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by 0xAFFFF 4mo ago
> It is also possible to terraform Venus, although much more difficult than for Mars. We are facing an existential crisis in the form of climate warming on Earth that we are unable to address properly. The thing is, terraforming Earth is
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by 0xAFFFF 5mo ago
Software should be at least as easy to uninstall as it is to install, so yes.
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by 0xAFFFF 6mo ago
Parts of that article are just downright terrible. First, the criticism of Electron is moot. Yes it's not sleek, but it's sufficient. This app is not supposed to be used heavily on a daily basis. Run it once to setup your drive, r
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by 0xAFFFF 9mo ago
Being efficient in watering golf courses in the desert in certainly nice, but maybe it's time to question having over 50 golf courses in the desert with an impending massive water shortage.
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by 0xAFFFF 10mo ago
This might depend on the country for EU. In France especially if you're an adult, getting an appointment for a diagnosis is either extremely long (public health sector delays regularly exceed one year), very expensive (over a 100€ out-
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by 0xAFFFF 10mo ago
Fellow ADHDer here, I'm not a smoker but long before I was diagnosed, lyrics from a song of my favorite band/artist hit me particularly hard. It was Drag by Joey Cape/Lagwagon, a song about the struggles of smoking. Here&#x27
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by 0xAFFFF 10mo ago
This was my first thought. Why TP-Link, why now? Looks like another extortion scheme from POTUS.
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by 0xAFFFF 10mo ago
Our first terraforming goal should be the Earth, not the Moon, not Mars. I.e. we're all threatened by the climate catastrophe and if we're not able to fix the planet we're the most fit to inhabit, the rest is just absolute lu
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by 0xAFFFF 11mo ago
He didn't need to own Twitter for this, so even if you give Musk some slack about his God-awful opinions, his (real and hypothetical) achievements are still not a good reason at all to stay on X.
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by 0xAFFFF 11mo ago
They also need an outlet for all the garbage they generate, hence the transformation of Sora into a shitty social network.
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by 0xAFFFF 11mo ago
Well no. French person here. While this verdict is a great victory for democracy in itself, a lot of problems around it are still not solved. - Prosecuting white-collar crime still takes ages and takes over a decade, long after the resultin
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by 0xAFFFF 11mo ago
> Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or very simple architecture especially in projects or frameworks where there are extremely well-known opinionated patterns (MVC especially). W
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Don't make me tap the "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" sign.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Ryanair talks a lot, but they mostly do it for the free PR they inevitably get when people act shocked. Almost all of their proposal are unfeasible or downright illegal and all of them should be considered bullshit until proven otherwise.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
The protocol boast "no fee" but that's deceptive: if it's based upon a blockchain, there will be transaction fees. Now if the problem they want to solve is the case of low amount payments (they claim "no high minimu
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Every time a crypto user faces criticism over their favorite technology they frame it as FUD. Quite a marvel of nature.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
> Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content What's funny is tha LLMs got trained on datasets that includes all that incorrect, outdated or hostile content.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
There is no realistic way to do anything like that "close to the finish line" on a Tour race, especially during a mountain stage, there are people and cameras everywhere.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
It's not necessarily a new performance-enhancing molecule that nobody has heard of, but alternative posology or training regimen to stay under detection threshold, new masking products, etc. Doping has been a cat-and-mouse game for dec
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Yep, modern fonts have features that can be enabled or disabled, depending on client support. IDEs typically allow to enable/disable ligatures and you also can control font features with CSS (see: https://developer.mozilla.o
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Most prominent example was this one: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-pulls-back-more...
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Most symptoms of ADHD are things almost everybody experiences from time to time, some even regularly. What makes ADHD is combination of many symptoms cranked to 11. ADHD is the difference between having difficulties starting some tasks an
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
If anything, the left-pad debacle has shown that NPM package granularity has gone way too small, at a point where package overhead was outweighing the package simplicity benefits.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
It's also not working well on Firefox desktop (MacOS), same issue.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
It's not just about a lack of interest in walking. If your infrastructure is extremely hostile to walking, it's outright dangerous and unreliable and force people out of it.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
Concerning
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
This is obviously improper. The valid strategy for this game unfolds as follows. Step 1: Guess 11111. Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 0s. Thank you for your careful consideration.
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
I've been pondering switching to Linux for my mother in-law that has a pretty limited use of her computer (online groceries, emails mostly) and their page is pretty unconvincing in that case. I mean yeah OK, you guys have extensive cus
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
> the goal is less and less good engineering and more and more pure output Code is a liability. Code is expensive to maintain, has bugs, security issues, performance issues. The short-term profitable solutions will have a very narrow win
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by 0xAFFFF 1y ago
> I was talking about safety for the drivers in the car that collide with the EV. They are less safe with EVs on the road. This argument would look sensible if the car industry, especially in North America (but the rest of the world is s

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