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It was easy if you were working on your own packages. It was quite difficult if you were dependent on external packages that had no plan to upgrade or if your company had internal packages which were Python 2-only and required in most servi
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> One of my Iranian colleagues back when I worked in an office had many entertaining phrases, like: > "I go make some shoppings" As a Romanian living in the London, I hear English mistakes from various nationalities and I&#x
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> Children are especially malleable to school indoctrination and easily give up their (not yet formed) ethnicity. I'm not sure why you're saying that like it's a good thing. That sounds horrible. But I do agree with you. I
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> I honestly cannot believe in the 21st century we tolerate such archaic systems for highly sought professionals, that we in turn educated via subsidized education (se is a nursing grad from University of South Florida) especially with t
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Although I'm pro-milk, I do find these connections suspect. In modern times, most of us agree that we should "follow the science". But few people are actual scientists, who can check the facts themselves. Instead, we treat &q
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/for'd͡ʒe.jo/ It's Esperanto. It's supposed to be written "forĝejo" (forĝi=to forge, -ej-=place, -o=noun). The letter ĝ (for the dʒ sound, like Dj in Django, or J in John) is supposed to be written as gx w
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Isn't Erika a nazi song about flowers, bees, and maidens?
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Would it hurt to link then?
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> The goal is to protect people who already ARE cycling. By forcing them to either abandon cycling or become criminals? We increasingly see dangerous substances being made legal while still pushing for the criminalization of getting from
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The primary reason to lock people up is punishment. It's crime and punishment, not crime and deterrence, or crime and reform, or crime and efficient use of taxpayers' money. Those are all nice-to-haves, but justice is an equal exc
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> The thing that bemuses me is those who hate the new trek shows with a passion, and find the time to keep watching and constantly bitching about it online. Very meta of you to watch these people and find the time to complain about them.
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In most cases, judging if something was created by GPT takes quite a long while. It's not a search result you can easily dismiss.
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> Monsanto hasn't existed for years. Monsanto was bought by Bayer in 2018. Its brand disappeared, but its products continue. Although I'm not sure it's great branding when the maker of Roundup is bought by the maker of Zyk
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GMOs are terrible which is why they're banned in most European countries. > bad wrap they've gotten from science ignorants Science is not about blind trust. How many times have scientists discovered wondrous new things like asb
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But this isn't about copying. It's about sending texts authored by non-people. It's a recent thing which does require a different approach.
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According to ChatGPT: > 1. Start by training a machine learning model to identify features of natural language. You can use supervised learning techniques with a corpus of labeled data consisting of texts written by both humans and AI sy
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"We could also... Additionally, we could... Finally, we could" is a dead giveaway. But to take it seriously, it would be quite sad when actual people will be banned for sounding too much like a bot.
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You may want to use the "Nitter Redirect" add-on. It redirects Twitter to Nitter which is a lot more readable. E.g.: https://nitter.net/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394
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> So as a moderate you prefer DeSantis approach to Disney It's amazing how things change. In the past the left would have been happy to see the removal of subsidies to mega corporations.
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It's weird how you see being able to run any software as "leeching" as if owning an Apple device makes me belong to Apple.
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Because it's anti-competitive. Society is advanced when companies have to compete and not just collect taxes from other companies who are trying to do something. The Apple tax is not advancing anything. It's just a stranglehold on
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There are many regulations already in place to protect consumer rights. The idea that you can influence companies by not buying is an illusion. The only real solution to anti-competitive practices is legislation. It used to be that when you
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The discussion is about control. No one is saying devices should be less secure. If you ask people "should you be able to run any program you want on your devices?" I doubt people would answer "yes, on computers, but on phone
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It's true that it's not an actual scam, but I do agree with the use of the strong language in calling it a "scam". Journalists are supposed to report things objectively. Instead of giving a balanced perspective, the fall
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Prison is for punishment. Not everyone believes in the "turn the other cheek" nonsense. She has harmed a lot of people and should be punished for it.
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I don't agree that it's a hyperbole. A hyperbole is something ridiculous like "I'm so hungry I could eat 1000 pizzas" which is physically impossible. Twitter _is_ on shaky ground. Maybe it will recover and soar, but
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Yes, we don't have a direct democracy (although you can vote for parties advocating it), but it's a lot more than you get with Apple. You don't get a vote on anything. "Voting with your wallet" isn't a vote at
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Firstly, with your government, you get a vote. But just about competition: the competition is that you can move to a different jurisdiction (i.e. country). And there's a lot more competition there than there is with phone makers or pho
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> This is such a short sighted view. It's not. The EU tried to do it the easy way, where companies would agree amongst themselves. This was finally accomplished in 2009[1] by every one except Apple. [1]: https://arstechni
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> If Facebook allowed pornography, it would quickly overwhelm the platform due to engagement metrics. You're arguing with hypotheticals even through real world examples exist. Reddit has lots of porn and it's nowhere to be seen

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