Rhaedas

Get out of here with your real answers. 😜

I think the actual answer even with this source is, we sort of have some clues, but we have more questions too.

That makes sense, from why some things were captured more than others and from the pov of starting an archive service - using what’s already been done and going from there. So things that weren’t part of such a network and didn’t rank high in existing search engines really didn’t have a chance.

They started in 2001 archiving pages back to 1995. I guess it was luck of the draw what got saved then.

I recently was searching for evidence of web existence of a site, and of course Wayback was my first thought. So I put in the address, and couldn’t find anything relevant (a redirection error was the best hit I got). Then I realized, duh… What I was looking for was in the late 90s, maybe 2000, and the notion of preserving the web hadn’t become a thing yet. So this is what happens without such efforts, things are really lost to memory and maybe snippets of references here and there if lucky.

Have to be migratory, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_statehood_movement

Some of the votes were problematic because of boycotts, turnouts, and how the ballots were phrased or what they offered to vote on. I don’t know what would be best for them, but that’s also why I only think the offer should always be on the table and let them decide.

A big part of the issue that is also affecting other states is mentioned in that article, the capping of the House numbers. We do not have proper representation in numbers that can handle the population (and that doesn’t even get into gerrymandering).

It is. But enough of them still think that going full statehood brings other evils and they’re content with the sublevel of protection they have. And that is their right, we shouldn’t force it on anyone who doesn’t want it.

I didn’t see the playing card look until now. But it looks like something symbolic, even if it isn’t. I guess the wearer can make something up if they want.

Very cool. Does it mean or represent anything or is it just a style you went for? I had weird deja vu of stuff found in fantasy games.

I first read that as “Halo” (after just reading a post about Halo) and it didn’t make any sense.

Insurance in general is a subscription for a range of protections against certain events if they happen. That itself isn’t the problem. It’s the many companies setting different subscription prices and rules, and then having or finding loopholes in the rules to say “oops, sorry, can’t help you there”. For health It’s also where some of them have deals with companies to give benefits for the company to use as a retention tool for employees.

Now we (talking US) could take the parts of both for health insurance and widen the pool of people to everyone, while also having regulation over a single type of insurance that would be able to cover the worse situations because it can spread the cost over the larger pool. This would also have a subscription, but one that would be lower for everyone and even waived for those at the lowest income.

However such a single payer insurance threatens the industry of health insurance as well as pharma, and guess who has lots of lobbyists in Congress to protect their interest.

There’s different levels of computerized control though. Would fuel injection and other modern efficiency and safety systems be possible without a main computer? I wouldn’t trade my days with simple mechanical cars and carburetors from the learning experience, but I also wouldn’t go back if I had a choice.

The line crossed was being connected to work, not computers themselves. I agree that the modern car market is a minefield in whether or not there’s anything you could get that isn’t dependent in some way on being online. Buy used, there’s still stuff out there that will give long life, has been tested by the first owners, and doesn’t have the manufacturer’s grip on it.

Wishes are dangerous things. Whether from genies, leprechauns, monkey paws, or gods.

And that gentlemen, is why we don’t use test and push right out to production. The consumer is far better at finding flaws than we are.

Damn Edward Bernays and his consumerism. Maybe it would have happened anyway, but he pushed the idea of throwaway, buying the latest, trashing what works or could be repaired. So much waste for the sake of the economy.

Fake. If aluminum foil could hold the juices the crew wouldn’t have died.

Some software clients parsing the Fediverse protocol treat some special markdowns differently. It’s gotten better as new versions are updated to recognize more, but it’s still a thing.

I tried to duplicate what you have (which works in your example) but it broke it badly, so I left it. One day all the Fediverse will be universal in how it works.

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The video explains how a single needle can play stereo sound, but in doing so explains how the basic idea works before going into the incredible design to do two channels.

Yes, and no. It’s not all fake, there’s stuff going on, it’s just not what they’re selling it to be, and highly pushed into places it needs to stay away from, for safety and for inability. My takeaway on him being surprised as how people aren’t impressed isn’t the LLM factor of what it can do (well or not), it’s that HE isn’t aware that other LLMs are doing better than Microsoft’s version. He really is deep if he doesn’t know what the competition has. That’s why there’s a lackluster interest (as well as burnout of AI “solutions” for every damn thing, often worse than just doing it like before).

My coworkers use Co-Pilot. When they have downtime, just for amusement, just to see how badly it mangles things it ought to be good at doing. Never mind the fringes where an LLM isn’t suited at all.