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Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario Used for over a Decade(nytimes.com)
3 points by zzzeek 5mo ago|6 comments
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
i dont think employees are expected to prioritize one customer of (we would assume) little monetary consequence in this way. amazon would rather everyone keep heads down, dont let the casualties slow down the machine or create exception
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
the identification of populations with a loss-of-function mutation in the PCSK9 gene having extremely low rates of heart disease (and otherwise being perfectly fine with little-to-no functional PCSK9 present) looks to be a game changer. T
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
> the city must start the relocation process now to avoid chaos. I've no reason to doubt this is absolutely true. that's not what they're gonna do though.... > The region has “crossed the point of no return,” the paper’
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
thanks, me too!
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
I'd recommend https://myticker.com/ which was shared here some time ago. I followed the advice on this site and actually got very bad news. But the good news would be, that I'm on a strict medication regimen no
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
obligatory "I've never used uv or any other of these tools, pip has been fine for me and I've been programming for 40 years" post thanks for listening
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
clarification, her testimony is entirely about construction issues, which is fine, but i dont appreciate how she's misleadingly taking advantage of how it looks like she's claiming "data centers pollute water". detail
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
im generally an AOC fan however this looks a little bit suspect, since we dont know where she got these jars from, and also the datacenters are only under construction, not actually running. Construction can certainly cause water to run d
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EPA Official Agrees to Review Data Center Water Impact (AOC Shows Dirty Water)(news.bloomberglaw.com)
3 points by zzzeek 5mo ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
totally, let's go Norway!
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
> Capitalism was cool as an evolutionary step but it's pretty fucking clear we're going to need another innovation here sometime soon. Well your other options are Marxism or Star Trek replicators. I'd choose the latter.
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Key landmark regulations against 'forever' toxins removed by Trump admin(cnn.com)
16 points by zzzeek 5mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
there is only one man who is surprised and he is Orange and Extremely Ignorant
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
so...they are manually re-setting the "interaction limits" over and over again, since they are only temporary? why not use hooks to automatically reject issue comments / PRs etc. from users that didnt go through onboarding, r
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
They are. This is why the billionaire tech class is complacent in this disaster. Musk is already a mass murderer due his illegal sabotage of USAID (estimates of 600000 deaths already [1]) this new outbreak adds to his death toll. [1] htt
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WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency(nytimes.com)
328 points by zzzeek 5mo ago|226 comments
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
Oh wow that gives the billionaire class so much intellectual credit they don't deserve. No, they see the same ChatGPT we all do and their mediocre brains with zero self understanding (see andreessen's explicit comments to this ef
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
I get a lot more done with lot less frustration giving my work to Claude than to a junior dev quite frankly and I've managed many groups over my career. the value of the junior dev is the hopes that they'd be a senior dev someday,
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
I have no problem with new datacenters being built, but if the Fortune article is to be believed, it's that the suddenly tight timeline is due to the rapid increase in need for these facilities. my post is more about how we really need
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
from the article: "NV Energy plans to end its contract with Liberty in May 2027, citing growing demand and its own resource constraints." the "growing demand" is the AI datacenters (the linked story goes into detail). i
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Waymo recalls U.S. robotaxi fleet after vehicle swept away in flood(expressnews.com)
3 points by zzzeek 5mo ago|2 comments
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
im either the biggest idiot in the world or this person is a terrible "copywriter". I found this post to be nearly unintelligible: "You can’t explain away someone else’s problem using your own problems." WTF does that m
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
the venn diagram of people who say "AI produces useless results I have to 100% throw away" and people who say "I've never successfully delegated parts of large software development to junior programmers" is a circle
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by zzzeek 5mo ago
It wasn't "preventable" though. How would you prevent what's been happening ? Pass a law making GPUs illegal ? Just ..."convince" everyone that the machine that can write working software, business letters a
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by zzzeek 6mo ago
this guy is going to get a high paying job at some defense contractor somewhere and we'll never see anything he does again.
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by zzzeek 6mo ago
Yes because it sounds completely exaggerative and ridiculous Hence the Onion
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by zzzeek 6mo ago
This is almost like Onion levels of parody how much better Chinese EVs are than American ones
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by zzzeek 6mo ago
the best PRs I get are from more senior level people who are at work, hit a specific problem they had, and wanted to help out the project with a good PR. Then you never hear from them again because, of course, they're busy! When you
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by zzzeek 6mo ago
Right wing is not an identity either. Don't mess around with terms you don't understand. Do some research. > I'm free to change my name at any time, is my name not considered a part of my identity? You can change your

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