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On the left Panel, change Configuration: Default to Wildfires and press the green arrow. You can then select various fire-related layers.

The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardia…

> But its so plentiful and demand is so high for beef and soy that we keep doing this Just to add that about three-quarters of soybeans are used as livestock feed (poultry, pigs, c…

> Noted for next time. Is that just something it says, or will that actually affect how it will behave next time?

That course was posted just yesterday, in case you are interested in the discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038

In an ideal world, that would be true, but the actual world is very far from that. As an extreme example, AI is very useful to automate scamming people.

"ads will no longer look like ads" (in the future). Ads are clearly marked in the first step, but will likely be more and more blended over time (or worse, biasing the model and th…

" Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/micro...

My point is that this was a minority of 46.7% making that decision (because of a technicality that has been pointed out already). In a dictatorship, a minority of 1 against a milli…

> I don’t like the Rust culture. There’s no better way to put it. Every time I’ve interacted with them or hear how they talk about Rust, I just don’t like it. I wonder if it's not …

> Even in C++, with appropriate rules, restrictions and discipline you can write programs that are guaranteed to be at least as safe as any Rust program If by discipline, you mean …

It's absolutely legitimate to be upset. However, identifying a lawfare trick in a close vote to a dictatorship is serious hyperbole. I'm afraid that's counterproductive.

You are assuming an infinite productivity boost, i.e. that no programmers at all are needed to make programs. A more realistic scenario is that programmers are still needed in the …

That's revenue though. Fixed costs for hardware is probably much higher. If we looked at profits, the percentages would probably look quite different.

What about automated signup confirmation emails, just as one example?

Agreed. The problem is that people are used to do search, which returns hits from clearly identified sources. Suddenly, Gemini is interpreting your query and generating its own res…

If a pesticide is banned to use inside the EU, it should also be banned to import into the EU products that were grown using that pesticide.

Only an idiot would drink when they are not thirsty. Nothing to do with his job being to lie and manipulate opinion.

> the misguided idea among some that as long as a dependency isn't through FFI, it doesn't count as a dependency, is one of the things I dislike the most about Rust culture I have …

That's absolutely correct. Wild to see it downvoted without explanation, while you preemptively mentioned the tradeoff that you do need to worry about correctness in that case (jus…

> If you are the 'systemizer' type and like to have an extremely precise mental model of the thing you write down to the last bit, nothing beats C++. I would say the same thing of …

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The URL of the source for the last link is not working, this is the updated version: https://boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html

However they are literally changing the rules of what "the entire market" means to include those companies sooner that they would have been when people bought those indices.

min-publish-age in cargo is coming: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3923-carg...