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by bambax 1y ago
> Doctors, unlike lawyers, typically care about your care Yes but doctors, like laywers, often err on the side of caution. I don't want to be cut open unless absolutely necessary. Maybe the approach is simply to ask for a second,
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by bambax 1y ago
Excellent blog post, excellent advice. This part in particular: > When working with paid professionals, I think people tend to put them into one of two categories: doctors or general contractors. > With doctors, if your oncologist
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by bambax 1y ago
If true, that's a very convincing explanation of why this new rule is wrong. I'm not a US taxpayer so my opinion really is irrelevant, but I was so far in the camp of "there's no reason to make a special case for big tec
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by bambax 1y ago
> God knows what He wants and wrote it down exactly like that. When the word of God has obvious contradictions and inconsistencies what does it mean? Are there little traps that He set up for us mortals? Is God mischievous?
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by bambax 1y ago
Related, one of my all-time favorite youtube videos, Joe Rinaudo on the American Fotoplayer: https://youtu.be/S5nHjCWl_Xg?t=81 If you've never seen it, do yourself a favor.
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by bambax 1y ago
Anti-circumvention laws are not the same thing as copyright. Not in the least. And it's very debatable that copyright should be used for tractors, for example. If you invent a new engine you can patent it. But if you make an engine tha
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by bambax 1y ago
The article is very long; that part is fascinating and a fantastic suggestion: > Europe and Canada have passed strong right-to-repair legislation, but those efforts ""have been hamstrung by the anti-circumvention laws"&qu
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by bambax 1y ago
Here's a completely random anecdote: my mother often told me that her father, my grandfather, born in France in 1899, sculptor, draftsman and general maker of things, had a strong dislike of the metric system. He complained continuousl
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by bambax 1y ago
I think most LLM APIs return markdown and the conversion md->html happens after; so if you query the API directly you get markdown "for free".
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by bambax 1y ago
> mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app That's a classic move: make it bad / observe that nobody uses it anymore / close it. Sometimes it's done on purpose, sometimes not, but t
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by bambax 1y ago
> For example, in his book, Capitalism and Friedman, he argued... That's pretty funny, but the book is actually called "Capitalism and Freedom".
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by bambax 1y ago
"Sam and Jony"??!? Sam and Jony sounds like John and Yoko. Nothing good ever came out of that pair.
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by bambax 1y ago
> Someone has to hold the spike so the other one can swing the hammer. Interesting choice of metaphor.
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by bambax 1y ago
Very cool! There may be a typo here: > The most straightforward way around this problem is to make sure only one instance of Litestream can replication to a given destination. Can replicate? Or can do replications?
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by bambax 1y ago
> To me it would be interesting to know where has the driver got the driver license from. Or if they have a medical condition. Or maybe they have a stiff neck on the day of the accident. Were they distracted by children? Sure, but that
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by bambax 1y ago
> It’s like everything is bad because they saw people using Windows at their city hall. No. French state companies (including military schools! and the Department of Education!!) use Windows, MS Office, and US-based cloud providers en
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by bambax 1y ago
In "one" accident, maybe not very. But as a criteria to do statistical studies, make, model, year and maintenance would be quite interesting. The whole point of this data is to do studies.
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by bambax 1y ago
Most of what you mention either does not exist, or doesn't work, or is a completely unnecessary bureaucratic burden created for no reason, that we are expected to marvel about. Why do we need birth certificates in addition to IDs, ex
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by bambax 1y ago
> this is definitely untrue > Obviously, everyone still use Office because, well, there is no alternative to Office So it is, indeed, true. Can you clarify what your point is, exactly? (Also: there is an alternative to MS Office,
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by bambax 1y ago
Most things don't work, and "France Connect" is really bad (it doesn't even accept non-ascii letters for your name or surname! which is insane coming from an official initiative of the French Government; they should at l
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by bambax 1y ago
It doesn't come from nowhere, though. It results in having had to tolerate the French bureaucracy, French lies, empty promises, and French way of (not) doing things for decades.
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by bambax 1y ago
It's absolutely true that nobody in the French govt, French semi-public companies (so-called "SEMs") or French large private companies uses anything but Microsoft and the big US cloud providers. But I don't think the ope
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by bambax 1y ago
Aren't they? I sued a huge multinational company years ago, as an individual. People predicted the apocalypse. I won. It was lots of fun. (It was in France so the lawyers' fees weren't what they are in the US. But the way peo
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by bambax 1y ago
> publicly calling out the behavior > I’m still holding off on naming the company directly Does not compute. Why not name them?
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes that's true but it's weird they only focus on crypto investors' families? There are many rich people in France, what's the deal with cryptobros?
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by bambax 1y ago
> When 2:50 rolled around and your meeting was supposed to end, do you think people actually ended the meeting? Noooooo. Absolutely not! Why the hell not? Do people like meetings? I would want to get out as soon as the time is up. In h
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by bambax 1y ago
"Move fast and kill people."
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes but at the time Genesis was written, humanity didn't have the means to destroy life at scale. And in the New Testament, "killing the fattened calf" (Luke 15,23) is an incredibly rare event, something one does only when so
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by bambax 1y ago
On Openrouter you can delete previous answers (and questions) and maintain a separate conversation with different models. But it would indeed be nice to either disable answers (without deleting them) or forking a conversation. It wouldn&#x2
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by bambax 1y ago
> The machines had a good idea of what humans wanted at this point, and so they put vast green forests and big tall mountains onto the planet; they engineered warm sunsets, and crisp cool rain showers on hot afternoons. It was beautiful

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