Aefiam

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by Aefiam 23d ago
as far as I understand it, the creditcard rewards are from the creditcard fee, which is capped in the eu, so you are not missing out much.
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by Aefiam 1mo ago
It is not just a few stragglers, 30% of americans believe climate change isnt real, the us president is one of them. Fighting climate change is not going to be successful without sacrifice, we tried that for the last decades and fossil fuel
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by Aefiam 1mo ago
ACs are not going to stop storms, floods, droughts and the rising sea level. Fighting climate change requires sacrifice of current comforts for an easier life of future generations. So of course we are not going to do anything about it, whe
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by Aefiam 1mo ago
It literally is designed to survive without meat, meat used to be a luxury that was only eaten on special occasions for most people in history, we only eat so much nowadays because it became so cheap
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by Aefiam 2mo ago
As far as I understand Apple could have still supported an additional lightning port if they really cared about it. Per gemini for making ligthning accessories you also have to pay 4$ to apple per device that are passed onto the consumer. I
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by Aefiam 3mo ago
northward movement of herds are already banned between mexico and the usa because of screwworms, so tariffs are irrelevant. Also transmission also occurs through wildlife so banning that is also not enough.
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by Aefiam 3mo ago
Even if the budget for software development were to stay constant, if an ever increasing part of it is spent on llm usage, it will reduce the money left for developers, resulting in mass layoffs and/or mass salary cuts.
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by Aefiam 3mo ago
I think the reason is that other consoles were jailbroken because of their browser, so now sony doesnt include it.
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by Aefiam 4mo ago
from the article: > It is possible to set up automated systems to gatekeep this, but with a non-negligible dollar value attached to it, the incentive is just too great for the AIs to just keep arguing, reopening the same PR, etc.
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by Aefiam 5mo ago
It doesnt really change much, by buying a company its future ebitda will be included, it only delays the reward by some time. So yes he can just buy a bigger company
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by Aefiam 6mo ago
they did invent the wheel, they just didnt use it for transportion.
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by Aefiam 10mo ago
The iphone could have had both usbc and lightning, so if they cared about that they would have done it.
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by Aefiam 11mo ago
you can develop just as fast or even faster with python once you develop a good enough utility library for it. For example my python interpreter imports my custom List and Path classes and I could just do the following to get the same resul
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by Aefiam 11mo ago
how is this any less secure than running a binary/installer? the binary could run this inside?
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by Aefiam 11mo ago
this page gives no arguments why nonfree software is unethical
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by Aefiam 1y ago
The optimal amount of fraud is zero. But fraud prevention is not free and has negative returns at some point. I dislike it when people use "the optimal amount of fraud isnt zero", because it is wrong and makes the underlying pro
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by Aefiam 1y ago
case .foo is explicitly mentioned in https://peps.python.org/pep-0622/ : > While potentially useful, it introduces strange-looking new syntax without making the pattern syntax any more expressive. Indeed, named con
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by Aefiam 6y ago
> So city dwellers in the ancient Roman world did not have kitchens Thats not true ( https://quatr.us/romans/roman-kitchens-houses-ancient-rome.h... ). Rich romans did have kitchens, poor people could not afford one