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by bambax 2y ago
> People with not as much wealth are more reasonable Oh, no. But they have less power and less influence, and are more likely to fly commercial when they come talk to a conference, so have lower emissions. Also, I'm talking more i
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by bambax 2y ago
The money in itself is a problem. People with that amount of wealth are separated from the rest of humanity (and most of the time go to great lengths to make sure they absolutely never cross path with ordinary humans). They don't have
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by bambax 2y ago
A reply of "sounds good" means the initial email has been read and its contents agreed upon. Ho would AI improve upon this? - sending "sounds good" even when the recipient hasn't, in fact, read the initial email =&g
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, that's the one.
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by bambax 2y ago
Really? Wow. And they think if they're pointing it out, it absolves them somehow? Like those companies that used to have Dilbert cartoons pinned on cubicle walls?
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by bambax 2y ago
How is AI in email a good thing?! There's a cartoon going around where in the first frame, one character points to their screen and says to another: "AI turns this single bullet point list into a long email I can pretend I wrote&q
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by bambax 2y ago
It's hard for a number to be even without first being an integer, no? ;-) But thanks for '-2', didn't know about that! It's the exact default option I needed! Will be using that always from now on. https:/&#x2
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by bambax 2y ago
I too am a motorcyclist (and now, mostly, a cyclist) and think I may have misspoke (steering vs counter-steering). When I learned to ride a motorcycle I was taught to push the handle bars with the hand on the side I wanted to turn (so, if t
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by bambax 2y ago
> In the US, word2vec might tell you espresso and cappuccino are practically identical. It is not a claim you would make in Italy. True, and quite funny. This is an excellent, well-written and very informative article, but this part is
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by bambax 2y ago
Basic syntax for re-encoding a video file did take me some time to memorize, but isn't in fact too hard: ffmpeg <Input file(s)> <Codec(s)> <MAPping of streams> <Video Filters> output_file - input file: -i
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by bambax 2y ago
Thanks! Corrected!
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by bambax 2y ago
> Bicycles achieve balance through the gyroscopic effect, something with angular momentum and physics or whatever Bicycles achieve balance because the rider counter-steers to prevent the bike from falling aside. Destin from SmarterEver
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by bambax 2y ago
It's funny, it really works. Was also able to spot the difference on the coffee beans image: https://i.imgur.com/0TcWvWJ.png
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by bambax 2y ago
> https://youtu.be/87JXB0t6de4 I have never seen anything more cringe or ridiculous than this video. Bill Gates has said publicly that he's a fan of Silicon Valley , the tv show that pokes hard fun at the startup
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by bambax 2y ago
> Years ago a pal and I installed a system for the Secret Service that had thousands of very expensive switches on panels in a control room. We battled with a unique set of bounce challenges because the uniformed officers were too lazy
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by bambax 2y ago
I've been a (small time) Shutterstock contributor for over 10 years. You'd think they'd send a mail to the people producing the images to announce something like this, instead of waiting for them learning about it in the pres
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm a small-time Shutterstock contributor and my best sellers are all news-style images from actual events. (For example, when announcing a future conference, a publication often likes to illustrate the article with images from the pre
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by bambax 2y ago
> I injected jquery first to select the element using $() In Chrome and Firefox, $ and $$ are available in the console as replacements for document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll, respectively. This doesn't work in sc
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by bambax 2y ago
> There are three ways I use LLMs in my day-to-day programming: 1/ Autocomplete 2/ Search 3/ Chat-driven programming I do mostly 2/ Search, which is like a personalized Stack Overflow and sometimes feels incredible.
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by bambax 2y ago
Typing this in the console: $$("div[data-component='headline']") would select all titles in the home page. It shouldn't be super hard to build an RSS file using beautifulsoup for example. Can you be more spec
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by bambax 2y ago
> I’ve always been an optimist, and reading The Coming Wave hasn’t changed that. I'm not an optimist, but I fail to see the dangers of AI. I think it's more likely we will be wiped out by nuclear war, or climate change, or th
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by bambax 2y ago
It's sad you're downvoted, because you're right. So called "anti-scammers" who make a fortune on Youtube or that Reddit apparently considers heroes, are in effect preying on the poor. The real culprits are the bosse
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, DRM are a perfect example of the "Smart Cow" problem [0]. This is so obvious that, as you say (A) it's quite obscure why media companies still bother with DRM? The only beneficiaries of DRM seem to be hardware vendors, a
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by bambax 2y ago
I think you're right, and I find this extremely sad. Recruiters are like toddlers trying to fit square pegs toys or a key to a lock. If shown a master key they won't accept it. This is not just sad but incredibly inefficient, beca
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by bambax 2y ago
The one I use is xlite https://github.com/x2bool/xlite It's read-only and mounts spreadsheets as virtual tables. Very fast. Perhaps more relevant to this thread, libgsqlite loads Google Sheets as virtual tables:
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by bambax 2y ago
There are extensions that let you query Excel worksheet files directly from SQLite (no importing, no transformation, just direct query). It's quite fun to do; you can use Excel (or Libre office, etc.) to maintain the spreadsheet, and b
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by bambax 2y ago
To "uphold one's commitment to privacy" the only thing to do is just that: uphold one's commitment to privacy. One doesn't need to make sure the lookups are "efficient" or "scalable" (or "cl
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If they said To uphold our commitment to privacy while delivering these experiences, we have implemented a combination of technologies to help ensure these server lookups are private then it would be fine. It would also be a tautology. Wh
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by bambax 2y ago
Apple TOS: > To uphold our commitment to privacy while delivering these experiences, we have implemented a combination of technologies to help ensure these server lookups are private, efficient, and scalable. Efficiency and scalability
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by bambax 2y ago
"Dark Google" is dark as in bad, but not as in obfuscated. They can be seen and observed in places like LinkedIn where they discuss their plans in the open. But I don't think Google is part of them, or their slave. I think Go

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