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Dixville Notch

its awesome to watch the consent machine try like 900 different ways to make this argument on behalf of commercial real estate

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Blake C. Stacey

I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.

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Alex Vranas

I feel like if China can fly a spy balloon over the US without the military immediately noticing, we're pretty much guaranteed to lose a war with them should that ever happen.

"The size of three buses" is more than enough to hoist a nuke over the US.

Why have ICBMs when you can hover your bombs right over their targets?

The military would basically be liked "Sir, radar has picked up som..." *BOOM*

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Nando161

there are #QR #code #posters here in #Melbourne for #reporting #graffiti to the #council - and #someone has been #printing their own and #carefully #placing them over the #official ones
they lead to a #documentary on #hiphop/graffiti #culture
it's perfect #because the QR posters are #uglier than any bit of #street #art

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Ernie Smith

If Newsmax wanted to be on DirecTV, they wouldn’t have asked for carriage fees. Point of matter.

view.newsletters.cnn.com/messa

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Very proud of my fitness accomplishments.

I average 150 miles of walking per month!

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One of those music recognition services that works with humming, but for 90's MIDI files so I can find a file I really liked from my childhood.

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@Alex Do you want to know why?

Because they get up to 50% comission regardless if customers get scammed or return the product.

#Amazon's interests are aligned against it's customers.
Not just #consumers, but same goes with #B2B customers:
youtube.com/watch?v=ojGveiE51H

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Alex Vranas

The best part about working from home is access to my kitchen.

I'm pretty proud of my ability to cook, and I live right by a grocery story, so rather than hit a local restaurant with coworkers like I used to, I can just make a quick shopping trip, throw together a recipe, and have a high-quality meal for pennies on the dollar from my old pre-2020 habits.

There are good restaurants in my neighborhood too, but it's nice to keep leveling up my culinary skills!

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Amazing that Amazon has billions of dollars of computing infrastructure, is diving head-first into machine learning and AI, and yet you can search "16TB SSD" on their storefront and find countless options under $50 because they really don't give a single shit if their customers are getting scammed.

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Alex Vranas

Curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to investigate .eth domains.

Not interested in actually using them, or owning one, just wanted to see how they work.

Conclusion: They don't actually work. You either need a special browser, or a browser extension, and they redirect you elsewhere on the actual web.

Literally no way to actually host anything at those domains. Nothing after the '/' will ever do anything.

Web3 is such a joke. I can't believe anyone actually takes it seriously.

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Jason Scott

Apparently people don't just like emulated calculators in the browser - they love it, and want more.

So come enjoy the CALCULATOR DRAWER, a dozen plus emulated calculators and (where I could find them) the manuals. Get calculating!

archive.org/details/calculator

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Parker Molloy

This is, objectively, hilarious apple.news/AGUQpSFgoSy2XXlIX3B

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Alex Vranas

RE-PC, a used electronics shop in , uses inventory bins from Incredible Universe for parts management.

Incredible Universe went out of business 26 years ago!

I have vague memories of visiting one in Atlanta when I was a kid.

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Nicole Parsons

@COTimesRecorder

"Pro-life" is a Republican lie.

Republicans are pro-death penalty.
Republicans are against child vaccination.
Republicans took away the child tax credit.
Republicans oppose school lunches.
Republicans oppose maternal health care like pre-natal vitamins.
Republicans oppose adequately funded foster care.
Republicans oppose the agency and autonomy of women.

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Check out this image I found

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Woo! 1,500 followers!

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MOVED vantablack@cyberpunk.lol

yeah

right

i always forget

vanta's #1 tech tip

when you get frustrated, smoke weed and come back when you're in a better headspace

it's not even a tech tip

at this point it's just a life tip lol

it applies to more than just linux bullshit

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Mikael Thalen

NEW: The federal No Fly List was exposed on an open server discovered by a security researcher last week.

The list, which was being stored by the US airline CommuteAir, contained over 1.5 million rows of data including names, aliases, & birth dates. dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list

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