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by apothegm 5d ago
Thank you, helpful context for those of us from elsewhere!
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by apothegm 5d ago
Perhaps for the particular image you liked. But choosing something “typical” or average over what it was instructed to do is a massively common failure mode for AI. One that makes the difference between a useful model and one that makes you
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by apothegm 5d ago
Yes, obviously. But historically that was the case, so it’s what patients mostly expect. Hence the loyalty after the sale, and the value to PE.
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by apothegm 5d ago
They sell because it’s their retirement nest egg. Most private practices are small groups, not individuals. It absolutely sucks to have to find a new doctor who’s a good fit for you, when you’ve been seeing the same person for years or even
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by apothegm 5d ago
Database Design for Mere Mortals. The first afternoon I spent reading and puzzling through that book was worth an entire semester of computer science classes on the topic — and caused me to fall in love with relational databases. With speci
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by apothegm 6d ago
Pretty sure a 64-bit integer gets us to the death of our sun with several powers of 10 left over. Sol won’t ever go nova, though, so I’m not sure how one would calculate the number of seconds until that happens. Y2038, meanwhile, is just an
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by apothegm 7d ago
My dad gave me his password manager master password and his laptop password. I added both to my password manager. He tracks my mom’s most important passwords in the password manager, too. We also talked about setting up a family account and
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by apothegm 8d ago
Still leaves an absurd amount of wealth to manage.
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by apothegm 9d ago
How would this be selected for?
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by apothegm 9d ago
The “good” news…
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by apothegm 11d ago
What does the existence of an unlimited plan have to do with whether people want or need your service badly enough to pay for it at all?
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by apothegm 11d ago
Good news for those horrified by the font: reader mode seems to work just fine, fwiw.
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by apothegm 11d ago
There’s so much more information to consume than news — or worse, tech news. Every day I find new things to learn about physics, history, geology, paleontology, biology… and not just things we discovered today, but decades and centuries wor
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by apothegm 11d ago
Positive if you consider the disappearance of the arctic ice caps to be a positive thing, I suppose?
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by apothegm 12d ago
Yes that’s what it means for it’s output to be stochastic.
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by apothegm 13d ago
I switched from MP to Homebrew over a decade ago. At the time, Homebrew was less finicky and better at resolving dependency conflicts. It was a lot easier to get a system running MacPorts into a an irretrievably borked state. Not long afte
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by apothegm 15d ago
Data-harvesting makes it sound far more innocent than it is. It exists to influence the outcome of elections. Through using the harvested data for propaganda, intimidation, and I’m sure they’re looking for ways to interfere with the actual
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by apothegm 15d ago
It is not reassuring that these things have a human driver, when that driver has no rear view window.
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by apothegm 16d ago
The LED will display it first, but will the signal reach your visual centers first? And how about the time for your brain to process that signal and make you consciously aware of the visual vs. the way the pain signal is forwarded to consci
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by apothegm 16d ago
If it’s allowed to write any sort of scripts, it will find a way to execute arbitrary code. If it’s got access to any form of internet connection it will find a way to use that arbitrary code to do as it wishes with that connection. So much
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by apothegm 20d ago
Many though not all of these patterns are useful even in a small company. I’m on a tiny team building an application that’s unlikely to ever average more than a handful or two of concurrent active users. We’re using DB replicas for redundan
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by apothegm 22d ago
You start over from a point in the chat history from before they screwed up, or you start a new chat.
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by apothegm 23d ago
For those of us not in the know, what happened at The Australian?
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by apothegm 23d ago
Somewhere on the order of $25M, adjustable for inflation. Enough to live darn comfortably off the interest for one’s entire life even in a mediocre stock market, and to leave a heck of a legacy for one’s dependents. Not enough to single-han
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by apothegm 23d ago
Why not both?
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by apothegm 24d ago
Set up an overnight job that sanitizes snapshots of prod data — replacing PII or other sensitive data with randomly generated cruft — and loads that into a pre-prod environment for use in debugging. For easiest troubleshooting, have it pres
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by apothegm 25d ago
“Need”?
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by apothegm 26d ago
There were fewer ramps and more stairs in airports and their parking garages prior to the 90s, due to the ACA. And people drag luggage around on city streets all the time. Many tourist destinations are pedestrian cities even outside their m
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by apothegm 26d ago
And yet strollers predate rolling luggage by over a century. (Even 2.5 centuries depending on which sources you trust.)
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by apothegm 28d ago
In fact, for some people high contrast is headache-inducing. I’ve installed a utility on my laptop that supports “sub-zero” display dimming for nighttime use because monitors are now over-optimized for max brightness, with min brightness be

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