so much more weight :D
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Another evil billionaire being a terrible burden on humanity's fate /s
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I think this is a bug. The data is clearly in the network, but for some reason it can't be cobbled back together. OTOH, I've encountered sitations like this, and interacting with ChatGPT can be infuriating when it paints itself in
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Do you not own a washing machine I completely disagree with you. However, I find equating Apple devices to washing machines eerily accurate, on very many different axes.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> To a passive observer, all Theseus DHT protocol traffic is indistinguishable from random noise. This. And it should have been a design requirement for every protocol on the internet since day one.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Looks like the long arm of American crony capitalism isn't long enough to reach across the Pacific. Very good for Japan.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
This is not about the price of apps. It is about running what you want on a device you own. You may not have realized it, but you do not own your Apple device anymore, in the sense that you can't run what you choose on it. You are only
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by ur-whale 3y ago
>I prefer the Apple experience. Yup, different people place the freedom vs security cursor at different spots. You're clearly a "I'd rather live in a golden cage than use my brain" type, and that is fine, more power t
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I don't need your query language With LLM's, no one is ever going to need any query language starting effing now. And good riddance to all of them too, I've yet to see one that made any kind of sense from the ease of u
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by ur-whale 3y ago
They'll pay any politician willing to prevent them to be exposed to competition. They don't care about red or blue, only green matters.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Regulatory capture? Regulatory capture is just one of the many ways crony capitalism happens.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Yeah, I'm waiting for the next article: "a nocode implementation of a PS3 emulator, how we pulled off implementing the GPU, running at 10 second per pixel".
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Alright, if you’ve got this far I’m sure you’ve realised that the whole project is something of a joke. I was there after the first paragraph. I'm even surprised this monstrosity can pull off 1KHz. Glad this is satire and I hope t
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> What is the problem here? The answer is quite simple: as rotten as the likes of Berlusconi and Trump may be, the folks on the opposite side (e.g. Hillary) are simply just as rotten and despicable. As a voter you are then left with a ch
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I think there's a huge opportunity to do a 2023 remake using generative 3D AI.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Nice idea. I wonder if one could calculate an upper bound of the available potential gravitational energy available in the entire universe by estimating how far every massive point (baryon) is from all the others.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/kRE18
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by ur-whale 3y ago
If I need reading glasses, will I be able to use this thing?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> It seems that it does not support Windows natively, It'll likely run on top of wsl
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Why does any of it operate on remote cloud API calls when it could operate locally? How else your thermostat manufacturer going to implement vendor lock-in? /s
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I have a strong aversion to Python I have had a great experience with HA (unlike with OpenHAB which is a Java-based monstrosity with a data schema that is near impossible to figure out). It's unfortunate that he went and rewrote a
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Have they ever not? Where's the news exactly?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> we want a database of all of the songs in the world so that we can properly identify unknown songs and provide attribution so that folks can get paid appropriately. It is a noble goal That it is a noble goal is this internet rando&#x27
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I'm convinced that is the way of the future. What effect would "turning the hose on an d off" have on efficiency?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/tj0OC
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/zE6eQ
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Crypto as a competitor to the 401k or "money in the mattress" strikes me as damn near inevitable. Yes, agreed. If you can stomach the volatility over decade-long time spans, of course - which very many people can't.

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