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by bambax 1y ago
They may try that, sure, but 1/ it will take some time, during which we can still enjoy some amount of freedom and 2/ they may not succeed everywhere, or all of the time.
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by bambax 1y ago
The erradication of non-canonical books came way later. There was no such thing at first (during at least the first two centuries following Paul's life).
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by bambax 1y ago
Magnificent project, congrats! Is ArcGIS free for this kind of project?
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by bambax 1y ago
Yeah, let's be nice and polished. No blood, no foot eating, just nice people talking in nice settings (castles, maybe?) around a warm cup of tea. That's how revolutions succeed, historically.
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by bambax 1y ago
Why do we need app stores in the first place?!? No app stores => no vetting, let users download whatever apps they choose, and deal with the consequences.
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by bambax 1y ago
One approach, not ideal by a long shot but one of the easiest, is to only use old devices and old OSes. Things that have been cracked and/or are easy to root. "But it's not secure!" -- yeah, that really is the point.
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by bambax 1y ago
I don't know about "every city", but Paris has both regular metros that are above ground (sometimes way above), and "tramways" that are trains running in the streets.
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by bambax 1y ago
Agreed. It's unreadable.
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by bambax 1y ago
Good idea. Business model seems pretty sketchy.
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by bambax 1y ago
Self-hosting is the future. If you have small-to-modetate traffic it's extremely easy to do and very cheap. Then you can self-cloud. Several startips are in this space. It gets you the best of both worlds: scaling, freedom, cost-contro
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by bambax 1y ago
One way to think about 1-to-many relationships is to think in the other way, "many-to-one". You don't join the orders to the customers, you join the customers to the orders (enrich the orders with customer information). It&#x
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by bambax 1y ago
One way to think about AI and jobs is Uber/Google Maps. You used to have to know a lot about a city to be a taxi driver; then suddenly with Google Maps you don't. So in effect, technology lowered the requirements or training neede
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by bambax 1y ago
> When querying the database, query the database. It’s almost always more efficient to get the database to do the work than to do it yourself. For instance, if you need data from multiple tables, JOIN them instead of making separate q
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by bambax 1y ago
Some electric fences are still working but don't hurt much. Among them, laws that are weakly enforced. Just because there is a fence doesn't mean we can't test it a little.
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by bambax 1y ago
Making what is essentially a router dispatching queries to the smallest engine susceptible to answer a question was maybe a good optimization from a techical and business pont of view. But branding that router "GPT5" is a huge mar
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by bambax 1y ago
Well that's also the point of building your own library. You get to choose to store only the things you like, and not store/delete things you don't like. Nothing gets pushed to you, you are in charge.
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by bambax 1y ago
This whole thread shows many people don't mind spending time building their own content library and making their own little Netflix on their NAS. I think this is just the beginning. I have been a happy user of JellyFin for a couple of
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by bambax 1y ago
I like to watch old movies and don't think dead creators need compensation. Their descendants are entitled (maybe!) to inherit their wealth, but not to earn an aeternal rent doing nothing.
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by bambax 1y ago
Came to say this. It's not exactly a todo list, and it certainly isn't "yours", but it's very close to a text file, with just about the right amount of additional functionality, and it's free. I don't use
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by bambax 1y ago
As the post says, the problem with coding agents is they send a lot of their own data + almost your entire code base for each request: that's what makes them expensive. But when used in a chat the costs are so low as to be insignifican
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by bambax 1y ago
It's a good question, but there are things I figured out by myself, that weren't in my training data, some, even, where my training data said the exact opposite.
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by bambax 1y ago
They couldn't find a more apt demnonstration of what an LLM is and does if they tried. An LLM doesn't know more than what's in the training data. In Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery (published in 1975, about ev
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by bambax 1y ago
At the (very) low end it's pretty easy to build your own "cloud" with a NAS, containers, and reverse proxies and tunnels to the outside world. And this will get you suprisingly far. But at the high end, I think the market is
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by bambax 1y ago
This is a very interesting, but it doesn't explain why companies push so hard to download their apps. It's even contradictory: since it seems users want apps so much, there should be no need to push them.
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by bambax 1y ago
> most people never had any need or ability for this control in the first place Regarding need: strong disagree. I want to be able to re-read a book, to open it in any an ebook reader on my desktop to search / copy from it, etc. I
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by bambax 1y ago
> Ehh, maybe I’ll just leave it the way it was in case the original author knew something I don’t. That's probably the main point of code comments in general: to explain to the future reader or maintener (who may be your future se
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by bambax 1y ago
Well it was "a" production database, the one that tracks supplier orders and invoices so that suppliers can eventually get paid. The database is populated by a data stream, so after restoration of the old version, they replayed th
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by bambax 1y ago
It's endlessly surprising how people don't care / don't think about backups. And not just individuals! Large companies too. I'm consulting for a company that makes around €1 billion annual turnover. They don't
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by bambax 1y ago
You do need a backup. But before that, you need a family NAS. There are plenty of options. (But a NAS is not a backup.)
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by bambax 1y ago
I'm extremely wary of AI myself, especially for creative tasks like writing or making images, etc., but this feels a little over the top. If you let it run wild then yes the result is disaster, but for well defined jobs with a small pe

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