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by daydream 3y ago
He listened to people… 35 years later! 35 years! In the meantime we were treated to a huge pile of pseudo intellectual babble he used to defend his position.
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by daydream 3y ago
I don’t agree with some of this comment. But I agree with more of it that I thought I would initially. The comment about him being on the right side of history is incisive.
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by daydream 3y ago
Same with locomotives. Most are diesel-electric in that a diesel engine drives a generator, which generates electricity to power an electric motor that actually turns the wheels. Less mechanical wear and tear this way, though it adds some i
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by daydream 3y ago
> 4. What about dividend reinvesting? Can't you avoid taxes if you do that? No. Dividends that are reinvested are still taxable.
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by daydream 3y ago
I think most people probably just scroll down to about where they left of reading and pick up from there. It doesn’t seem to be a problem, really.
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by daydream 3y ago
> It will be interesting to see the eventual outcome of this saga. For sure. Knowing there’s a backlash against the backlash, I wonder if Reddit triples down and forcibly flips back to public all the top subreddits that went private. The
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by daydream 3y ago
> And yet, desktop apps have so many issues (installation/breakage/crashes) that web apps are the only way to deliver software BNb that just works. I never have any installation or breakage issues with desktop apps and crashes
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by daydream 3y ago
They probably mean this one: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam...
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by daydream 3y ago
Wow the op-ed liked from the Examples section is just brutal. Incredibly brutal. https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Stamford-is... Is Stamford really that bad?
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by daydream 3y ago
> I actually used it for something that is difficult to replicate even today. The AV input/output board allows for capture of s-video output (good for digitization of old VHS tapes). This isn’t at all difficult today. You can buy a
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by daydream 3y ago
Just buy the cheap car, rip out the head unit, and replace it with a CarPlay compatible one. Assuming you’ll even be able to do that… Could be a nice money-making opportunity.
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by daydream 3y ago
> Neither helps if the line that you're using drops mid-call, but there are ways to deal with that, if you have high speed available at a datacenter. For instance, I've set up routing of a small public subnet via tinc ( https:&
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by daydream 3y ago
Interesting that standalone is powered by Intel and not ARM (Intel 11th Gen Core™ i3-1115G4 processor with 8GB of RAM). I wonder why? They already support Live on Apple Silicon. CDM [1] reports that standalone is running Linux on that intel
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by daydream 3y ago
What was the specific issue you ran into?
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by daydream 3y ago
That doesn’t seem to be the case here. “The South Korean tech giant initially deliberated a search-engine switch, thinking that it wouldn’t substantially change the status quo since the majority of Samsung smartphone users don’t use its in-
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by daydream 3y ago
Why do you need to use PPPoE? Is that an ISP requirement? It seems uncommon nowadays to need PPPoE.
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by daydream 3y ago
Steve Jobs had nothing to do with the Newton other than killing it when he returned to Apple. I agree with the rest of your comment.
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by daydream 3y ago
In addition to Google Workspace I believe Office 365 offers device management capabilities too. I know you said you’re on GW, and it’s basically the default choice for small companies at this point, but office 365 is worth a look especially
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by daydream 3y ago
You can almost outrun (or out-sport) a bad diet when you’re 16. The problem is those bad diet habits stick with you then when you’re 35 or 40 or 45 and can’t outrun it you see screwed.
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by daydream 3y ago
This is very unexpected - why would fednow integrate with some random blockchain? And the PR article liked by hbcondo714 is now a 404. What gives?
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by daydream 3y ago
Chris Miller is making the rounds. He did a very long, in-depth interview with Stratechery a couple weeks ago that was really excellent. I’m not a subscriber to Scope of Work but from what I can see the Stratechery interview is much more in
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by daydream 3y ago
I wonder if they’re implementing the vocabulary customization by sending it in the prompt, or by using a custom-trained model? My guess is the former. There can’t be THAT much customization required, their menu isn’t textbook-length. And th
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by daydream 3y ago
I expect some amount of brain drain as researchers interested in publishing go elsewhere. That assumes other companies maintain an open publishing policy. I expect at least some will as it serves their interests (Meta for example).
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Amazon plans to rework Alexa in the age of ChatGPT(theverge.com)
17 points by daydream 3y ago|1 comments
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by daydream 3y ago
Have they sold any of these to anyone yet?
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by daydream 3y ago
> It's safer to use lower weight, more reps, good form, don't strain too much. This is utterly, completely wrong. And this book goes into tons of detail about why. It's partly written by a medical doctor and includes many
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by daydream 3y ago
It's on by default.
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by daydream 3y ago
> As a landlord, I require my tenants to have renter's insurance. A landlord requiring renters insurance is illegal in the state of Oklahoma. It may be illegal in certain cities or towns as well. That said these are exceptions; this
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by daydream 3y ago
Oh my. Yes, there is more than meets the eye here.
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by daydream 3y ago
> Boutique software companies, such as Panic or Omni Group, plus other developers could really extend the ecosystem beyond content consumption and simple document creation tasks. If that’s the case why hasn’t Omni or Panic written these

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