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by bretpiatt 2y ago
Another use with barbed wire, we ran an x.25 network across it on a very large ranch with nodes 1 mile apart. With network monitoring we could now detect breaks in the fence at a 1 mile increment to let the ranch hands know where to go and
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Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram(techcrunch.com)
4 points by bretpiatt 2y ago|0 comments
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by bretpiatt 2y ago
Did you try to use GPT 3.5? Our testing is it isn't great, using GPT 4 or some of the specialized trained versions of GPT 4 (there's one with good reviews called Lisp Engineer) our experience has been different. It is not replacin
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by bretpiatt 2y ago
At 260 million passengers per year, that's $6 per ticket on a 20 year payback. By my understanding this is affordable as JFK is around $15 per passenger in fees.
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
Yes, here's an online site where you can see, for someone direct sourcing totally. https://www.gemrockauctions.com/search?query=morganite&weigh... 1505 ct for $3999 asking https://www.gemrockauctions.com
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
Rough math, $1,000 for the raw stone, $5,000 of travel and time to source... $80k sale price with 250 hours of cutting work, $300/hour for master gemcutter, seems very fair.
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
Here's human drivers navigating in a similar way in a large intersection in Addis Abada (Ethiopia), I envision white light basically enabling this: https://youtu.be/VPbUpdmAfck
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
TLDR: This is a real thing, turbines have built in protection, and there innovating on the whole system to really do this. It's a potential game changer vs. trying to build seawalls or levees. Read more, "Taming hurricanes with ar
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
Auto-deny and move on? https://www.ghostery.com/blog/how-to-block-cookies-on-most-b...
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About 600 Workers Unionize at Microsoft-Owned Activision(nytimes.com)
5 points by bretpiatt 3y ago|0 comments
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
It's probably not this far, DALL-E / GPT4 has some issues.... https://twitter.com/bpiatt/status/1740915306359329233
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
Perspective as CEO of a backup and disaster recovery company... A lot of folks now have ransomware protected backups for critical data so they aren't paying for decryption keys. This has escalated to hack and release, the attackers are
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
- "Strengthening bone, not muscle, is the reason to lift weights" There's a ton of information out there about this, from my understanding it is really important as you age, especially for females, and then for males as testo
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Byju’s Hid $533M in Hedge Fund Once Run from Miami IHOP(bloomberg.com)
2 points by bretpiatt 3y ago|1 comments
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
Paris the city is the city, if you're building a new city you build the city and the unincorporated areas around you grow on their own. If they're going to just build another The Woodlands (x2, they have twice this much land too)
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
The renderings did not help me visualise the real possibility. For perspective on how big 55,000 acres is, 640 per square mile, is 86 square miles, enough land to hold the city limits of Choose 2 of 3: Paris, Barcelona, and San Francisco. P
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by bretpiatt 3y ago
1) Subset breakthrough here potentially related to cancer, we'll see how the peer review and evolution to becoming an available standard of care goes. City of Hope scientists develop targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Info on ALPHV https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/advisories/20... May not be Ring directly, could be in 3rd party supplier with an undetermined level of data access https://twitter.com&
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Mark started Cost Plus Drugs https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Here's another source with better quality image, WSJ did fancy stuff putting it in the vault which doesn't give you a great look at the artwork itself. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-cabinetmaker-spent-30
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OWASP Needs to Evolve(github.com)
201 points by bretpiatt 4y ago|45 comments
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Interest rates have a large indirect impact on their business, not in the day to day operations but in the value of the future cash flows vs. risk free rate. Super simplifying, if risk free interest rate is 0% then you can value current cas
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
The United States is absolutely an Empire occupying territory, "...the U.S military has 200,000 active-service members deployed in at least 170 countries worldwide..." [1]. The United States extends tax to citizens and businesses
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Credit cards are a legacy system(twitter.com)
1 points by bretpiatt 4y ago|0 comments
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Here's the byline for author from top post on the front page, unclear to me how either of your accusations accurately represents him. https://quillette.com/author/niranjan/
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
I find Quillette - https://quillette.com/ very solid, all clear bylines so you can understand the background and perspective of the author.
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
It is known as Foxconn City where workers all live on campus, good article from 2017 for more context https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-l...
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
The maximum unemployment benefit in CA is $450/week[1], $100k/52 weeks is $1,923/week. Even if Meta paid the full amount of $5.4M per week the net is they are still saving tens/hundreds of millions with the reduction. [1
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
In a leadership role it is very possible to know what's going on, observe, wait, and if it isn't getting to where you want it in the time you need it by, then you interviene. This happened with Facebook Android app years ago, near
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by bretpiatt 4y ago
Egypt is also larger in GDP than South Africa, 2nd on the continent behind Nigeria[1]. The interesting piece in decision process from my view is can North African customers support their operations with European regions due to the better pe

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