worik

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by worik 3d ago
> I was watching YouTube through their Apple TV app. That is an active choice, not forced in any way. > The YouTube creators that make the content do need to get paid. There are better ways, and we would all be better off except for
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by worik 3d ago
> When Google broke the original uBlock origin and made people switch to uBlock Lite Not me. Is that because I stuck with Firefox?
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by worik 5d ago
Wierd. After all these years doing cooperative multitasking again
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by worik 5d ago
https://nodsauto.com/how-many-watts-does-a-car-engine-produc... About 10,000 Close enough!
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by worik 5d ago
> 1GW is around 6,000 cars How do you figure?
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by worik 5d ago
Do not be so hard on his voters.
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by worik 6d ago
> See most retail workers, and anyone behind a cash register. Yes, but only the people at the "coal face" The managers in the background toilet at will.
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Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks(arstechnica.com)
139 points by worik 7d ago|67 comments
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Joint statement on the 'Child safety online' report [pdf](5rightsfoundation.com)
2 points by worik 7d ago|0 comments
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by worik 12d ago
So that is 11% who do not read the news, do not know what corruption is or are benefiting
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Clankers and Data Races(tbray.org)
2 points by worik 14d ago|0 comments
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by worik 21d ago
Yes But GitHub, in its heyday, was a centre. Created a sense of "community" It has taken a while, but since MS bought it it has been shirking that. I expected honest enshittification, but instead it has been technical collapse
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by worik 23d ago
What an awful society you live in. It is not like that where I live. The first generation of immigrants have trouble, natural enough. But are very keen that their children do better. As for racism: Most racism here is systemic, from the st
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by worik 23d ago
"banana republic levels of corruption" That is such an understatement
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by worik 23d ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by worik 23d ago
> lawmakers need to be corrupt and/or incompetent for lobbying to do this. Not really Lobbyists get to talk into the ears of the powerful. It is literally their job. They make very sensible arguments for their point of view. So it s
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by worik 23d ago
I find that difficult to believe, having been involved in political campaigning (not in EU or USA). Have you evidence?
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by worik 25d ago
From the other side of the world looking at you, what you need are moderate Republicans The republican party has become extreme, and they are wrecking your republic
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by worik 25d ago
I am part of the "LLMs are tools" crowd I use nail guns as the analogous tool. Perhaps I know a few carpenters Pushing back against two things: * Inappropriate albeit understandable anthropomorphising of the technology * Misanthro
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Chinese regulators tell Tesla: fix 3M cars(arstechnica.com)
5 points by worik 26d ago|0 comments
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by worik 27d ago
No E.g. in Swift the reference counting is automatic a d implicit In C++ it is manual and explicit
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by worik 27d ago
I really like this, in the world burning, slaughter of the young all around and the economy unbalanced and tettering on the brink... Art. I have a quibble, that does not detract: This is about consuming art, and the appreciation of great a
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by worik 29d ago
Very interesting reading the comments here from USAnians. You are really hurting, and your system is objectively very bad. Inappropriate application of capitalism. A market failure of epic proportions. Do something about it! You live in a d
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by worik 1mo ago
Really? I have seen none, perhaps in comments downvoted to illegability Can you name some, please?
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by worik 1mo ago
> Am I "ideologically motivated"? I think so. That does not mean you are wrong.
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by worik 1mo ago
>...it makes the revenue numbers the industry has to hit higher... Yes. But. Industry can miss its revenue targets, Oracle can go bankrupt (looking more and more likely) OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX might find "true value" at a
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by worik 1mo ago
Very moving story. I would like to know what the causes of drought were I have read the Swiss glaciers are retreating (as they are all over) so less water in the source. What about back in the day?
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Rewriting in Rust(blog.jetbrains.com)
84 points by worik 1mo ago|63 comments
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by worik 1mo ago
Probably.
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by worik 1mo ago
Slave owning misogynistic violent elitists Yea, nah

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