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AlecSchueler
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Comment #49166773
> This is progress in the same way that a man climbing a tree is making progress toward reaching the moon. That is, an essential step?
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Comment #49166755
Yes, to find missing backports. The hand rolled aspects are still there and haven't been replaced by slop.
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Comment #49119891
Where "winning" means surviving in relative comfort until global society disintegrates into a constant state of famine and war and you run out of local resources. > Give me... Who'…
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Comment #49119829
It's unusual when we're flagging posts about DOGE exfiltrating public data as off topic because it isn't purely tech related.
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Comment #49096750
"it may lead to" is a future tense possibility.
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Comment #49081496
What are you basing that on? Even the most optimistic predictions are saying the best we can hope for this century is to slow down the damage being done.
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Comment #49073971
A harp can have more than 6 notes ringing out at a time. It's also a different instrument and if you've trained to play harp then a guitar is useless for you.
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Comment #49073901
It feels like you're being sarcastic but "AI data centers are what, half a percent of the world electricity consumption" -- 0.5% of the global total is huge!
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Comment #49073884
Are we measurably slowing down the warming effect?
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Comment #49073865
The point is it's too far gone. You can't teach much resilience for continent-wide crop failure.
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Comment #49073814
> The reality is for most of European history, people inherited in their 40s and got their "big, family apartment" that way. Do you have a source for this? It seems mathematically …
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Comment #49065585
They've actually been there for less than two centuries, just to be pedantic.
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Comment #49055375
100% They're super useful and I often use them to generate bash scripts of, but that's exactly how I know how important it is to check their work! I'm a shell scripter at heart, th…
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Comment #49055250
Define "really good?" I don't think I've ever had them produce a script that I didn't need to correct in some way. They can write it, that's true, but we still need to be able to r…
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Comment #49017698
The discussion points out, though, that many places in the US do have those speeds, while Switzerland also has places with much slower speeds.
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Comment #48995818
It's all over the README as well: >Inline overlay — Opens below the cursor, not as a fullscreen app. Dismiss without trace. Pure ANSI escape codes, no libraries. > Fuzzy search + t…
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Comment #48990497
Alternatively the male porn abuse epidemic.
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Comment #48977741
Maybe the village hasn't recovered but what about the descendants of the miners who now work service jobs in London?
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Comment #48975027
> You can mock the grammar... I mocked nothing. I accused you of using unfair and unfriendly rhetoric. > AFAIK when the Soviet Union accused some Western power So you're putting th…
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Comment #48932322
Don't forget the "label:" search in Spotify
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Comment #48930869
I'm not sure what you mean by "when boats" exactly it why you used that phrasing, but it seems like an attempt at pre-emptively mocking a strawman, framing it as childish. That's n…
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Comment #48923928
> That requires buying into the very concept that "colonialism" is a specific sin different (and worse) from ye olde "I am stronger than you and will occupy your territory and take…
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Comment #48922261
Those cases didn't involve colonisation. Though Virginia certainly did if you go back a little further.
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Comment #48922236
> "Colonialism" is a weird Western guilt fetish that some others successfully milk Colonialism is the historical basis of almost all of global society today. It's not at all weird …