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And this is why I always take a sledgehammer to old drives and chunk them.
Years ago, the state of Georgia here in the US upgraded their Revenue office computers with new equipment. They then sold the old machines with all of the citizen tax data to a used equipment dealer.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Very clever... 
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The sledge or the state? 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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From the business point of view... the dealer.
From the sarcastic point of view... it is obvious, isn't it?
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If you are dissatisfied with Windows 11 or macOS, and intrigued by Linux, deepin, a distro from China, could be a great choice to switch to. It's one of the most beautiful operating systems around, and sports a well-designed user interface. What about my Windows programs that don't run on Linux?
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Sean Ewington wrote: Linux, deepin, a distro from China, could be a great choice to switch to
As if I didn't have already enough with Google, Meta and Co sniffing around online, to just add the next one in the offline part... no thanks.
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You lost me at: a distro from China Hard pass.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Italy on Monday earmarked 30 million euros ($33 million) to improve the skills of unemployed people as well as those workers whose jobs could be most at risk from the advance of automation and artificial intelligence. But what happens if AI replaces the job I'm training for, while I'm training for it?
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If we are sonner or later going to bow under our robot overlords... why could we not start replacing politicians and lawyers?
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Nelek wrote: why could we not start replacing politicians and lawyers?
But can politicians or lawyers be retrained to do anything useful?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am not sure about it... maybe swaping brains with some animals?
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Having to make the pandemic-pressure choice to either disappoint hobbyists and educators or let small businesses built on his company's platform falter was "the single hardest decision I've had to make in my business career," Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton says in a new video interview. Buyers should start to see a "substantial recovery" of the 3, 3B+, and 4 models .... or they could just wait for the 5.
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In this article, I explore the tokenization process and how it varies across different languages: Analysis of token distributions in a parallel dataset of short messages that have been translated into 52 different languages, some languages, such as Armenian or Burmese, require 9 to 10 times more tokens than English to tokenize comparable messages, the impact of this language disparity, and this phenomenon is not new to AI — this is consistent with what we observe in Morse code and computer fonts. So, to maximise cost savings ... pass the input through Google Translate first?
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Sean Ewington wrote: So, to maximise cost savings ... pass the input through Google Translate first?
Not to forget to improve data spread  
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Semantic compression - translate it to the most compact language and prepend a language identifier for the original language.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Lately I've been using timers daily. By that I mean timeouts, for example 20 minutes: Start at 20 minutes, Slowly goes down to 0. But it mostly makes sense if I add a visual widget for it. So I built one baked into my wm. I call my "timer" a "nagger" and use it via a shell nagme() function.
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From the Insider: [^]
My mother was a classically trained typist and could manage 85-90 words per minute. It drove her crazy to watch me type "hunt-and-peck" style without looking at the keyboard, especially since I was so fast.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Writing code is very different from writing documents. There is no reason for one typing style to suit both.
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While I've never been quite that fast having topped out around 70 WPM typing, I'm also amazed at how fast some hunt and peckers can type.
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It’s still very early days, but the race to develop the first safe and effective mRNA-based influenza vaccine is gathering momentum. "It's just a bad cold."
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I'm still waiting for an mRNA vaccine against stupidity, psychopathic behaviors, and the pointless wars they cause.
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Marc Clifton wrote: mRNA vaccine against stupidity, psychopathic behaviors, and the pointless wars they cause.
You'll need a different type of messenger for that... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah, at best, a messenger that picks them up and brings them directly to hell, without going throught the start box and without getting the 20$
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A groundbreaking epidemiological study has produced the most compelling evidence yet that exposure to the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE)—common in soil and groundwater—increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. It makes a great solvent, so let's put in anesthesia?
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GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future. *taps forehead* You can’t have downtime if you just blame it on the customer/
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