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Fights for the Users. If you can't open it, you don't own it. They/them.

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@mischavdburg I disagree - what I've found is that LLMs think more like us than any other sort of tool. Sure they might out-perform humans at making sense of obfuscated code, but that doesn't mean they don't benefit from well structured code with well named modules, functions and variables.

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@brit_downunder @SandyXiaotong Did you not watch the 11 second video which demonstrates he did not insult anyone but pointed out a fact that you may not like?

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@SandyXiaotong Uh, that's not what he said.
I'd like to see evidence that there is considerable PHON support among younger, well educated and multicultural demographics. Everything I've seen indicates the opposite.

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@robinmonotti @ejwwest You sir are a total moron

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@ThinkingElixir @TheErlef Enjoy those hours you'll get back each week, you've done a great service informing and entertaining us over the years

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@alexpotato @atlanticesque There was a documentary called the End of Suburbia which got the timing wrong but is based on the same principle

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@StevenTCramer @davegreenidge57 Freedom is on a different axis to right and left. Its poles are permissive and authoritarian.

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@RealWorld8422 @TopherField Careful what you wish for

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@therealrukshan If ON ever win government, will Malcolm Roberts be science minister? What of Barnaby Joyce? I remember him under Morrison. And Pauline out of her depth doing Gina Rinehart's bidding... As much as Australia needs a change, that would be a shambolic, incompetent government.

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@RealWorld8422 @TopherField By area 95% of the country is almost empty

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@AIandDesign @Meta Capitalism gonna cap yo ass

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@brianjlee87 @smith_johnxxxx @arbsmichael LNP even in power for 20 of the last 30 years

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@pmarreck @realcezarc @ctatedev I've been thinking what erlang/elixir needs is a persistent functional vector, as found in clojure. Just a stepping stone but it would make implementing some algorithms easier.

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@realcezarc @pmarreck @ctatedev Don't expect elixir to be CPU efficient. It shines doing async and message passing at a decent scale, which is a surprisingly large amount of things we use computers for. Any real CPU bottlenecks you hand over to embedded native implemented functions in rust or zig.

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@garrytan Nothing that astronauts did on the moon could not have been achieved much more cheaply by automation, including sample return.
OK it inspired many people but what is really the point of going if you can't stay? It was a hollow gesture.

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@garrytan I take your point, but the highway system and the Apollo project were both expensive roads to nowhere. Sure you need roads but a lot of that infrastructure came at the expense of extending and modernising rail. You used to be able to travel from NYC to Chicago entirely on trams.

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@GodPlaysCards @Harold_Grau Also the key to their undoing, just add Persian roads and infrastructure were great for empire, and then literally made the invading Alexander great, centuries later every invader and contender on the periphery benefited from Roman roads and infrastructure.

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@SecessionWA Guess what. There's going to be taxes whatever happens. They may go up because you'll need a separate defence force, a separate diplomatic core, embassies, the list goes on, and hopefully you don't precipitate a civil war that might at the least redraw your state boundary.

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@CoachDanGo @stats_feed And throw in a national obsession with GDP, a measure which counts treating avoidable illness as productivity...

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@CoachDanGo @stats_feed After WW2 a big chunk of the western military industrial complex pivoted from tanks and explosives to tractors, fertilisers, herbicides, pesticides, preservatives and other food additives. A lot of lobbying and regulatory capture followed.