SilkRoadie

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by SilkRoadie 1y ago
MOTs already have a decibel limit. I don't understand how these vehicles can be road worthy considering how loud they are. This technology feels like an engineers solution to a trivial legal issue.
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by SilkRoadie 2y ago
Does the app give any benefit over the web? Asking customers to use the browser over the dedicated app doesn’t seem unreasonable.
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
I went on holiday for 2 weeks. Came back to find the team had spent a week on a 5 minute task that had been clearly documented. Nothing had moved forward. Spoke to my manager that day and from that day forward it was clear what my value was
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
I like the article and I have been promoting a blameless culture for most of my career. To respond rapidly to failings, we need transparency about what has happened. The same is required to ensure it doesn't happen again. I have seen a
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
How does reliability work? How do I know that what I store today will still be there tomorrow? What guarantees do I have that a machine executing a task will exist until completion of that task? How are you handing security? What controls a
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
On these smart fridges, I struggle to see how these are anything but gimmicks undermining the device's lifespan. Most cooking requires items from many sources. You can check your milk but what about the flour in the cupboard? AI remind
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
I am sure there are numerous services costing $5-10/mo that would cover this and I would certainly consider that to eliminate the hosting and maintenance cost. If I had to build it, I would expect using Lambda, DynamoDb and S3 would li
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
Has the author really learned that Gmail is a better fit than Outlook? Who is paying for this product? There is a fair chance that Outlook would open up more sales opportunities to businesses, that appears to be the most obvious way to gene
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
Twitter killed a lot of third party apps and it just grew and grew. I suspect there is a vocal minority complaining about these changes. Most sub’s are going dark for 2 days. Time will pass and Reddit will continue to have a highly active u
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
The sample size of thirty people is going to be too small and the two year duration is too short. I expect that participants will be happier than average and feel more secure. On the flip side they will continue working and their lives will
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by SilkRoadie 3y ago
I use it at work and it clearly has strengths and weaknesses. My two use cases are initial research and generating prototype code. I find it very helpful to ask a series of questions and see a number of examples to get a primer on what to e
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by SilkRoadie 4y ago
I recently cancelled my membership when I realised that shopping elsewhere allowed me to save money the majority of the time. I had already become disillusioned by the number of dubious listings on Amazon and the volume of fake reviews. I f
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by SilkRoadie 4y ago
What is mind blowing for me is the ability for ChatGPT with limited context to generate content. "Write me a letter informing X about issue Y" will draft 3 paragraphs which typically articulates the problem very well. Asking it to
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by SilkRoadie 4y ago
The Euro has a single monetary policy. The benefit is less trade friction. The draw back is that monetary policy may not fit well with the general economy. This is what Greece experienced, the loss of currency control made other European bu
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by SilkRoadie 4y ago
From everything said about Hans the thing that sticks out to me the most is his analysed centipawn loss over all his games. Typically, as someone improves, both their loss per move and loss-variance falls. For hans, there is limited improve
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by SilkRoadie 4y ago
Anecdotally, I have had a sit-stand desk for 6 months. I sit for tasks which require typing and stand for the majority of calls I participate in. I average about 2 hours of calls a day. Before getting the desk I would get stiff in the day f
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by SilkRoadie 4y ago
Ethics aside. I find it difficult to comprehend how a drone could compete with the agility of a person inside the confines of a building. Add the chaos of a shooting event… i don’t see how this will ever get off the ground.
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by SilkRoadie 5y ago
In small houses I have always thought that stairs take up so much space for something which is used a couple of times a day. I have always thought a vertical solution would be better. This isn’t that solution for a variety of reasons. It is
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by SilkRoadie 5y ago
I would argue that google is being used incorrectly here. Google is specially being asked for a product list which meets a certain criteria. The user is asking Google to recommend the best bikes.. The user is actually looking for authoritat
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by SilkRoadie 5y ago
I am somewhat uneducated on the topic but is space tourism a good idea? It is a flight to nowhere which surely has a hefty carbon cost. Doesn't it also add pollutants high up in the atmosphere? As exciting as it is to experience space
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by SilkRoadie 5y ago
Deception can be planned or opportunistic. In this case, Dream planned to deceive people by tweaking game randomness. It is impossible to justify when hundreds of people are following the rules. This is why people double down. You mostly se
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by SilkRoadie 6y ago
Vaccines have been prioritised for the old and vulnerable so that 17 million number will likely have been given to a large number of unhealthy people.
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by SilkRoadie 6y ago
Sort reviews by new. It’s amazing how many “5 star” items have an average of 2-3 stars when you look at the latest reviews. I was looking for some L plates for my car. A lot of reviews called them “beautiful”... it is a white square with a
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by SilkRoadie 6y ago
The cost to produce is not equal to the value of the work. The only thing of value would be source code / data dumps of the store. That potentially can be exploited. Anything else is pretty worthless. The systems in the game and artefa
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by SilkRoadie 6y ago
Isn’t their main argument unfair competition? Google, the starting point of the internet, decided to undermine their business by taking their collated content and publishing it at the top of results? Google appears to do this for other thin
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by SilkRoadie 6y ago
I moved off of fitbit when the deal was announced. The volume of data google collects on users is terrifying. Glad to see this is getting looked at with more scrutiny.
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by SilkRoadie 7y ago
I would be on board with the UK plan if it was more proactively protecting the at risk population. Why aren’t large events stopped? I get one infected person won’t infect a whole stadium... the main thing for me is people from all over go t
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by SilkRoadie 7y ago
I stopped using my Fitbit the day they were acquired. Didn't feel the need to tweet or exclaim about it. You may be surprised at the total number.
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by SilkRoadie 7y ago
This news made me discover where the line is. My Android device is always listening, it tracks my every journey knowing where I travel to and how I get there. Google scan my email and undoubted have traced the majority of my internet activi
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by SilkRoadie 7y ago
I might be misinformed but it looks to me like a lot of protests in Hong Kong are state orchestrated. The escalation in protests seemed very sharp. The ransacking of parliament appeared to have been allowed. There was no police presence at

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