Blot2882

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by Blot2882 2y ago
> they have countless times said they aren't associated with that project Right, but they are visibly are. Russ Vought (project 2025) is the Office of Management and Budget director. He drafted the executive orders months ago that w
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> real people don't talk about their stalkers so much. When I was stalked and harassed I kept the details light and didn't provide much in the way of actual community details because I went to the FBI and local police to deal w
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> Labeling something "flamebait" is a characterization of the tone of an argument, and whether it appears to be designed to incite low-quality discussion/flaminess Which is also not measurable and manipulates the reader. I
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> "the downright biblical flood of COVID misinformation that emanated from the right" is not a fact - it's an emotional plea The term "flamebait" is also an emotional plea, but we trust adults to use their brain
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by Blot2882 2y ago
No one is arguing Java is expressive.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
Thanks for your insight!
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by Blot2882 2y ago
That's interesting. I've heard complaints about Kotlins standard library in comments like this[1]. I understand they may be nitpicks but they seem annoying in practice. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin&#x2F
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by Blot2882 2y ago
I'm not sure how someone could see Kotlin as more expressive than Python, unless I am misinterpreting what expressive means. Python has a good language features and helpful abstractions like list comprehensions. What makes Kotlin more
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by Blot2882 2y ago
No hack job needed on someone who can't call themselves news without going to jail. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/all-the-texts-fox-ne...
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by Blot2882 2y ago
Not really? They control the ToS and are not under special obligation to enforce them correctly from the government.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> There were a large body of studies showing that Ivermectin helped with COVID No, there wasn't.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> But there was a lot of misinformation that the studies themselves were fake That was not misinformation. The idea that Ivermectin was helpful in dealing with CoVID was determined from a meta analysis that included a fake study that nob
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by Blot2882 2y ago
Mono was, but newer versions of .NET run on Linux and Mac. You can install at the link below, and then making a project is just `dotnet new console` and run with `dotnet run` https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet&#x2
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by Blot2882 2y ago
I go in more detail in my other comment but I would imagine this is a definition most people can't get behind. > intelligence can be reasonably defined as "knowledge and skills to be successful in life, i.e. have higher-than-av
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by Blot2882 2y ago
"g" is a measure of narrow set of skills and job performance outcomes that favor western developed society. It's not an observable, it's an inferred value. It makes sense that people good at math and reading are going to
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ. How does one find a definition of intelligence that allows us to correlate it to anything? My understanding is an IQ is defined an
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by Blot2882 2y ago
If you were the one hosting it on your own server and storing CSAM that people were sending, yeah, you should be arrested. Nobody cares if you upload a messenger to github, there's scores of them.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
This is one of those posts that just tries to throw in as many rage baiting concepts at once in to maximize angry engagement. Bait aside, nobody calls you homophobic for asking good faith questions about how the schools budget is spent. But
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by Blot2882 2y ago
Always enjoyed Sony games. I will not forget that Sony didn't make the PS4 backwards compatible, claiming no one cared about that, and then later offered the ability to play older games via their subscription-based PSNOW service. You c
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> They don't exist anywhere in the document hierarchy so users have to mentally piece together what they're connected to, they carry no context, and they happen long (in computer time) after the action that that caused them. To
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> The point being why should any argument in this line end up with “lets extradite him to the US” Because New Zealand is willing to and he broke the law in the U.S. as well? Why would there be an argument at all? You were criticizing som
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> Even if that’s true If it's true? It's a quote from the talk itself. > it misses the entire point of the parent comment Not really. I would say cheating on your wife with your PR executive is extremely bad for morale and a
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> extremely well liked By who? By what metric? That is a much shallower claim. I would wager the guy blaming their middling AI development on "work life balance" was not well liked.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> if there are victims in 20 countries that why would any third party have priority for enforcing their law That's not really relevant. No one is arguing priority. "Priority" implies there's 20 countries fighting to p
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by Blot2882 2y ago
Maybe not what the commenter was saying, but there is a difference between great multi-hour essays and pointless rants stretching out their length to meet a minimum ad requirement. I like watching a lot of multi hour videos, but you can tel
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by Blot2882 2y ago
It's also a science forum and a tech forum.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
This is totally true, but unfortunately it is hard to find a good TV that doesn't have embedded software. So whether or not I plug in a Roku, my options menu will always be handled by the TVs OS.
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by Blot2882 2y ago
> We had this coming. Over the years, the various chromecasts in our house are slowly getting worse. I had the sense they are cutting costs on the software and servers powering these devices. I can't imagine they will get better. It