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  • German economy shrank by 0.3% in second quarter in worse showing than initially thought

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  • It’s kind of amazing to have this flipped to where Germany is pointing the to US on the dangers of giving in to fascism. We never learn the right lessons from history.

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • Speaking for the US, major universities may be there for research, but they are a small portion of the mass of schools across the country.

    People have mostly been getting degrees to get a good job since at least shortly after WW2. It’s silly to pretend people are going massively in debt without the expectation of a return on that investment.

    Nothing against people learning for the joy of learning, but I absolutely hold schools accountable for not making job prospects clear when most of the students are both young and ignorant of the world.

  • Devils Panties 08/20/2025

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  • Used ones lose value faster than gas cars because people want the newest tech. Pretty sure the EV community posted something about 2022s for under $20k

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • I considered it, but there are two problems.

    1. Frequency like you already called out 2 Availability of good rentals. Most rental companies don’t put snow tires on their rentals and do not want you to use chains. Good way to get stuck.

  • Range anxiety is overblown. Electric vehicle owners only use 13 percent of their battery capacity a day, on average.

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  • It’s overblown, but this is a stupid way to point it out. For those that dont stay entirely in highly populated areas, even stops for gas require some planning ahead.

    I want to go all electric, but it would currently mean a 3.5 hour trip into the mountains would become a 8 hour trip because no EV can reliably handle that much altitude gain in winter on the route I take. There are no chargers on the way, thus having to take the considerably slower route. Even in summer A Better Route Planner doesn’t think it’s worth the gamble to try the direct route.

  • Why LLMs can't really build software

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  • Did you see another video about this? The one linked only showed the walls and still showed them doing interior framing. Nothing about windows, electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc.

    What they showed could speed up construction but there are tons of other steps involved.

    I do wonder how sturdy it is since it doesn’t look like rebar or anything else is added.

  • So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.

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  • Since when is a 300 person company a startup? I feel like you lose any claim to that long before you hit 100.

  • FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester

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  • You literally assumed the article was correct and said 'his actions were illegal as hell' when all it has is a picture of him throwing a rock. Your comment seems to presume guilt but I'm going to assume he's innocent until there's actual evidence shown.

  • FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester

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  • After how many felony charges were dropped in LA from police falsifying testimony, I'd have to see a full recording of him throwing a rock and hitting the cop to believe they had the right guy and the pictures weren't unrelated.

  • "The Irish State pays for China's surveillance in Ireland:" Rights group criticizes government as thousands of China's Hikvision cameras are installed across Ireland despite bans in other countries

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  • What do you recommend as an alternative? I literally just picked up a few because they were cheaper and or better than others and the others were also manufactured in China so I wasn’t avoiding that.

    I’ve got them blocked from external network access, but I’m curious if there’s a good supplier I can actually trust.

  • "The Irish State pays for China's surveillance in Ireland:" Rights group criticizes government as thousands of China's Hikvision cameras are installed across Ireland despite bans in other countries

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  • Pretty shit? They work well and have great night vision quality. The problem is not trusting them, not that they suck. Definitely block them from any external access though.

  • Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people

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  • 1060 is probably more powerful than the steam deck and that things run almost everything. You don’t have to play at 4k/ultra.

  • 8BitDo announces it's controllers now have Steam/SteamOS compatibility

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  • Ultimate 2. It’s got a gyroscope and back paddles.

  • Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

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  • This was all via chat so much faster than the painful voice prompts. I agree those are terrible.

  • Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

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  • The kind of AI I mentioned isn’t a massive resource sink. I can run that sort of thing locally on my own computer. They don’t need supercomputers for level 1 material.

  • Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

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  • Nah, AI chatbots are at least useful for the basic repetitive things. Your modem isn't online, is it plugged in? Want me to refresh it in the system? Comcast adding that saved me half an hour a month on the phone.

    I fully believe they're at least as good as level 1 support because those guys are checking to see if you're the type to sniff stickers on the bottom of the pool.

  • We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.

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  • That act doesn't seem to do anything to avoid the shrugging and free year of credit monitoring we get in the US. Until companies are liable for lost data, I don't see that changing. I bet it'd change in a heartbeat if monetary loss from identity theft could claimed against any company that lost your data in the last year. Individuals wouldn't even have to do it, banks would automate that and HOUND those companies for payouts since they're the ones that take the biggest hits.

  • uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS and macOS

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  • What's wrong with Safari on iOS? I prefer Firefox on my computer but on my phone all I want is better adblocking.

  • Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch

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  • Yeah that's the only reason I've considered it. However, things have changed a lot since the Switch 1 came out. Existing Switch emulators will likely work well on Switch 2 soon given the similar hardware and the Steam Deck massively raised the bar on what I expect out of a portable system.

    Plus the controller still looks like it sucks for adult hands.