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by abraae 6y ago
Licences usually have an end date. OpenAI might have got more money from a single customer than by splitting it among several. And they can always go back to the trough once the licence expires.
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So true. Like when you find muscle memory has injected :wq into your file in notepad.
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There should be more use of body cameras in these inspection situations where it's hard to get at the inspected item, and it's all too easy to say "she'll be right" (a colloquial expression in my country that roughl
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by abraae 6y ago
Simple old business systems require resilience too.
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These technologies are fascinating and make good sense for some APIs for sure. But if I look at our APIs, and I don't think we're unusual, they characteristically are not "fire and forget". Instead, the API call actually
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by abraae 6y ago
Having spent some time wrangling colors recently, I'd love to know how you came up with the palette used for the letters in the top title. Any clues welcomed!
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by abraae 6y ago
Indeed. Andrew Carnegie's missives were less noble, and more fitting of a steel magnate: "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
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Bill gates did indeed do "quite a lot of harm" to many businesses and I have cursed his name many times while wrestling with some Microsoft chicanery. But that harm was done to competitors, on the business field. The people who be
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by abraae 6y ago
Wood's cool factor is underrated. I worked with a salesman in Sweden. We sold very expensive mainframe software. One of his things was, when someone signed up, to present them their copies of the contracts in a beautiful slimline rosew
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by abraae 6y ago
> am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago). Hilarious, I have changed our new home page literally hundreds of times over the last few days a
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by abraae 6y ago
> this means Facebook directly gets to use your VR usage/purchases to market to you, and they will follow you around the web Only if you use or log into your bogus FB account.
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> But it's hard to make that connection. People seem to accept identity theft as "something that just happens sometimes" A little like the way people talk about "cyber warfare". In real warfare, the enemy can att
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by abraae 6y ago
I have to admire someone who spends their first paycheck on a pi cluster: > The total damage my wallet sustained from Kraken was S$626.63 or in $449.73 USD, which was virtually all I had left for the month after subtracting expenses and
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by abraae 6y ago
The greatest lesson I took from the book was "no mode switch". This is an excellent principle for software development as well IMO.
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One alternative is to use something like Keycloak or some other auth tech. Then you'll have password recovery, 2FA, sign in with FB/Goog/LinkedIn etc., loads of insightful management screens and even SAML support for enterpri
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by abraae 6y ago
This is the correct answer. I doubt either man chose his path as such, their paths chose them. Steve Jobs acted the way he did because that's the kind of person he was. Some of us have worked for people who have styled themselves (and
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by abraae 6y ago
Having a reliable search syntax would commoditise Google as other search engines could offer the same options. Having just a search box, instead of lots of options was how they moved ahead of e.g altavista in the first place. Google would r
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by abraae 6y ago
Actually my neighbour has a flock of 7 or so "Pitt Island" sheep. They literally do just run wild on his land. They get no attention at all as far as I know.
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That's my point. Why not let the sheep live more or less wild on the site?
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> typical per-acre range of $250-750 for sheep to graze at its sites Where we live, the farmer pays the landowner to graze his cattle on their land. So I'd be interested to know why it's the other way around to have sheep graz
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by abraae 6y ago
> But this is actually a premium access streaming platform. You sell tickets for events or seminars or whatever. take a cut of the tickets and host the event. Good for things like training seminars or whatever. This is not an easy proble
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by abraae 6y ago
> Again, I'm not claiming to be expert in this domain. Actually nowhere in your original post do you include this "not claiming to be an expert" disclaimer. As a result, when I read your original post, I assumed that perh
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by abraae 6y ago
The video chat market though would be approximately a gazillion times larger than the professional video and film industry wouldn't it?
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You don't need to keep the water at a high temperature all the time. I don't have the regulations to hand but it's enough to bring it to a high temperature once every few days for some period of time (to kill the bacteria tha
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by abraae 6y ago
Some sage said to me early on in my career that you can't sell your product if you don't have any competition. I've found that potential customers often develop comfort with you once they can position you with regard to someo
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by abraae 6y ago
Think of analogies as being like the windscreen wipers on a car. They help you see things more clearly.
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That's your view, but artists likely hold the opposite view. I imagine they want to be paid more if more people listen to their music.
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Firefox containers are your friend.
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There's a lot to hate about Covid-19 but the planet must be breathing a sigh of relief at the reduction in planes and cruise ships pumping carbon into the air.
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> People buy as much as they can. That reminds me of something I heard early on in the pandemic. "The economy is collapsing because people are only buying the essentials".

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