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by xienze 2y ago
> Absurd that the Republicans are somehow going to swoop in and "Save the day" on an issue they themselves championed. Absurd that when Trump initially proposed this it was considered a stupid and racist idea. Now they’re for i
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by xienze 2y ago
You’re missing the parent’s point. It’s large in absolute terms but not as a percentage of GDP (3.5%). And for countries spending less, once again the point is that they’d rather spend less and lean on the US when things really hit the fan
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by xienze 2y ago
I have a ROG Ally running Bazzite. It's not Steam OS per se but close enough. The performance overlay works, TDP controls work (albeit it takes a little initial setup to install the plugins), fast suspend/resume works. Performance
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by xienze 2y ago
Shouldn’t ChatGPT be smart enough to know to do this automatically, based on context?
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by xienze 2y ago
The advantage is the fact that they exist. Not every Docker container is built for multiple platforms.
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by xienze 2y ago
A lot of Java professors did that in the past, because the "not hello world" parts of "hello world" require a bit more understanding, and in the spirit of getting people started, the idea is to just say "hey memoriz
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by xienze 2y ago
I doubt execs care at that point. They, much like most of us, only care about getting people off their back. "Hey, I got the employees back into the office like you wanted, it's your problem now."
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by xienze 2y ago
I think it’s a bit of that coupled with: * Not liking the idea of paying for office space that sits mostly empty. * Even if they wanted to unload their commercial real estate and go fully remote, the market for that is not good. * Local gov
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by xienze 2y ago
You may be thinking a bit too much about what happens in _Go_ when you forget to check for an error response from a function -- the current function continues on with (probably) incorrect/nil values being fed to subsequent code. In Jav
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by xienze 2y ago
They already exist. I recently bought a 33 foot fiber DP1.4+USB3.1/2 (depending on how much video bandwidth you’re using) cable on Amazon for about $130.
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by xienze 2y ago
I’ve got news for you, even in countries with socialized healthcare, not all treatments are automatically approved or approved in a timely manner. There’s ALWAYS a cost-to-benefit ratio that is considered, and it doesn’t always work out in
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by xienze 2y ago
Yeah I get that, but at the same time we have AI hype men talking out of both sides of their mouth: > This model is revolutionary, it knows everything, can answer anything with perfect accuracy! “It’s fed me bullshit numerous times” >
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by xienze 2y ago
I’ve had multiple occasions where I’ve asked an LLM how to do <whatever> in Java and it’ll very confidently answer to use <some class in some package that doesn’t exist>. It would be far more helpful to me to receive an answer l
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by xienze 2y ago
> FWIW, though, he manufacturers his merch overseas doesn't he? Seems like if he supported domestic manufacturing, he'd... use it? "Official Trump campaign merchandise is made in the United States, which the website explic
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by xienze 2y ago
> And as others have said they cant buy back stock with this money grant. Money is fungible though. If I gave you $1000 and stipulated that you can only spend it on your mortgage, and you do indeed do that, you still have an extra $1000
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by xienze 2y ago
> No one outside of his generation (when he was successful) will ever have a chance to read his books as they're impossible to find now. Does the family not have rights to those works? A copy of the books? Scan them and release them
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by xienze 2y ago
> The short answer is that a house is no longer a place to live, but an abstract financial asset. This line of thinking is commonly repeated, but it fails to take into account the old “location, location, location” thing. If you bought a
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by xienze 2y ago
They have something called “myID” (a digital ID), which is available to anyone 15 or older.
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by xienze 2y ago
You might want to check those pictures. They’re barely bigger than the people squatting next to them. Cars have gotten a lot bigger but they were never THAT small.
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by xienze 2y ago
My Googling says 7.5g-10g is a lethal (acute) dose for an adult. The extra strength Tylenol pills come in 500mg, and they recommend two of those at a time. Not saying it's wrong that the gap between "effective" and "leth
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by xienze 2y ago
Yes, based on the tortuous logic that he would’ve lost the election if voters knew that a famous playboy had had an affair with a porn star. Of all the gaffes and scandals he had during his campaign, that would’ve been the one to sink his e
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by xienze 2y ago
> I think there was just a murmur[1] of Biden's problems before the catastrophic debate. Before the debate, anyone talking about Biden’s obvious decline was dismissed as a right wing troll parroting Russian propaganda.
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by xienze 2y ago
> Playing sports is not a constitutional right and I think sometimes its ok to say "I'm sorry but no." The problem is that the left has really painted themselves into a corner with the whole “trans women are women” thing.
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by xienze 2y ago
You’ll notice a pattern with those “huge crowds” — they had a free concert attached.
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by xienze 2y ago
Yes, for the crime of the century of... classifying hush payments to a porn star (which is legal) as a legal expense instead of a campaign expense. And then they made each time he signed a check a separate count, so they could make a big de
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by xienze 2y ago
But in theory, with what training data there IS available on how to write in assembly, combined with the data available on what's required to build an app, shouldn't a REAL AI be able to synthesize the knowledge necessary to write
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by xienze 2y ago
Yeah it doesn’t take much to impress people who don’t know how to program. That’s the thing with all these little toy apps like the ones in the article — if you have no to minimal programming skills this stuff looks like Claude is performin
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by xienze 2y ago
> I don’t think it’s right to put any sort of filter on which citizens are allowed to vote. No, but we should require proof that you _are_ a citizen. And no, a flimsy attestation that certain groups fight tooth and nail against periodic
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by xienze 2y ago
> It’s very weird how people talk about roads as a sort of universal public good whose construction and maintenance needs to be financed by local authorities and taxation. Because you need roads to e.g., get produce from a farm to the gr
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by xienze 2y ago
Aren’t roads necessary from a “last mile” perspective for like, all sorts of things a functioning country needs? Last time I checked trains don’t run directly from farms to grocery stores and so we need trucks and therefore roads in order t

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