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  • Anon tries to understand credit scores

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  • Not necessarily a shitty dealership, just one with low margins.

    Cars are generally sold by sellers with incredibly low margins (talking like a few hundred dollars, max). They make their money through the financing. They probably didn't want to sell the car in cash, because some other chud will come along and buy it on credit and get them a higher margin.

    Pro tip - always get your own financing when purchasing a car, don't get it through the dealer. But don't let them know that, look over their finance package when signing the paperwork, try to negotiate out any origination charges, etc. then simply pay the loan off immediately with your private financing.

  • AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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  • The end of your comment was

    But the productivity and quality debates are absolutely ridiculous

    Which is a general statement and not dealing with your specific circumstance. If a tool works for you, by all means keep using it.

    However, broadly across software that is not the case. So the "productivity and quality debates" are not ridiculous .. the data supports the sceptics.

  • AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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  • Consider: the facts

    People are very bad at judging their own productivity, and AI consistently makes devs feel like they are working faster, while in fact slowing them down.

    I've experienced it myself - it feels fucking great to prompt a skeleton and have something brand new up and running in under an hour. The good chemicals come flooding in because I'm doing something new and interesting.

    Then I need to take a scalpel to a hundred scattered lines to get CI to pass. Then I need to write tests that actually test functionality. Then I start extending things and realize the implementation is too rigid and I need to change the architecture.

    It is as this point that I admit to myself that going in intentionally with a plan and building it myself the slow way would have saved all that pain and probably got the final product shipped sooner, even if the prototype was shipped later.

  • Wyr

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  • Vast majority of sea life lives near coastlines - because that is precisely where current disruptions create easily accessible nutrients.

    Out in the middle of the ocean there is really very little. Migratory animals moving between destinations mostly.

  • Cabinet organization.

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  • Cook bacon once and all that is now covered in grease

  • 'No, God No' — Game of Thrones Actor Kit Harington Says He Spent 10 Years Playing Jon Snow and Doesn't Want to 'Go Anywhere Near It'

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  • Generally the 'safe withdrawal rate' for investments is 4% per year. At this rate, the principal will grow a bit above normal inflation, and you'll have basically a guaranteed inflation-adjusted salary.

    Someone worth 10M, with maybe 8M of that in liquid investments (i.e. 2M in real estate) could clear about $320K every year. It's good money, but like you said it isn't unfathomable wealth. It is 'fuck you' money, though, where basically anyone can live comfortably without having to take work they don't want to do.

    The key benefit is the money is free - it doesn't need to be saved for retirement because the nest egg is already secured, you already own the house and don't have mortgage, any extra money from an external salary just increases the principal, etc.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • I've had good luck with their mid-high end kitchen appliances and washer/dryer.

    Not impressed with the TV and the AI update made the UI very slow and unresponsive. Next one will not be LG.

  • why

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  • Anything with -chen/-klein (a diminutive) is neuter.

    E.g. in addition to Mädchen there is Jungchen (~"youngster") that is also neuter rather than masculine.

  • Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+

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  • The problem is Japanese has so many characters - typically a font would need 5-6000 glyphs to be usably complete - that it isn't easy to create new fonts.

    English ASCII is 96 characters, for reference. A designer can crank out a new thematically-appropriate font in a week.

  • xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance

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  • Well.. Earth's rotation would mean that the top of the lorry would be moving at 3.3 million light years per second ... Or you know, about 100 trillion times the speed of light.

    That might break some things.

  • KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future

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  • I've had many similar issues with Wayland. Not thrilled that nearly everyone is throwing in the towel on X11 support.

  • how do plants in a green house get enough co2?

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  • To put some math around CO2 usage:

    The entire structure of plants is built primarily from CO2. A tomato plant and fruit grows from seeding to maturity in about 60 days, and will yield about a kilogram of dry plant mass.

    That mass will be about 20% carbon, meaning each plant would need to uptake a net 3.3 grams of carbon - 12.3 grams of CO2 per day. A person exhales around 1Kg of CO2 per day, or about as much as would be needed to supply 81 tomato plants.

  • Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics

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  • In the article, the kid himself explains that he is doing all this because he wants to create support humans who are biologically immortal

  • Megyn Kelly suggests Epstein wasn't an 'actual pedophile' if victims went through puberty

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  • It is a useful distinction when considering possible rehabilitation. In general conversation it's just weird.

  • WHAT IF WHAT IF

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  • And it is a terrible thing for science and contributes greatly to the crisis of irreproducibility plaguing multiple fields.

    If 1000 researchers study the same thing, and 950 of them find insignificant results and don't publish, and 50 of them publish their significant (95% confidence) results - we have collectively deluded ourselves into accepting spurious conclusions.

    This is a massive problem that is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely discussed.

  • Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

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  • It's never been tested, so it is an open question. Not many people would be bold enough to try, and I don't think Trump actually will either, but eventually this will go to the Supreme court.

    The main problem is, at the time the 22nd was written, there were plenty of cases of presidents who weren't elected to the office, so why would the text specify only the electoral pathway if it were meant to cover all possible pathways? Even in the most broad reading (no elected official can become president after having been elected president twice), there remain appointed positions within the line of succession - namely secretary of state - that would completely avoid the election clause.

    I agree with you that the intent of the 22nd was to ensure a 2 term limit. Unfortunately the language is not that definitive and the current administration has little concern for following the unwritten rules.

  • Anon uses GOG

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  • Lutris communicates with GoG through their API, which is heavily throttled for downloading games. CP2077 was going to take almost an entire day to install using Lutris alone.

    Going to the website and downloading the pieces myself was much faster, but then of course I needed to manage the rest of the install.

    Small games are fine since you won't feel as much pain on the download step.

  • Anon uses GOG

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  • Lutris downloads files from GoG using their API, which has heavily throttled download speeds. It was going to take 19 hours for CP2077 to download using Lutris.

    Downloading the 50 pieces individually from GoG through the browser took under and hour, but was quite annoying.

    If you don't play any large games, you might not have noticed, but Lutris and GoG do not work very well together.

  • Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

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  • Not quite.. the constitutional requirements to be president are simple: Natural born citizen, 35+ years old, and US residency for at least 14 years.

    It is an open legal question whether and how the 12th and 22nd interact to determine eligibility. The intent seems clear, but the language of the 22nd very plainly concerns only election to the office, not assumption of it.