Sohcahtoa82

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by Sohcahtoa82 5d ago
This opens a huge can of worms. Dash cams would effectively become illegal. Someone just wanting to record themselves and some friends doing something would need to ask explicit permission from everyone in the background. It's just not
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by Sohcahtoa82 5d ago
Curious...in the UK, is the implementation of something like that done by government employees? In the USA, a significant amount of tax-funded infrastructure is actually built out by contractors, which means there's profit going to a c
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by Sohcahtoa82 5d ago
"Battle-proven" until an LLM decides it really needs to escape the sandbox you put it in and eventually succeeds. For personal work, I run Codex in a VM that contains only what's necessary to do software development. Could
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by Sohcahtoa82 5d ago
It also ended up inadvertently highlighting a massive problem with the JavaScript ecosystem. And yet we learned nothing from it and all the same problems keep popping up, only this time in the form of supply chain attacks.
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by Sohcahtoa82 5d ago
> Actuated signal control [...] inductive loop sensors embedded into the road surface It blows my mind how many people don't realize that's what those circles near the stop bar of an intersection are for, and will then stop 3
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by Sohcahtoa82 8d ago
Oh, I think MS execs (and all other execs, top-level politicians, and pundits for that matter) know what they're talking about, but they'll tell whatever lies they need to enrich and empower themselves.
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by Sohcahtoa82 8d ago
> How do people not understand that some laws only make sense at a certain scale? Because they demand laws be very concretely defined, and so you then need to very rigidly define that scale, and will ask a million follow-up questions tha
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by Sohcahtoa82 10d ago
> Lights suck unless there’s sufficient traffic. This is basically it. Roundabouts make sense for low/moderate traffic, but you get to a point where the traffic gets so heavy that a roundabout just clogs things up, especially when t
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by Sohcahtoa82 10d ago
One YouTuber did 24 hours in a roundabout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqF8zLWo570 Even refueled while driving and got pulled over by police once. The police was basically just like "It's not illegal, but we
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by Sohcahtoa82 12d ago
> 4) Human moderated in smaller communities People have basically decided that they don't actually want this. I know I don't want to visit 10+ different websites on regular basis to keep up on discussions of various interests I
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by Sohcahtoa82 15d ago
Are there people still using swap partitions? I've been using swap files on Linux for years now.
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by Sohcahtoa82 15d ago
> The old rule of thumb used to be 2x actual RAM for your swap file/partition size. Which was always a dumbass rule that made no logical sense. Like, I remember a time when I had 4 GB of RAM and had my swap set to 8 GB. Then I upgr
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by Sohcahtoa82 16d ago
Changing how the ownership of a digital asset is tracked is completely moot when the digital asset is no longer retrievable.
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by Sohcahtoa82 16d ago
Not an option for me. I have a residential ISP that gives me symmetrical gigabit fiber, but has no support for IPv6.
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by Sohcahtoa82 16d ago
Yeah, once you reach a certain speed, even colliding with a fleck of dust can obliterate a ship. Colliding with a single 0.3 mg grain of salt at 20% of the speed of light creates an impact with 560 MJ of energy, equivalent to 130 kg of TNT,
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by Sohcahtoa82 16d ago
> Different teams with different goals and different management Not to mention the stack ranking policies that caused engineers to sabotage other people's work and avoid collaboration in order to keep themselves high on the stack in
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by Sohcahtoa82 17d ago
> Why can we no longer have the same economic productivity we had in the 1950s that allowed for more single income families? Three words: World War II. The 1950s were a unique time. World War II had just ended, and much of Europe's
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by Sohcahtoa82 17d ago
Elder millennial here, though my sister was young GenX. I was born in '82, she was born in '79. I'm pretty sure my parents stopped hiring baby sitters once my sister turned 12. But even aside from that, I was allowed to play
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by Sohcahtoa82 17d ago
If you know how to write it manually, then do it. In my experience, Claude Code is great at making a first-pass at a project, but once you start asking it to make changes, it explodes. A bug fix that should only be 2 lines turns into addin
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by Sohcahtoa82 17d ago
I deliberately emphasized conversational interfaces. Finder, toolbars, and terminal utilities don't have conversational interfaces. Those have point-and-click interfaces or rigid command structures. And it's not that English i
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by Sohcahtoa82 17d ago
> If we multiply that by 30x for video (a fair assumption for models like minimax H3, which take that much longer to make video) It takes about 7 minutes for my RTX 5090 to generate a 15 second video with MiniMax H3. At 600 watts, that&
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by Sohcahtoa82 17d ago
> while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" I'd be satisfied with removing the crippling executive dysfunction.
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by Sohcahtoa82 18d ago
How would you suggest it do that? Take a simple example. "I found three issues." How would you phrase that without an "I"? "Three issues were found" doesn't tell you who/what found them. Was it t
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by Sohcahtoa82 23d ago
Meanwhile, my idleness is so ingrained that sometimes I can't even make myself do the things I WANT to do, like load up a game that I've been wanting to play. And I'm just tired...all the time. I do nothing and still I'
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by Sohcahtoa82 24d ago
I've found that the speed of the DMV seems to vary wildly by state, and possibly even city and location, based on anecdotes. Earlier this year, my license was expiring and I decided to get a Real ID. I was able to create an appointmen
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by Sohcahtoa82 24d ago
Once you go above 144 hz, the returns really start to diminish. Going from 60 to 144 hz in games was great. Certainly noticeable. Going from 144 to 240, it's much more subtle. I'm not sure I'd even notice 500 versus 240 un
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by Sohcahtoa82 25d ago
Ah shit, here I go again. The last two hours of productivity today are toast.
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by Sohcahtoa82 25d ago
> The amount of ads they started to push to paying(!) users I have never in the history of paying for Spotify had an ad play.
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by Sohcahtoa82 26d ago
> customer-controlled updates This is a huge one where I'm at. Our flagship product is not a SaaS, customers install it in their own cloud environments, and as a result, they scan us with Wiz, Prisma, basically anything that support
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by Sohcahtoa82 29d ago
Is the Commodore SX-64 a laptop? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64

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