doubloon

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by doubloon 3y ago
As someone who spent an enormous amount of free time with zero pay contributing to one of those open source cad tools you mentioned, i say good for her. Make that bag. I work in a low level job thats got nothing to do with open source nor w
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by doubloon 3y ago
i guess the argument is that these images were a needle in a haystack and now you have given the public a supermagnet to go find it. like right now, if someone tries to download old laion and find those images manually, it would probably ta
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by doubloon 3y ago
bigots will always try to abuse the legal system to attack minorities, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the legal system to protect victims of crime. if we are going to argue over historical injustice, this crime in p
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by doubloon 3y ago
there is an enormous gulf, legally and morally, between fictional murder and real pictures of children being abused. which is the topic of the article at hand.
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by doubloon 3y ago
each person has the individual right to not have pictures of their abuse posted in public. and as a society we dont need statistical evidence for every single law we come up with. some things we just know are harmful to victims because of c
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by doubloon 3y ago
if crime is done to me personally, it takes away my liberty. individuals have rights, which is the foundational concept of the Enlightenment and all modern society. there is no panic here. every reasonable person agrees this is a problem, a
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by doubloon 3y ago
well theoretically you could argue the structure of this task should have 'dual control' / multiple people should be involved in the process checking each others work. preferably even split it up people who do not know or in
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by doubloon 3y ago
i would like to insert a step 0, no version control whatsoever, which is what currently happens with the vast majority of VBA, and its top contender for replacement, Power Automate.
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by doubloon 3y ago
right, every other media company like the NY Times, Britannica, Guardian, do the following Pay writers Offer legal protection against defamation lawsuits Now I ask why Wikimedia does neither? It seems a lot like basically ju
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by doubloon 3y ago
right but the "compression/decompression" code essentially becomes, like what, 10 lines of C? down from several thousand
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by doubloon 3y ago
i mean the PNG code, youd have to have some PNG code in addition to the DEFLATE code yes?
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by doubloon 3y ago
there are excel parsing libraries will treat the underlying data differently depending on how it is formatted. operations people basically have to do workarounds for this all the time.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Its a fact. You can open Power Automate Cloud which is basically Scratch for Grown Ups and type in “every day at 3 pm please check if i have an email from Jane Doe and if not then save a file to my cloud drive called “noemail.txt” and it ba
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by doubloon 3y ago
once it starts skipping the integers you can really see the glitch in the matrix
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by doubloon 3y ago
So the Shelters are half full? That is higher success rate than most VC startups and cost a lot less too
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by doubloon 3y ago
signin with google does not work
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by doubloon 3y ago
i think these days one of the quickest ways to ramp up is to subscribe to Chat GPT 4 and ask it "please help me write a graphics program to draw a cube", or some other simple example, then ask it to explain each piece of code and
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by doubloon 3y ago
it's used to give us the best snipers possible so if Russia invades Alaska we will be ready. Democratic governments tend to not have war with each other so if we really want to stop war, we have to defend democracy against all of the a
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by doubloon 3y ago
not minor at all. you do something 100 times a day, adding multiple seconds to that time is not only wasting time, it is increasing the 'cognitive load' on the human brain. this is why you find in a lot of Operations centers, peop
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by doubloon 3y ago
Panasonic used to be called Matsushita and they pioneered the non-cylindrical "prismatic" nickel metal hydride battery when they were working with Toyota on the Prius. It did not go this far, it was more like 6 pouch-cells aligned
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by doubloon 3y ago
alot more detail here https://www.sae.org/news/2021/10/byds-blade-runner would love to be corrected here but if i understand they basically did away with the idea of "modules of cells" and just have
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by doubloon 3y ago
IMHO the trick is that any moderately useful and modern VBA is likely to go way beyond the base specification. - UserForms GUI (which this does not touch on at all) - Microsoft libraries like mscorlib and Microsoft Scripting Runtime, to get
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by doubloon 3y ago
i feel like the Toyota Production System could be applied, I know they used some of it at Amazon but in general I don't hear much about it in 'software spaces'. It's been studied a huge amount in quality theory but... se
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by doubloon 3y ago
ok thats pretty wild, you would take the zlib deflate/inflate code, (for example in a library like lodepng) and then like chunk 95% of it in the garbage? so basically every block would just be uncompressed? kind of funny but it would p
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by doubloon 3y ago
I think the problem is they named it "Simple", thus implanting in the mind of the reader a certain preconception about what to expect. It is like if you name your project with the words Smart, Open, Trusted, Secure, etc etc, peopl
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by doubloon 3y ago
that really brings back the memories of how things 'used to be'. i like the mail-in coupon for a Relational Database that ran on a PC, and it cost inflation-adjusted $1,400 but you could get it over half off with two games.
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by doubloon 3y ago
They always called them interactive fiction. They used to run ads on NPR
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by doubloon 3y ago
Because in a certain company i couldnt use anything except a limited old language and there was no straightforward way to sort a list of custom types and internet searching was limited . You cannot just download your favorite open source li
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by doubloon 3y ago
thats very cool. i feel like a long time ago we used to be able to cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/video ? but maybe im imagining things. i know you could do it with audio.
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by doubloon 3y ago
if you google them there is a discussion board post from 2006 saying the business just fell apart and wondering who pays for the web hosting. 17 years later still a good question

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