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I think this is wrong. Google is a competitor both in devices and in the OS for mobile devices. Apple charge a premium that they justify by superior features, ease of use, effortle…

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Have you bothered to look at all? Read the output of the model when asked about why it has the behaviour it does. Look at the plethora of images it generates that are not just hist…

I use it for in component logic in vue. Used to have a collection of boolean or enum variables that represent the state of the component and change according to actions e.g. const …

But what if people are saying things we don’t like?

> There was a lot of evidence supporting the wet market theory at the time and supporting that it wasn't made in a lab You do realise that when people say it was a lab leak, they d…

Yeah who cares about making needless changes to art. A lot of European art is white centric, maybe we should paint other races into it to make it more inclusive?

Pretty sure it usually produces chlorine gas and caustic soda, but I could be wrong.

Source? The Japanese have long-term contracts with LNG producers where did you see the threat of these being impacted by government policy?

Musk is clearly an incredibly brittle narcissist even by billionaire standards, he is probably the least suited person to owning a platform like Twitter because he seems to misunde…

Many journalists are singularly obsessed with the eradication of 'harmful' or 'unsafe' accounts from Twitter. They are particularly concerned about doxxing when it happens to polit…

I want free speech, hence I think Elon is a tremendous hypocrite for enacting this policy. Once you start deciding whether or not things are 'safe' to say you will end up in the ex…

Junk bonds are bonds with high credit risk, what’s wrong with selling them to customers who are after high yields?

Yeah I feel the same way about food, all food is the same now. I eat at McDonald's every day and the menu barely ever changes, they only ever seem to offer variations of this meat …

What does the (8) mean after ping or in other command's man pages?

This is a common delusion from people who want to believe it. Those pictures are all over my timeline all the time, he's doing a bad job banning people who post them.

> This guy was being g tracked down because he was a quarantine dodger during a time when everyone was trying hard to contain the virus so it didn't break out and kill people. Are …

More people were dying from COVID in June and July in Melbourne than at any point during the pandemic. Case numbers look low because nobody even bothers getting the PCR anymore unl…

They surely meant the booming of rubber bullets and riot shields. Victoria boomed like never before.

I'm genuinely confused by your point. Are you saying that because other countries have quarantine restrictions, that makes their pandemic approach equivalently restrictive as Austr…

Multiple police were out looking for him for days, they appealed to the public for info about his whereabouts. His face and name were plastered all over national media. I live in a…

Yes, the man appeared to have violated the law. I guess my criticism that the Australian government is overly restrictive and the public are hysterical moral busybodies has been re…

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/covid-positi...

There were people arrested for posts on Facebook during COVID lockdowns. We had police on the ground hassling every person in sight. Multiple friends of mine were fined for taking …

I've worked in multiple financial services companies where management is incentivised to be as ruthless as possible and they are always overstaffed in areas and understaffed in oth…