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by wtcactus 1y ago
Find me surprised the EU also has rules about this and everything else. No wonder we are getting left behind. We literally pay thousands of people out of our taxpayer money, to make life difficult for anyone that wants to do business. That’
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It’s not Google’s responsibility to keep an archive of data a few people find important. If they find important to keep those ads get funding for their project and store it themselves. Ideally without further burdening taxpayers.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
This seems too suspicious, now that they had a 95% drop in sales after their absurd and completely detached from reality rebrand, from about 1 year ago. This excuse that they were attacked by an external player and then the government (i.e.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
The amount of luddites angrily answering this comment and downvoting me for seeing with a positive view a new great revolution for human knowledge and productivity, is very funny when coming from a website supposedly dedicated to innovation
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by wtcactus 1y ago
First thing that came to mind when I started seeing news about companies needing developers to clean up AI code, was the part of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Charlie's father is fired from the toothpaste factory because they
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In my experience, Fortran compiler is heavily optimized. It competes head to head with C. Julia’s on the other hand, many times puts out very unoptimized code. Mind you, last time I looked at Julia was 2-3 years ago, maybe things have chang
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by wtcactus 1y ago
I check this site several times to get an idea what is the market price of something in the real world (i.e. outside Amazon). Also, it’s very good at keeping tabs on the features of some products (best place I found to compare motherboards
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by wtcactus 1y ago
So, the problem is indeed the EU.
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So, very similar to what happened with X in Brazil.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Isn’t this very similar to what protestors did on the January 6th incident in the USA?
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“Could it perhaps be related to the increases in various kinds of air pollution? Water pollution? Pesticides or herbicides in our foods?” The West is on a decreasing trend of all those kind of pollution since the 70s. “Or even the dramatic
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by wtcactus 1y ago
These self reported metrics (like mostly everything else in Social Sciences) don’t mean anything. Finland sits about middle in the EU on suicide rates. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/
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The important key point is that you will not lose anything by using ZFS without ECC compared to using any other file system without ECC. The myth is that you specifically need ECC if you’ll be using ZFS, not that ECC is a really good idea f
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by wtcactus 1y ago
In part that’s an interesting question. Some of the processors on the Ugreen line are Xeons, so they should support ECC, but I’m not sure the MB does. But you don’t really need ECC for ZFS. That’s a kind of myth that has been debunked sever
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Well, it’s weird to say this, but good for Microsoft. The UK is turning into an Orwellian state.
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I’ve bought an Ugreen NAS right when they came out. Installed TrueNAS and it’s been rock solid and with a lot of hardware features Synology doesn’t offer all this time. There’s really not a lot of reasons to use Synology anymore (only thing
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by wtcactus 1y ago
I think we should be weary of the fact that Sam Altman having an interest in cutting VC funding for new AI products and competitors in order to condensate most AI funding into OpenAI and kill any new competitors, doesn't make him exact
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Well, this is the result of more than 2 decades of the West shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly and willingly in the name of some twisted extreme left ideology that convinced part of the population that if they didn’t drastically re
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by wtcactus 1y ago
This is a side question, but, are people in California now not expected to pay the extortionary tips American businesses expect? Whenever I pointed how backwards were the tipping expectations in the USA for anyone from Europe, the excuse wa
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by wtcactus 1y ago
If something goes wrong with the hotel own booking system, most of the time, the costumer ends up taking the burden for fixing it. If something goes wrong, and I book through booking.com I'm protected. So, unless I'm getting a big
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Well, I argue with your point with mine then: there’s no under taxing, only over spending. If extreme spending was cut, the debt would be zero.
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It's money, wasted time, and more personnel to guard, handle and fix the metal detector. I think we have way too many regulations as it is, and it's bringing society as a hole down.
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Magnetic force works quite like gravity (depends on r^2). When you drop something it immediately starts going.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Why though? Why are we going to force society to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment, wasted time and personal costs, to avoid a one in a million possibility that someone not caring about clear warning signs gets injured?
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This is a sad episode, but you can see it in the language quoted from the wife's victim, that she already has an eye in some lawsuit to get money out of this. "It was also not the first time that the employee had seen her husband&
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TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale(github.com)
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Most comments on this thread go the way of: “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” When is enough going to be enough? Using the example of this article, the UK. There was a 70% increase in government spending during the last 10 years. Do
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by wtcactus 1y ago
Because it doesn't protect us. It just creates barriers for internal players, while giving a massive head start for evil outside players.
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Well, it’s more about the origin of the farmers than anything else. If they where American or European farmers, you can be sure NPR would mark them as the villains of this story.
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by wtcactus 1y ago
What about holding the people that do the crime accountable instead of the ones being continuously extorted into giving their money so that someone else doesn’t do something stupid and/or criminal?

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