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drfloyd51
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Comment #48543693
Sun Crossing-Rocket
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Comment #48504038
I reread my comment. Nowhere did I suggest countries don’t defend themselves. Nor did I say we shouldn’t make war. We should minimize war and try other alternatives. And maybe try …
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Comment #48503976
Back in the 2000s MS agreed to port Office and Internet Explorer to the Mac. This was a good move for both companies. Bill Gates appeared on screen during an Apple Conference to ta…
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Comment #48489302
Comments like that aren’t “sleepwalking”. They are complicit.
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Comment #48489284
He IS doing it. He could choose to do better. He doesn’t get a pass.
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Comment #48489086
War is bad. And our reality isn’t some unchanging truth. Our actions and choices, or apathy, help shape our reality. It is not childish to aspire to be better.
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Comment #48489049
> The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver. Currently active theaters. And now there are detailed location…
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Comment #48486002
The law doesn’t define behavior. It describes behaviors. Those behaviors can change by giving the doers more power. If a bureaucrat is trouble, and the doers can cause the bureaucr…
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Comment #48481047
The doers can fire the system 5 people.
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Comment #48471277
Too big to fail. Lol.
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Comment #48438369
Apparently, if your not cool enough to know how to get in the club, you are not cool enough to be in the club.
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Comment #48427813
What is hue zero? That’s green right? Because green is such a common color? Or maybe it’s blue.
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Comment #48414648
No no. You see we need to get rid of conventional commits so AI can make commits easier.
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Comment #48403242
I am going to put in a plug for “Which” a command tab replacement that lets you, among other things, cycle between windows like alt-tab.
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Comment #48403222
Bingo. That is a far more eloquent way to express my word salad.
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Comment #48403211
My sarcasm wasn’t thick enough. L
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Comment #48397134
When I was a child, I lived in a neighborhood. Every week a garbage truck picked up the house hold trash. 5 guys were on that truck. 1 driver and 4 guys that actually lifted up var…
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Comment #48393138
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Comment #48389389
If we understand how a system “emulates” consciousness then we declare it an emulation. If we don’t quite understand how a system exhibits consciousness then we can say it might be…
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Comment #48377300
No one who learned how to correctly type. The “correct way” is garbage. Maybe useful for reaching 300 WPM. But not useful for having usable wrists. As a coder, the “correct way“ is…
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Comment #48373373
There are a lot of ads where you are “empowered” to choose between provided choices. “Manage your privacy your way! Simply sign in to choose what is right for you!” Nah, I am going…
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Comment #48365989
I want to use full screen apps. But they are not in the command-tab order. So… no good.
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Comment #48362430
But it does give us an idea to chew over. And we can determine how “real world” that idea is. Some of us can even see how to bend the idea a little and make a reasonable version of…
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Comment #48356440
That is a lot of misdirection that doesn’t address the main point of the of OC. This fancy new device still runs windows. And that is a non starter from many people.
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Comment #48356323
Yes. Yes it does. Eliza is a known AI. You choose to expose yourself to its output. You are 100% culpable for your actions that sprang from your interactions.