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by beachy 2y ago
Very impressive. I've toyed with using the Pi for an intelligent trail camera. Startup time is critical - a PIR sensor detects an animal passing and you want to be taking photos ASAP so every second counts. Lowering the power usage is
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by beachy 2y ago
Yikes. That does not mean what you think it does in my locale. The phrase would be "flogging a dead horse".
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by beachy 2y ago
Knowing you can survive reboots is positive for stability.
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by beachy 2y ago
This would be much more interesting if it had some details - which band led to the spike, what tech/approach helped with scaling, etc.
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by beachy 2y ago
Selenium
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by beachy 2y ago
I use a bot for booking overnight huts on the more popular hiking trails in my country. They become available for booking online at a fixed time each year and are all taken a few seconds later. Using a bot is the only reliable way to get on
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by beachy 2y ago
Large tech companies care about their reputation. If they dropped their own fork and went back and started again from Elastic that would be admitting their own incompetence. So not happening.
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by beachy 2y ago
The Tiwai Point aluminum smelter uses 13% of New Zealand's electricity [0] It's overseas owners are constantly playing hardball with the country over the price they pay. Feels like every year they threaten to shut the smelter down
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by beachy 2y ago
Publishing a peer reviewed paper would equate to handing their IP over for free. Maybe the right thing to do in the face of such a tragedy is to do that. Or perhaps they genuinely have some cool technology, and it could be sold into aero, m
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by beachy 2y ago
I don't quite follow your thought process but admire your vociferousness. In this case I got this link from a newsletter, who presumably have a deal with NYT in that from time to time they are able to offer a special "back door&qu
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by beachy 2y ago
This may work better (gift article): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/26/upshot/ai-syn...
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by beachy 2y ago
Perhaps then the ones that did take the trouble to vote would be well informed and thoughtful.
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by beachy 2y ago
I'd like to know more about this process. But ultimately, it can only be detrimental to sealife to emit noise into the marine environment. Imagine someone set up a radio or a noisy machine somewhere in your own vicinity and you had no
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by beachy 2y ago
As a (just) boomer, I'd be in favor of having the voting age lowered to 16. Certainly there are many reckless, feckless and uninformed 16 year olds, but the standard of debate coming from the seniors in the room is horrifying and needs
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by beachy 2y ago
That could be so for first offences but I would imagine any business flouting the law and making repeated appearances in the employment court would experience escalating punishments.
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by beachy 2y ago
Faux redundancy is indeed a tool that can be used by smaller NZ employers. It's risky though for bigger companies to try it and it would never work for the homogeneous group that is Uber drivers, since they all effectively fill a singl
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by beachy 2y ago
> In New Zealand, it's pretty much "at-will" anyways, with the cost of removing an employee typically being 3-months wages. No way. Removing an employee in NZ (other than for redundancy) requires a series of warnings about
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by beachy 2y ago
Looks great. Though while I love me some skeuomorphism, it goes too far when it is plainly detrimental to usability, which it is here - I have to crane my neck sideways to read the titles. In a virtual world, the books could be stacked hori
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by beachy 2y ago
So is this an LLM trained on the bible?
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by beachy 2y ago
It's heavy weight and has an industrial vibe, and does way more than any single user could want. Consumes 300M or so just to run. I don't care. Transaction volumes to the auth are comparatively low and computers are cheap so keycl
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by beachy 2y ago
Would be interested to hear a comparison with keycloak.
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by beachy 2y ago
I'm at the tail end of my career, so working on efficiency gains like this doesn't usually add up for me. However I was interested in knowing whether it does for the author. Assuming he/she does suffer this 1300 ms delay &quo
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by beachy 2y ago
Maybe you're an outlier with your projector. A projector is more fiddly than a TV to set up. You need both a smooth, blank light wall and also a place to perch your projector which is just the right distance away from said wall (based
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by beachy 2y ago
The dad of one of my son's friends told me this, and he was a computer programmer himself (as am I). "Don't get your kid into programming, it will all be outsourced to India". I didn't give my kids any such prescrip
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by beachy 2y ago
These movies were like a shot of molten lava to my teenage brain.
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by beachy 2y ago
The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks is always worth a read. It's now an ancient tome (e.g talk of how much storage space comments take up) but there is a lot of wisdom there and it certainly ticks the historical box. It's one of
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by beachy 2y ago
Yep. If you gradually degrade performance, and word of your intentions fails to make it to the right people, the victim may well have to devote significant effort to trying to work out what's going on. Boy will they be pissed when they
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by beachy 2y ago
Worth noting if you are in NZ you can drive to a viewing site [0] though parking is limited so you may want to get dropped off, and as far as something else to do in the area the Mahia peninsula has great surfing [1] [0] https://
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by beachy 2y ago
> Whatever objective you are expected to achieve, a bigger budget makes it easier. This should be true but I've seen bloated projects that would have had better outcomes had the team been more constrained. And to quote Fred Brooks:
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by beachy 2y ago
> Celsius is nearly useless. That's like ... your opinion man. Personally I like knowing that water boils at exactly 100 degrees.

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