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leadingthenet

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    Comment #47976511

    The state. “The government” (what we would call “the executive”) being equated to the state as a whole is a uniquely American concept, likely because the word “state” already has a…

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    Comment #47912752

    I do not understand why people would rather play into the delusions of a clearly mentally unwell individual for months and year on end — when they well know it's bullshit — under t…

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    Comment #47716869

    > I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though. Now you're getting it.

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    Comment #47715759

    git-worktree has been a thing for a decade+ and AI agents seem to be using them just fine in my experience. This is a solved problem.

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    Comment #46798032

    If the last couple of weeks are anything to go by, I'd strongly argue the quality of discourse on any ICE/Trump/Tariffs-related topics have been at exactly Reddit-level, along with…

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    Comment #46796776

    I've been sleeping on this, works like a charm!

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    Comment #46275767

    You're right: I didn't answer the question, because I suspect it was asked in bad faith to begin with, given that a simple online search would yield ample evidence. Much of which h…

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    Comment #46226680

    At this point I suspect anyone who even asks that question of concern trolling. The evidence is overwhelming.

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    Comment #44130890

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024

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    Comment #42404658

    > People have free speech, but obviously that doesn't mean you are free to say things that could be considered hateful or factually untrue. So people don't actually have free speec…

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    Comment #42081169

    The actual outcomes of those different voting systems is still a dominant US that is increasingly leaving the rest of the Western world behind. So maybe we should be learning from …

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    Comment #41491903

    We are getting old, are having few if any children, yet our social contract is built on a series of Ponzi schemes that become unmaintainable under such circumstances. The temporary…

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    Comment #41408123

    > Those Romanians are not Hungarian citizens. Those “Romanians” are absolutely Hungarian citizens, as it is a precondition to voting in Hungarian elections.

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    Comment #41408107

    We’re rapidly approaching that reality, yes. Maybe Switzerland?

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    Comment #41169685

    Once they all start doing it, it won't matter.

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    Comment #40527310

    There's also https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg

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    Comment #40417633

    I have the exact same problem, except on Uber Eats.

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    Comment #40112918

    I feel like everyone making comments along this line is completely missing his point. It's not wrong that 0 is the behaviour of C/Ruby, it's just that 1/2=0.5 is the expected resul…

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    Comment #39916325

    In fact, this seems to link to an even newer version of the text.

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    Comment #39548443

    It's not just about emissions, though. Single-use plastics literally just accumulate in landfills until the end of time, while glass is highly recyclable (and one of the few econom…

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    Comment #39516436

    > The cultural Revolution was sudden. The Cultural Revolution could only have happened due to the very specific ideological backdrop that existed in China at the time. The heights …

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    Comment #39516039

    > So RLHF is the attempt to correct for the biases on the internet. ...or it can be used to reinforce a specific ideology. Completely dependent on who does the RLHF and what their …

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    Comment #39483953

    > I had to look this up but apparently the UK doesn't either. There are a few city-wide regulations in Scotland that prohibit it, possibly in other parts of the UK as well, but the…

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    Comment #39290120

    Does seem to have died down since June of last year.

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    Comment #38891036

    Weeelll, it's a duopoly, and consumers rarely get details about the aircraft prior to booking their tickets. So we have at best an indirect say in what planes get acquired and used…