RGamma

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by RGamma 2y ago
Use PowerQuery/PowerPivot/DAX.
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by RGamma 2y ago
Unless you also build the AI that buys and physically assesses these products, this will be gamed also. With headphones it's especially bad as manufacturers tend to enshittify existing product lines (cheaper materials!) without indicat
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by RGamma 2y ago
More like the frustrated Christians from the Heritage Foundation...
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by RGamma 2y ago
FWIW does any of it remain on archive.org? They have some really great collections on there, and writing on digital archiving, like how to preserve CDs as best as possible (spoiler: the brand of CD is a large factor).
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by RGamma 2y ago
I often think we're living in a dark age (an age that is characterized by little surviving cultural output)... Dpends on how thing's will go, of course, but I ain't holding my breath.
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by RGamma 2y ago
Nope not in general, gotta use multiple second factors and/or the second factor reset key.
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by RGamma 2y ago
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
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by RGamma 2y ago
To add to the other advice: Organize, curate and archive your info, documents and media. Make backups. Having physical books doesn't hurt either. It's a bit more effort each time but it's gonna pay dividends and is useful on
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by RGamma 2y ago
Walking from primary school was the shit. Playing with the electric fence, cycling on the frozen stream, getting scalded for being late...
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by RGamma 2y ago
ActiveX... haven't read that in a long time...
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by RGamma 2y ago
And they go offline after a few weeks.
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by RGamma 2y ago
With intercycle cartridge swapping. Arguably an even crazier technique than subframe resets.
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by RGamma 2y ago
Becoming the single point of failure for every societal function is the goal of VC. It's working brilliantly thus far.
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by RGamma 2y ago
Now if you tell me it's 100% organic, carefully handpicked American-sourced measles and free from microplastic, I'm sold!
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by RGamma 2y ago
Arguably it's gotten even worse. LLMs are the next order of magnitude of software inefficiency. And they're gonna copy all the same patterns that got us here.
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by RGamma 2y ago
The falling snow on that page turns my phone into a hand warmer. Accidental?
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by RGamma 2y ago
And when the new equilibrium point involves a huge amount of centralization and off-shoring and therefore wealth concentration and loss of livelihood, the proletariat becomes angry. In that context it's a fiendishly genius move to atom
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by RGamma 2y ago
The "amnesia problem" needs active effort to counteract. Without longitudinal story-telling like you would get in a well-maintained wiki or book, it's inevitable eventually... I think it's become a huge society-scale pro
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by RGamma 2y ago
And after 20 years of acceleration the wheels are coming off. Anyway, HN at least is mostly cool still, I guess. So good job dang.
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by RGamma 2y ago
And the rest will sleep in the office, because driving home every day is impeding the 100h work week.
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by RGamma 2y ago
Having a global investment portfolio and probably several doomsday bunkers also helps to be indifferent about it all.
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by RGamma 2y ago
And all this dysfunction has built up in peaceful times. Now if the system receives a genuine shock, things can go downhill fast . Maybe there's something true to the "bad times -> good people -> good times -> bad people
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by RGamma 2y ago
Seems it's high time to develop affordable autonomous drone defense. Luckily drones are relatively slow (and small...) and should have a distinct audio-visual-electromagnetic (?) signature. Wonder what the most efficient modality is fo
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by RGamma 2y ago
As relevant as ever https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...
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by RGamma 2y ago
Not a retailer, but Geizhals is pretty nice for several product categories, best filter system I've seen thus far.
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by RGamma 2y ago
A war is (and has been for quite some time) raging between commercial and cultural ideals of the internet. This is just another battle as various parties renegotiate the front line. Gated communities are a necessary evil in a world where yo
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by RGamma 2y ago
Would you rather have "free shipping" and the cost of logistics priced into the product?
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by RGamma 2y ago
To contextualize: As it is now dealerships and any other merchants have to document buyers (by showing id) purchasing with cash above 10k€ and may ask for proof of origin of the money. In 2027 all cash purchases above 10k€ are forbidden due
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by RGamma 2y ago
Cash is the only anonymous (and widely accepted) payment option left. There's already certain regulations in place (revolving around ATM limits, buying noble metals, proof of origin, identification on payment, etc) and they're gon
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by RGamma 2y ago
How would this work in practice? Indifferent case worker?

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