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by fitzie 3y ago
people can go to github to see the blog post without the block: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/blob/main...
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by fitzie 3y ago
everyone cheers the demise of coal, and it is certainly the dirties modern energy source, but this is clearly a dangerous direction until we have enough grid level energy storage. we pay insane amounts for electricity compared to the rest
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by fitzie 4y ago
so much politics here. seems like a bunch of issues, including putting lower income people into wealthy neighborhoods, which is an explicit goal of many elected democrats, urban sprawl, which no one seems to worry about these days, housing
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by fitzie 4y ago
this will not be the last time someone will make this claim. it is telling that the experts all weighed in declaring it not sentient without explaining what such a metric is. I think this debate an issue of semantics and is clouded by ou
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by fitzie 4y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned is that sourcehut users are taking the hit for hosting their code there. Some of it is because of natural tech activism and the coders need to create their desired order, but certainly there just typica
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by fitzie 5y ago
multiple browsers are the way to go. I had all my eggs in the chrome basket until their login fiasco, but hit limitations with Firefox. I now configure Firefox and brave with the same extensions and use the both equally. using onetab
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by fitzie 5y ago
,if you look at the updated to the code of conduct it is clear what solution they are putting forward. the removed the sentence to honor the principle of charity(removed assume good intent), and gave permission to be public scolds ( added
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by fitzie 5y ago
they should have some sort of hazard like flash when they are stopped for an obstruction like humans in the roadway. that would also reduce the rear end situation where they are unreasonably stopped in traffic due to crappy software.
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by fitzie 5y ago
anyone working with a people located in different regions knows how counterproductive daylight savings is. I've come to that it is inevitable that daylight savings will be eliminated, and the only thing keeping it around is the name i
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by fitzie 5y ago
people say that delta is more contagious but they don't provide hard data to support that. any calculation of r naught is synthetic and there has been little effort to share such models. also, the idea that every new infection is del
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by fitzie 5y ago
Elon is willing to commit a lot of capital and effort into his ideas. the production capabilities of Tesla are improving at a significant clip, and incorporating many state of the art techniques. Elon's approach to innovation is a
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by fitzie 5y ago
I disagree. for example, a journalist could simply ask the CDC about page 20, in this leaked presentation here:. https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/cdc-breakthrough-infe... where it uses metrics of ~20% effective
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by fitzie 5y ago
from the article it says "Today, 6 media giants control a whopping 90% of what we read, watch, or listen to.". there is a heavy handed content moderation policy on all major social media platforms. it is a rare day when I don&#x
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by fitzie 5y ago
it was neither, there was a process to fix the map but not wait for a perfect map before the grants could occur.
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by fitzie 5y ago
for example, if the media would report on the side effects of the vaccines, instead of pretending there are none, then there would be less room for falsehoods to spread. I've yet to see fauci asked one question about vaccine side eff
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by fitzie 5y ago
you are arguing a fake hypothetical. Tesla accident data shows that their autopilot feature reduces accidents. https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport fortunately our regulators don't take a one size fits all approa
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by fitzie 5y ago
it is a bit scary to think we'd have to lobby government to allow any new invention to prove "safety". Tesla has indicated why it needs to enable these features in order to collect data to improve them, it has also shown t
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by fitzie 5y ago
it waste allowed to be discussed publicly. it was labeled a racist fringe debunked conspiracy theory, and that sent all the signals you needed to chill scientists from using their platforms and expertise to gain attention to this idea. f
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by fitzie 5y ago
that's not accurate at all. look at the misleading medical information definition from Google "Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to eng
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by fitzie 5y ago
the one thing I wanted to know "is aquired immunity from other strains effective against delta" isn't mentioned or discussed. perhaps the door knockers will have the answers I need.
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by fitzie 5y ago
if I was a teacher I would give an extra five points on any handwritten assignment, and an extra ten points if it is cursive.
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by fitzie 5y ago
of course anyone following the details of covid understands that contact tracing is useless with high cycle PCR testing, asymptomatic spread, and widespread infection rates. contact tracing has been shown to be ineffective and a waste of
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by fitzie 5y ago
people can hate on tucker all day long, as they attacked rush and oreilly before him, but tucker brings up issues that resonate in red america. he does a pretty fair job, which is evidenced by how trivial the criticism against him is. if
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by fitzie 5y ago
the question I would ask is when a new virus caused a pandemic, would you want the medical/healthcare system to test existing drugs for suitability? if some drugs are know to treat various pathogens and have a well established safety
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by fitzie 5y ago
totally agree. while I'm optimistic that arm chips will be more open in the data center and embedded space, looks like mobile arm id becoming more proprietary. Intel could shake things up if it starts to work on riscv and brings som
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by fitzie 5y ago
of course we need it, that's why the market was creating the pipeline. pretending that a group of experts can determine what the market needs or is essential, is de facto tyranny. what I can say for sure is that we need cheaper mor
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by fitzie 5y ago
when I lived on California i was amazed at how many pedestrian deaths there were in San Francisco, a city mired with no left turn rules. they allowed right on red, which I think contributed. I think most traffic engineers know about the
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by fitzie 5y ago
a more useful measure might be the trend of how much over the cost of materials does a li-ion cost. that excess cost, could be broken into the lack of automation, manufacturing inefficiencies (waste biproducts) and capital overhead. fro
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by fitzie 5y ago
we can hardly define racism fairness and justice today let alone "fix" it. as for change, I'm happy to support any change that empowers people, treats people compassionately, and removes discrimination. that is unlike the s
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by fitzie 5y ago
we have weaponized outrage against our neighbors and it is absurd. weve gotten to the point where a hangman's noose is racist as is the OK hand sign, and it is now common for such simple displays to escalate to a federal case. we wan

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