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by dsr_ 1y ago
Yes: it's a fancy file format conversion service that adds errors so your QA people have more work.
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Hrm. You should pivot to making an Electric Monk. "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, vid
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Every forum system tries to replicate the user-empowering features of Usenet with slrn, and usually falls short.
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Many parallel strands each around a 1 meter in length. E.g. the ordinary, person-on-the-street concept of hair length.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
You're going to have to pick a word which means "a specific group of people get together for a specific period in order to do something which does not result in a specific decision", and be able to allocate time and space for
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Citation, as they say, is needed. As far as I can tell, most startups resolve their technical debt by failing, and the majority of the rest resolve their debt by being acquired by a company which replaces the original service entirely in 1-
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North American Land Sailing Association(nalsa.org)
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That's an interesting and unique take. Might I point out that combing and brushing are definitely affected by shampoo and conditioners? Source: although I am bald now, I had up to a meter of hair at various points in my life.
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"The dependency trees for most interpreted or source-distributed languages are ridiculous," Therefore, you must only use software for which the dependency trees are not ridiculous. And that means giving up on software with ridic
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The transaction costs are generally significant.
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Not on Macintosh. On iPod, iPhone and iPad. All of those were marketed as just-barely-affordable consumer luxury goods. The physical design and the marketing were more important than the specs.
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The Lemon Market exists specifically when customers cannot tell, prior to receipt and usage, whether they are buying high quality or low quality.
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It half-opened for me, bogged down, and on re-load crashed the Firefox tab.
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You understand the problem clearly, but you haven't put your finger on the solution. It's an obvious one, but distasteful to many people.
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s/Best way/The only safe way/ Anything else will get abused in the name of expediency and just-this-one-time. Also, the process for adding a crate/gem/module/library needs to be the same as anything else: licen
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Samsung has actually done reasonably well with their acquisition of the Harman group in 2017: AKG, AMX, Arcam, Becker, BSS Audio, Crown, dbx, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon, Mark Levinson, Martin, Revel, and Soundcraft. I just objec
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There are lots of speaker manufacturers; I'm not too concerned about Polk and B&W. But! There are relatively few home theater receiver makers, and the Denon/Marantz siblings have been a big chunk of them for decades. (Sony, Ya
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If you throw in the effects on school attendance and participation, yes. Massachusetts extended the free school lunch (and breakfast) program to all students in 2023. Here's the report on 2024: https://www.mass.gov/doc&
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Sure, I do that. The flour goes on the baked good before it gets baked. That's not raw.
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To a first approximation, nobody eats raw flour. Flour is cooked in a pan with fat to make a roux; a roux plus broth can become gravy. Flour is cooked in a pan with liquid to make pancakes or crepes. Flour is cooked in an iron to make waffl
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It is not practical unless you already have all the devices. Let's suppose that you are paying half the new price for the bottom-tier of each of these: MBA: 500 iPad mini: 250 iPhone 16e: 300 * 4 Your budget is $1950. For that, you can
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Back in the Matt's Script Archive days I would automatically reject anything written in PHP from serious consideration. Whatever it was, would inevitably be full of bugs, security issues, and either unmaintained or poorly maintained. T
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If your building has a power outage, that works. If your city has an extended power outage, the cell nets could easily be down as well.
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It's not competition that they like. It's winning. Competitive athletes expect to lose. They don't want to lose, but there's only one winner (or three podium spots) in any given contest. They turn "not wanting to lo
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Nearly everything in the US uses letter, legal (letter but longer), or tabloid (double width letter, to be folded over). Much to my surprise, a random check of a US-based office supply company shows that they do have A4 in stock -- at a pri
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by dsr_ 2y ago
If your hardware can only manage 4 frames per second but you need 48, then decoding with 12 sets of hardware in parallel achieves your goal.
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GrapheneOS offers hardening before first unlock, and an optional distress code that wipes the storage rather than unlocking. Currently only available for Pixel phones, 6 and later. Offers many other security-related features.
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hype is short for hyperbole, and if there is any hyperbole more excessive than claiming that LLMs are vaguely equivalent to people by calling them "AI", it would have to be a claim of godhood or similar.
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It's easy to demonstrate that it is not a waste of money compared to commercial services, but let us argue counterfactually for the moment that it is the most expensive alternative. It is the only universal (in the USA) communications
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Daniel K Moran figured out the endgame: "Therefore, the Lunar Bureau of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force DataWatch has created the LINK, the Lunar Information Network Key. There are currently nine thousand, four hundred and two B

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