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ilmagico

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  • Police pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hears

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  • A cutlery knife is not a butter knife, most are sharp and definitely capable of killing someone. Again doesn't justify the cops acting in such disproportionate manner, but ... definitely not the same as a straw.

  • Police pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hears

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  • Fully agree the cops went too far with how they treated him, definitely didn't deserve to die.

  • Police pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hears

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  • Ok, I understand the officers likely used excessive force and this guy maybe had dementia or something but ...

    Burgess [...] was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife

    Sorry, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for this old man.

  • VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

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  • It's an extension so it can be deactivated

    Article says:

    [...] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

    So... maybe you won't be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).

  • VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

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  • One thing I don't like though, the article says:

    then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

    So ... you won't be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.

  • VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

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  • For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren't that good.

  • VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

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  • it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested

    At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that's me. I won't judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).

    It's just a tool. Just because I don't find it very useful, I shouldn't tell others not to use it.

  • Would you interview somewhere that you expect would not hire you because of recreational drug use?

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  • How common is such a test in the US? I work in the US and so far, I've never been asked to perform a drug test, ever. Then again, maybe I've been lucky...

  • Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world's most malnourished

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  • "pro life"

  • Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban

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  • I guess I misunderstood what you meant. I stand by my words though: If a mother, who wanted the child, is now all of a sudden braindead, it makes a lot of sense to try to save the baby. This is of course not the case in the article, because the fetus is not in good conditions and probably dead already, so I agree in this case it makes no sense.

  • Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban

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  • Yes, generally if a mother was pregnant and now she's braindead, it makes sense to keep her alive until her child is born, but if you read the article, the fetus suffered complications and is likely braindead as well, so it might be a stillbirth or just suffer and not live for very long, so it's a bit more complicated

  • Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome

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  • Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web ... just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don't use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that's fine.

    The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you'd most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.

  • Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App

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  • Hasn't been true for my past two jobs at least (US based), what I do outside of company premises / my own hardware and my own time is mine. They only own what was done on company's dime. Not saying it doesn't happen, but that's not my experience so far, and I'm not sure if would be legal.

  • Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App

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  • I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it's the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

    Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

  • Harvard talks free speech but silences Palestine

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  • Al Jazeera is fine, not perfect (who is?), but definitely fine

  • Harvard talks free speech but silences Palestine

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  • The usual "free speech as long as you agree with me"

  • Israeli official says Gaza will be "entirely destroyed," Palestinians "will start to leave in great numbers"

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  • If they are the minority, why does Netanyahu keep getting reelected?

  • Germany: Intelligence agency says entire AfD 'extremist'

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  • I could also add, any extreme view or opinion is likely bad in my opinion, and overcorrecting course from one extreme to the opposite extreme is usually a bad idea.

    To keep with your analogy, it's like if the titanic decided to steer to avoid the iceberg so hard it beached itself on a sand dune.

  • Germany: Intelligence agency says entire AfD 'extremist'

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  • That's a good point, the democratic party in usa is basically center these days, not even left.

    My point was that there are bad people on both sides, but in general, I consider "extreme' anything something to be avoided. For example, extreme "communists" (i.e. "tankies") could be considered left, and I'd certainly avoid that. Other example is, when supporting Palestine turns into real antisemitism by attacking all jews instead of Israel. Anyways, you made a good point.