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by bjohnson225 3mo ago
For anyone outside the US this is a clear statement that either models are open or they are controlled by an erratic and hostile US government. Being a US ally has become meaningless, and using a company that’s not targeted today does nothi
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by bjohnson225 3mo ago
If those running backs played soccer they'd all be asked to slim down. Soccer requires a mix of strength, agility and endurance.
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by bjohnson225 4mo ago
The European Data Centre Assocation is expecting the highest growth rate in Europe to be in Milan and Madrid. "The selection of tier-2 metropolitan areas shows that overall, they are growing faster than market average. Madrid and Milan
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by bjohnson225 4mo ago
> You might as well blame the entire US population for certain problematic actions of the president. The equivalent would be blaming those who chose the current president. Which would be an entirely reasonable thing to do.
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by bjohnson225 4mo ago
Absolutely. The US has shown it is happy to threaten allies and weaponise everything it can in international relations. It would be madness to leave critical payments infrastructure dependent on the US.
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by bjohnson225 5mo ago
At this point it seems EV economics will make the EU government mandates irrelevant. Electric cars will be cheaper to buy and cheaper to run. The only remaining question is how quickly rapid charging infra will be deployed which will make e
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by bjohnson225 7mo ago
> whatever AI cost restructuring happening today Is it actually AI-related cost restructuring, or did they simply hire too many people? They will obviously prefer to tell a story about AI rather than bad management.
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by bjohnson225 7mo ago
Doesn’t that already exist within the Find My app? It’s not perfect, but it’s always worked fine for me.
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by bjohnson225 8mo ago
How is that relevant? The US can reform its healthcare system whenever it decides to do so. For the EU, Visa and Mastercard dependence form a duopoly controlled by a hostile foreign power. An alternative is essential.
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by bjohnson225 9mo ago
You can't just learn a few words and expect to follow a train announcement, particularly when it's not obvious from context (anything other than announcing the next station).
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by bjohnson225 2y ago
This reads like an attempt to pass the blame to others. Per capita CO₂ emissions in the US are one of the highest in the world, and significantly higher than those in China or SEA. This is despite the US/Europe moving some of our dirti
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
Do you have a source for that? Google returns nothing of the kind.
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
Source? Looking on Google the closest I can find to your claim is the NTSB chair saying it might not be related after she gave out the details of the previous warning lights (as you'd expect in her position before the investigation has
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
Not fly the specific aircraft which had three pressurisation warnings in the days prior to incident until they've carried out some checks? They were serious enough that they decided it wasn't safe to fly that plane over water. May
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
"Alaska Airlines placed restrictions on the Boeing plane involved in a dramatic mid-air blowout after pressurisation warnings in the days before Friday's incident, investigators say." Boeing absolutely deserve every single bi
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
I’d appreciate it not being at all possible to transfer funds from my bank to a crypto exchange. If my account has any connection with crypto there’s some kind of crime in progress. e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPerso
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
> What will people talk about if Instagram is friendly Anything that's not the current American culture wars? The same things most people talk about in their lives when not throthing at the mouth on Twitter. (i.e. comedy, sports, te
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
> Trump is also on both Twitter and Threads. As long as he and other Instagram users are on Threads, then the outrage town hall will continue and will be no better than Twitter. I don't know, I'm in Europe, I follow zero explic
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing: > Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success". > But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to b
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
Why wouldn’t it? At least a third of the menu in most pizzeria’s in Italy will be white pizza with no tomato sauce.
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
Selling content to OpenAI and anyone else building a language model is a potentially large revenue source for them.
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by bjohnson225 3y ago
This is very different though - it completely covers much of your face and there is no comparable device that is used in public, whereas AirPods are more or less the same design that we’ve seen in earphones for decades only without a cable.
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
Depends on a case by case basis. There was an article posted recently which said that 1 in 4 people earning >$200k live paycheck to paycheck. It's very easy to succumb to lifestyle inflation and not improve financial security despit
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
> outside of the USA if they piss off Mark Zuckerberg enough they can lose the rest of the world because who would want a phone that doesn't have WhatsApp? We use WhatsApp by default because of the network effects. FB have no power
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
Shifting all responsibility to producers is about as helpful as shifting it all to consumers. Clearly there is responsibility on both sides. Burning gas for cooking or heating is bad for emissions, so it is reasonable for people to avoid do
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
The idea of Twitter as the world's town square always seems odd to me because the level of discourse there is consistently horrible. Twitter is a digital theatre, not a town square. The alternatives would depend upon what you’re trying
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
Surely the redeeming thing about the new design is that it led to 40% higher sales? By the only metric that matters this design is significantly better than “perfect”.
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
> I'm also not sure why you'd declare functions for each type of pizza; that's data. Yep, had the same thoughts reading the code. What you suggest even seems a purer implementation of the DRY principle, rather than what is
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
It would be very interesting to see the conversion rates of Bolt and Stripe. Considering we have Apple/Google Pay, Paypal, Klarna, and card details being stored in a browser the advantages offered by Bolt seem minimal at best. It'
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by bjohnson225 4y ago
JDK9+ is important because Spring already prevents access to `class.classloader`, but it can be worked around thanks to modules (i.e. `class.module.classloader` works).

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