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  • Nah. Derision, public shaming, and ostracism are fundamental to the maintenance of the social contract. How else can we moderate extremists? The denazification of Germany was effective because they didn't shy away from these methods.

  • I know it looks more like a butt than a heart...
  • I like looking at butts more than heart shapes anyway.

  • It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too
  • And why they dismantle the systems they're tasked with protecting the moment they can.

  • I just wanted the workflow, ok?
  • Over the years of using Vim both professionally and for my own uses, I've learned to just install LunarVim and only add a handful of packages/overrides. Otherwise I just waste too much time tinkering and not doing the things I need to.

  • You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
  • Most debt actually can't be inherited, instead debt collectors get first dibs on inheritance assets until they're made whole or the estate runs out of assets, whichever comes first.

    That doesn't mean that debt collectors won't try to convince family members to pay. Just tell them where they can shove it.

  • Side quests are key
  • I have the same feeling.

    I think it's due to how knowledgeable, practical, and yet pessimistic Watney's inner monologue is through the book. It's one thing to see something go wrong on screen (they did show all of the major issues as far as I recall, and a few minor ones too), it's another to have the main character scientifically dissect exactly how fucked he is or will be if the next attempt at a solution fails.

  • It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
  • Yes...? All are except Microsoft, which is why most companies I work with aren't looking that way.

  • It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
  • I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.

  • LLM queries for personal pdf libraries?
  • Look into RAG using a vector database, this is exactly what they're for. https://www.linkedin.com/events/buildaragapplicationontheaistac7191489677017649153

  • Nicolas Cage film 'The Surfer' induces knee-buckling six minute standing ovation at Cannes
  • This link better be Surf Ninjas or you and I will have words.

    Edit- We good.

  • Any recommendations a two person backpacking tent? Preferably one during this REI sale?
  • Marmot Tungsten is on sale and is generally well regarded.

    The half dome is great too.

    The Alps Zephyr is criminally underrated in my opinion, and it's normal price is very low.

  • The decline of Intel..
  • 2009 era was also when Intel leveraged their position in the compiler market to cripple all non-Intel processors. Nearly every benchmarking tool used that complier and put an enormous handicap on AMD processors by locking them to either no SSE or, later, back to SSE2.

    My friends all thought I was crazy for buying AMD, but accusations had started circulating about the complier heavily favoring Intel at least as early as 2005, and they were finally ordered to stop in 2010 by the FTC... Though of course they have been caught cheating in several other ways since.

    Everyone has this picture in their heads of AMD being the scrappy underdog and Intel being the professional choice, but Intel hasn't really worn the crown since the release of Athlon. Except during Bulldozer/Piledriver, but who can blame AMD for trying something crazy after 10 years of frustration?

  • Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese electric cars
  • When it's a documented scientific process and it's scaled up and used in the real world to displace the other methods, I'll be ready to acknowledge hydrogen as a valid part of energy infrastructure.

  • Biden quadruples tariffs on Chinese electric cars
  • Nope! And most hydrogen is fossil fuel (methane) derived and horribly energy inefficient. At this point it's green washing at best.

    Edit: adding data:
    Steam-Methane Reforming (SMR) accounts for about 95% of all hydrogen production on earth. It uses a huge amount of heat, water, and methane to produce hydrogen.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SMR%2BWGS-1.png

    For inputs:

    • 6.2MWh of Heat
    • 2.2 tons of Methane
    • 4.9 tons of pure water

    The outputs are:

    • 6 tons of CO2
    • 1.1 tons of H2

    The overall energy in vs energy out is at most 85% efficient. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016236122001867

    Hydrolysis, the main competing method, and the one most touted by hydrogen backers, accounts for about 4% of hydrogen production.
    This method takes in only pure water and electricity, but it's efficiency is abysmal at some 52%. In every case, a modern kinetic, thermal, or chemical battery will exceed this efficiency.

