jafo1989

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by jafo1989 15d ago
They are stores. You go to them and buy stuff you need, and then leave. If you don't have good stores near you, you move to another place that does. Is life really that complicated?
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by jafo1989 16d ago
Point is: I enjoy my neighborhood 7-11 without caring about how it looks, who owns it, or worrying about all the capitalism trade-offs. It's just a 7-11. The charm is the walk and the experience.
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by jafo1989 16d ago
As a frequent walker to the 7-11 in my "soul-crushing suburban district", I decided to look up the 7-11 landscape in Williamsburg, Virginia using the satellite view in Google Maps. Every single one of them is walkable from residen
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by jafo1989 25d ago
Cool. When it finally shows up, and someone says "No one asked for this..." I'll refer them to you.
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by jafo1989 2mo ago
> Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power. Who is deceiving who now? And I'm not sure who is in power here...
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by jafo1989 4mo ago
No Catcher in the Rye? Bold.
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by jafo1989 6mo ago
> In the past 20 years I've noticed a trend of companies making it harder and harder for me to give them my money. They want your money, they are just getting stricter on how they will accept it in order to limit liability and meet
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by jafo1989 8mo ago
> there is no way they could monitor conversations in the car for commercial purposes (at least in Western countries) Oh, you'll agree to that when you accept the terms of service. Can't wait for the "This ride with ads: $
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by jafo1989 1y ago
Are they banned in the US?
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by jafo1989 2y ago
>Zelenskyy famously stopped wearing civilian suits, and is always wearing military-style clothes in public appearances to symbolise how he's defending his nation in a time of war. It's a reminder to other leaders that it's
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by jafo1989 2y ago
Key word - "spent". The Falklands conflict was almost half a century ago. It is doubtful that the UK could respond today like they did in 1982. The video "The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships"[1] addresses that exac
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by jafo1989 2y ago
I mean...c'mon..they could have at least picked a "worst song of all time" that wasn't a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Ditto for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"...
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by jafo1989 2y ago
>I get so tired of seeing content saying, 'Oh, if you just saved a little more, if you just invested a little more…' Like, no – people are on the edge. People cannot afford to live, to eat, to put gas in their cars," Brama
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by jafo1989 2y ago
> Boeing received orders for only four new planes in May > The results released Tuesday compared unfavorably with Europe's Airbus, which reported net orders for 15 planes in May — 27 sales but 12 cancellations.
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by jafo1989 2y ago
> But it is first and foremost a touching personal story Does any recipe, cookbook, or general article about food on the internet NOT fall into this category??
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by jafo1989 2y ago
Don't be evil (yet).
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by jafo1989 3y ago
Niklaus Wirth could afford to be simple, he lived in simpler times where demand was much lower than today, being chased by much less investment. Change was measured in years, compute and storage options were limited. I wonder how many of hi
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by jafo1989 3y ago
Confer: Operation Earnest Will 1987-1988 [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will
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by jafo1989 3y ago
Thanks for saving me a click.
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by jafo1989 3y ago
You might want to think about adding them to HuggingFace, and making them HuggingFace API compliant to lower the barrier to entry. The IBM offering is appealing not because it is "first" or the "best", but because it is
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by jafo1989 3y ago
I'm interested. Are your models open sourced like the IBM model, and are they easily accessible on HuggingFace?
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by jafo1989 3y ago
<P>age SysOp
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by jafo1989 3y ago
Infocom had a 80s text adventure game called Bureaucracy[1] that captures this modern scenario exactly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)
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by jafo1989 3y ago
Good thing the Supreme Court consists of more than one judge!
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by jafo1989 3y ago
Ah, the ol' "I know a sewer when I see it" rule.
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by jafo1989 4y ago
"I started out as Roadrunner. Meep!" "You mean meep meep?" "Nah, they only paid me to say it once. Then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards."
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by jafo1989 4y ago
> Norway is already at ~80% EVs for new car sales. There are gas stations that are ripping up their pumps for fast chargers. What do you do about the snow plows, garbage trucks, ambulances, police cars, buses, etc....vehicles that are c