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About corford
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Comment #49019547
Succinctly put by Pablo Picasso's remark: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers".
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Comment #48933488
Sad :( I love my OnePlus 13R. The battery life is amazing and the stock skin is close enough to pure Android that it doesn't bother me.
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Comment #48850770
Personally I use Open Code with a copilot sub. Then all models are available in my session with just a /model and /variants command combo. Makes it super low friction to try differ…
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Comment #48816518
It's politics. The US's corporate problems in the 1980s and early 1990s existed when strong international competition existed. It began to change with things like https://en.wikipe…
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Comment #48747918
For decades after the 1989 crash they were in deflation. Only in the last 3-4 years has any meaningful inflation returned. Some context here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dec…
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Comment #48723201
>do you actively scrutinize and examine the key people of every service and product you use Yes >or it just a reflexive change of footing whenever you happen upon news like this? N…
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Comment #48660168
UK's system is very similar too, as is Estonia's.
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Comment #48636677
What's wrong with Opencode? (I use it and like it)
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Comment #48195643
We've been leaning on Lima recently for a "dockeresque" experience with hard VM guarantees. Also keeping an eye on https://github.com/containers/crun/blob/main/krun.1.md
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Comment #48193510
Works for me on Debian 13, Firefox 140.10.2esr-1~deb13u and Strix Halo gfx
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Comment #48146371
Seems consistent. Ukrainian soldiers are performing life saving missions i.e. defending their citizens from an unprovoked attack.
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Comment #48112463
To this day Justin maintains https://www.askjf.com/ if you ever want to ask him something :)
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Comment #47941643
There are quite a few "clean energy" ETFs (e.g. GRID, PBD, ICLN). There are nuclear/uranium themed ones too. No comment/view on whether any of those are good or not.
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Comment #47941588
Coincidently, FTAV posted a good "petrodollar" article today for anyone interested (article is free but might need a free account to read it): https://www.ft.com/content/a65efb54-3…
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Comment #47925052
>Why? Patrick Boyle did a nice video a few weeks back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BaSBjxNg-M
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Comment #47675745
Second DNSimple. Cheap to start and lots of nice features/support if you grow e.g. terraform provider, an acme.sh plugin, Okta support etc.
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Comment #47660318
IIRC, De Gaulle & Churchill proposed a UK-FR union at one point (1940?) but it didn't get sufficient support within the French government. Interesting to ponder what the war and la…
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Comment #47586166
Copilot has a totally different billing model. It's request based rather than token based. Counter-intuitively, in our case at least, it is way cheaper than token based pricing. On…
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Comment #47580876
OpenCode with a Copilot Business sub and Opus 4.6 as the model works well
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Comment #47412892
South of there but yup was Kristin that caused the fiber damage.
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Comment #47407475
I've just done something similar in response to a heavy storm that's taken out the fiber where I live (7 weeks now, still hasn't been reconnected). Starlink has been a life saver a…
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Comment #47402282
Nice explainer here: https://substack.com/@georgenoble/note/c-226667679?r=3il429
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Comment #47249613
The copy on the site really is quite funny :D https://bahn.bet/about
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Comment #47190178
One battle at a time
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Comment #47190140
If you're unhappy with this, an immediate way to signal it is with your wallet. In my case I've just uninstalled chatgpt from my phone, cancelled my subscription and will up my spe…