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by beej71 2y ago
I view AI as a challenge. It means I have to really raise the bar. :)
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by beej71 2y ago
With most of my guides I try to make it so you can quit reading when you feel you've read enough. No need to read the whole thing. And on that note, I feel like the guide covers maybe 10% of Git :), but hopefully 90% of common usage.
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by beej71 2y ago
Hey all--if you find things wrong, post 'em. I'll clean 'em up. :) Love, Beej
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by beej71 2y ago
USAID is a great example of saving pennies by spending dollars.
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by beej71 2y ago
The Democrat party wasn't the one who prosecuted or jailed these people. And one of those grandmothers rejected her pardon.
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by beej71 2y ago
They did save that billion dollars... Enough to power the federal government for a little over an hour.
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by beej71 2y ago
I see how PAFACA bans the distribution of the apps, I don't see where it bans the use of the apps. Citation?
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by beej71 2y ago
And that, which I also disagree with, is different, still. With TikTok, US citizens were not banned from using the app, or downloading it from overseas.
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by beej71 2y ago
While I don't agree with that move, there's a difference between banning exports and banning imports/what US citizens are allowed to download.
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by beej71 2y ago
Not just that, but I don't want my reputation tarnished.
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by beej71 2y ago
I don't doubt that some quotas exist somewhere. I just don't know where and have never encountered them in any of my jobs and they're probably illegal. Our DEI training at my current work is "always hire the most qualifi
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by beej71 2y ago
I switched to cursive in my journal about a month ago. Can't wait until OCR+AI gets good enough for that.
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by beej71 2y ago
Based on the legal code, around here it's slang for "crazy". Poster: "I was ripping my dirt bike out in the snow and got pulled over!" Commenter 1: "What for?" Commenter 2: "5150." Barcroft Stati
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by beej71 2y ago
When I need a pin, I use uuidgen and grab the first four decimal digits. (I guess that could potentially include the `4` but it hasn't happened yet and the odds are low.) I guess I'd better screen some of them out! True story: fri
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by beej71 2y ago
Also, Google dropped "don't be evil" a long time ago. I don't feel ethically comfortable giving them money. I pay a lot of people on patreon more money than they'd make off me with YouTube ads.
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by beej71 2y ago
I live in volcanic country so with the lidar data I can find things like old spatter cones hidden in the forest and sometimes lava tube entrances. But it's also been logging country, historically, and the lidar data shows me old roads
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by beej71 2y ago
Remember leftpad! :) "Every dependency is an asset. Every dependency is a liability." It's a balance.
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by beej71 2y ago
I do a small version of this in my own town. We're surrounded by public land, and I find stuff in the lidar data that looks interesting. And then I head out cross country through the forest to try to figure out what it is. Stumble acro
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by beej71 2y ago
> Some arbitrary process has to reduce the 1,000,000,000 pieces of content produced today to maybe 10 or 100 you can handle. In my case, I'm the process that does the reduction by subscribing to specific feeds. (Not sure if that&#x2
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by beej71 2y ago
I prefer time-based feeds, but that's just me. I don't think people are objecting to suggestive feeds in general; they're objecting to suggestive feeds whose primary objective is to keep you scrolling for as long as humanly p
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by beej71 2y ago
> The law simply bans the distribution of the app on marketplaces stores for reasons stated (national security). This is red alert talk. We need to make damned sure we know exactly what we're asking for here and that we're not
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by beej71 2y ago
This morning I got up and poured myself a damned fine cup of coffee. RIP.
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by beej71 2y ago
There are a couple right-wing pundits that ring a bell on their podcast every time someone mentions Hitler. It's an instant dismissal. But at some point, the bell has to stop, right? Let's say for the sake of example that the Pres
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by beej71 2y ago
What if you serve it to me from behind the paywall without me paying? My client: "Hey, I didn't pay, but can I have that data?" Your server: "Sure! Here it is!"
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by beej71 2y ago
This article seems to conflate Facebook allowing (or not allowing) you to say whatever you want and the government doing so. The First Amendment gives Facebook the right to ban specifically Robby Soave's articles for no reason whatsoev
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by beej71 2y ago
We did elect a guy who is trying to control the Press and says that the lie of the stolen election is grounds for terminating articles of the Constitution. And who tried to undermine the results of the previous election. And he's extre
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by beej71 2y ago
As far as I can tell, this case went nowhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Department_of_Element... I'm curious if you know of any court cases that back up your position. I've connected to a lot o
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by beej71 2y ago
I like the free market when it works, and think it should be regulated when it fails. So I'm not really a government versus free market person. What is a massive red flag to me is the government telling a business what they can and can
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by beej71 2y ago
Absolutely. I'm in about 10 communities like this. I don't think I need global reach or hundreds or thousands of "friends". For a wider net, I have a self-curated feed on Lemmy and Mastodon. It's super clean and pos
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by beej71 2y ago
Not the gp, but I guess I'm surprised at how innocent I've remained among all my LGBT friends for all these decades. You can admire me, too.

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