wklauss

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by wklauss 4mo ago
Yes: https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-tells-catholic-bishop...
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by wklauss 4mo ago
> Are they successful? I'd say so. Not on all the branches of the cooperative, but it generates over €11 billion in annual revenue and employs more than 70,000 people with a very stable business. It might be a bit tricky to gauge su
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by wklauss 4mo ago
> It makes me wonder(i'm korean): how would a Westerner react if they saw me romanticizing the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain? They’d probably find it strange and out of touch with reality. In his science fiction novels, Kim Stanle
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by wklauss 5mo ago
As the law is written, the latest iPhones, for example, would be compliant (battery is replaceable with commercially available tools under the self-repair program), and they are completely waterproof and dustproof. Some manufacturers now us
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by wklauss 11mo ago
Define "budding system that was working". Before the ACA, the number of uninsured Americans was around 50 million and insurance companies routinely denied coverage or charge higher premiums based on pre-existing health conditions.
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by wklauss 1y ago
To be fair, Meta is also not the first company to launch smart glasses with a display. But the reality of it is that it's probably still to early to say if these devices will have mainstream appeal. I see a lot of people saying "w
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by wklauss 1y ago
I've heard employees use the measurements app in their iPhones sometimes to adjust in the mornings, but having a sensor in the laptop lid seems like a much easier way to do it and you don't need to carry anything with you.
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by wklauss 1y ago
I'm assuming so. Apparently it's an angle that "invites" people to use the computers, but I don't think there's anything specific about 76 degrees that makes it better than, say, 73 or 82. As long as you can se
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by wklauss 1y ago
At Apple Stores, laptops screens have to be opened exactly at 76 degrees. I wonder if they use this sensor and specific software for adjustment (I'm not implying this is the only reason it's there)
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by wklauss 1y ago
the majority of them.
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by wklauss 1y ago
It is iffy but serviceable. In this case, seems like Octopath Traveller 2 Windows version works well with GPTK. I haven't tried but Whisky, or Porting Kit should be able to handle it. Reddit has some people running it at good fps.
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by wklauss 1y ago
If it runs on Linux, it should be fairly easy to run it on MacOS through the Game Porting Toolkit. Crossover (or Porting Kit if you don't want to pay for Crossover) should handle it.
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Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices(bleepingcomputer.com)
5 points by wklauss 2y ago|1 comments
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by wklauss 2y ago
Argentina and US are very different countries, starting these cuts with very different economic realities. For example, 55% of all registered workers are employed by the government in Argentina. Although not a directly comparable metric (si
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by wklauss 2y ago
I don't think that's what DOGE is doing. Seems extremely vindictive and ideological in the way it's acting and time will tell but I would not be surprised if it ends costing the taxpayers more in the long run.
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by wklauss 2y ago
There is fat, but I'd venture not much on the CDC, FEMA or USAID. A big part of this mess is that fat is concentrated on areas that are very unpopular to cut, like military expenditure, or in legacy processes and systems that will take
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by wklauss 2y ago
Seems like at least USAID was: Alleged USAID Probe Into Starlink Raises Elon Musk Conflict Concerns. https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra... DOGE has also very specifically targeted the CFPB and, acc
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by wklauss 2y ago
I wish that was the case. Coincidentally, I live in Atlanta, also within the city (ITP, close to Piedmont Park) and all my neighborhood has above ground power transmission. Coming from Europe, it's infuriating. Not a year passes that w
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by wklauss 2y ago
The links actually cover this, since EIA tracks major events in power disruptions and separates them in the graph. US network is still orders of magnitude worse than Germany.
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by wklauss 2y ago
U.S. electricity customers averaged five and one-half hours of power interruptions in 2022 Source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61303 In 2023, German households experienced an average of 13.7 minutes
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by wklauss 2y ago
Ollama is pretty clear about it, it's not like they are trying to deceive. You can also download the 671B model with Ollama, if you like.
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by wklauss 2y ago
No the same case. Donald Trump's account was banned due to his role in inciting an insurrection but you could still find republican content posted by other users with hashtags. I'd expect the same treatement if a democratic leader
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by wklauss 2y ago
This is a very unlikely scenario, given how many hashtags were blocked and how specific they were.
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by wklauss 2y ago
> But as an American who has been a little sick of Europe mooching off of our military overwatch As a European (now living in the US) I think this perspective might be an oversimplification. Access to EU soil has been incredibly importan
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by wklauss 2y ago
> You pay well, but not so much Don't really see much of a contradiction. A good salary is not necessarily the highest salary. > You require linear algebra but ok with technical writer. I'm a tech writer but went to engineer
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by wklauss 2y ago
More decorative than functional but beautiful nontheless and could be iterated to make it a better chess set. Maybe mixing different types of sand as a finishing coat on the pieces? (vocanic and coral for the pieces and quartz sand for the
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by wklauss 2y ago
I see the semiconductor industry becoming a bit like the auto industry. A geopolitical pawn, heavily dependent on subsidies and in turmoil due to market forces (switch to electric in cars vs. switch to ARM/RISC in semiconductors)
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by wklauss 2y ago
I don't think Berkshire is particularly bearish on Apple. It's just they made good money out of the investment and it's a good time to cash out and keep cash for future buys. The fact that they kept half of it tells you they
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by wklauss 2y ago
Electric vehicle routing is an option in Apple Maps and I'm assuming in Google Maps as well. A Rivian app could handle the rest. I'm pretty sure Apple would be extremely happy to figure out a way forward. ( https://suppo
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by wklauss 2y ago
Apple is reportedly building M2 Ultra and M4-Powered AI servers. We will see what this end up looking like, but I'd say that the M2 Ultra is a very competitive product. Even if it's not really the same kind of architecture, it mig

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