huxley

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by huxley 27d ago
As a general rule, probably not ... But if I had my druthers, I'd rather the CIA was "manipulating" us more often by subsidizing jazz artists rather than funnelling cash and prisoners to torture sites in El Salvador. You dig?
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by huxley 2mo ago
Exactly what someone without nine years of 10X pelican drawing experience would say
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by huxley 3mo ago
Take care. In North America some services will ban you for doing a chargeback and that can be a big problem if you have a lot of content on the service
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by huxley 3mo ago
I think you've captured exactly what they are trying to say
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by huxley 4mo ago
Nah, there was just more economic activity to draw people in. By every other measure it’s been more hostile than average. But you are right that it is ending, just wrong about what: it’s the high economic activity that attracted people whic
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by huxley 4mo ago
At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey. Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.
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by huxley 5mo ago
Oh they’ll be replaced, by toadies and GOP Youth interns looking for a salary and resume boost
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by huxley 5mo ago
Given the quality of the summaries, you might want to keep them just for plausible deniability </s>
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by huxley 5mo ago
I personally am not interested in the bigots of previous generations making those decisions any more than I want contemporary ones to.
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by huxley 5mo ago
A long and storied history, the abolitionists used it pretty extensively well before it was named: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
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by huxley 5mo ago
You can call it white nationalism if you like but you are spouting the exact same talking points as white supremacists, you just prefer to buy it under a different brand.
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by huxley 6mo ago
The keyboard is probably the hardest bit but even then it’s more just some tedium rather than difficulty. https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...
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by huxley 7mo ago
Haha. I edited tv shows back in the very early days of digital non-linear editing on a Mac Quadra 840AV with 80MB of RAM and 40/80MHz 68040 processor and a RAID made up of 4 x 9GB SCSI drives, with a coprocessor board that people would
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by huxley 7mo ago
There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny, it just doesn’t meet the arbitrary and obscene targets of 2/5% GDP. In actuality, Canada spends more than twice as much per ca
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by huxley 7mo ago
Yet
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by huxley 7mo ago
First, this is taking Shotwell’s characterization at face value, that is not a great idea when dealing with a Musk corporation. Musk and his executives lie like other people breathe. Second, one might believe in a company’s mission or be in
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by huxley 7mo ago
Ffs, taking usable fingerprints is not that easy Facial recognition cameras don’t use or give you the same data that FaceID’s 3D depth mapping FaceID uses, besides few cameras get close enough to practically reconstruct a useful 3D mask tha
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by huxley 8mo ago
You’re not wrong that it hasn’t been passed by congress but just the proposal has already led to a massive decrease in grants. I am not as optimistic that Congress would go against admin policy
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by huxley 9mo ago
A coffee-table book? A Natural History of SVG Pelicans
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by huxley 9mo ago
John Le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”and Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” were constant companions for me on road trips (sadly no English unabridged “Foucault’s Pendulum” exists)
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by huxley 1y ago
I think they meant “it just can’t” in the sense of “it shouldn’t under any circumstances”
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by huxley 1y ago
To add a little detail, Objective C was created by Brad Cox and Tom Love who formed PPI/Stepstone, with NeXT becoming a customer when Steve Naroff left Stepstone for NeXT to add support in GCC
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by huxley 1y ago
Not necessarily, you don’t need to know the answer, the fabulation might: * give an error * return the wrong result * not be internally consistent with the rest of the content * be logically impossible * be factually impossible *
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by huxley 1y ago
Totally irrelevant, Anthropic isn’t cutting off OpenAI, it is cutting off Windsurf users.
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by huxley 1y ago
Burroughs was also one of the great comic monologuists, in March 1975 he was asked by Harper’s Magazine (along with others including Ronald Reagan, who had just finished his last term as governor of California) to contribute an essay on the
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by huxley 1y ago
“Substantially less inhabitable than Antarctica” is true of every single place that we know of outside our planet.
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by huxley 1y ago
That is not true. DDT as a tool was preserved by the environmental movement not eliminated, it is pure propaganda to say that it has zero tolerance, it has been used as much as it has been necessary for it to be useful in public health. The
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by huxley 1y ago
The last time I dealt with that they were still updating DUNS batch data via an FTP
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by huxley 1y ago
Counterpoint: You don’t read print books you just look at them For me reading is not something I do with either my eyes or ears but my mind.
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by huxley 1y ago
Think of 4.5 as being the lacklustre major upgrade to a software package, pick one maybe Photoshop or whatever. The 4.0 version is still available and most people are continuing to use it, then suddenly 4.0 gets a small upgrade which makes

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