dingaling

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by dingaling 2mo ago
You don't need AI to patch binaries, people have been doing it by hand for decades. It's this accelerating reliance on AI to do 'hard boring things' that really concerns me; it's now passed the tipping point and peo
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Premium Economy is so much more expensive than steerage class that it's not a realistic 'option' for the majority of potential passengers. > " OK well you made your choice...." The only choice for most people is
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by dingaling 3mo ago
"Be a shame if you couldn't access them any more... Verify identity to continue"
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by dingaling 3mo ago
I understand what you're saying about side projects but it just sounds... like buying a landscape wall print from IKEA instead of taking a photo and having it printed on canvas. My non-work projects are exercises for the brain and for
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by dingaling 3mo ago
"An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid," Lord Rutherford of Nelson. There should be some name for the phenonenom of assigning anything pithy to Einstein.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> Was there a general sense that something singularity-like was approaching? To a degree. There was breathless expectation that this was a turning point for commerce, government and society and that everyone had to stake their claim no
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Why are the errors occurring, though? That's what boring analyse-and-fix addresses, through familiarity, recognition of patterns and "hang onnn..." moments. It's like your AI agent is just plugging the leaks in the dyke
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Sounds like the perfect use-case for big-small processors. A power-sipper for routine 99.99% of operations and a more powerful beast for the CPU intensive ops.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
You're applying everyday casual risk analysis to the highly-regulated environment of commercial air transport, where the MAX crashes absolutely were out of the norm and well beyond accepted levels. Bear in mind when the crashes occurre
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament, has operated continuously for over 1000 years
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Capital comes through direct investment and public offerings, not the secondary shares market.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
I don't think they're opting out of companionship as much as opting out of the brutal game of Top Trumps that is modern dating, where the decks seemed stacked against them. If they feel they're never going to succeed in that
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Separate user accounts are irrelevant when any one user has sudo and can therefore change binaries for everyone.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Yet they're happy to take nuclear-generated electricity from France...
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> Running is quite meditative when you get in to it Some people are physiologically suited to running, but many aren't. I've been running 4-6 times weekly for 28 years and still dread every single run. Every step is a slog and
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Fan and turbine failures are supposed to be contained by the engine casing - it's part of certification. But as we see here, uncontained failures do occur. In general "airplane builders" do the absolute minimum to meet ce
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Dropped curbs also make progress more difficult for users using the pavement / sidewalk in a normal manner, since it introduces constrictions and trip hazards - which is a aspect of "curb cut effect" that is glossed over. Tr
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by dingaling 3mo ago
More likely omitted for cost associated with regulatory reasons, so they don't have to submit it for emitter approval.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> far too many people avoid strength training. Yes, because it hurts. Lifting weights is sore and exhausting. You're never going to persuade rhe plurality of people to improve their physical condition by enduring pain, it needs to b
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> you found a way to move your body that you genuinely enjoy? All physical exertion causes pain and discomfort, otherwise it isn't exertion. That's not ever going to be enjoyable. Tolerable, perhaps, given focus on the goal, b
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> In others, it's less important and speed of iteration has more value. Maybe in some sort of topsy-turvy techbro world. I've never, in three decades of developing, had a user say "what I want are new features updated freq
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by dingaling 3mo ago
There are no studies to suggest that "Gell-Mann" is a real phenomenon. It was invented by an author, Michael Crichton, on a whim. Any rational reader will adjust their faith in a publication based on the identified errors it make
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> search for a book They don't have it, because they've limited shelf space and only stock popular books that are on best-seller lists. The History of Scruggs Biplanes 1907-1919 isn't one of them.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
At which point I might as well order from the publisher's website instead of having to explain to a shop owner what I want.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Seems odd that, if he has to type parentheses so much, he didn't just map them to their own key instead of keeping them as a shift key code.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
By the time FB bought WhatsApp it had nearly a billion users. No need for technology conspiracy nonsense.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
Finding fun moments to make a job tolerable is very, very far away from doing a job because they enjoy it.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
E-mail, software encryption, HTTP and chat protocols have utterly transformed daily life.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
They could register as a corporate developer, but they decline to do so because _"that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications."_ But it wouldn't - the course code is still available for an
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by dingaling 3mo ago
The ballpoint pen was invented in 1938. It doesn't rely on any arcane manufacturing technology.

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