SoftTalker

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by SoftTalker 3d ago
You'd still want to verify that with the court or authority? I've been served before and sometimes it's just a person in street clothes who hands you an envelope. And even if it's a court bailiff or officer or something
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by SoftTalker 3d ago
If it did have any substance they'd connect it to Kalshi or Polymarket and start printing money.
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by SoftTalker 3d ago
The CS building at my local university used to have banners bragging about the average starting salary of their graduates. It was a very naked attempt to attract students based on the money they would be able to earn.
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by SoftTalker 3d ago
TFA is about writing, but the same is true of exercise, and probably most things.
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by SoftTalker 3d ago
Did Michaelangelo paint his works himself, or did he buy a bunch of slaves and give them some prompting?
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by SoftTalker 3d ago
Careless drivers got weeded out. Cars today are safer than ever. Drivers (in my memory anyway) have never been worse.
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by SoftTalker 3d ago
I'm exactly the opposite. I like knowing how the code works, what the data structures are, what APIs are being used, and yes even typing the code into the editor. When I'm working with LLMs there's less thinking. I'm bor
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by SoftTalker 4d ago
You're selling an app, but don't want to share any details, or even name it? Call me suspicious.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
I've owned two Hondas and I would not touch another one. Both had transmission failures at under 200K miles. They actually are designed so that you can't change the filter without removing the transmision from the vehicle and spli
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
I'm not poor but I think it's ridiculous to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a car. I learned that after buying a new car when I got my first job. Since then about $5k is my limit.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
A W123 mercedes (late 1970s-early 1980s) is an exceptionally well built car. Reliable, easy to work on yourself if you're handy, parts not expensive. At this point they're getting hard to find and prices for decent ones are climbi
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
There are many points of shutdown that would need to be controlled, not just one. The electrical feed, the cooling, the network, the physical integrity of the computer hardware. All with independent management.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Not limited to ads.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
TBH, that was probably Biden, and Reagan at least toward the end of his second term. There really should be an upper age limit on federal offices.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
"the things they said" could very well reveal their identity.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
The old rule of thumb used to be 2x actual RAM for your swap file/partition size. That's probably not right with today's RAM sizes but I'm not sure what the current rule is. I just go with the Ubuntu installer default bu
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Emacs in a terminal might not, depending on config and terminal capabilities.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
The strain of yeast, and the local water have a pretty big impact on the finished bread (in addition to the flour used, obviously).
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Strange, when I buy beer at Kroger and the "ID verification" guy has to come over, he looks at me and just keys in 01/01/1970 as my birth date most of the time. Or just asks me what my birthday is and I give him a random
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Today's 13 year olds say that word more times than that before breakfast.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
For a while since RAM sizes have gotten so big I would set up linux servers without swap at all. I figured what is a 2GB swap file going to do if the system has already exhausted 128GB of real RAM? I never saw any issues doing this, but I l
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
I wish there was an easy way to configure it to say "target user processes first, specifically java (or these days python)" as in my experience they are always the culprits. Processes owned by system accounts or root should be the
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
... which then kills sshd, locking you out of being able to get in and do any recovery.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Granted, but it's not top of mind like it was then. It was very much the same as current AI fears, a lot of concerned scientists and talking heads focused on doom and projecting we'd never make it to the next century as a civilize
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
With diesel over $6/gallon now that's probably not too attractive. Natural gas probably more likely, and less polluting at least as far as particulates go. CO2 still created. Are all new data centers being built with on-site power
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Maybe not "in the clear" but somewhat more forgivable than Anthropic doing it. It's the old parable of whether it's unethical to steal a loaf of bread to feed your children.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Yeah but when those came out they were purely science fiction. They weren't benefiting from the premise being at the peak of public attention.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
There will always be unethical students who cheat. At least the Kenyans were making a living from it. Now that's gone, and the money goes into the pockets of some of the wealthiest people on the planet.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Third world? Have we forgotten the Pete Hegseth Signal fiasco?
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him

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