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A book like If I Did It by O. J. Simpson?

how is a communist society organized, absent of any state? Does it self-correct, like free market is supposed to self-correct, according to capitalism?

> These platforms [Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats] are all losing money.

Has this changed? Do all these companies still losing money?

no, it should be the State's pickaxe, that the central committee might entrust to you so that you work your part in the 5-year plan

> an entryist trying to tank the Labour party on the behalf of some British spy-lord

I'm far from following current UK politics, but I've heard the same thing about Liz Truss...

> Once students can program, the best way turn them into developers is to make them build and ship something as a team.

I had a semester project like that, in a team of 7, though we didn't had the changing spec... But it was a really good learning experience

> probably the biggest event of the year

At least in France, the upcoming Olympics are a strong contender. That and the surprise parliament election our president dropped on us; because he apparently didn't like the result his party got at the latest EU election, but honestly I don't see how he imagine he's going to get a better result this time around.

what's the name of the Samsung line? I might be in the market for a new phone soon-ish

this: https://archive.is/GXshA ?

regarding LLM giving wrong advice on chemicals, that reminds me of that article https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/04/phil-vs-llms/, where the author asked (referencing the East Palestine train derailment)

> I fed “how to respond to a vinyl chloride fire” into ChatGPT and it told responders to use a water fog on the water reactive chemical. This would have changed a train derailment/hazmat spill/fire emergency into a detonation/mass casualty/hazmat emergency

> solid naivity not only in EU in past few decades

I think there were some naïveté on the US side of thing, just like both were naive on how mainland China would turn to democracy as it opened to outside trade and industry

> I guess my best guess is an off-by-one error in a function trying to escape strings for use in a SQL query,

I don't think it was crashing, but a few years ago I fixed a bug on the app I'm working on, where we had issues with apostrophes in names with SQL Server (where single apostrophes in strings have to be escaped with another one); as it turned out, another dev had written a buggy replace function, the fix was just to use the replace built in the standard lib. I don't think the dev had written a full escaping function, it was just a method to deal with the apostrophes.

There's two classified versions and only one will get revealed once that situation is resolved. The version which would have gotten it wrong will just get burried to protect the agency's reputation...

Indochina didn't need many kalashnikovs to remove the French, just the support of a powerful ally that the French didn't dare directly attack, just like Afghanistan was helped by the US. On the other hand kalashnikovs didn't really help the Chechen during the second Chechen war.

> drones have made tanks obsolete

Considering how the Ukrainians are still asking for tanks and other armored vehicles, I'm not sure it's the case already, at least in that current conflict.

Some of post series on the blog have received audio versions and the author has appeared on a few podcast.

> Do you mean because they required another unrelated service? Because ubisoft/EA etc. do that too.

An other unrelated service, which is unavailable in many countries (and part of some countries), including countries where you could buy the game.

That might reveal the depths of my ignorance of Git, but how do you manage moving changes from one branch to the other if you don't use merge? Edit: continuing to read the discussion, it seems it's rebase? I have some reading to do

I remember an old (and now defunct) fan site who hit you with lore questions as a captcha. Though I'd guess a LLM could answer

It seems Paris is well on its way to cancel the swimming events in the Seine this summer, so it's not exactly an isolated issue

> Shinzo Abe's alleged killer

At this point isn't the identity of the killer a certainty? Or does the NYTimes wait for the trial to be over?

From the experience of a few friends who've bought appartments these last years, two months would be the minimum here in France.

> What are the mechanics of how this works? If I agree to buy a property for a million dollars, does the city get a chance to match that price?

there's a French wiki page on this: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_pr%C3%A9emption_urbai...

But basically, yes, the city has 2 months to match the price. The city can also offer a lower price, which can be refused (so no sale at all) or can be argued in front of a special judge, who'd rule if the price offered by the city is acceptable, depending on the local housing market.

It's not a rule that's specific to Paris, but which is applicable in most French cities.

it's mostly continuing the policies from the previous mayor... (who was male, but I don't see the relation).

> the US had to go civilize Europe twice.

the first time the US got dragged screaming and kicking into the war... And the second time, they might have sat most of the conflict in Europe if they hadn't gotten war declared on them by Hitler

> the problem with old.reddit.com is that it actually is a terrible UI

I know I'm pretty bad at UI/UX, so could you explain how the old.reddit.com is terrible? Like it's not usable on mobile, but on desktop I have no issues with it.

worse, in the 80s, hospitals would know how to work without internet access.

> Mind you that's not the daftest brand name or trademark ever!

Here in France, the daftest I've seen is the Audi e-tron, with etron meaning turd... Though it's been out of common use, so Audi just left the name as is.

> Is it because game makers don't crowdfund any more, or because the press only covers AAAs now?

I took part in one campaign for a video game last year, but it's a niche game in a niche genre, so I don't think it's been covered anywhere. Though two video game projects I backed in 2020 & 2021 have likely been covered, though I haven't kept up with the news. And I agree that the gaming press have stopped covering crowdfunding, mostly I guess because all the failed projects and scams, not helped by the long delays.

> balancing an excel spreadsheet of incomes and spendings, which seems to be the only thing our elites have bee trained for in the last 40 years

And they seem quite bad at it, considering the state of the various balances they are supposed to maintain (or at least those in France where I live)

> that almost has me using it like peanut butter which I also love

I'm relieve to see I'm not the only one to spread mustard on bread. (though I do it in part to subsitute butter/cheese on my bread)