What are some good places to start getting acquainted with American politics in as unbiased a manner as possible?
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    You are right, but know that it can be hard for someone to judge claims.

    And to answer OP: I'd say try to read qualitative, well established newspapers. They often have various overview articles and if you read articles from a couple of them then you should get a diverse view

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    It's an convenient way to post about some trending topic, without creating a whole new community for something temporary. For example the eurovision sing festival, or some natural disaster that happened.

    And on the other hand, it works for expressing some personal thoughts or memes without having to adhere to a specific topic. But with random strangers instead of only your facebook friends.

    I think for these kind of needs, no other social media framework would comply better.

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    Als ik alles zo'n beetje hierover lees lijkt het erop dat omtzigt witheet is over iets betreffende transparantie. Wel fijn om te zien dat hij toch een beetje principes heeft.

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    > D66-fractievoorzitter Van Meenen sprak van een "betuttelende regel" en vindt dat Kamerleden en medewerkers goed in staat zijn om zelf keuzes te maken. Help de arme senator aan haar wijntje tijdens het maken van beslissingen op landsniveau belang, ze hebben het al zo moeilijk

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    Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
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    I think the need for programmers will always be there, but there might be a transition towards higher abstraction levels. This has actually always been happening: we started with much focus on assembly languages where we put in machine code, but nowadays a much less portion of programmers are involved in those and do stuff in python, java or whatever. It is not essential to know stuff about garbage collection when you are writing an application, because the compiler already does that for you.

    Programmers are there to tell a computer what to do. That includes telling a computer how to construct its own commands accordingly. So, giving instructions to an AI is also programming.

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  • Games only need fast travel when they make travel "boring", says Dragon's Dogma 2 director
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    Yes, travel should come with a cost. Kingdom Come deliverance had a similar concept: you'd get hungry, can get ambushed, or you need to sleep at some point.

    The Gothic games introduce fast travel very late in the game, with teleporter stones. Also, they had a very densely packed map, so travelling to some other place did not really took that much time. But I think it is a nice alternative.

    I recently started playing outward and it has (practically) no fast travel. It really is refreshing, it keeps you thinking what area is best to go to next and you should keep track of your rations, carry capacity etc

    (Also, what game do you refer to with FO2?)

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  • Interested what people (mostly those with watches) do with their HR metrics, and how they use it to plan their exercises or their pace. What is your rest HR? What is your maximum? What range are you typically in during exercise? What do you consider healthy? How do you use HR to determine your pace or what exercises to do? Do you have any advice with respect to this topic? Or do you think measuring HR is pure nonsense and we should not bother doing so at all? I noticed my rest HR is at 50. My runs are mostly at 165-170ish averaged (aged 28), which seems to be fairly high. My last run (a bit faster than usual) had 24 minutes between 158-176 and 18mins higher than 176, at the end I peaked at 192 for an end sprint.

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    Can we simulate sound?
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    What you can do, and is probably the best way to get this to work, is tackle this with machine learning. You will need lots sound samples of rocks, with details of the rock, and feed them to some (probably deep learning) model.

    Speech mimicking with AI has shown we are able to mimick voices, so I think a similar approach would work for rocks. Probably need some tuning and a bit different architecture for nice results since the application differs a bit.

    It will of course be an approximation, but that is any calculation. Since all models are wrong, but some are less wrong than others.

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  • What has been your best financial move in life?
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    Damn if I hear this I am so glad to live in the Netherlands. Infrastructure here is designed such that everybody takes a bike or walk if within a few miles, on safe roads

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  • Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo...
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    Not exactly what you are talking about, but slightly related: the company Fairphone makes phones with parts that can easily be replaced. The philosophy is that you will not have to buy a new phone every 3 years. They do have some customized options aswell (i.e. ram, storage, models) but its limited.

    But going full on optimization with phones, laptops and tablets, similar as a desktop, is just incredibly hard due to the lack of space in the device for the components. As such it makes more sense to offer a wide variety of models, with some customizable options, and then have the user pick something.

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    [Omzeil link](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant.nl%2Fa-b75e1f12) Eens? Oneens? Ben jij ook een idealist?

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    General thread about running with smartwatches. Why do you run with (or without) a smartwatch? Which model do you have? What functionalities do you use often or are there any that you think are redundant? Did yours ever broke down? Are the sensors accurate? Currently I do not have any but plan to buy one, budget max 200eu. Both the garmin forerunner 245 or 55 seem like solid choices but I am open to suggestions.

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    NRC interview met de twee raadsleden. [omzeiling](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrc.nl%2Fnieuws%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Fafsplitsing-tweetal-om-onveilige-sfeer-binnen-bij1-partij-verdwijnt-uit-de-amsterdamse-raad-a4169938)

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    Opiniestuk ingezonden door Jesse Klaver aan de volkskrant. [Zonder paywall link](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.volkskrant.nl/a-b900b7bc)

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