drdaeman

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by drdaeman 2y ago
> And you can have a project that mixes those editions, and cargo will correctly use the edition asked for each crate. I'm curious - if you had a `pub fn async(...){...}` in some 2016 crate, can you still call it from a 2024 codebas
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Sadly, because of two medium hair cats (and carpets), all the robots I’ve had required brush maintenance after every single run, ruining that “coming to a freshly vacuumed house” feeling. Maybe someone knows a robot vacuum that somehow solv
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by drdaeman 2y ago
As I get it, it's a federal requirement for a lab to keep genetic data for a while with no way for the specimen to do anything about it. So, it's a CDC thing, not exactly 23AndMe fault. Save for the fact that 23AndMe advertised it
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> This is like stating, "What are software engineers doing that's worth so much? There's plenty of free code courses online." Well, that’s not perfectly accurate comparison. When adjusted for nuances it’s much less cl
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> or you can hire a lawyer and pay $50-100K minimum before the trial even starts What are those lawyers doing that’s worth so much, and that one cannot do themselves if they have time and mental capacity for it? I don’t know about courts
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Is agreement negotiation even a thing in B2C nowadays, especially with any larger companies? I thought it’s all non-negotiable take-or-leave.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Well, anything can be ruined by a pause at a bad moment, but it’s great when each individual player can decide for themselves whenever their circumstances require interruption at the cost of potential experience disruption, or not. I think
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I've tried all of those and then some (e.g. "ATGM"), plus various specific names (like "FGM-148 Javelin", "M1 Bazooka", or "RPG-7", which are all quite iconic and well-recognized so I thought som
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by drdaeman 2y ago
That's not even compatible with a lot of single-player games that only allow to stop at checkpoints (because developers are lazy).
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Yet, it doesn't seem to know how a Tektronix 4010 actually looks like... ;) I had similar issues trying to paint a "I cast non-magic missile" meme with a fantasy wizard using a missile launcher. No model out there (I've
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by drdaeman 2y ago
You must be using either the Developer Edition, ESR, nightly or some unbranded version. Vanilla Firefox doesn’t allow to install unsigned extensions permanently.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I’m not a ML expert but I’m not sure a _language_ model makes sense here. A model like that… It’s basically going to be a ZIP code to salary coefficient mapping on steroids (with more parameters). The model by itself is probably (IANAL) leg
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Looks nice! I think it would be cool to know the differences between Facad, lsd, and eza ( https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd and https://github.com/eza-community/eza ) aka "why do I want to try Fa
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Ah, those audiophiles? If anything, that's the perfect opportunity to sell them some [orders of magnitude overpriced] essential oils diffuser with proprietary pouches with... uh... gold nano particles to improve lossless signal transmi
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Well, I haven't really kept track on this, but I believe some states (at least California and Illinois, I believe) prohibit use of credit scores for employment decisions, and I think there was some legislation banning this approved by
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Humans are kind of smart and resistant to manipulation. Especially the ones with money. I'm not sure. I think gaming/gambling industry having a concept of "whales" kind of disproves this.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> But somehow because a LLM is doing it, it becomes legal. IANAL, but I believe it does not. As it was famously said way back in the day, a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decisio
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Since there will never be an option for pre-electronics privacy again Why do you think so? You still can have a private conversation to which no third parties are privy, you just have to use the right tools and avoid using the tools th
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by drdaeman 2y ago
But service like this doesn't have agency to disclose anything to anyone, does it? As I get it, it's meant for personal use, not for automatically sharing with anyone - although those Notion plugins are a potentially gray area, si
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It's basically same as classic approach of correlating salaries with ZIP codes, just with more parameters. Which sort of works statistically, because there are correlations - but is nothing more than a hallucination at individual vis
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by drdaeman 2y ago
An unfortunate requirement of modern attention/engagement economy. Readers hate this one trick, but for the media outlets, if you don't crank up hype clickbait engine to 11, you're out, or running some very niche business.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Doing the ad industry's work? :-) I strongly suspect someone from ad industry will start offering an option to serve a heavily obfuscated WASM-based rendering engine to render the website, with obligatory promises that it "protect
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> It’s like “Beef chili” vs “Chili with beef”. The average consumer wouldn’t know the difference. Idk, but where I lived before, at some point virtually everyone knew the difference between e.g. "cheese" and "cheese[-like]
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by drdaeman 2y ago
So, cannot use "buy" for modern phones and cars either? ;-)
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Nah, they're just going to block the whole ECH handshake. Idk about Iran, but Russia and China just block eSNI, QUIC and whatever their DPI firewalls can't really handle on the fly.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
First of all, thank you for your comment, again. > first of all you didn't even chose the name you're bearing right now Oh, well, it just happens I actually did. When I naturalized, I literally picked my legal name (making some
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> I think it's a semantic argument Exactly! And all I wanted to say is "Please don't use harmful semantics, even if a lot of people do so because it's convenient or widespread. Your identity is yours, no one can give
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> it's not just the document that has been stolen but very well your identity as seen by society Yes, and that's also very wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15346081 (the article link died, but it&#x2
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Thank you. I agree that identity a social concept - I'm not sure there is a need for identities without a society. However, I believe you're confusing "identity" and "identity document". Identity document (whic
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> It is an identity though. That's why it's managed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Sorry, I could be wrong, but I cannot agree here. It's an identity document ("ID"), something that docu

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