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by beachy 3y ago
So in your worldview, all "helping" should happen voluntarily, with no state/federal assistance. And if no individual is feeling charitable that day, then no help would be provided?
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by beachy 3y ago
Responding to RFPs springs to mine. Knowing you have already answered the question on some previous response but a nightmare to lay your hands on it.
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by beachy 3y ago
Agree, though I guess it's only one step further on from fattening them up on chemically enhanced food before killing them and eating them. Which I put up with in order to eat my share of meat.
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by beachy 3y ago
> but like for MySQL, PG, PlanetScale, or most DBs at scale, you shouldn't use them. Tell that to the people who have been successfully building massive databases in RDBMS for decades making extensive use of FKs and FK constraints.
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by beachy 3y ago
When I studied "computer engineering" (a very long time ago) one of our classes involved hardware debugging on PDP-8 minicomputers (which were old even at the time). The lecturer would use a craft knife to make a tiny cut in a PCB
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by beachy 3y ago
Mainly visions/delusions of a water monitoring SaaS, but it would probably run just fine on a pi
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by beachy 3y ago
Just for history. Current values are available without internet on the esp32.
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by beachy 3y ago
I have a home-built system for monitoring the levels in our water tanks (we live on rain water). Of course some people get by with a simple float indicator, but why would I do that when I could be using high accuracy hydrostatic sensors, es
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by beachy 3y ago
I must be missing the point, money is very useful for both those things.
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by beachy 3y ago
In some more perfect world, these oil producers would embrace a carbon tax. Ultimately a carbon tax must make its way to fall onto the people that get the fossil fuels out of the ground. Those extractors can then pass it on to their custome
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by beachy 3y ago
The worst thing as a non-smoker was being in the row of seats immediately in front of the smoking section at the back of the plane. There was a curtain divider but it did little to contain the clouds of smoke coming from behind.
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by beachy 3y ago
A new pair of tramping boots (hiking boots to Americans).
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by beachy 3y ago
I think this is great tech, but maybe not for those reasons. On any safe site, people are already very cautious and working well back from the excavator. Some teams have a protocol where you have to make eye contact with the digger driver b
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by beachy 3y ago
This seems like game changing technology. There are a heap of such walls around here, some built long ago by Dalmation immigrants (and some allegedly by German POWs). It's quite labour intensive and highly skilled to create them. We ha
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by beachy 3y ago
Perhaps they will be motivated by self-preservation, and will note that humans are destroying the environment they exist within, and will decide to put a stop to that.
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by beachy 3y ago
> And does she believe that this will hold true for all time? That they and their colleagues are so unique that they hold the key to something that can otherwise not be replicated. It's impossible to understand this position. We can
347.
by beachy 3y ago
There must be thousands or tens of thousands of ferries around the world, yet hydrofoil ferries are as rare as rocking horse shit, so I don't think this is correct.
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by beachy 3y ago
Big investors like Microsoft won't want a board that is utterly subservient to the CEO.
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by beachy 3y ago
This is a big thing for one area I'm interested in - golf simulation. Currently playing in a golf simulator has a bit of a post-apocalyptian vibe. The birds are cheeping, the grass is rustling, the game play is realistic, but there&#x2
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by beachy 3y ago
Known as a "Manu" in NZ and sometimes performed with a rugby ball for spectacular effect. https://youtu.be/2MJx39QjHqs?si=hyb71y3Od9nq6W9-
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by beachy 3y ago
> I think they want to be shepherding responsible AGI before someone else does so irresponsibly. Is this a thing? This would be like Switzerland in WWII doing nuclear weapons research to try and get there before the Nazis. Would that ma
352.
by beachy 3y ago
As they say, you can spot the pioneers because they're the ones with arrows in their backs.
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by beachy 3y ago
Or cloud vendors have decided that at their scale owning their own chips represents a valuable differentiation opportunity, and they don't think of them as commodities.
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by beachy 3y ago
Without any specifics, yours is a shit response.
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by beachy 3y ago
> Early on could people see the future and know what Ms dos, Oracle, or google would become? No... In the case of Oracle, yes, because Oracle was created directly to compete with DB2 (which was already a success) but as a product that co
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by beachy 3y ago
I was a second generation IBMer and the best thing I got when I left was a big engineer control panel out of a storage controller - all lights, switches and knobs. It's been sitting for 30 years waiting to be turned into a flashing art
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by beachy 3y ago
Many thanks for the input.
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by beachy 3y ago
Is it possible you have first party cookies disabled? On your first visit we need to run some JS (apparently the only way to get the user timezone). We store that in your session and then redirect you so we can show availability in your tim
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by beachy 3y ago
Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0]. Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors. Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing ex
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by beachy 3y ago
Makes me a bit nervous looking at those very expensive components sitting on a desk instead of some kind of anti-static mat.

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