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by crmd 2y ago
In a friends/family compound that is subdivided, you need a covenant on the original deeds that controls what happens when a member wants to sell their lot, e.g. the existing members collectively have to approve the buyer, or have righ
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by crmd 2y ago
> Feature prioritization over optimization: Engineering resources appear focused on new capabilities rather than fixing existing performance problems; This point really cuts to the heart of my frustration with Apple lately. I switched fr
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by crmd 2y ago
Corp IT recently banned my Indy with IRIX 6.5.32 daily driver from the network for some bureaucratic reason. I feel your pain.
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by crmd 2y ago
In my previous companies for most post-screen candidates we would reach out behind the scenes through our personal networks (or worst case via our investors networks getting an intro) to a person with a chain of trust back to us who has wor
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by crmd 2y ago
Wow, I just followed your suggestion and the output text was exactly the style of writing I enjoy and try to employ myself. Gonna check Quigley out. Thank you!
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by crmd 2y ago
You could be describing the performance of me and most of my friends and colleagues over the past five years. It’s insane how similar non-deterministic software systems already are to biological. Maybe I’ve been wrong and consciousness is a
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by crmd 2y ago
I respectfully disagree - there's always money in the banana stand.
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by crmd 2y ago
Unfortunately it happens all the time in my friends circle, and it's for technical not anti-social reasons. Group texts that include Android users are so buggy that they tend to die out, whereas iMessage-only groups tend to be long las
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by crmd 2y ago
>[I]nterpreting this law in such a way would further solidify the dominance of proprietary AI over open or academic research. This goes to the heart of the debate here. Obviously forking an open-source model of Chinese origin is not “sen
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by crmd 2y ago
> I think a lot of these products aren’t monetized because they’re actually bad businesses or failed venture Gmail, for example, would be a fabulous standalone business with a normal (subscription) business model like other premium email
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by crmd 2y ago
I worked on the storage layer for one of them many years ago. The jankiest shit I had ever encountered. Just a couple of unpatched Sun servers and default untuned Oracle instances with no indexes and no IT people and just a few sales guys s
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by crmd 2y ago
I hope I'm not nitpicking semantics, but I believe part of the solution is in the discourse is to specify platform owners as the greedy actors here. E.g.: >The balance of power needs to be shifted towards the workers (and clients)
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by crmd 2y ago
I am trying to imagine the legal contortions required for the US Supreme Court to relieve Meta of copyright infringement liability for participating in a bit torrent cloud (and thereby facilitating "piracy" by others) in this cas
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by crmd 2y ago
We need more regulation of commercial speech. It should be unlawful with serious penalties to knowingly mislead people via commercial speech.
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by crmd 2y ago
In my living room I have a pair of loudspeakers, an 18 watt stereo tube amp that I service myself, an analog rotary mixer, a pair of turntables, and an IKEA Kallax full of records. 10 years ago my friends called me a hipster for doing this
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by crmd 2y ago
As an old person, I’m very much of the mindset, “Keep your mouth shut as much as possible, never air dirty laundry publicly, and don’t pick fights with your company who has infinitely greater legal budget than you do.” However, I’ve come to
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by crmd 2y ago
I'm glad the author linked to Matt's videos. As soon as I saw the Wired headline I knew where they got the scoop from. His youtube channel [0] is focused on IOT hacking. Most of his techniques will probably be considered basic by
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by crmd 2y ago
Automation is a shitty deal for the workforce because in every case those who are not made redundant are expected to create more work product for the same wage. The introduction of Photoshop generative fill, Office 365 Co-pilot, etc means t
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by crmd 2y ago
In my view, the root cause of the bizarreness is that medical care is one of a few enterprises that are inherently social in nature, and is therefore a prima facie exception to the common wisdom that free markets create the most positive ou
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by crmd 2y ago
There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny,
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by crmd 2y ago
In my experience close to 100% of productivity increases accrue exclusively to shareholders. When my companies have produced more output from the same inputs (or the same output from less inputs in the case of mass layoffs), we return the c
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by crmd 2y ago
It’s never been clear to me why this program exists in the first place, other than to put downward pressure on US STEM wages. What am I missing?
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by crmd 2y ago
I have briefed Register journalists 100+ times and this is is absolutely their editorial style. If you go technical, they do their best to translate what you've said into analogies that mid-market IT managers will understand. It was em
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by crmd 2y ago
You’re most welcome. It’s so cool this level of detail is unclassified and open to all.
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by crmd 2y ago
For any engineer interested in nuclear weapons, I highly recommend this three-part series produced by Sandia National Laboratory on their development of Permissive Action Link, the warhead’s electrical isolation and cryptological module tha
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by crmd 2y ago
The only remotely creative aspect of the preamp was the use of discrete voltage regulators for almost every component in the audio path. It has a comical number of voltage regulator ICs.
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by crmd 2y ago
Huge fan of Mark here. His YouTube and Patreon are a wealth of knowledge for repairing electronics. He’s an expert in everything from electronics to machining and plastics fabrication. And his demeanor and presentation style is just lovely.
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by crmd 2y ago
Parent may be referring to specialty units that for example chill expensive perishable medication.
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by crmd 2y ago
As a civilian I’m in no position to critique the CO’s decision making. However it doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume a SONAR contact classified as a fishing boat may have a net deployed posing a hazard within a certain radius. I assume Aar
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by crmd 2y ago
I’m surprised Virginia didn’t hear the ship’s motor from miles away and kept its distance. I wonder if there will be any disciplinary actions.

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