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by dqv 10mo ago
Well they might want to produce some photos or screenshots of what it actually looks like when it displays ads. So far, they are only telling us what it doesn't look like, which doesn't instill much confidence. It should have been
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by dqv 10mo ago
Yeah, of course. When a "normal" person asks for a reasonable accommodation--like being able to wear a smooth cotton polo alternative they bought with their own money rather than the piqué fabric one assigned by the company--they
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by dqv 11mo ago
lol they use LLMs to respond to support requests now and they don't seem to read what they're sending. I got an email from them where the LLM assumed I was the Gusto support representative: > This was concerning to us, as we
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by dqv 1y ago
Yes, but it's vastly less ambiguous: ambiguity for one day between 1:00AM - 3:00AM out of the year vs ambiguity for all future dates and times . Now you can prompt the user for their intent when the time change is known or expected. T
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by dqv 1y ago
> Converting timestamps between time zones is perfectly reversible while there is a loss of information when you convert a value to a new currency. False. This scenario absolutely does happen: 2027-03-08 11:00AM (Local) -> 2027-
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by dqv 1y ago
> A stored value that was a future time value yesterday could become a past time value tomorrow. And that past time value can become a wrong time value if it was converted from a user's local time to UTC before a tzdata version chan
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by dqv 1y ago
I remember pointing this out to someone who said public transportation was unprofitable and his response was "I don't care". People tend not to point it out because most don't actually care about the profitability at all
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by dqv 1y ago
I see what you mean now. The CNBC article does a better job at discussing the technical impacts, while both the NPR and El País are more oriented toward social impacts. What is most surprising to me is the price increase for dairy pro
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by dqv 1y ago
What do you mean by lack of citations? You mean self-linking to their own content? All the other alternatives, including the one you said "is a better source", do the exact same thing. I am having a hard time finding the ideologic
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by dqv 1y ago
Any evidence the prosecutor uses that is potentially exculpatory must be disclosed to the defendant. So your questions raise why they wouldn't : they think the defense can't find out. And it's arguably likely that they won&#
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by dqv 1y ago
Why? Because the prosecutor doesn't want all their work to go to waste because they didn't disclose Brady evidence. Even if they successfully argue that Officer Flock's reporting isn't exculpatory, they still have to do
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by dqv 1y ago
> Yeah, that's not "a world" it's just the USA. "In a world" is a figure of speech which acknowledges the non-universality of the statement being made. And no it is not "just the USA". Canada and M
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by dqv 1y ago
Another giveaway: > Whether you’re debugging your first NullPointerException or architecting enterprise systems, there’s always someone willing to help you grow. > Whether you’re starting your programming journey or looking to add a r
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by dqv 1y ago
Because the losers and deadbeats who run the government have not figured out the right approach to making "pay 20x the current budget to military contractors to do half of what CISA does" sound like a good deal for taxpayers.
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by dqv 1y ago
> The cited research that buyers use price as an indicator of quality was from 1985. Does that hold true these days? > My gut suspects not? You are correct that price is no longer an indicator of quality. Look at this stick vacuum rev
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by dqv 1y ago
When I see people commenting "shut your bitch ass up" (now deleted), "triggered", "keep dreaming my guy", it is distinctly generational (young gen z) to me. It is a style of communication. Torvalds may have &qu
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by dqv 1y ago
> I really hope it doesn't catch on further It already has. It is the late teens/young twenties online communication style. Generally pretty aggressive, but easy to ignore because they are usually not really saying anything of
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by dqv 1y ago
When at least 34 states call for a constitutional convention. Potentially as early as this year if at least 15 of the 21 states with proposed legislation enact the laws which call for a convention (currently 19 states have enacted laws whic
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by dqv 1y ago
> But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation. This is why I always get uncomfortable about people saying things like "senior
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by dqv 1y ago
> If you didn't care about status signaling you typically skipped the "new" label (which loses you tons of value right at signing) and bought used-whatever-the-rich-people-were-buying-but-upgraded-from. This is describing
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by dqv 1y ago
The problem is that there are people who "stigmatize bad behavior" by stigmatizing other people.
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by dqv 1y ago
They did not bring the DSM into the conversation, someone else did. And the person you are responding to made no such conflation! They also made no such claim that "[having] a single symptom [means] someone has the condition." Tha
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by dqv 1y ago
Did you ask AI to make a roast? I'm genuinely asking. It looks sensible to me. He's using two tools he was already using: Deno and GitHub. And he's using this RSS library: https://deno.land/x/rss@1.1.2 A
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by dqv 1y ago
> Well, how do we know what timezone is "2026-06-19 07:00" in, to be able to know that the time rules for that timezone have changed, if we do not store the timezone? The website uses their system timezone America/Los_Ange
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by dqv 1y ago
That article has a good alternative though: ascorbic acid. I think the last time I looked into this I had a hard time finding thermal labels that used ascorbic acid, but they at least have receipt paper. I do still have concerns that even t
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by dqv 1y ago
> (3) Won't have animation, fold-out text, or anything that cannot be be shown on a piece of paper > (4) won't require Javascript or access to external sites So about that... https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-a
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by dqv 1y ago
Then you're not describing mutual intelligibility: > In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand eac
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by dqv 1y ago
> no, there is no regulation or law for what they do Yes, there is: the CFAA. Corporations and the government have even weaponized criminal complaints against individuals under the law. > This is a civil suit between two companies, it
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by dqv 1y ago
> It is much better for everyone involved to tolerate companies like NSO and regulate them. That's what this is. That's what a lawsuit is. This is them being regulated. They aren't being ordered to shut down, they're
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by dqv 1y ago
Well, no. That would also measure what accents someone has the most exposure to, which doesn't necessarily reflect its "absolute intelligibility", but rather its popularity. Popularity and optimality are not the same thing. Y

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