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Not OP, but here's a link from one of the previous times this was discussed. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/almonds-nuts... Almond farming uses massive amounts of …

I'm very curious what their workaround plan for something like U&I MetaSynth would be.

My least favorite of that eras Gerald Genta designs. The original Royal Oak is comparatively far more attractive. Both are outdone by the 222 (different designer though), but it's …

> M$ has now introduced web-latency into the desktop along with their adoption of web-tech into the OS. So we're back to the woes of Active Desktop on Windows 98. Everything old is…

This only lasts until dark patterns can be inserted that disrupt the ease of use that agents are currently providing. If I can't force the end user to watch unskippable ads or tric…

I recall stuff like the Intel icc compiler being expensive and desirable, and things like client access licenses, hardware licenses (to allow using non-trivial amounts of RAM and m…

Which is why you take the time to put usage docs in the repo README, make sure the script is packaged and deployed via the same methods that the rest of the company uses, and ensur…

People have been sounding the alarm about excessive water diverted to almond farming for many years though, so that doesn't really help the counter-argument. Example article from a…

> Armed civilians with their puny little guns and little organization are right out as soon as any part of the military joins a fight, that's why I only mentioned the latter to beg…

Having encountered this spread across our orgs greenfield codebases which made heavy use of AI in the last 90 days: Restating the same information in slightly different formats, wi…

It's been around for over a decade at this point, so I'd say it's as likely to disappear as Ableton Live at this point. Bitwig was made by ex-Ableton engineers and outside of some …

...and we're back to trying to convince a penny-wise pound-foolish company to buy twice the computing hardware for every developer.

Is it imminent? Reading the article, the only thing that's actually changed is that the CEO has stopped hand-picking AI hires and has placed that responsibility on Alexandr Wang in…

How long before a handful of entities, having already ingested the available content into their proprietary systems, bankroll assaults on Wikipedia and the Internet Archive.

Depends on what you mean by alternatives. Some gear focused forums (ModWiggler, Lines, Elektronauts, etc) necessarily cover some of the same ground. The Dogs On Acid forum is also …

You say that as though this is a brand new problem and not something that's been an issue for many, many decades regardless of what party has majority control at the federal level.…

Perhaps they are a self-employed mobile pharmacist.

> people in their cars pretended to ignore me, and one couple leaving theirs just walked away, as I asked if they could move so we could unload my dead car I wonder if they would h…

> leapt through the eighth story dorm window to his death while tripping on magic mushrooms So if keeping them illegal apparently utterly failed to prevent people from having ready…

Or more likely, there were probably some legitimate alerts that would have gone out at the same time as per normal operations, and they do not want to conflate these with the ones …

>Is it really a terrible idea to restrict your software from being used to control weaponry? Seems reasonable until you do something unrelated to offend the licensor and they decid…

HBO also aired videos periodically between movies, prior to MTV's existence.

I'm sure he's open to hearing your ethical, compassionate, and politically viable alternate proposal. Go ahead and post it.

The US also has considerably higher wealth inequality than the other countries you've listed, and hence higher motivation for violent crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…

I've worked in several in larger/Fortune 500 companies, including one where the desk setups were handled by a labor union, any changes required multiple approvals, and DIYing anyth…