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by dheera 1y ago
Maybe it could be a forcing function for the less-majority DST-rule countries to align to the majority, once they figure out that their IT systems have trouble twice a year they'll be sure to vote on it. Ideally though, just get rid of
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by dheera 1y ago
> Devs often want the inherent safety of the boring, easy stuff for a while. Part of the problem is that in big orgs, you need to show consistent progress in order to not get put on some PIP and kicked out of the company. There are per
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by dheera 1y ago
Probably because Mediterranean ingredients are accessible to most of the US, a but you're pretty much out of luck making Japanese food unless you live near one of the major cities of the US. Japanese food is probably also an unacquired
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by dheera 1y ago
What's even worse is that I have my browser set to block cookies on ALL sites by default and only enable them for a handful of sites that I login to. This causes all the stupid GDPR popup sites to not "remember" my preference
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by dheera 1y ago
> The law applies if you target people living in the EU I disagree with this. Tencent WeChat targets the entire world, including people living in the EU. They do not follow GDPR. Likewise, Facebook targets people living everywhere, inclu
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by dheera 1y ago
Or just GPG encrypt your messages and store it on some cheap shitcoin's blockchain for free forever storage.
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The "law" only applies if you live in the EU anyway.
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setTimeout(() => { // fuck up all future javascripts setTimeout = setInterval = requestAnimationFrame = () => {}; Element.prototype.appendChild = () => { throw new Error("Blocked&quot
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by dheera 1y ago
If I were in charge of an org's cybersecurity I would have AI agents continually trying to attack the systems 24/7 and inform me of successful exploits; it would suck if the major model providers block this type of usage.
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by dheera 1y ago
It has none of the actionable information that people want in a good feedback message: - What did I do wrong during the interviews - What did I do that you weren't happy with - Why was I not liked enough to be accept==1 If there is e
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by dheera 1y ago
Also, ignore international laws about the internet. No China website spews stupid GDPR popups. They don't listen to the EU, even if they have EU users. I don't think the US should, either. I don't disagree with privacy laws,
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by dheera 1y ago
You are conflating the communist-capitalist axis with authoritarian-democratic axis. China is not a communist country in practical terms and hasn't been for 30+ years.
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by dheera 1y ago
The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell gets you 96GB of RAM, a LOT more compute, and costs ~$7K which is not that much more than the $3K-$4K you'd pay for a DGX Spark. I think the RTX Pro is probably the best deal right now if you're looking
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by dheera 1y ago
It's restaurants that don't want to deal with 300 apps. They will pick the top 3 and call it a day.
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by dheera 1y ago
My point is that the public gatherings have become noise, and private gatherings have become where people are increasingly going, out of necessity. There used to be a point in time ~15 years ago when the public gatherings were mostly high-q
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by dheera 1y ago
> How do you expect people to get better at their craft Reality check: I don't. Educating the masses for free is not my duty and I don't have space and time for that. If I host a tech-related event it's for a group of peop
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by dheera 1y ago
People are going to in-person events. The difference is now everyone and their grandmother just learned to code and there's a shitton of noise in tech meetups. The only in-person events worth going to are those that have some kind of a
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by dheera 1y ago
People who pirate software at scale are not typically interested in ASCII art. It doesn't quite cross the threshold of business value and usefulness (e.g. SolidWorks, Photoshop) that would attract pirates.
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by dheera 1y ago
I don't get it. Does this stop me from sideloading apps?
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> make it easier for certain organizations to use this Maybe those organizations should just use this and not worry about it. If their lawyers are getting in the way of engineers using this, they will fall behind as an organization and t
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by dheera 1y ago
Michael Burry is selection bias. Everyone who predicted a massive crash when a crash didn't happen did not become famous.
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by dheera 1y ago
As long as people have to do their taxes every time they spend crypto it isn't viable as a value transfer system in the US. In Dubai and Singapore, maybe it works well because capital gains aren't taxed.
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by dheera 1y ago
> They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners When I get presented with one of these I often just click out of the website. If you're looking to spread information, make it easy by just delivering it to me unobstructed. Your
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by dheera 1y ago
The second tallest mountain is Everest. The tallest is Mauna Kea, it's just that most of it is underwater.
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by dheera 1y ago
> Basically every new law, piece of news or media I see coming from the UK paints a picture of a beat-down, cynical & scared society I feel like this is 100% true of the US as well, the only difference is there are multiple factions
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by dheera 1y ago
> Unfortunately I'm in a Bortle 5 to 6 area Yeah that would do it. I'm in the western US and there are lots of Bortle 2 sites I can access in a weekend, and Bortle 1 sites I can access on a long weekend. There's even a Bor
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by dheera 1y ago
I do a lot of amateur astrophotography too ( https://www.instagram.com/dheeranet/ ), mainly with the objective of trying to show what things "would look like" if these deep space objects were much brighter; I m
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by dheera 1y ago
It's worth noting that many NASA images use the "HSO" palette which is false color imagery. In particular the sulfur (S) and hydrogen (H) lines are both red to the human eye, so NASA assigns them to different colors (hydrogen
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by dheera 1y ago
Surprised they don't do some signal processing on all the IMU signals to see if they correlate (to within a rotation matrix), and if the timing of shaking at different locations is consistent with the distance to some (solvable) epicen
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by dheera 1y ago
Wondering the same thing. It's a pretty standard, mundane household vegetable you can buy at most Asian supermarkets.

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