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I have this image in my mind of a discussion taking place in a high speed rail possibly around 2100 where people will look back and say: "I cannot believe we had people driving 2to…

Re-posting an older comment of mine on the subject: Here's a couple of arguments I had to deal with whilst expressing my support for electronics ban at schools including a blanket …

> Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are. This is a common trope. "It's not big conglomerates that buy and hodl the homes where families are supposed to liv…

On the same note, whats going on with Dell's marketing lately? Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Premium, Dell _Pro_ Premium Dell Max, Dell _Pro_ max... They went and added capacitive keys on t…

All I want to know, is whether I am talking to an actual person. And I also want that person to have a single account, not multiple ones

Hi, I am looking for a fire and forget solution akin to whisper where I can give it a wav of around 12 people and it can give me a diarization on the format (speaker_1, speaker_2, …

> I don't see what you're saying. Are you saying people must think the same things as you do for it to be independent thought? Indeed you don't; let me help you out then: Arguments…

Here's a couple of arguments I had to deal with whilst expressing my support for electronics ban at schools including a blanket social media ban: 1) "Since when do we consider it O…

> A big part of this IMO is that “money won”, for lack of a better phrase. There is no real concept of selling out anymore. Being shamelessly focused on wealth accumulation seems t…

> have left the US They did not "leave" the US, they were deported without due process. > though NSA and google have been doing it for years That does not make it less dismal > les…

anthropic are so sure about the incoming economic impact of their AI that they want to start talking about policy - for our sake. Incredible stuff...

Can someone explain to me why should I use a VPN when Tor is out there? It just seems to me odd that one would pipe their communications through a private company, that operates ov…

While a big proponent of this, to my mind, it seems a bit counterintuitive to place your trust in a community who will probably cannot be held into account once some bad actor slip…

> I don't see a downside in requiring public-facing bots to do that Your statement attempts to give an impression of a middle ground, but what it actually does is delegating the ac…

- "It violates freedom of speech!" - "This is a free market; if you do not like it use another platform!" - "I thought $conglomerate" had our back! They had rainbows and all; is th…

I need to reverse a binary made years ago, and I have zero experience with cpp, so I think it would be a good experiment to get an LLM to help me in any way

If you manage to convince software engineers that you are doing them a favour by employing them then they will approach any workplace negotiations with a specific mindset which wil…

Is it working for you? have you seen any performance increases?

Here's the thing: The reasoning behind the work from office mandate does not concern me; nor I will attempt to rationalize it. I will not return to office, and I will organize with…

I have spent my youth in rural Peloponnese and the boredom before the internet came along was insufferable; doing stupid stuff with the car was pretty much how you get some sort of…

If their service sucks I lose my life. This isn't a discretionary purchase, let's stop pretending one can go shopping for care.