    Other methods are being looked into, but it's thermodynamically impossible for the resulting H2 to produce more energy than it takes to create the H2. So at best today we could use H2 as a crappy battery, one that takes a lot of methane to create.

  • Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended]
  • It’s a tough pivot to make, but what else are fans of the genre gonna play hahahah

    Sins of a Solar Empire 1

    And hey, we get to hope Sins 2 remains great.

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  • Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!

  • A customized version of Canoo's electric delivery van for the USPS has been spotted in the wild
  • Agree to disagree. I like the USPS Canoo, and that micro bus just looks silly to my eyes.

  • U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicle - Considering rates of 100%
  • I mean, that's precisely the ideal case and goal of many tariffs.

  • Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0
  • That's called 'privilege escalation', and replacing system level calls with user level calls is closely watched for and guarded against with many different security measures including SELinux.

    You've already outed yourself multiple times in this thread as someone who doesn't understand how security in the real world works. Take the L and try to learn from this. It's okay not to understand something. But it's very important to recognize when that happens and not claim to understand better than someone else.

  • Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says
    arstechnica.com Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says

    16.5% of new car sales are compact crossovers, but only 6% of those are EVs.

    Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says

    16.5% of new car sales are compact crossovers, but only 6% of those are EVs.

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    ‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That
    www.theonion.com ‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That

    The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu su...

    ‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That

    The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest retaliation…

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    Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother
    www.theonion.com Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother

    DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching t...

    Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother

    DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching the child demonstrate her complete and embarrassing obliviousness, wrapping her arms around her grandmother and announcing, “You’re my favorite!” “Personally, if I were going to choose a favorite person in the whole wide world, I’d choose someone with more than six months to live, tops, but hey, you do you, I guess. Christ, this is not going to end well. If this kid’s not careful, Grandma will die with Ava on her lap, and then she’ll live with that regret.” At press time, sources confirmed it was Kerper’s own fault for not learning her lesson with her 98-year-old grandfather.

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    Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns
    www.theonion.com Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns

    WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the rea...

    Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns

    WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the ready in case their toddler stumbled across a shoebox holding a loaded gun on the floor of a closet and started firing away,” said researcher Jonathan Lieu, noting that the majority of AR-15 owners told his team they purchased the lightweight rifle due to their recurring fears about waking in the night to their 2-year-old giggling as they shot bullet holes through the bedroom door. “One response we often heard was that it was a Second Amendment right for gun owners to defend themselves against their own young children. They also stressed that a baseball bat or pepper spray simply wasn’t enough firepower to take down their gun-toting kids.” Lieu added that many Americans also rushed out to purchase tear gas grenades after their children inevitably got their hands on the AR-15s.

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    The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage
    apnews.com The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage

    President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.

    The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage

    President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.

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    The Wildly Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops
    slate.com The Wildly Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops

    On July 1, an Indiana law went into effect making it a crime to come within 25 feet of an on-duty police officer if ordered to stay back.

    The Wildly Unconstitutional New Laws Trying to Criminalize Filming Cops

    On July 1, an Indiana law went into effect making it a crime to come within 25 feet of an on-duty police officer if ordered to stay back.

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    Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law
    fortune.com Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law

    Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.

    Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law

    Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.

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    In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry
    web.archive.org In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry

    The search giant is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams.

    In Battle With Microsoft, Google Bets on Medical AI Program to Crack Healthcare Industry

    The search giant is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams.

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    France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
    gazettengr.com France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people

    A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

    France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people

    A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

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    Piracy Is Coming Back, Baby!
    www.thegamer.com Piracy Is Coming Back, Baby!

    Streaming has ruined media preservation for an entire generation, and older games aren’t faring so well either. Piracy is the only way to save them

    Piracy Is Coming Back, Baby!

    Streaming has ruined media preservation for an entire generation, and older games aren’t faring so well either. Piracy is the only way to save them.

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