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by bsder 8mo ago
And who gets in trouble when her iCloud account glitches itself and loses everything? Or when the network is dead and nothing works? Local copies should always be primary and cloud copies secondary . But you don't get to extract re
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by bsder 8mo ago
> The database CANNOT EXIST SAFELY. Why don’t people who “might be okay with this IF…” understand that? You have to point out the Jews in Amsterdam. They had nothing to hide--until they did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by bsder 8mo ago
> “Android phones” is the key missing piece. iOS/macOS is no better. My wife kept getting weird errors on her iPhone. Turns out, her photos were only in the cloud and, quelle surprise, she had run out of room in "The Cloud(tm)
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by bsder 8mo ago
Erm, have you ever taken a Waymo and watched the detection screen? If you can see it, it sees you. Period. I guarantee it. It can see and gives special priority to humans. I have watched it mark people at night that I couldn't see a
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by bsder 8mo ago
Hmmm. Good point. I probably knee jerk apply "disingenuous" to everybody AI-adjacent, but I should rethink that given the connotation of "false candor". "Naive" is certainly a better choice.
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> I swear HN is just a bunch of fanboys full of NPC behavior. Why are you assuming these are real people and not NPCs? The amount of money flowing around AI is staggering . To believe that the AI companies aren't flooding all the
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by bsder 8mo ago
> The problem isn't Google. Wrong. Google is very much the problem. If Google had not been allowed to buy YouTube, for example, YouTube and Google would have had to compete with one another. > The problem is that people want
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by bsder 8mo ago
The Jews in Amsterdam had nothing to hide ... until they did. Do you give everybody your tax returns? No? Then you have something to hide. Do you give everybody your phone records? No? Then you have something to hide. Do you give everyb
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by bsder 8mo ago
> I’ve seen some very high quality NSFW AI video in the last few months. Those models are not far behind and the search and training space for porn is smaller than being able to generate anything. Agreed. In my opinion, the primary limi
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> Like solid machines sub-$100. You can get 3D printers from BestBuy(!) for $200 retail. At that point, the cost of the filament is going to quickly exceed the cost of the machine. At the $200 price point, your Bill of Materials is roug
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by bsder 8mo ago
> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it? It's really hard to beat injection molding for scale. However, what 3D printing did shift was building molds and pro
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by bsder 8mo ago
How about a non-paywalled link? archive.is seems to be having issues today.
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Do you know of any free/open-source examples that solve this problem well? No. Sorry, I should have been clearer. None of the open source programs handle this. > These heuristics seem like exactly the sort of thing that comme
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by bsder 8mo ago
> I don't know anything about that industry but there has to be a way to paint cars in a safe way, right?? There are. They just cost more and take more time. > But lumping that in with semiconductor fabs, which are extremely tox
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by bsder 8mo ago
So why is it that every 3D CAD program other than FreeCAD seems to have something that solves this problem "well enough" that most people doing simple designs (aka everything you could possibly print on a 3D printer) don't
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Then they can put all their data in EU servers and not worry US authorities can look at it even with a valid warrant and a court order. I have yet to see the EU ignore a valid judicial warrant except in the most extreme cases. The poin
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> I have personally met Caltrans engineers who might as well have stepped out of a time machine from 1970. This is the problem with outsourcing everything in the name of "efficiency". If you don't actually do things in hou
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by bsder 8mo ago
This article completely fails to mention any of the horrific interpersonal dynamics of the family members who owned Fry's which, I suspect, was the primary reason why the chain had no way to arrest its downfall.
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by bsder 8mo ago
> You mean like how the US government constantly bails out and props up the American car companies? Um, yes? Did I stutter? Do you have bad reading comprehension? Are you using an AI? Precisely what part of "we have been here bef
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> It’s like the western zeitgeist can’t accept that China is simply out-competing them on pure merit. With a 400m head start in a 1600m race. It's a whole lot easier to out-compete somebody when you know the government will backsto
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by bsder 8mo ago
> The democratization ends at your router. Mostly because we have allowed the ISPs to collapse into monopolies. People have forgotten that the US used to have competition in broadband back at the point where the Internet was rolling ou
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*BSD was also under lawsuit threat from 1992-1994 while Linux took off.
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Tesla knew that they had the server logs all along. For a corporation to engage in this behavior is almost criminal. Not almost. It IS criminal. And if plebeians like us did that, the judge would toss us in jail without blinking.
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by bsder 8mo ago
You semi-regular reminder that Kent Beck was one of the XP brain trust behind the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...
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Are there any validation/test suites available that you can use to check that your implementation is correct?
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> Do you agree with countries doing the opposite to the US? Yes, please! Maximally efficient is minimally robust. We need robustness in the global economy more than some megajillionaire needs another half cent per customer in profit.
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by bsder 8mo ago
Lisp lost because none the the Lisperati came down from on high and deigned to explain how to use it for tasks running on the 1980s microcomputers. Lisp also lost because the 1980s Lisperati spent all their time explaining lists and recursi
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It would be nice to have a dosage that lasts a couple of days for when you're flying or attending a conference. That way, your immune system wouldn't be on continuous high alert, but you could give it an "Oy, wake up. Incomi
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by bsder 8mo ago
Amazon had better return policies. I suspect that is gone. I'll probably buy even less from Amazon, anymore. I've gotten 2 different "You didn't return the right item" because I presume some underpaid, overworke
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A bit of engineering and a lot of myth and degradation due to time. The engineering seems to be a combination of genuine construction advances and the usage of wood that was abnormally dense due to having been grown during a big drought. Th

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