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  • For you Computer Geeks

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  • An AI bottleneck

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    AxtremusA
    Yeap, heard the similar story from some power/energy/utilities engineers I know. There are other components that are critical to hooking a data center up to the grid that are also back-ordered for years.
  • Interesting Supreme Court Case - Geofencing

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    taiwan_girlT
    @Renauda said: @taiwan_girl To me, this is a situation that the writers of the US constitution could never ever ever imagined. So for those who say that the constitution needs to be interpreted as the writers wanted makes no sense.. Good point and there are many, I’m sure who feel the same about 2nd Amendment “the right to bear arms shall not be infringed”. There is no way that the framers could have envisioned readily available breechloading firearms with semi-automatic and automatic actions firing centre fire smokeless powder rounds at high velocities. I agree 100%. I (and I believe you) have made that argument before. Lets get us on the US Supreme Court.
  • Hey TomK

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    Tom-KT
    Ha! Not only did I find the PMs but I also figured out how to use it and all that only took me three days. So fie on you all!
  • How to Learn to Code in 2026

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    KlausK
    @Horace said: If a human can describe the logic in natural language then the LLM can code it. It seems you’re talking about the creative thinking behind generating abstractions but that’s not the same thing as generating code from well specified natural language. No matter how abstract the library, if a human can describe it unambiguously then an LLM can code it. If a human can code something then an LLM can too. Because if a human can code something then they can describe it. True, but the hard part is not to translate logic in natural language to code, but it is in coming up with the logic. I'd argue that this is the actual coding.
  • Lindsey Graham spotted in NYC

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    MikM
    ew
  • PGA, DP, LIV merge WOW!

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    89th8
    LIV is DED
  • Jesus God No

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    MikM
    Newsom's act is going to wear very thin. He used the joke too soon.
  • Hey guys - something to add to your workout

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    MikM
    Video please. During the act, and then in the ER.
  • White House Correspondents Dinner

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    Doctor PhibesD
    I don't think a President has made this much fuss about ballroom since Johnson's famous discussion with his tailor.
  • The Cocktail That Defines Every Decade Since Prohibition

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    89th8
    cock
  • A nice succinct explanation of why Marxism is wrong

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    MikM
    [image: 1777411623219-cfa61a96-95d5-4265-a396-261fd5251aa8-image.jpeg]
  • White House Correspondent Dinner Memes

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    RenaudaR
    All the more reason to serve the cheapest plonk wine possible at such events.
  • Your first phone?

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    jon-nycJ
    Ceefax because ‘minitel’ was taken. BlackBerry integrated with corporate email systems it wasn’t just a standalone system.
  • The cost of NOT using AI

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @Horace said: @taiwan_girl said: I think most people, if given the choice, would chose remote, And those who enjoy/need the office social interactions convince themselves that those people just don't know what's best for themselves. Meanwhile, probably 90% of people, if given the choice to take or leave the whole in person office scene, would leave it. But the 10% are sure they're all simply ignorant of what is good in life. I think most people would prefer a bit of both. The main complaint I hear about office working is all the time wasted in commuting, rather than being in the actual office being awful.
  • The Pot Smokers Song

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  • Former Senator Ben Sasse

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    HoraceH
    It's pretty obscure and not quite as funny as people are saying (he's getting an impending mortality bump). Trump said that Pence needed the courage to not certify the 2020 election results, which in Trump's addled mind would have led to Trump retaining the presidency. (It wouldn't have.)
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    taiwan_girlT
    A book I mentioned in the book thread is called "Station Eleven" about a pandemic that kills not all, but most people. Goes through some of the same decay that you guys talk about. (interesting, but the book was written just a year or so before COVID).
  • Pope Leo signals shift away from Catholic Church's focus on sex

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    taiwan_girlT
    For those who are catholic, is there a focus on sex? From the outside, it seemed that sex was part of their agenda, but not the main focus. Seemed like there were other things like poor people, etc.
  • SCOTUS on Texas redistricting

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    jon-nycJ
    @Axtremus said: @Mik said: Probably constitutionally correct, but bad for the republic. So much for the "Founding Fathers' wisdom." Well, yes. Elbridge Gerry, after whom Gerrymandering is named, was a signer of the declaration of independence. As governor of Massachusetts, he approved an odd shaped district to benefit his party in 1812. It looked like a salamander, so they called it the Gerry-mander’. And the name stuck.