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by actionfromafar 20d ago
They need protection from other oligarchs, and they know the Prince hasn't read chapter 23.
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by actionfromafar 20d ago
And no monitoring of the proxy for unusual activity, either.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
"Epidemiologic research indicates that greater average daily light exposure is associated with a reduced axial elongation during childhood" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25158414211059246
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
Social networks are/were like a self-learning system optimizing for "engagement" i.e. rage.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
You forgot swipe up down, down down, double tap, left, up.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
OTOH turns out spending time outdoors during childhood appears to reduce the risk of developing myopia.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
Do you have any problems with antivirus or Defender complaining about the embedded VM?
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
Large bar.
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by actionfromafar 21d ago
I think the passive narrator worked very well, a person kind of stuck in life would have had energy to spare for interacting with Aaron.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
They would have had to start building that fab 5-10 years ago. It would have been incredible foresight to do so and it would have looked insane.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
Yes, you are right, must have been thinking of ntdll.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
Officially, one should not use KERNEL32.dll for instance but go via crt. In practice, most interfaces are stable.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
Centralisation also comes with upkeep necessary to maintain centralisation. The cost of that upkeep can severaly limit opportunity for change. If you are a dictator, staying in power is priority one, at the cost of everything else.
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by actionfromafar 22d ago
Also I was surprised to learn that the mass of the Moon is only 1% of Earth mass. I knew surface gravity is one sixth so I guess I sort of assumed that mass would be one sixth.
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by actionfromafar 23d ago
Really? Surely it can't be unfamiliar at least. So many GOPs anxiously mentioning Dear Leader every chance they get.
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by actionfromafar 23d ago
Pierced the metaphor - elegant.
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by actionfromafar 25d ago
Well some gulags produced heavy industries, now owned by oligarchs.
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by actionfromafar 26d ago
China is also cooked.
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by actionfromafar 26d ago
That's either a very shallow or deep question. :)
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by actionfromafar 26d ago
In retrospect, I think I have to apologize to my English teacher. I thought it was too ambitious having the class put on a Shakespeare play. But it was fun and we apparently learned a lot.
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by actionfromafar 26d ago
I don't think everyone uses these models for code.
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by actionfromafar 26d ago
They can, but I think we have to assume that as the field matures, the censoring will be applied at training, too.
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by actionfromafar 26d ago
I can see now that my reading was uncharitable. Though I disagree with the last sentence of "not likely". Grandparents becoming FOX zombies is not a rare thing.
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by actionfromafar 27d ago
At least one thing to hold the torrent of churn back just a little. Silver linings..
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by actionfromafar 27d ago
No, it makes sense now that you say it. :) It's not large.
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by actionfromafar 27d ago
That would be amazing. A C to Rust port could start out with Rust with only a fn main() at first, then progressively moving more and more stuff "up" from the C program into Rust, making it faster and faster.
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by actionfromafar 27d ago
Any opinion on which Forth implementation is good for 8-bit CPUs, in particular 8051?
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by actionfromafar 27d ago
Which one is it? Bubbles are dangerous but not the Fox bubble?
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by actionfromafar 28d ago
But but... that's all serif.
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by actionfromafar 28d ago
They tried for a while to call everything .NET

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