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Chocrates ,

79f is not exactly chilly, circulating air makes it feel more comfortable.

Chocrates ,

Just because it is less damaging in France doesn't mean it doesn't have a carbon impact.

Chocrates ,

I hear you, but 79 is "hot" if you are used to be in 70 degree ac. They will get used to it of course but athletes don't want to have to get used to it.

Chocrates ,

Right? I'm too jaded. Portland anarchists are kinda cringe sometimes, that seems maybe more plausible than a Jewish street gang false flagging it.

Chocrates ,

Processors have an execution pipeline, so a single command like mov has some number of actions the CPU takes to execute it. CPU designers already have some magic that allows them to execute these out of order as well as other stuff like pre calculating what they think the next command will probably be.

It's been a decade since my cpu class so I am butchering that explanation, but I think that is what they are proposing messing with

Chocrates ,

I think it is just American working culture. Corporations slowly eroded benefits over the years to where we are today and your salary is pretty much stuck at a 3% cost of living raise if you are lucky. My last job had an HR cap at 10% and my boss "pulled some strings" to get me an 8% bump (with a ton of extra responsibilities) and I still made 20k less than the fucking new hires. I still stayed 2 more years.

Chocrates ,

Old days!? Aoe2 is still getting expansions!

Chocrates ,

Oh man I bet you can get doom running in the scenario editor. The new devs may even be willing to enhance it somehow so that you could.
Although I have not really played or watched competitive since The Viper left for Facebook.

Chocrates ,

The new AI is astounding. I haven't played in a while but I never was able to beat the harder difficulties. Even at my sweatiest

Chocrates ,

I'm simping for them but they are hamstrung a bit by the ancient code. They haven't rewritten it.

Fair criticism though, maybe they should have rebuilt the engine by now.

Chocrates ,

The rewritten ai doesn't cheat like the original! It's just amazing!

Chocrates ,

He is, I just haven't gotten back in to it for no reason.

Chocrates ,

Mathew Lillard just living his best life.

Putin says Russia and North Korea will help each other if attacked, taking ties to a ‘new level’ ( www.cnn.com )

Vladimir Putin said Russia and North Korea have ramped up ties to a “new level,” pledging to help each other if either nation is attacked in a “breakthrough” new partnership announced during the Russian president’s rare visit to the reclusive state....

Chocrates ,

Tl;Dr North Korean soldiers sent to the meat grinder in Ukraine?

Chocrates ,

Texas simply put is built for cars. Some new areas are more walkable and bikeable but you are right, it's not convenient or safe to bike or walk a lot. And cars are still assholes to bikers.

Texas, and America, need a culture change of we want to fix transit.

Chocrates ,

Fair point, do you know if there is any truth to the idea that the auto manufacturers and the oil Libby "conspired" to make out cities more car friendly and less walkable?

Chocrates ,

It would probably take more than a month to show signs of malnutrition though, assuming OP is eating reasonably healthy currently.

Chocrates ,

True, but people can go on extended fasts without malnutrition concerns. Usually those are in overweight folks though (at least what I am thinking of) so maybe they have deeper reserves.

Chocrates ,

Just one more lane, that will fix it this time for real.

In Austin we fought tooth and nail to not have the highway expanded in downtown but the state is doing it anyway. Gonna lose some historic buildings and displace residents and solve nothing.

Chocrates ,

Oh man this has been burned into my brain. Wish I could remember calculus or something instead 🤣

Chocrates ,

I agree with you, but we have been doing it for 20 years in Afghanistan and with America's imperialist history we have been shitheads for our entire existence (not even touching on chattel slavery). America was never great but maybe we can be better if we find a way to hold our politicians accountable.

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Chocrates ,

Anyone use it and can compare it to moonlight?

Chocrates ,

My landlords HOA would bitch at me if my grass was slightly too long.

Chocrates ,

My lease has two things. Mow the lawn AND abide by any HOA shit, so I had to mow the lawn to their standards and do the random bullshit they came up with. My garbage cans were in front of my house for 9 months and then all of a sudden it was a problem. Fuck HOA's and land bastards

Chocrates ,

I don't use an ad blocker. What sites do you visit that you need one?

At work when I am googling for help some of the sites are obnoxious but not too bad.

Chocrates ,

I loved that game back in the day.

Chocrates ,

I did! I feel like they must have been sold in a bundle. I was so bad at sim copter. I kinda want to get them And see how bad they are now

Chocrates ,

Sure floating piers are cool, but couldn't we just, you know, force Israel to open up air. Or better yet stop the fucking slaughter.

Netanyahu's time outside of prison depends on him continuing to wage the war (unrelated to war crimes, I think he is getting prosecuted for corruption) so he won't ever stip. We could embargo their economy instead though. Or drop a division of special forces into Rafa to provide humanitarian aid, Israel is not gonna bomb US troops.

What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?

I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that "it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn't know what it's talking about" is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....

Chocrates ,

A 5 year old repeating daddy's swear words without knowing what it is.

Chocrates ,

Drug prices are complicated (kind of... But not really) . There is an exorbitant amount of R&D required to get something from hypothesis to the market.
BUT, in the US at least some of that burden is borne by the taxpayers.

Now the actual cost of making a drug once it is invented and gone through trials doesn't seem to make much of an impact on the final cost. Drug companies seem to want to charge as much as humanly possible.

Until the US has some sort of a policy change where they can influence final cost of they give tax payer dollars, then prices are going be high and get higher based on nothing but greed.

Chocrates ,

Why do you need to build a system to capture this information from people that can't read rather than just rejecting those applications?

Chocrates ,

I have been out of college for 15 years. Why the fuck do they care about my honkey highschool in bum fuck nowhere.

Chocrates ,

I'm saying why not just reject them if you have lots of applicants...
Not sure I follow what you are saying.

Building the elaborate system to help them get last the initial pass of resumes only gives you more resumes to look at later.

Chocrates ,

Jokes on them, I'm a white cis male, gonna take more than that to poke a hole in my privilege!

Chocrates ,

I just joined a fantastic team and within a month I saw how dysfunctional it is. Nobody knows how to organize humans. Whoever actually figures it out could rule the world.

Chocrates ,

I really don’t think that the command line is a uniform interface. Every command has its own syntax, its own take on what its switches mean, its own take on regexes/globs and so on.

Powershell was kind of an answer to that. All commands are supposed to emit objects and take objects as input. For me though it is horribly unintuitive. Id love to see an open source attempt at it, but it would be hard since by necessity every dev works on their own tool, while Microsoft could enforce something because they own all the tools.

Chocrates ,

Got a title or a link for the uninformed?

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