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    Cambridge Dictionary adds skibidi, delulu and tradwife among over 6,000 new words

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  • I know what one of the three words in the title actually mean. If you want to know what a word means, you consult a dictionary. If people are actually using these words, it kind of makes sense to add their definitions.

  • Please spare me from having to get in touch with that shit I wrote back then

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  • I think age of code plays a big part. 2 years ago: Yeah, I could do better, but it's workable. 15 years ago: Delete everything and just start from scratch.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • So many people completely miss the mark when it comes to AI and coding. It's great for code reviews on code you wrote yourself, and it can be handy when you're developing code for a domain you don't have much experience in.

    What it is not good for is writing code on its own. Not if you want your code to be efficient, or performant, work correctly, or even compile.

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  • If you don't want your conversations to be public, how about you don't tick the checkbook that says "make this public." This isn't OpenAI's problem, its an idiot user problem.

  • YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16

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  • What's the deal with gaming videos? Do game streamers tend to be Nazis? Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

  • IP over Avian Carriers - Wikipedia

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  • Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service

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  • This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.

    Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn't the system keep working, just over a different path?

    This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.

  • Woman attacked driver that hit, killed chicken that was crossing the road, per police

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  • The biggest problem I have with what this woman did is that she used bear mace. Should have been a handgun, or even a machete, or perhaps a flamethrower.

  • Why is it often cheaper to buy new than repair old and how can repairing be encouraged on different levels of society?

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  • I'm one of those people that has the technical knowledge to repair most electronics. I still buy new sometimes.

    A while ago, I had to repair a faulty pellet stove. It was obvious that the main control board was bad (there was a single small circuit board connected to a handful of relays and sensors, all of which tested as good). This board contained a small cheap microcontroller, a few MOSFETs, and a handful of discrete components. A replacement was $500. Maybe $10 in parts at the most, and they wanted to charge me half the cost of the entire appliance.

    I was able to isolate the problem to a bad MOSFET and order a new one for about 50 cents. Had this been a complex circuit, there's no way in hell I could have found the problem without a schematic.

    So in my opinion, the problem is twofold. Manufacturers want ridiculous prices for replacement parts, and no documentation exists to repair the parts themselves. They obviously have schematics from when they designed the board. They should be forced to release them.

  • 1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit

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  • It makes sense for housing assistance to be temporary. First, though, we need rent control and an appropriate minimum wage so that people don't have to rely on government assistance indefinitely.

  • Top Meta executive joins US army’s ‘next generation’ tech team

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  • I really don't understand this. What does the Army gain by commissioning tech execs as reserve officers? Wouldn't it be far more effective to just hire their companies as contractors? Or commission high-level engineers as officers. A tech exec's skillet is running a company. Sure, offer commissions to their most skilled employees, but to the execs themselves, why?

  • Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark

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  • Not really. While I don't have the exact numbers, the output of an infrared LED is no higher (usually) than an LED in the visible range. My security cameras have an array of 10 or so LEDs.

    So looking at a security camera would be roughly equivalent to staring at a light bulb.

  • It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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  • Why? If everyone does poorly, everyone should fail, provided the opportunity to learn was there.

  • It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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  • This has always seemed overblown to me. If students want to cheat on their coursework, who cares? As long as exams are given in a controlled environment, it's going to be painfully obvious who actually studied the material and who had ChatGPT do it for them. Re-taking a course is not going to be fun or cheap.

    Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but it feels like proctored testing solves the entire problem.

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  • If you don't want offline maps, and you don't want to use data, what exactly are you looking for? The map has to come from somewhere.

  • Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

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  • As the article mentions, this isn't a security "feature," it's anti-competetive. The worst part is that Nextcloud isn't even really in competition with Google. Setting up a Nextcloud server isn't hard, but it's not a trivial task. Sharing it outside your local network also requires a bit of skill, especially if done securely. That is to say, Nextcloud users probably tend to be more tech-savvy.

    The people using Nextcloud aren't going to suddenly decide to switch over to Google Drive. I'll get it from FDroid before I downgrade to Google Drive. If that wasn't an option, I'd set up an FTP server or even WebDAV.

  • What's a weird compliment you got?

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  • I'm not even sure what that could mean. Maybe using chopsticks instead of a fork? I've always just eaten food with whatever utensil is typically used for that type of cuisine. I think most people, Chinese or otherwise, eat Chinese food with chopsticks, don't they?

  • Swedish amplifier enables transmission of 10x more data per second

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  • I totally get how this would be useful in imaging systems, but I'm not understanding how it applies to communications.

    The only thing I can think is perhaps carrying more modes through a multimode fiber? I never understood amplifier bandwidth to be a limiting factor, though.

    What communications systems use a wide bandwidth of light (300nm is a LOT) into a single amplifier?

  • Cory Booker crosses 17-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics - Final time - 25 hours, 6 minutes

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  • The fact that something this extreme is actually required to enact political change is absolutely ridiculous, but much respect to him for what he's doing.

    On a practical note, I was thinking the same thing as you. I don't think I could stand for 17 hours straight. I absolutely could not go 17 hours without a bathroom break.

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    Why Do People Attend Political Rallies?