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by barrkel 3y ago
I think at least some of the stories are just made up.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Nice vignettes but I don't really believe it. Not knocking those getting value out of them, but they don't work for me.
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by barrkel 3y ago
> Syntax rigour has almost nothing to do with correctness. Yes, that's the point. You did miss it.
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by barrkel 3y ago
The way I interpret it: an integrated stack of compute, storage and networking hardware and monitoring software that you can plug in to your data center (owned or colo) and can e.g. deploy Kubernetes to, and then use as a deployment target
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by barrkel 3y ago
The yellow diamond with a black stripe puts you into "French priority to the right" mode and it's not restricted to France, it's pretty common across the continent. I like how it's indicated with road paint here in
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by barrkel 3y ago
There's at least three "levels" you can consider with image generation: composition, facial likeness and style. Prompts are pretty weak at composition and are the strongest point of controlnets - they do a great deal to make
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by barrkel 3y ago
The Boys is a comedy. The entire premise is satirizing superpowered heroes, as if they existed.
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by barrkel 3y ago
The SOS module in my car also has the microphone for hands-free calling and voice control.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Note that that is ad copy written by ad execs at TBWA/Chiat/Day, not a quote by Jobs. https://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2011/12/14/the-real...
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by barrkel 3y ago
You want to sell when you can show growth because that justifies a higher multiple. If you're cutting people, it means you don't have enough growth opportunities to use those people for. It's the opposite signal. You might
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by barrkel 3y ago
Many French villages have adopted this slightly differently: there's one traffic light on the entrance to town, and it turns red if you're going more than 50kph after the village name sign (equivalent to a 50kph speed limit sign i
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by barrkel 3y ago
Besides roundabouts often being bigger and more unpleasant to cross for pedestrians than an equivalent traffic-light junction, roundabouts have a sweet spot - low to moderate traffic, and sometimes heavy traffic when there's a balance
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by barrkel 3y ago
Swiss traffic lights sometimes change over to a blinking orange schedule at night, where the junction is uncontrolled and you treat it as yield or sometimes a stop instead.
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by barrkel 3y ago
I never liked his cartoons even when I agreed with their political direction - they were frequently nasty in an ugly way. Too often they elicited disgust rather than a mocking humour.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Well sure, and funnily enough the top hits for Merc 180d is the modern A series, very much not luxury.
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by barrkel 3y ago
We seem to be talking at cross-purposes. You seemed to use the fact that a car was used as a taxi in Europe as evidence that the car is not luxurious. My point is that cars used as taxis in Europe are often from upmarket segments, so it&#x2
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by barrkel 3y ago
The Firefox brand is stronger than the Mozilla brand, so it feels like an exec move to try and leverage something to boost something else. On the copy of Firefox I'm typing this in, the only obvious mention of Mozilla is in the About d
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by barrkel 3y ago
Regulated taxis across most of Europe are generally upmarket cars. Things like luggage space have regulated minimums that prevent using smaller cars.
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by barrkel 3y ago
"Caint" is Irish for "talk". But the English word is as likely from French, and it's the same root as chant, incantation etc.
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by barrkel 3y ago
PS/2 connectors were a regression on AT DIN & D sub 9-pin serial for most practical purposes. The only upside of PS/2 was a higher mouse data rate, particularly with high monitor refresh rates, made mouse movement smoother. Yo
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by barrkel 3y ago
Revolut is still going well. Wise.com is still doing consumer forex. But it seems to me that there is only so much space for B2C fintech. There's a bunch of B2B fintech you might be less aware of because it doesn't advertise to th
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by barrkel 3y ago
Cash improves operational security? Pull the other one.
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by barrkel 3y ago
Illegal in California...
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by barrkel 3y ago
Effecient OLAP queries need a different shape of data - some combination of columnar storage for efficient scanning, and roll-up tables with pre-aggregated measures. Even in an integrated scenario, behind the scenes there will need to be a
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by barrkel 3y ago
Back in the 90s in Ireland, my mother would occasionally cash a cheque at the pub - if it's not crossed payee a/c only, the bearer can generally cash it themselves. Going further back, pubs were the local shops for general dry goo
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by barrkel 3y ago
I don't think so. Generative AI is pretty good at interpolating between data points; generalization is the goal in training a model. When you have input which is a continuum of ages, body sizes, body featues and so on, the model can tr
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by barrkel 3y ago
They replaced Windows NT with Classic Mac OS?
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by barrkel 3y ago
How long ago was this? 20 years ago, all I saw were dual mono bayonet jacks you'd need an adapter for to plug in normal headphones, but straws would get you nowhere. I was curious so I searched: https://simpleflying.com&#x2F
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by barrkel 3y ago
I think it's the opposite of Sid Meier's approach, which is to play early and often, keep the fun parts and chuck the rest. https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/developer/sid-meier/ > From a game
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by barrkel 3y ago
Having someone else implement the fix and take ownership of the code is a positive in the long term, unless you're committed to the project - in which case you ought to be fine with looking at and fixing other bugs. In a company contex

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