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by zzrrt 2mo ago
I heard "belt and suspenders" at least 20 years ago (meaning multiple solutions to a problem with backup in case one fails), and maybe would be longer if I were older. You could blame Claude for overusing it or importing it to oth
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
> the annual water consumption of all US datacenters How many hamburgers will it be if all the proposed/pending datacenters are completed and running?
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
> Perhaps we could try to destroy those power structures without having a giant war The power structure is what is putting out the satellites and datacenters that you hope will bring the Star Trek utopia. Not sure you can both destroy it
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
The data center hosting this website is already built, unlike the ones people are fighting against. I'll grant the general public may not understand enough that they already rely on "datacenters", but there are reasonable arg
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
The lockin is that you buy a new computer, and when you turn it on Windows is there. Like 1% of people have any concept that they could change that or how they would go about it. It doesn't suck enough yet for them to try changing it.
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
Modern 64-bit Windows doesn't execute .com files, unless the user installs an emulator or something.
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
Are the future benefits locked in by law or bureaucracy? Or some other reason the agency don't just decrease them?
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
Lead was the basis for an awful lot of useful gasoline. Doesn't mean it was the only solution or the best one.
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
Why is he lenient to her at all? It's either guilt or corruption, or at the very least out of character, given his many tirades against rapists. Trump reportedly called the police in 2006, after their investigation became public, say
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by zzrrt 3mo ago
> Epstein died in jail. He was awaiting trial, so death by his choice wasn't necessarily the justice he deserved. His co-conspirator is in a cushy prison as a favor from the administration. Trump promised to release files but has be
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
It's like Joey Allegra was just announced as the magazine sales winner. https://moxie.org/stories/money-machine/ Right up there with finding out Grimes was with Elon. Maybe we should open our minds a bit, and
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
> The nuclear problem was never fixed https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/06/irans-nuclear-fa... It's kind of a cheap shot at this point, but my point is why should we trust them today if 1 year
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
Everything foretold? Iran is the most dominant in the region, they kicked US out, they possess nukes (or conventional) that can reach the US, and the cost of US stopping them is prohibitive? Wow, Trump had better surrender today then. I don
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
Weird response that does some dodging of its own. Anyone defending JCPOA is obviously in favor of controlling nukes, so why don't you explain more than restating what we already agree with? You're going to have to specifically add
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
I don't think it's that simple. If it was, why hasn't the administration managed to focus on that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_2026_Iran_wa... And your own comments say they also have
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
I don't think iOS has it from the app switcher, but pretty easy to take a screenshot and immediately select from it. (Or selecting from older screenshots or photos you open.)
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
The Loureiro case doesn't explain things much better than a conspiracy theory does. At least, after a few minutes of research, I'm still wondering if someone could have manipulated the suspect into finally acting on a decades-long
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
You can probably do it with a keyboard paired to a server/RPi that emits the keystrokes to the Roku ECP API, if having that second device is acceptable.
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
The original point was only that a Silicon Valley "golden age" can coexist with immigration. Admittedly it could be a better argument if it holistically made a recommendation, but at least as a starting point it tries to refute th
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
I don't have a particular love for any of them, but the point was they generated billions in value for the valley in what some consider a golden age. Google at least, I think people would say there was a period of near-universally beli
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
For the record, Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Patrick and John Collison, and Jerry Yang are foreign-born. Probably more would not have been here if their parents had not been allowed to immigrate. Now that you mention it, I would tra
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
> What about before AI all the machine translated projects that people used for years without a single complaint? If by machine translation you mean something like transpiling, that's a technology that has been proven over decades,
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
The description reminds me of the Renée Good shooting. Both highly videotaped, intentional blocking of a departing vehicle, an official inexplicably releasing what many say is self-damning video, but people tend to see only what they alread
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
Like saying, "There have never been more opportunities for commoners to become kings!" Okay, most of the people who say kings shouldn't exist will still feel that way, even if they could become king. > You are closer to a
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
> the idea that nobody benefits from the creations of billionaires has to be questioned Who said that? Not in the post that prompted your reply, nor in the parent post. > Illegal and legal immigrants are being completely supported by
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
If they were saying that kings shouldn't have the unchecked right to execute people, this response would be akin to "Oh, you just wish you could kill anyone. Your argument is invalid."
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
> NOTHING to do with our national security You think a dangerous man at the helm with skeletons in his closet has no effect on national security? I don't think these concerns are separable. If it weren't for Trump, we probably
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1mzlryxeo Xkcd 1357: "you're saying the most compelling thing you can say about your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express"
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
> But humans have introduced subtle yet catastrophic bugs into code forever So now the AIs will do more of that, at superhuman speed. > will we also not learn that we need to shift more to specification and validation We'll just
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by zzrrt 4mo ago
temporary contractor != employee. Many people expect employees should get some of the surplus, or at least get to keep working when the company is claiming they're financially secure. I suspect you'll say the company owes them not

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