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HappySweeney

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HappySweeney··on The U.S. economy is not crashing
It's the latter. There is already an 'official' hashtag and everything.
HappySweeney··on We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
While all these are bad, I feel that preservatives, artificial flavours, smootheners, etc have to play a role there as well.
HappySweeney··on Conservation-induced extinction
Isn't this about to happen to the Guinea-worm? I don't even know if they are human-specific.
HappySweeney··on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
I read that healthcare was mollified by a facility whereby they could choose when and which updates to allow, which CS intentionally bypassed with this latest update. This was during the chaotic day-of though, so possibly false.
HappySweeney··on Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans
This is incorrect. When dissolving a gas into a liquid, the colder the liquid is, the more gas can be dissolved.
HappySweeney··on NOAA Is in Danger
Even this is being defunded in Ontario by the conservative Premier. We will only have news reports of packed hospital ERs to go on.
HappySweeney··on Let's 'Double-Click' on the Latest Cringeworthy Corporate Buzzword
This link only shows the first two paragraphs and then just comments.
HappySweeney··on 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
I am not a lawyer but I believe allowing them to attempt to flee goes to consciousness of guilt.
HappySweeney··on Judge approves liquidation of Jones' assets to pay Sandy Hook victims' families
So that means a warehouse full of supplements? What else could there possibly be to be worth that much?
HappySweeney··on Judge approves liquidation of Jones' assets to pay Sandy Hook victims' families
I can't figure out how this is going to work. Who will be paying for Infowars? How will they recoup their investment without just doing the same thing which lead to the company's current predicament? Also a lot of the brand value is tied-in with Jones himself, who I cannot see staying on with the outfit post-sale.

Does anyone here have a good idea about what happens next?

HappySweeney··on Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
Do you believe the USA is attempting to make parts of Syria new American states? If not, then this is not an ongoing annexation attempt.
HappySweeney··on UMD study: N95 masks nearly perfect at blocking Covid
TFA directly refutes the "CAN work great at blocking absorption" claim. It says N95's work great, even when not properly fit tested.
HappySweeney··on X plans to make likes private for all users
So we will still be able to see who liked a Nazi tweet, rather than seeing which Nazi tweets someone liked?
HappySweeney··on The eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
There is an ARM-native version of VS out.
HappySweeney··on Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team
I thought it was total bs, but [0] shows it to be true.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/239229/most-sold-car-mod...

HappySweeney··on x86 and x86_64 software optimization resources
Maptool is written in Java and it runs as fast as anything else I use.
HappySweeney··on Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO
Doesn't this "bad" design allow Reddit to show a higher DAU? Isn't DAU correlated with ad prices? Sounds like a winning design to me, especially if it only appears that the design is bad, and not the intent behind it.
HappySweeney··on Google's picture generator to relaunch due to criticism of inaccurate images
Historical imagery is a popular use-case, and was certainly not accurate when including people.
HappySweeney··on United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
I tried this, but they just switched planes on me last minute.
HappySweeney··on Musk Demands Bigger Stake in Tesla as Price for A.I. Work
This is exactly it, also a way to get out from under the Saudis.
HappySweeney··on Feds charge eBay over harrassment campaign; company to pay $3M
The exec prosecutors believe masterminded the campaign was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and another with 2.
HappySweeney··on Effective Accelerationism
To me this all seems moot, as insurance companies will insist (via lower-priced policies) that any endeavor they cover be performed by an AI if more competent than a human, which will eventually be the case for any given knowledge-based task. If you want to accelerate that, get into research (or insurance), I guess?
HappySweeney··on Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using Sun for Oberth maneuver
Nope, just bad at both math and basic reasoning yesterday.
HappySweeney··on Project Lyra: sending spacecraft to chase Oumuamua using Sun for Oberth maneuver
A back-of-napkin calculation says this maneuver can also be used to send a probe to Proxima Centauri in ... 128 days? Why are we not doing that?
HappySweeney··on Tampermonkey: Dev Mode will become mandatory for running userscripts in Chromium
Sounds like fun, but I can't afford Widevine, and nobody will use my browser if they can only get standard def on Netflix and Youtube.
HappySweeney··on Typehero: All you need to become a TypeScript menace
There is still a "join the waitlist" button
HappySweeney··on Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
Don't all the languages geared towards science and math use 1-based indexing?
HappySweeney··on Please don't use AI to get on the global leaderboard
How would you verify that? Any digital means is out, and nothing else will be able to scale.
HappySweeney··on Getting Started with Orca-2-13B
I believe the point is to craft several sock-puppets which can then be sold on to advertisers and SEO folk.
HappySweeney··on Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon
I quite liked it at the time, but for some reason it chewed battery and cooked my phone, so I switched to Google News (which does the same thing, but not quite as bad). Does anyone know the reason news apps would need so much cpu?
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