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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that true? the space bar is a keyboard shortcut?

My latest keyboard doesn't have a ctrl on the right side and it took me 2 weeks to adjust.

 

I've always been told that Hitler was a masterful public speaker; that his support can largely be explained by his compelling, if not mesmerizing hold on crowds. This narrative is not common, it's universal.

Sometimes I think this is emphasized over how much the crowds approved of the content of his speech.

How do native German speakers feel when they view footage of Hitler? Do you think the reputation is earned?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Didn't grow up with one, but consider it standard now. There should be an organic stream to waste disposal. Much more green to send your plate scrapings to the treatment plant than to wrap them up in plastic and bury it in a landfill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Easy to replace? sure. A couple hours if your handy.

But installing one for the first time will require electrical in addition to the and plumbing work. It's a pretty big job for a DIYer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

as a mentor

ummmmm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AI is like the office worker who's the nephew of the CEO. They're never going to go away, but can be useful for tedious work, so long as someone checks behind them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Go on Amazon, buy a skillet, don't spend more than $25. Use this skillet to learn how to use and care for cast iron. Maybe it's not for you, or maybe you'll love it. Either way, you'll know what to look for in cast iron.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

This is a Neoliberal anthem: rights are for citizens; employees need to sit down and STFU.

Why do we reject tyranny.gov, but embrace tyranny.com?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Idiocracy is a funny movie that I enjoy. However I'm disturbed by the number of people who say it's a documentary, or a warning. That's because the central premise of the movie (that humans breed wrong and if nothing is done, we'll devolve and society will collapse) also happens to be the central premise of Eugenics.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

IQ does show differences between the races. However, this isn't evidence that white supremacy is correct. It's evidence that IQ testing measures culture when it's supposed to be measuring biology.

Race is constructed. Genetic, evolutionary, anthropological, and archeological evidence all point to shared ancestry and kinship. All the people's of the world aren't separated by near enough distance or time to explain a significant biological difference. And that's ignoring the wide interbreeding that was always a thing. Remember Rome was cosmopolitan empire. Many of those Roman soldiers who marched down the first paved roads of London were swinging black cocks.

So what can we make of a so called "objective" measure of a "biologically determined" trait that hews to culture above biology? This isn't just a bias that needs to be tweaked, the whole concept of biologically determined intelligence is a reification fallacy and IQ as an instrument is hopelessly broken and should be abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In the US, everyone has the right to a trial, in theory. However, if every defendant, or even a significant minority of them demanded their trial, the system would collapse.

To solve this problem. Prosecutors (lawyers working for the government) are given extraordinary power. They use their ability to charge any defendant with inflated charges that carry long jail sentences, then offer to reduce the charges if the defendant gives up their right to fight. Despite being obviously coercive and prone to force innocent people to confess, it's perfectly normal, legal, and necessary to the US criminal system.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The idea of "political neutrality" is naive or bad faith.

What you want is a right-wing sub. They pride themselves on being centrist, reasonable, and uncontroversial. You're going to get lots of radical ideology, but don't take it seriously bro, it's just a joke.

Left subs may seem obnoxious with their politics, but that's just because we're trying to persuade you with argument instead of tricking you with flattery.

 

I use a box fan to help dry the dishes in the dishwasher. Recently I mistakenly pointed the fan away from the dishes instead of toward them. This appears to be faster and more effective than my normal method. Why?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is not because of an executive order from Biden. This is because of the murderous war perpetrated by the criminal Putin.

If the whole Linux project died out, it wouldn't be on the top 10,000 important things that have been destroyed by Russia.

 

In recent events, I learned that some pagers only have receivers. How are discrete messages sent to these devices? How is it authenticated? How do they know the device got the message?

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When Florida changed it's law to allow ex-felons to vote, I remember reading that the legislature put as many roadblocks as they could. Felons must complete all sentences, fines, and restitution before they can vote.

So any sentence or sanction that can't be fulfilled by November should exclude him from Florida's rolls, right?

 

My calendar application changed the method to add events and broke my workflow.

My workaround: I typed basic schedule info into Perplexity and have it convert the data to a CSV file and import it.

 

They made Claudine Gay resign, meanwhile this motherfucker.

 

I think AI is neat.

 
 

The way I read the article, the "worth millions" is the sum of the ransom demand.

The funny part is that the exploit is in the "smart" contract, ya know the thing that the blockchain keeps secure by forbidding any updates or patches.

 

The researchers started by sketching out the problem they wanted to solve in Python, a popular programming language. But they left out the lines in the program that would specify how to solve it. That is where FunSearch comes in. It gets Codey to fill in the blanks—in effect, to suggest code that will solve the problem.

A second algorithm then checks and scores what Codey comes up with. The best suggestions—even if not yet correct—are saved and given back to Codey, which tries to complete the program again. “Many will be nonsensical, some will be sensible, and a few will be truly inspired,” says Kohli. “You take those truly inspired ones and you say, ‘Okay, take these ones and repeat.’”

After a couple of million suggestions and a few dozen repetitions of the overall process—which took a few days—FunSearch was able to come up with code that produced a correct and previously unknown solution to the cap set problem, which involves finding the largest size of a certain type of set. Imagine plotting dots on graph paper. The cap set problem is like trying to figure out how many dots you can put down without three of them ever forming a straight line.

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