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by bsder 1y ago
The Wayback stuff is super cool. How has it not hit the front page? I see the previous submissions, but there's just crickets in the comments.
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by bsder 1y ago
> There are only a few hundred magicians consistently making a full-time living performing stage magic and only a couple dozen consistently making a really good living. It's my (possibly wrong) perception that this has become more d
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by bsder 1y ago
Uh, yeah. They sure can. Watching Teller do the cups and balls trick with transparent cups is mesmerizing.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Set your MX to your own SMTP server but pay a mail delivery service to send your emails Is there a paid mail delivery service that doesn't get marked as spam instantaneously? Or is there a way to do this through something like Fas
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by bsder 1y ago
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
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by bsder 1y ago
No, that will get marked as spam super fast.
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by bsder 1y ago
> I didn't want to actually host my own mail stack Is there a way to only host the receive portion? I'm happy to pay someone to handle all the idiocy around sending email and getting it through Google and Microsoft, but I&#x2
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by bsder 1y ago
> functional yet secure Secure? Debatable. Functional? Not really. For example, try accessing a security key and watch the fun. Sure, if you access it exactly the way Google wants you to, things kinda-sorta work, sometimes. If you
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by bsder 1y ago
Yes. :) How big a deal is it to be on the cutting edge with this? Given that models seem to be flattening out because they can't get any more data, the answer is "not as much as you would think". Consequently, a generation
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by bsder 1y ago
Sadly, Prusa is not equally reliable. The fact that the Bambu printers use linear slides means they have a huge accuracy advantage right out the chute. And the Bambu printers have a bunch of other quality of life improvements that really
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by bsder 1y ago
1) If your wife was having a high risk pregnancy and couldn't get vaccinated, she really shouldn't have been working on the front lines during Covid, anyway. 2) Take a look in the mirror and try blaming the people who have made &q
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by bsder 1y ago
> I remember reading a headline that being poor is equivalent to losing about 5 IQ points. Poor people also spend a lot of time using cash equivalents rather than credit. There is a big advantage to using credit. For example, I don&#x
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by bsder 1y ago
Once you throw out the BEAM and OTP, why not OCaml? Seriously, I find the OCaml syntax way less obtuse than, for example, all the trait and macro idioms that I have to chop through with Rust. Sure, Rust has braces, but that doesn't ma
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by bsder 1y ago
> but only giving H1-Bs to the highest paying reqs which need them starves all of the other reqs of any possible candidates. Then they need to pay better? There are not 85,000 quant PhDs jobs paying a megabuck+ in spite of what many voca
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by bsder 1y ago
From TFA: (archive link: https://archive.ph/5CeZe ) > Other factors that have been linked to autism include people being born prematurely or through cesarean section, as well as pregnant people having obesity, using cert
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by bsder 1y ago
That's not completely true. The FDA rules are an oversimplification because the actual rules are complicated. Chris Young has a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbaZpJ1AhFU
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by bsder 1y ago
> I read that as "[All] The schools in California [in aggregate] generally score right at or just below the median for [other states' schools in aggregate] for the entire US." That is how I intended it as, like you, I have
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by bsder 1y ago
> This is in California where the test scores are some of the worst in the nation. This is an easily disprovable statement that calls into question your credibility. California schools generally score right at or just below the median fo
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by bsder 1y ago
Maybe the technical aspects of the book are okay. However, the big problem with legacy code is always political . And the only book I've seen ever try to address that is "Kill It with Fire". It's one of the few books t
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by bsder 1y ago
> You can thank CAFE er al for that. Somewhat, but I'll blame business finance way, way, way more. The US automakers are doing the exact same dumbass thing they did in the 1970s with "BIGGER!-shouted (and more profitable)-whi
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by bsder 1y ago
> SDL3 might fix it all but the time to integrate SDL3 would be the same time I could write it from scratch. The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy
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by bsder 1y ago
> Genuinely asking -- what is it due to? Mostly memory/cache subsystem. Apple was willing to spend a lot of transistors on cache because they were optimizing the chips purely for mobile and can bury the extra cost in their expensive
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by bsder 1y ago
> There is no point in using a low-bandwidth card like the B50 for AI. People actually use loaded out M-series macs for some forms of AI training. So, total memory does seem to matter in certain cases.
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by bsder 1y ago
> If it is that easy to compete with Nvidia, why don't we already have those cards? Businesswise? Because Intel management are morons. And because AMD, like Nvidia, don't want to cannibalize their high end. Technically? &quo
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by bsder 1y ago
Put 32GB on that card and everybody would ignore performance issues. With 16GB everybody will just call it another in the long list of Intel failures.
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by bsder 1y ago
> But a man who develops diabetes does not acquire genetic T2D by doing so - he cannot pass it on directly to his children. Epigenetic changes absolutely can be passed to children even over multiple generations--this is already proven.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Most humans that claim they could could. I don't agree. My anecdata suggests that Waymo is significantly better than random ridesharing drivers in the US, nowadays. My last dozen ridesharing experiences only had a single driver th
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by bsder 1y ago
Agreed. If anyone in the medical community tried the stuff that Facebook and Google do, it would fail immediately at an ethics review board and/or the person would lose their medical license.
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by bsder 1y ago
Is there a blog post on this somewhere? I'd really love to read more about it beyond just the official documentation.
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by bsder 1y ago
Building an OS is easy and straightforward. Now let's make that OS talk to a graphics card--whoops, no Nvidia for you, peon! An OS isn't a problem. Hardware support on an OS--that's a huge problem.

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