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Police unions are far and away much different than any other union you might think of. Most unions are in fact good for the ir members and society - police unions are not.

Oddly though beliefs like “the world is flat” are tied up in other beliefs that actually cause harm. Flat-earth leads to the firmament leads to Christian god did this leads to ((th…

I bought an air conditioner last year, some wal-mart “smart” AC that was affordable (we had to get three for the new house we moved in to so budget was a big concern) and it has a …

I read it as “if your LLM is being checked by another LLM, well then you need another LLM to check the checker. And can you really trust _that_ LLM? Probably should have an LLM to …

Our PM trialed it for writing user stories and most of it was “ticket description but as gherkin stories” which is good, but it made like 2-3 stories referencing a data structure a…

> AI hosting for Apple Curious to see how long that lasts - YouTube and Google Maps were fairly mainstay apps for iPhones for a while, and eventually Apple cut the Maps cord to do …

Considering that they had to rework things to not use the master key, I can understand the time and effort. From TFA, the DB Gateway handled all Cosmos requests, and used the maste…

I’ve said it in a few other places here before, but axing Apollo is the reason I’m on HN at all. I used to use Reddit daily to follow a few games and news subs, and was fairly acti…

I really enjoyed Motif and the general flat clean look that came with eg TWM and co. I do have a soft spot for the candy Mac styles, and win2k is still my favorite windows release

I’m still in the mines but I don’t know for how long. Part of my performance evaluation for the year will include a section on using AI, so I’ll be biting the bullet and using copi…

Right? It feels akin to people who oppose social welfare and things like UBI because “people just don’t want to work.” The reality seems more like “people want to work, they mostly…

I disagree on the “nazification” point, your main point, because fascism is the kind of insidious thing that can’t be allowed a foothold. To your point 2, even if the Nazis were al…

1) I did say “obvious Nazis” 2) letting a Nazi be at your bar is decency imo 3) “most” is doing some heavy lifting, and even so, you are showing the shades of communism. Nazism exp…

That’s a false equivalence and imo disingenuous - Nazis are understood by the broad majority to be “bad”. We, the public, don’t want nazis around - period. If I go to a bar and the…

That’s a wild take tbh. In a different comment I did say that ideally the community would’ve taken action before MS had to step in. I don’t want to make the world “foam padded”, an…

> That said, I think it is inevitable for any anarchist server that gets large enough to end up in this exact situation. Agree, and I think it’s the community’s responsibility to d…

Sure, kids will encounter a lot of things, but there’s a difference between coddling and having conversations when the time is right (well, better - there’s rarely a correct time i…

Indeed this was a pleasure to read! For someone who’s biology schooling largely culminated in a high school presentation of “how a virus works” rendered in a pirated copy of 3DS Ma…

Huh. Arc had an interesting AI use where pinned tabs would get renamed automatically to be more informative - about 50/50 in my experience. The best part of this though was the abi…

> I would counsel not using the word "meaningful" in the context of BI. We already have a way of evaluating "meaningful", it's called "money". If society gets to judge what is mean…

Ooo ooo don’t forget the US’s hand in the South American drug trade, or toppling numerous South American governments because we didn’t like who was in charge, even if it had been d…

> People who failed so spectacularly that the country became the rape capital of Europe and has more crime than El Salvador today. > the rape capital of Europe I’ve read that this …

They should! It’s genuinely nice. I know to some this all probably comes off as corny and to that I say: I hope those folks can hug a tree someday, it’s nice.

What bullying? The forum banned the user and DMCA notices removed the content, seems fine to me and an actual reasonable use of DMCA.

I wanted to drop some of my favorite bits about sovereign citizens here, but honestly most of what they believe requires a lot of explanation to really grasp. A quick glance of thi…