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Regional identity
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In Australia, you can get the soulless grey box with shit insulation and mold problems, so it's twice as good! /s
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Regional identity
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In Australia, you can get the soulless grey box with shit insulation and mold problems, so it's twice as good! /s
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The EXPANSE's return to TV takes a big step forwards
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The books are genuinely fantastic, highly recommend.
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There once was a programmer
For the love of God, if you're a junior programmer you're overestimating your understanding if you keep relying on chatGPT thinking 'of course I'll spot the errors'. You will until you won't and you end up dropping the company database or deleting everything in root.
All ChatGPT is doing is guessing the next word. And it's trained on a bunch of bullshit coding blogs that litter the internet, half of which are now chatGPT written (without any validation of course).
If you can't take 10 - 30 minutes to search for, read, and comprehend information on stack overflow or docs then programming (or problem solving) just isn't for you. The junior end of this feel is really getting clogged with people who want to get rich quick without doing any of the legwork behind learning how to be good at this job, and ChatGPT is really exarcebating the problem.
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Mindustry: an extremely high quality (and difficulty) FOSS tower defense game
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Man I love factorio's art, had no idea people thought it was bad. Maybe at release. But there's alot of attention to detail in the sprites, even the trees sway gently in the breeze. You don't see that often in other games of a similar style.
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Israel-Lebanon permanent ceasefire has been accepted, Biden says
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It's white phosphorus if I'm not wrong. Used for 'spotting targets' aka committing war crimes.
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What are some modern bullshit jobs?
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I hate capitalism as much as the next lemming but banks and insurance companies, at their base level, definitely provides a service. Banks help you spread the cost of things over time at the expense of interest, and insurance companies do something similar with risk.
Its only when they do warped shit like lend money at zero interest or force consumers to pay for insurance (thereby negating the need to be competitive) that they start to leech off the system.
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it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...
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I have colleagues who have 20 copies of the same document with slight variations named like this in a folder. I honestly don't understand how they function at work.
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12ft.io (paywall article unlocker site) has been banned by Vercel
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Get out and touch grass mate.
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Percentages
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I'm quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.
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E-Books, best places to get them?
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Just want to add that if you find a rare ebook not on libgen, do you civic duty and take the time to upload it, it only takes a few minutes and it's rewarding being able to save some time for others.
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Amazon has renewed The Rings of Power for a third season
God this show was incredibly boring.
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Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest
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Or alternatively, nobody would care if it didn't involve a public figure. Cuts both ways.
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Does anyone feel like they have to hide their disdain for AI?
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You actually don't have to worry about poisoning their models, they're already well on their way without any of our input. Broken vibe coder projects are probably already filling github at an alarming rate.
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California sheriff releases bodycam video of killing of boy, 15, holding gardening tool
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Yet almost every other police force in the world would've handled this without shooting him...
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Jerry Seinfeld 'Regrets' Blaming 'Extreme Left' for Killing Comedy
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I absolutely loved Seinfeld (the show) and recently saw his stand up in person and it was absolutely terrible, it was actually pretty shocking. He's just so incredibly unrelatable now.
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What are some good/useful software that you use that aren't well known/talked about?
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Wiztree is a good upgrade over windirstat.
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‘Pure greed:’ Etiquette expert explains why tipping has gotten out of control
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Waiters leave > shortage of waiters > wages rise to attract waiters > something something invisible hand > everybody wins
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The idiom of "doesn't grow on trees" as a metaphor for scarcity falls apart when you realize that food does grow on trees yet is still very scarce.
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That depends. If discarding food costs $X and distributing it to another market costs $2X guess which option is economically favourable?
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There are teenagers on the fediverse.
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Lmao, when have age checks worked on any site ever
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Just being nice..
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America spends the most on healthcare already, it's ludicrous