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qtzazon Are Text Messages the New Social Media? One Startup Thinks So

What an advertorial.

qtzazon The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush

>Many African countries face extremely unique challenges, which can only be assisted with empathy, education, and awareness as a part of their nation building program.

This line is such vapid mishmash that it is hard for me to believe it wasn't generated by GPT.

I stand by my words even if they are hard to stomach in this site.

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Long COVID = BPD

qtzazon Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought

If it is settled based on data that is as reliable as this (40% off!) then it is not settled at all.

qtzazon Medical wordlists in English, French and Ukrainian

Couldn't "chute des cheveux" be a symptom?

qtzazon Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads

That's what I was thinking. Game size is not the problem, the problem is that you have a shit internet connection and/or a small hard disk.

qtzazon Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study

It looks pretty stupid when you scroll with a scroll wheel with smooth scrolling off. But I guess as long as it looks good using a macbook touchpad then the designer is happy.

qtzazon Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

CEO received compensation for good cost-cutting measures? What am I missing here?

qtzazon Bard coding update with Colab exporting

Is there any way of trying Bard from an "unsupported" country without using a VPN or something like that?

qtzazon Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst

It has. Fortnite is not available in the Play Store.

Given that iphone owners are more wealthy I expect this to happen much more often when sideloading is allowed on iphones since there's more money to be made. It's gonna get bad imo.

qtzazon Tech bosses are letting dictators censor what Americans see

You mean the proxy war that the US is funding through NATO to make Europe stop buying Russian gas and buy American LNG instead? That very much sounds like economics to me!

qtzazon Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist

Doom: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/(0,0)_respawning_bug

qtzazon Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?

Personally, I expected dynamic languages to ever match or at least get close to the performance of static languages. That seems that it will never happen, and there's a point where I can't afford that much hardware just to run a website. Think of Twitter abandoning RoR, etc.