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by adolph 8mo ago
> The UI looks so good. Why can’t we have good looking things anymore? From the perspective of a Macintosh System 6 appreciator, OSX is kind of fussy with gratuitous details. https://aaron.cc/opening-screenshots-from-a-vi
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by adolph 8mo ago
I wonder how this could be inverted to display the "planes overhead" [0] (so little progress in 15 years) in AR similar to how SkyView [1] displays points of interest in space. 0. https://tech.yahoo.com/phones&#x2F
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by adolph 8mo ago
> Where Deming reads like a science paper, Drucker reads like an installation guide. If you are looking for "do this" then Deming is not your person. If you seek understanding that drives transformation (knowing what to do in y
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by adolph 8mo ago
Pray we never need statistical process controls for the mass manufacturing of military objectives. Deming's exhortations exist because they are aspirational, essentially propaganda for his vision of organizational cybernetics. "De
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by adolph 8mo ago
Hazard a guess that serializing demented data structures into something text encoded like json or yaml or XML/SOAP is no less painful than a straight binary representation aside from unfamiliarity of tooling to reason about and arbitra
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by adolph 8mo ago
When you build an app with Xcode, your .xcassets folders are compiled into binary .car files that ship with your application. . . . The “CAR” extension likely stands for “Compiled Asset Record” based on method names found in Xcode’s IBFoun
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by adolph 8mo ago
None of this could happen with a protocol. You cannot require age verification on IRC, XMPP, ActivityPub, Nostr, or Matrix, because there is no single entity to compel. Each server operator makes their own decisions. A governm
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by adolph 8mo ago
Are those terms substantially different from the article's claims? THe wikipedia definition of meme is "memes: ideas, behaviors, beliefs, and expressions." The author discusses frames and mental models as a topic [0]. "[
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by adolph 8mo ago
Thats great that you can correctly manage a compost pile. That level of conscientiousness is a quality that doesn't seem common across the population. A positive thing about a landfill is that it can take advantage of centralization by
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by adolph 8mo ago
Sorry to be a debbie-downer but the composting process is also a source of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9933540/
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by adolph 8mo ago
A non-aligned population will look out for their own interests and are aware that the attention of the US is temporary but the cuadillismo that lead to cartels are a durable cultural artifact. The Battle of Culiacán, also known locally
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by adolph 8mo ago
> However in premodern times pretty much all cities universally had negative population growth which would imply they weren’t particularly nice places to live if you had better options. Your point is well taken although I must point out
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by adolph 8mo ago
I think this is a key question. In the May 2024 blog post about "fleet response" it sounds like Waymo has a lawyerly set of rules they follow to distinguish between remote operation and providing guidance to the self-driving syste
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by adolph 8mo ago
The pattern points toward one or more North American Tier 1 transit providers implementing port 23 filtering
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by adolph 8mo ago
Would it be ironic if Meta and Google were required to add "a landing page that displays information about responsible [social media use]" similar to their policies regarding gambling ads (example below)? https://suppor
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by adolph 8mo ago
>> It's frustrating because . . . > Slow down a bit to create another buffer > I think if you reflect a bit you'll find The parent post does return to the psycho-emotional layer of the problem but on the wh
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by adolph 8mo ago
Very true in that "living standards" is very subjective. When I wrote that I was thinking of London's population loss, not achieving a similar population until the 1300s. And I was thinking of claims that European literacy ra
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by adolph 8mo ago
This is so true. There is an awesome Terry Tao / 3blue1brown collaboration that explicates the epistemological basis: Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder Pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOXS_9_P4U Pt 2:
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by adolph 8mo ago
I was confused how someone could become a tycoon in "pro-democracy" but it seems as if he became a wealthy businessperson before and has been active and influential in preserving Hong Kong autonomy since the transfer of management
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by adolph 8mo ago
> thought it was a pretty color So was blue intrinsically pretty and thus made into the sky, or considered pretty and thus imprinted in the minds of humans that way?
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by adolph 8mo ago
Suggested reading: "How the Irish Saved Civilization" [0] Most cultural phenomena, be is classified as religious, philosophical, political, etc, are double-edged swords. The transition of the Western Roman empire to a succession o
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by adolph 8mo ago
It is interesting to see camera-in-airpods as a rumor instead of wireless-radio-as-camera [0] to detect similar. Maybe it is less power/volume intensive to add very limited cameras instead of upping the processing power to run inferenc
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by adolph 8mo ago
Yes, "translucent database" was exactly the concept I thought of when asking the question. The concept is keep access to specific items easy but accessing the entire thing as a whole more costly.
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by adolph 8mo ago
Yeah, to see the packages with multiple versions: grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | sort | uniq -c | grep -v '1 name' | sort -n Package windows-sys has the highest number of versions included, 3: 0.59.0, 0.60
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by adolph 8mo ago
grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | wc -l 238 edit: grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | sort -u | wc -l 221
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by adolph 8mo ago
>> power attracts the corrupt > hence why limited terms are a prerequisite for functioning democracies. The practical effect of limited terms is a set of hapless electeds who depend on the kindness of lobbyists or other
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by adolph 8mo ago
> certificate authority logs, which are actively monitored by vulnerability scanners That sounds like a large kick-me sign taped to every new service. Reading how certificate transparency (CT) works leads me to think that there was a mis
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by adolph 8mo ago
Yeah, I think the major improvement of cloud services was the rationalization of them into services with a cost instead of "ask that person for a whatsit" and "hopefully the associate goomba will approve." All teams wil
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by adolph 8mo ago
> I've read some stuff which says the cost of 5 SBC boards with pre-applied SMD is now so low, you might as well order 5 so you get at least 1 which works. That means they will wind up working out your tolerance for failure, and pro
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by adolph 8mo ago
In RDMA are the NICs able to perform the reconstruction or does that use a different mechanism to avoid CPU?

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