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by com2kid 1y ago
Cooking really spicy food can cause everyone in the house to start coughing, even those who love eating spicy food, and even with a decent venting system. Then there is sea food, many preparations of which are going to smell like sea food
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by com2kid 1y ago
When I was doing job interviews during my last year of college, I was able to chat with all my interviewers about the morning's Slashdot headlines. Everyone had checked the /. front page that morning and I was able to have a nice
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by com2kid 1y ago
This kind of shit used to be explicitly tested against. Get a Windows 7 install, fill up all but the last few bytes on the main HDD, it'll work fine, you'll be able to login and delete stuff. Completely saturate memory, RAM full,
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by com2kid 1y ago
Paper get lost, it gets wet, it gets blown around it not weighed down, and when weighed down it then quickly gets covered with things. Prepping raw ingredients, once has to be careful not to contaminate paper, or at least the thing weighing
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by com2kid 1y ago
One of my internships was preparing Bill Gate's demo machines for CES. I setup custom machine images and ran through scripts to make sure everything went off w/o a hitch (I was doing just the demos for Tablet PC, each org presumab
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by com2kid 1y ago
> but in our current society you won't get a job for being boring, One can argue that every other field of engineering outside of Software Engineering, specializes in making complex things into boring things. We are the unique snowf
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by com2kid 1y ago
Many reasons, soundbites don't work to explain it. > Some rich countries have done great to subsidize childcare and all that. In rich counties, people have more desirable alternatives to having kids. Airfare is cheap . In high inco
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by com2kid 1y ago
I was at Microsoft when it happened and it felt like a fear response to the newer agile tech companies like Facebook that wrote blog posts about releasing daily. Many teams at Microsoft had a weeks to months long QA process before software
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by com2kid 1y ago
Python is the other extreme, with an incredibly heavy weight standard library with a built in function to do just about anything. E.g. there is a built in function that takes elements pairwise from a list! That level of minutia being includ
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by com2kid 1y ago
Sing it with me now! The social contract is dead The social contract is dead Work real hard, 9 to 5, can't afford a roof over your head The social contract is dead Limited resources, limited hope. The best parents can hope for
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by com2kid 1y ago
Microsoft considers documentation status and long term support status to be the same thing. If the behavior of a function / API is not going to remain stable, it isn't documented. If they don't want to pay maintenance/su
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by com2kid 1y ago
EVs cost ~$2 to charge a day for an average amount of driving. The cost for AC dwarfs the cost to charge an EV.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Okay, but it's also possible to use high quality eggs and fancy chocolate in a box mix, so it's not necessarily a strict upgrade to go from scratch either? Except the conversation is about Betty Crocker mixes, which are the v
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by com2kid 1y ago
Consistency is hard, but quality isn't. If I use my eggs from neighbor's chickens, fancy chocolate, and organic milk from a local dairy, the cake is going to taste better (90% from the better chocolate honestly). Quality improveme
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by com2kid 1y ago
Counterpoint in Seattle - We talk to our neighbors regularly and are good friends with a few. Having kids helps.
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by com2kid 1y ago
The Whitehouse once called my team at Microsoft and asked for some features. We said yes, we'd get right on it. :-D We were all too stunned to have any real feedback.
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by com2kid 1y ago
As someone who grew up on /. the Goatse Singularity song ( https://soundcloud.com/truthterminal/the-goatse-singularity-... ) speaks to me. I'm surprised to see a modern references to one of the OG memes. I miss
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by com2kid 1y ago
Now days is is the other way around, the expensive private schools boast no/minimal screens and the public schools have Chromebooks.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I live in Seattle and we wave to our neighbors every day. We also have block parties with big cookouts, kids running up and down the streets and sidewalks playing with each other after school, and I get to enjoy a highly walkable lifestyle.
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by com2kid 1y ago
But that is dumb luck. Release an exploit, hope you can then gain further entry into a system at a company that is both high value and doesn't have any basic security practices in place. That could have netted the attacker something mu
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by com2kid 1y ago
> You're a criminal with a one-in-a-million opportunity. Wouldn't you invest an extra week pushing a more fledged out exploit? Because the way this was pulled off, it was going to be found out right away. It wasn't a subtl
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by com2kid 1y ago
Video has far less information density than a blog post. Heck 2 hour long podcasts have an information density of damn near zero. Yet those are the dominate form of online content consumption now. I agree for productivity use cases it isn&
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by com2kid 1y ago
Hey Google stopped working reliably when the move to Gemini started. It either doesn't trigger, or it has fewer features. It sure as heck isn't accessible all the time whenever I am close to my phone anymore, and I'm on a Pix
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by com2kid 1y ago
That is my fear yeah, a continued dumbing down of society. Literacy rates in the US are already garbage, this device may just make it worse. If people never have to read or write, why would they bother learning how?
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by com2kid 1y ago
> but you rarely hear "JSON sucks" because it gave up on graphs for trees Except it also spawned a thousand custom formats that include $ref support of some type, so we are right back to having graphs. :-D
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by com2kid 1y ago
I am surprised no one here has noted that a device like this almost completely negates the need for literacy . That is huge. Right now people still need to interact with written words, both typing and reading. Realistically a quiet vocal b
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by com2kid 1y ago
Pulling out my phone, unlocking it, opening my notes app, creating a new note, that is a bottleneck. Puling out my phone, unlocking it, remembering what the hotkey is today for starting google/gemini, is a bottle neck. Damned if I can
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by com2kid 1y ago
> they seem to be producing text, which is then put through text-to-speech (using what appeared to be a voice trained on their own -- nice touch). This is an LLM model thing. Plenty of open source (or at least MIT licensed) LLMs and TTS
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by com2kid 1y ago
> But for using a computer its still annoying and worse than a mouse because with a mouse you can click or drag and place in a second, in this format you have to think "move the box from point A to point B (with coordinates or a des
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by com2kid 1y ago
The latency and bandwidth on BT does not suffice for today's expected webcam level quality. FWIW you can use an Android phone as a web cam. Not sure what the latency is though...

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