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by dsr_ 2y ago
Having recently been to an apple orchard... - Apple trees are deliberately bred to be short and wide. - An apple-picking-stick has a sort of basket on the end, which allows an apple to be selected and pulled off from 1-2 meters away. What l
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Your conscious planner may be making 1 decision/second, but your senses, proprioception, balancing system, etc. are handing you about a gigabit/second of data, most of which never rises to your conscious attention. When I'm r
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by dsr_ 2y ago
You sound like a perfectly reasonable person, rather than a scammer.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
agentic obviously means "not gentic" and gent is from the Latin for "people". agentic == not people. Quite sensible, really.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Also, nobody uses my first name in their subject line except people trying to sell me something. And the only people using my first initial as my first name are people who scraped Linked-In.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Oh, they did. It's just that ISDN died in the USA. If someone from Germany can chime in, I believe they had higher-bandwidth ISDN services in the late 1990s onwards.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Hi, I'm alive. East Coast of the US to London, UK, in the early 1980s. Over three thousand miles. Quite expensive. Quality was dreadful.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
I will remind everyone that there are a minimum of three identifiers here. The UID, which is an integer. Ownership resides here; it's the primary key. Can be used by programs. The username, each of which must be unique and maps to one
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Real estate has facts and opinions: the size of the land and where it is; how much the land nearby sold for; last price paid for this land; condition of the buildings. Copyright only has opinions and history, and for the vast majority of IP
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by dsr_ 2y ago
> I don't think it would work as a speaker https://www.parts-express.com/search?keywords=silk%20tweeter... begs to disagree with you. (72 results, mostly for sale right now)
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by dsr_ 2y ago
No, it's academic dishonesty: representing work that you did not do as your own work. ETA: "Academic dishonesty" also covers things like falsifying data and willfully misattributing sources, which is a closer approximation to
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by dsr_ 2y ago
(and remember to figure out a difference that applies to San Francisco and Boston and NYC and Austin but not Kansas City or New Orleans.)
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by dsr_ 2y ago
The typical .edu discount from Apple on largish purchases is about $100, regardless of whether that's a $600 final tag or a $2000 final tag. So, somewhere between 14% and 5%. If Apple sells 50% of Macs to the .edu discount market, that
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by dsr_ 2y ago
I wear glasses, so I appreciate the importance of optics every day.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Pelican - written in Python
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by dsr_ 2y ago
If you use S3+Cloudfront as a core part of your design then you limit your audience to people who want dependencies on S3+Cloudfront.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Didn't this article have thirty comments an hour ago?
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Yes. Extra points if you are familiar enough with the documentation to find the answer quickly.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
In the US, "County Extension" is usually the phrase you want.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
(2) assumes technology not in evidence, unless you have a really low threshold of "explain it to you". Like, "explains it as well as a person who doesn't know anything about it but is reading the wikipedia page". Li
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Not exactly, but Walter Jon Williams keeps switching genres successfully: - Napoleonic sea fighting - early cyberpunk (Hardwired) - middle cyberpunk around the Solar System (Voice of the Whirlwind) - late cyberpunk post-scarcity space opera
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by dsr_ 2y ago
[Among the problems with] Justifed True Beliefs being "knowledge" is that humans are very bad at accurately stating their beliefs, and when they state those beliefs, they often adopt the inaccurate statement as the actual belief.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Pretty sure nobody except Toyota thought hydrogen was going to be a useful intermediate fuel: handling is ridiculously difficult compared to room-temperature liquids, energy density is ridiculously low. It would have made more sense to sell
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Then you need to go over each item with just as much care as you would any probably-irrelevant item pulled from a keyword search, because the LLM is incapable of evaluating it in any way other than correlation. Also, you don't necessar
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by dsr_ 2y ago
>Every security transaction has a willing buyer and a willing seller. When you step up to a shell game on the street, you are willingly buying from a willing seller. It's illegal because the game is rigged, unregulated, and leads to
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by dsr_ 2y ago
... I believe this is a most succinct definition of unearned confidence.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It doesn't need to be the population believing that regulations are completely unnecessary. It just needs to be a sufficient number of politicians understanding that their donors and prospective donors find specific regulation of their
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by dsr_ 2y ago
If you were using a dial-up modem and sending raw data -- extremely common -- then sending +++ATH0 would cause most modems to hang up. If you could get that sent over to someone else, their session would be abruptly terminated. (Hayes paten
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Max Barry, actually. JENNIFER GOVERNMENT is the novel.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
...and good, too. In the default mode, all you have to do for configuration is tell it the names or IPs of things to monitor and an SNMP community string. It scans for every tree that it understands, and will rescan occasionally.

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