thejml

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[–] thejml@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago
[–] thejml@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The great thing is that it doesn’t matter how high that disprove number goes, he’s already in power as is Musk who we didn’t even vote for.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Including a large portion of the people In the US.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

It’s entirely cash based. Sure, some parts are “non-profit”, but at the root of it, they depend on cash based services that can pull the plug at any time.

It’s also completely controlled, directly or indirectly, by localized political regimes.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 91 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Not gonna get those minerals now, Trump. Either Ukraine deals them to someone else, or Putin claims them for himself.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Correct, except that more people buying used laptops will incentivize people to upgrade more often as they can depend on a strong secondhand market to recoup some of the cost of the new one by selling the old one.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

I just tell it to back up my laptops every hour anyway. If it’s not on, it just doesn’t happen, but it’s generally on enough to capture what I need.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 46 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Was he ever not going to do this? I mean, Trump definitely put a big old stamp of approval on it, but it seemed like this was the Yahoo’s plan from the beginning.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Aspartame gives me headaches. Like “I can’t interact with people” headaches. I’ve tried it a few times and it’s always directly afterwards.

That said Stevia gives me a reaction like I had 5x the same amount of sugar, so I just have to remember if I’m adding it to something don’t use much or I’ll be hyper and then crash terribly. But at least I don’t get headaches.

Sugar gives me no problems if I have it in moderation. I generally drink water, but if I have a soda, I have one and I’m done. It’s a treat, not a way of life. Drink water people, it’s actually good for you.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I’ve used it the last few years to do Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) and that’s been fun and challenging. Definitely recommend it. Better than trolling through a book of “now do this” examples if you’ve done other languages in the past.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

While I agree with that math, I feel like if they add the virtual console, they could capitalize on the purchase of third party developer games that they can’t license for subscriptions for the current model. Maybe they’ll go with a blended approach, where some games are based on the sub and there are others that are up charges or purchases as well where they take a bit off the top when selling older games for the virtual console.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While I agree with that math, I feel like if they add the virtual console, they could capitalize on the purchase of third party developer games that they can’t license for subscriptions for the current model. Maybe they’ll go with a blended approach, where some games are based on the sub and there are others that are up charges or purchases as well where they take a bit off the top when selling older games for the virtual console.

 

On a large empty slab of asphalt, two BMWs take off. They drive in figure eights and along an oval path separate from each other but nearly in tandem, like two ice skaters practicing the same routine on a piece of black ice before coming to a stop.

Neither of the cars has a driver. That's not that impressive; self-driving cars in testing environments shouldn't impress anyone at this point. Essentially the automaker tells the car to drive a route, and it does it. The important thing here is why these cars, outfitted with additional sensors, are driving along the same route again and again, each time depressing the accelerator the same amount and applying the exact amount of pressure on the brakes: They're testing hardware with the least amount of variables you can encounter outside of a lab.

"It's boring for human drivers," says BMW's project lead for driverless development, Philipp Ludwig. When a human is asked to perform the exact same task repeatedly, the quality of the work diminishes as they lose interest or become fatigued. For a computer-controlled car, it can do this all day. And it has done exactly that.

 

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

 

A bill requiring social media companies, encrypted communications providers and other online services to report drug activity on their platforms to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) advanced to the Senate floor Thursday, alarming privacy advocates who say the legislation turns the companies into de facto drug enforcement agents and exposes many of them to liability for providing end-to-end encryption.

 

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

The trial will include "producing just a handful of stories for most of our sites that are basically built around lists and data," Brown wrote. "These features aren't replacing work currently being done by writers and editors, and we hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience."

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