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My guess is that the indirect impact might have been in the tens of %. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) reasons for enormous construction costs is delays which make an effic…

> LLM translation is shit Compared to who? Compared to a professional with a language degree, with a feel and love for both languages and an understanding of the subject area, LLM …

> you can ask a bank teller to help you At virtually all banks, the bank tellers cannot help you with login problems. You will have to call the bank's tech support and somehow navi…

> Are the Greek the sea people then? Very possibly a subset of the Sea Peoples were Greek. Egyptians reported the "Ekwesh" (which might be the Egyptian word for Achaeans) and the "…

The grandchildren's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1uardtu/driver...

The "3 trees out of a window" sounds like an idiotic criterion because it ignores the elevation factor. In the exact same building, it's very likely you will see a couple dozen tre…

Weird article. The author is clearly heart-broken about some changes in how Nixos is managed - but what those changes were and why the author dislikes them is left completely uncle…

> they are _aggressively_ promoting far-right wing propaganda In my feed, they are aggressively pushing an approximately equal mix of woke propaganda, far-right propaganda, funny m…

Link for the curious: https://www.lacan.com/zizekrumsfeld.htm

> Any and all modifications to PKGBUILDs may download something and execute it A normal PKGBUILD should not download anything programmatically. It should rely on the package manage…

> I'm not sure what the alternative would be, reviewing every adoption request seems like too much effort and wouldn't necessarily even help every time. Even the most primitive LLM…

> Managers are literally asking whether people need AI credits or interns over summer That's a bit like asking them to choose between AI credits and a visit to the dentist. No engi…

> It's only for war or to consolidate power in the hands of the ruling class Consider Egyptian and Mesopotamian irrigation and flood management, Persian and Roman roads, Chinese ca…

I get that the tax man needs to be paid, but what possible justification could there be for 1. demanding for this data monthly, rather than quarterly or yearly; and 2. demanding it…

Condos may, and quite often do, have enormously expensive maintenance issues that the condo owners are quite unaware of until the last moment and will have to shell out for via spe…

Sometimes. In many/most countries, it requires at minimum that both parents be citizens of the same country. In a few countries, dual citizenship is banned completely, so if the ki…

What you have to do, as a local, is regularly invite some out-of-town friends or relatives to stay in your apartment for a weekend to get yourself unstuck from your rut. You will n…

Mothers in the ancient past started at age 16-22 (note that fathers' ages at first child were extremely variable depending on the ancient culture in question) but then kept going g…

Part of growing up is realizing that the places where a person eats or shops, what music and entertainment they consume, what clothes they wear - are entirely uncorrelated with the…

Per [1], a typical Portland public bus causes about 730 times more road wear than a full size pickup truck (which is about the worst case for road wear from a personal vehicle). Ho…

Where I work, options that don't do anything are seen as good engineering practice. You see, you can't break your user's scripts. Your CLI arguments are part of your stable API. If…

According to the article, the reason why the bacteria was so quickly fatal for Florida orange trees is that their roots were weakened by a sequence of major hurricanes and by many …

Out of curiosity, I ran the 5 command on my project's public git tree. The only informative one was #4 ("Is This Project Accelerating or Dying") - it showed cliffs when significant…

Same happened for me when I clicked on the link, I had to delete the cookies for wesnoth.org and then load the site again. I think their Anubis setup might be broken a bit