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by bigiain 6mo ago
"useful in (for example) a search & rescue" I can't read that without assuming the real intent is to deliver bombs accurately, but the startup pitching it knows that'd get bad press, and the investors all know exactl
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by bigiain 6mo ago
"I wrote an iPhone app, so now I have the right to trademark 'Apple'."
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Signal (at least on iOS) has a setting called "Notification Content" which defaults (unsafely in the light of this bug) to "Name, content, and Actions", but allows you to select either "Name Only" or "No N
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by bigiain 6mo ago
With the benefit of hindsight. Yeah. Probably...
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by bigiain 6mo ago
"In 2012, Orbitz infamously displayed more expensive hotel offers to Mac users on the assumption that they were less price-sensitive." I was doing that in the late 90s. Not marking up prices, but displaying higher priced hotels at
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by bigiain 6mo ago
I'd guess, on average, code I've written has a half-life of maybe 3 or 4 years. There's pretty much none of my code (with a few surprising exceptions) that's still been running or in production anywhere for more than 8 o
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by bigiain 6mo ago
One rebuttal to that is that with the benefit of hindsight, to a first approximation zero percent of the code I've written in my career turned out to be "of any significance" really.
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by bigiain 6mo ago
At the 10,000 star level, my worry is going to be how tempting a target it is for a supply chain attack. (Most likely via one of it's dependencies.)
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by bigiain 6mo ago
If anyone from OpenAI is reading... The very first time I see one of these ads, I'm cancelling my ChatGPT subscription. Measure _that_ metric in your A/B testing.
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by bigiain 6mo ago
I( get that number by optioning up a Mac Studio to 128GB at the Apple Store. (Admittedly, Apple should be facing criminal price gouging law suits for their ram pricing.)
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by bigiain 6mo ago
You say that like it's a bad thing... It fits, in my head, very much in that same toy niche as Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operator series of music making devices: https://teenage.engineering/products/po
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by bigiain 6mo ago
> I work 128GB M4 but not run inference, just too many electron apps running at the same time. This is somewhat depressing - needing a couple of thousand bucks worth of ram just to run your chat app and code/text editor and API doco
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by bigiain 6mo ago
I watched a youtube vid recently (so use that to calibrate your bullshit detector here) that said there are a bunch of companies and even freely accessible satellites with Synthetic Aperture Radar covering the entire earth every 12 days. (
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by bigiain 6mo ago
That's fine, so long as your aware of the costs of that decision. That choice is what tends towards a"minimum prod deployment" consisting of something like a pair of app servers behind a load balance with a pair of redundant
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by bigiain 6mo ago
I saw Balint Seeber demo this at Dorkbot in Sydney, which must have been in the early 2000s, definitely before he left Sydney in about 2010. He was using live ADS-B data from an SDR, because this was way before global ADS-B websites and API
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Per side. Note: Left hand wrist areas are currently out of stock.
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by bigiain 6mo ago
My gmail account still has the "First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail." mail in it from June 2004. The account itself is over 21 years old. I wonder if I'll get forced to age verify myself any time
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by bigiain 6mo ago
>> ...no remote management interface... > I bet colos will plug a KVM into your hardware and give you remote access to that KVM. From the https://www.colaptop.com landing page: "Free KVM-over-IP access to your lapt
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by bigiain 6mo ago
> Yeah but for $6/mo you can get a tiny linode or digital ocean droplet That gets you, what, 1 "vCPU" with maybe a gig of ram and a couple of dozen gig of disk. If you (or a friend) work for a company of any size, there&#x
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Does it let you visualise quarter tone fretting? (Or is it just me who's obsessed with Angine de Poitrine right now?)
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Question, do you "build LEGO" as in "make what's on the box it came in", or do you use LEGO to build things yourself and not following instructions? (I am old, but as a kid, I remember building what the kit was supp
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Alternatively, ensuring you have enough slack in the schedule is, at least for some tech leads and project managers, an essential tool to enable meeting deadlines. (So, I suppose using "slack" in a positive sense by project manage
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Can confirm at least on of us (me) is weird.
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by bigiain 6mo ago
And Boeing 787s https://airguide.info/boeing-787s-must-be-turned-off-every-5...
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by bigiain 6mo ago
> 17:14 up 50 days, 22 mins, 16 users, load averages: 2.06 1.95 1.94 > Am I supposed to be having issues with TCP connections right now? (I'm not.) If my skim read of the slop post is correct, you'll only have issues on tha
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by bigiain 6mo ago
Step 3) Sam Altman profits.
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by bigiain 6mo ago
> very few users are likely to be affected by this I have a reasonably strong suspicion that I experienced this a week or two back, on a MacBook that doesn't go into sleep automatically and quite likely had 50-ish days of uptime. It
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by bigiain 7mo ago
> Still, I had assumed there might be some kind of master key that would handle this automatically during a password reset. This assumption, by a clearly technical person, is a fundamental problem that keeps "the rest of the world&q
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by bigiain 7mo ago
I'm really impressed by Ingenuity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter) It was sent to Mars with a plan for 5 flights and a total of 7 or 8 minutes flight time. It ended up flying for over 2 hours i
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by bigiain 7mo ago
> I don't think "slingshot" is the right analogy here. I think it's perfect - a very valid "David vs Goliath" reference.

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