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by beachy 2y ago
I experienced one literally minutes ago after doing a guided tour at Pompeii. I want an AR tour guide. It should know where I am and give me the relevant commentary to the ruins I am at. Following me, not vice versa. Ideally if there are se
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by beachy 2y ago
Exactly the sort of stuff a PHB might blurt out in a meeting, leaving it to the lackeys to decipher afterwards. "Do we have to use matplotlib? Sounds like he wants us to but we don't have to, but we definitely shouldn't use s
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by beachy 2y ago
Some orgs crush entire computers, so crushing just the drives is at least better than that.
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by beachy 2y ago
I believe a NAND gate is required as the base on which all other possible circuits can be built, so they need just to add an inverter for potential turing completeness.
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by beachy 2y ago
> Doctors can be associating what they’ve learned, often with heavy biases from hypochondriacs So true. And it's hard to question a doctor's advice, because of their aura of authority, whereas it's easy to do further valid
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by beachy 2y ago
> a grinder might work 100 hours/week versus a mere 30 hours for an oaf. I suspect many oafs do a lot less effective work than that during a week. Source: have been such an oaf after a period of burnout
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by beachy 2y ago
I did a lot of clay target shooting with 12 gauge shotgun when I was young. That involves a lot of shots each session with pretty powerful cartridges, I'd suspect it is more deleterious than target shooting, even with large calibre gun
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by beachy 2y ago
> AFAIK the problem is that regulations (plus the obligation to kowtow to maori interests) is preventing solar installations from going ahead. You'll have to be more specific than that dodgy statement, it kind of undermines your goo
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by beachy 2y ago
Political is right. In NZ, the Onslow pumped hydro scheme was just cancelled by the incoming right wing-ish government, with no comprehensible rationale given [0] > “On top of its $16 billion price tag, the Lake Onslow scheme would run i
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by beachy 2y ago
A bit like "performing the routine heroics needed to keep Google’s source control server alive". Though perhaps I lack perspective, having just toured Normandy where the D Day landings took place.
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by beachy 2y ago
How does this help if the evil portal is an entirely new destination for the victim?
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by beachy 2y ago
Anchoring your life to a set of beliefs that, by necessity, are entirely unanchored by reality is not a strategy that works for everyone.
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by beachy 2y ago
> Also there are some cafes and restaurants that have 10% surcharge for public holidays This is increasingly common in NZ but also entirely justifiable as staff must legally be paid time and a half on public holidays and wages is likely
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by beachy 2y ago
My son worked in this space for a successful NZ company. It sounded like it was indeed a bit simpler (but still with plenty of complexity) but since nature abhors a vacuum, they added complexity by shoveling in features. I remember one bein
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by beachy 2y ago
Another advantage was that it was possible for (skilled) humans to read the contents by pulling the tape through their fingers while holding it up against the light. At IBM I worked with a couple of graybeards who could do this.
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by beachy 2y ago
Triggering at both a security and a sexual deviancy level.
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by beachy 2y ago
I hope I am not wrong, but there is so much music out there already that success today is not about the quality of the music but instead about the audience's connection with the artist. If there is no artist I don't see how any st
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by beachy 2y ago
> Oracle is a do-nothing company in the most literal sense. You can only have so many of them around before capitalism as a whole collapses under the weight of it's own incompetence. Pretty hyperbolic. There's already a reply t
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by beachy 2y ago
One cool thing about Fastmail is you can have multiple domains and email addresses, for the price of a single user. e.g. certificateexpiry@mydomain.com ceo@coolstuff.com support@coolstuff.com info@hitmeup.com ...all funneling into your inbo
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by beachy 2y ago
> And where is the benefit in doing this repeatedly? You're just going to end up with a codebase nobody really owns on a cognitive level. You could say the same about the output of a compiler. No one owns that at a cognitive level.
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by beachy 2y ago
Just coincidence, situations where one might drink too much and be isolated from medical care.
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by beachy 2y ago
Just hijacking to add a public health warning about BPH. Like many men as they get older, I was getting up several times a night to pee. Thought I would just put up with it until it got worse. I went on a yacht for the weekend, drank quite
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by beachy 2y ago
Yeah, the knob and display make it a pretty cool device for so many things.
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by beachy 2y ago
So you're not challenging that human activity is having an impact on sea life .. but you don't want it portrayed as being negative? Because you believe in global trade?
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by beachy 2y ago
The QA team are chilling in the break room with the DBA team.
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by beachy 2y ago
Which is the first thing the user removes from the code.
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by beachy 2y ago
> I always liked this way of working, but I also wonder why it never really took off. In today's new fangled world, a lot of developers don't use a lot of the great stuff that RDBMS can provide - stored procedures, SQL constrai
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by beachy 2y ago
If anything, the post you are responding to explains why CEOs have to think this way, they have no real choice. No one really knows where AI is going, yet staying on the sidelines is not an option.
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by beachy 2y ago
Where can one find the breakdown of features on the free vs enterprise versions?
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by beachy 2y ago
If any newspaper reported on cyber matters with the same rigour and thoroughness of Krebs I'd be first in line to subscribe.

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