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by zdragnar 4mo ago
This is analogies to finding a new prime number by brute force using existing maths, rather than inventing new maths to get there. The AI in this case didn't create a novel technology- it merely used the existing technology without bas
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
There's a few confounding factors: - larger percentage of population living in urban centers without the room for larger families - full time employment for both spouses becomes necessary as cost of living increases - delayed marriage
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
As defined by the Census bureau. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p... There's a link below the tables to a PDF that describes the definitions and methods used.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
No, the numbers I referred to are percentages. The decline in birthrates doesn't factor in.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
> JSON doesn’t have floats, it has numbers, and how they’re used after being parsed is not part of the spec. I think that's the problem they were trying to describe. Without a formal spec, systems won't agree on how to handle f
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
China's (now defunct) one child policy begs to differ.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
It isn't class warfare if the two (or more) sides aren't divided by class. What OP meant was the income and wealth gaps are they only things they care about, not the only things that are real.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
If you look at the actual numbers, the trend over the last several decades is a steadily shrinking number of people in poverty in the US. If the only thing you look at are the wage gaps, you're ignoring the very real gains the lower en
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
None of those things are classes in the sense of the times the notion of class warfare was first pitched, and many of them cross classes. There's plenty of poor/impoverished boomers, blues, reds, city and country folk
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
The majority of people being old is a relatively modern problem. One could even argue that it is a problem specific to cultures that favor low or negative birthrates.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
Not with that attitude
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
I thought it was a pedantic remark on the use of the word "verbatim"
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
> having a pc or mac was something of a luxury Apple products are still luxury items. A cheap phone and a chromebook can replace most of the "base currency" features that you get when you buy Apple.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
There's a bunch of options from a Google search, but embedding it in a thin C program and building that with https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan would be a pretty go-like experience, I'd think.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
If we're casting aspersions, I guess based on my personal experiences of people in poverty, lower, middle and upper classes, then > most people into assholes might just be a you problem. Get out and meet more people, and if you&#x27
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
> I don't think theyre special Where did you get that from the comment you replied to? They merely pointed out you couldn't paint everyone with the same brush, which is pretty much the definition of 'not special'.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
Considering the massive layoffs and cold market post COVID, the answer is "no" for a lot of companies. Theoretically, there's a lot of room for marginal work where developer time isn't worth the cost for the output but t
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
You accuse the "nuclear crowd" of dealing in misinformation while suggesting yucca mountain isn't a safe storage site because of plate tectonics, which is a total non-issue, or as you call it, "some wild theories that on
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
The Earth's crust will take far longer to move yucca than the nuclear waste will be a problem. That's the whole reason that site was chosen. Even Yellowstone isn't set to blow on that time scale.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
I actually did produce a technical solution: stick it deep in yucca mountain and forget about it. It's safe, and there's more than enough room for the little waste that can't be turned back into fuel.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
For one thing, nuclear power plants produce much less waste than most people imagine. Waste can also be reprocessed into new fuel, further reducing it. In the US, we have a suitable site that has been authorized and cancelled for 20 some ye
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
Ubo lite is plenty functional. It's not as full-featured as ubo, but... I don't see ads. At all. What sites doesn't it work well on?
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
NPM doesn't require any version control, it's just a repository for files. The "main" issue (if one could be called such) around leftpad is that the types of ranges that could be specified for grabbing versions was very
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
Ah, yeah, that does make more sense. I'm glad I tend to work in spaces where cute animations aren't desirable. The last thing any product needs is pointless transitions and a whole new class of race conditions and timing bugs.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
> look for the JWT access token in a revocation list that is only accessed during sensitive, infrequent, requests I've clearly spent too much time working with data covered by HIPAA because this sentence gave me a brief bit of panic
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
I wonder if they are doing some A/B testing on this. I see shorts about once a month or so, which is when the "not interested" option runs its course. Other than that, they don't push it to me at all, and the app has cer
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
uBO lite blocks between most and all of the ads, at least on the sites I browse. I honestly didn't notice a difference switching over. I'm actually more curious to hear what sites it doesn't do a good job on.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
We already have medicines that treat the problem. We've had it solved for a long time. We didn't need to genetically modify flies to solve it then, and we don't now. See sibling threads.
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
No... that sounds an awful lot like revisionist history trying to force a utopian ideal where none exists. If anything, the advent of the Internet and social media in particular has made us more tribal, not less. The majority of the Inter
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
Yes, indeed, I wasn't paying attention.

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