dazilcher

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by dazilcher 3mo ago
Prefatory clause, justifies the following operative clause. Does not restrict the latter, but explains why it is needed.
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by dazilcher 4mo ago
> It assumes the situation in the Gulf is finalized, calling the current situation "checkmate". To be fair, the article does not assume that: it analyzes potential next moves and concludes that a certain outcome is inevitable.
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by dazilcher 5mo ago
> work computer
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by dazilcher 1y ago
> I'm not aware that the WHO ever claimed simultaneously contradictory things. Whether they did or not is almost irrelevant: information doesn't reach humans instantaneously, it takes time to propagate through channels with var
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by dazilcher 1y ago
Is anyone on the right asking for stricter gun control laws as result? That should answer your gotcha question.
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by dazilcher 1y ago
How do you suggest we should treat foreign illegal labor?
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by dazilcher 1y ago
What's the point of reading something while drinking my coffee quietly? When I'm drinking my coffee I focus on enjoying the palate, when I'm reading I am laser-focused on processing and retaining information. Multitasking pre
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by dazilcher 1y ago
GMail is the most popular email provider by a wide margin. Denying service to the largest cohort of email users is indeed surprising, ridiculous, and self-defeating.
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by dazilcher 1y ago
You conveniently ignored the illegal part.
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by dazilcher 1y ago
> a $2-4k blow over the next year as supply chains react Can you explain the magical supply chain adjustment that will lower prices after a year?
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by dazilcher 1y ago
Interesting, how do you figure they establish citizenship status in those circumstances?
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by dazilcher 2y ago
He was mistakenly given write access by the treasury department employees in charge of managing DOGE permissions . He resigned a day later, likely before he even realized he had write access. In that short window, he accessed the system
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by dazilcher 2y ago
The contract, with a company called D&G Support Services, was to provide “program and technical support services” for the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights at ICE. ... the federal award, approved in September 2022, had initially lis
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Unless you know more about that incident than the op, it sounds like they didn't refuse to fill anything but instead chose to skip and optional section.
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by dazilcher 2y ago
But who's "us", and who is "them"? Could it be a matter of perspective? Would it surprise you to discover that you're someone else's "them"?
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by dazilcher 2y ago
And which user would you put in charge of decrypting the drive? I vote for Bob from QA, he's always around.
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by dazilcher 2y ago
The DoJ does not have unlimited resources, nor does it have unlimited time - see imminent regime and policy change. Priority matters, and picking Google as the first high profile target is bizarre.
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by dazilcher 2y ago
He did not say that [1]. I can't decide whether people keep misrepresenting his statements intentionally, or there's some psychological process in play that prevents them from parsing his speech. He is a terrible communicator aft
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by dazilcher 2y ago
That's quite the hyperbole - I'm pretty sure internet access is a secondary concern at best, when deciding to join the Navy. Sailors are giving up a lot more in terms of personal life, fixating on internet access as a dealbreaker
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Dictatorship is awesome while it happens to align with your dubious priorities. You should try to think ahead though
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by dazilcher 2y ago
So he's a hypocrite. Like most people are. Doesn't change the fact that in this case he happens to be fighting a good fight.
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Most frequent output does not imply correctness, LLMs often are confidently wrong. They can't even perform basic arithmetic (which is not surprising since they operate at the syntactic level, oblivious to any semantic rules), yet peopl
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Brazil's Supreme Court is not "a government elected by the people".
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by dazilcher 2y ago
> the traditional way to get people to work those jobs is to offer more money or other compensation. And that will raise the cost of all services and goods, including the cost of having someone's basic needs met. Then we're ba
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Surely homelessness also predates Tesla, what is the actual point you are trying to make?
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by dazilcher 2y ago
"agents in Arizona stood down as straw purchasers illegally bought 2,000 guns at shops" is most definitely not the same as "US government sells guns to cartels". Do you have any evidence for the latter?
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Aka virtual desktop [1]. Your field of view is not unlimited, I'll take key-based switching over wobbling my head any day. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Nothing says "a great place to work" like politically-motivated rejection. They would be dodging a bullet.
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by dazilcher 2y ago
Why assume everyone is dehydrated? Here's another ol' saying: in the middle of the desert, toilet water tastes like Fiji.
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by dazilcher 3y ago
If you're going to embrace goto, why not go all the way and use multiple exit labels such that you can jump to appropriate point in the cleanup sequence and avoid those conditionals?

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