DougN7

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by DougN7 2y ago
A company claimed my use of their software library was outside what I paid for, so they wanted 17 years back pay at a ridiculous rate. I had an email from back then from them saying my usage was within the license. It didn’t even occur to
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by DougN7 2y ago
Someone needs to dress up Mechanical Turk and repackage it as an AI company…..
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by DougN7 2y ago
I would have agreed with you until this year where a single email from 18 years ago, which I didn’t think anything about at the time, is saving me from being sued. It doesn’t matter until it does. I got lucky.
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by DougN7 2y ago
It’s none of my business, but I say this out of hoping to help: you’re almost perfectly describing depression. You are depressed. I’ve been there, and still deal with it, but it can be helped with a variety of methods. I hope you will ta
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by DougN7 2y ago
That’s true, but UHC alone has $6 BILLION in profit each _quarter_. A whole lot of that could be going towards health care. In my opinion health insurance providers should not be for-profit.
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by DougN7 2y ago
People opposed to the war are getting drafted and sent in whether they like it or not, and getting killed. It’s a tragedy for both sides.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I don’t know if that is true. Not all Russian people (or even a majority?) are in favor of the war. But they still need to eat.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I believe, if we could be copied to the cloud, that “me” is much more than neurons, and affected and defined quite a lot by the particular physical body we’re housed in. You can say losing an arm doesn’t change who you are, but it definite
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by DougN7 2y ago
I know a woman who is absolutely sure there are half-lizard/half-human “people”(?) living in the sewers of New York, which she knows about from a secret news group. Some theories are absolutely BS and crazy. She’s even a nurse, so und
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by DougN7 2y ago
My “mentors” (or other people who influenced me) mostly taught me (a few different times) to expect more of my output. As a programmer that meant to spend more time thinking things through, write bullet-proof code (as much as I could) and
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by DougN7 2y ago
I don’t know if it helps, but Tūl brand pens in the US are gel pens like you mention. I’ve never had a favorite pen, but I do since a friend introduced these to me.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I’m curious how they knew EC2 instances were sitting idle waiting to process a file.
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I’m in no way qualified to answer, but I recall reading about a slew of publications being retracted across all fields after the results couldn’t be replicated. If I remember right there was a team that has become infamous for simply tryin
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by DougN7 2y ago
I remember my Grandmother got some and shared. If I remember correctly it seemed a lot like Velveeta.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I really don’t get the need for vulgarity. Oh well.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Those who don’t know their history are cursed to repeat it. And unfortunately, if 51% of the population doesn’t know their history, everyone gets to repeat it :(
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by DougN7 2y ago
This time the supreme court has already given him immunity. This time he has less to lose (he’s old, and term limited _unless_ he “fixes” that).
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by DougN7 2y ago
Ooooh, that’s was unexpected! :)
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by DougN7 2y ago
Yes!!
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by DougN7 2y ago
Sludge is exactly right - they’re ugly. This is the best example of Dr Seuss’ story about Sneetches that I’ve ever seen in real life.
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by DougN7 2y ago
But is the moral of the story that the guys that made the bad decisions got their bonuses and moved on, and aren’t affected by the aftermath? That’s what I fear the MBA’s will learn - don’t stick around.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Do you know if iOS has similar support?
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by DougN7 2y ago
This doesn’t seem like it would work if the mobile browser was closed, phone was locked, etc. Am I wrong? I’d like to get away from apps but this doesn’t seem like a complete solution.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Honest question: is there a way to receive the equivalent of app notifications on a mobile app from a website? It would need to be more than just a text message such that clicking the message opens the “app” to a specific place regarding t
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by DougN7 2y ago
Not just TV. I think every funeral I’ve been to here in the US (a dozen? Two dozen?) had an open casket “viewing” before the funeral began. Very common. And I’ve not known anyone to get cremated, but that might just be the circle I run
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by DougN7 2y ago
That http-polling technique works quite well. I use it to essentially stream an RDP session, within which YouTube plays and sounds just fine. Computers and the network are surprisingly fast these days. I heard once this is basically how
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by DougN7 2y ago
Lol, I don’t understand what THAT means! A swan might break your arm?!?
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by DougN7 2y ago
I read the article and still don’t get it. Anyone want ELI5?
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by DougN7 2y ago
Wow. We have really opened Pandora’s Box. Imagine what political opponents and their supporters will be pumping out with this stuff. This makes me sad for my children’s futures.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I had the exact same question.

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