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by dwd 6mo ago
What I was not aware of is how many satellites Amazon already has in LEO for it's own Internet service. They've been flying under the radar there it would seen.
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by dwd 6mo ago
The difference is how soon it might occur, except "now" can also mean they never get around to it. "Right now" is probably the only one that literally means now as the rest of the English-speaking world would assume.
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by dwd 6mo ago
I had Gemini help me pull apart some encrypted malware packages I removed from a WordPress site recently and identify who it was linked to, and what it was doing. It was quite instructive on how all the various pieces of code protected each
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by dwd 6mo ago
You absolutely can't rely on the free version of WordFence. It should also be the last line of defense to handle anything that can't get caught by the server WAF. I recently cleaned a WordPress site (that I now get to manage) of s
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by dwd 6mo ago
Now now or Just now? * I've worked with too many Sth Africans.
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by dwd 6mo ago
The premise in Ex Machina was to see if Caleb developed an emotional attachment to Ava. We already see people getting an attachment, but no one is seriously thinking they have any rights. I think the real moment is when we cross that uncann
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by dwd 6mo ago
Reyn Ouwahand who composed The Last Ninja 3 with Fastloaders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bobBcV4HcY He also has a few nostalgia triggering covers of some Galway tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by dwd 6mo ago
There's a new name for all that these days: Digital Experience Platform (DXP) We used to call them Enterprise CMS: SiteCore, Squix Matrix (now Squix DXP) and Optimizely (when it was EpiServer) are the ones I've built sites with.
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by dwd 6mo ago
Not that dumb and stupid. You don't want to be the guy NOT frantically scribbling the Dear Leader's every word into your notebook. The fake fainting might be an easy get out of having to cheer and bounce for ages.
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by dwd 6mo ago
As a separate analogy, and one related to physical products. I built a website for a guy many years ago who had patented a clamp for frameless glass panels that didn't require drilling the glass; primarily used for pool fencing. The pr
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by dwd 6mo ago
I feel that everybody is "nuts" in their own way. The cross-over that we need to focus on is whether their neuro-divergence is actually debilitating.
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by dwd 6mo ago
The interiors of these trains are amazing, particularly the 36+3. Not what I expected at all. The swivel seats on the Ibusuki No Tamatebako are cool, and probably give you a better look at the sheer drop you're travelling on.
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by dwd 7mo ago
It was actually. Tried it as my background for a bit as it looks good tiled, but mainly used the two tartans or just a solid blue.
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by dwd 7mo ago
It is exactly the strategy of all platforms - they get greedy to the point of screwing over their own customers. I've lost count of number of times I've seen a platform get popular and then expand to offer the same services as its
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by dwd 7mo ago
I think in this you are the autotune, trying to make the raw LLM writing in tune and palatable. I did read your previous story (not as polished but still interesting) and noticed in the image that linked to "beautiful but the Mandarin
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by dwd 7mo ago
I tend to disagree that code can't be a way to communicate an idea. Sure, I might struggle to edict an emotion in the reader (excluding confusion or frustration) but I feel it is a way to describe ideas, model constructs and processes,
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by dwd 7mo ago
There is an interesting dichotomy where we express an uncanny-valley revulsion to AI-generated text, art, video and music; yet we seemingly go with the AI-generated code. Personally I have an uneasiness with it and are correspondingly cauti
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by dwd 7mo ago
That it was largely/mostly generated by Claude adds a certain poignancy to it. As an allegory it reminds a lot of one I read as a teen: Joshua by Joseph Girzone. Not a literary masterpiece but a cleaver thought-raising story.
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by dwd 7mo ago
"This was the mechanic’s paradox: the cheaper you were relative to the cost of failure, the more your clients needed you; and the more they needed you, the more they resisted the implication that they’d need you again." This is my
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by dwd 7mo ago
Used to play a multi-player Lords of Midnight (the Spectrum/C64 game) where each player (up to 8) made their moves in turn. The original used a day/night turn-based system, so using that for 2-8 humans made sense. It actually impr
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by dwd 7mo ago
A hard change is the required skills mix. Early stage you want the generalists who can do everything, move fast and probably break things. There's an inflection point where you want to stop breaking things and for that you need special
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by dwd 7mo ago
A camera is potentially a deterrent to opportunistic theft, if the thief notices it and believes they could be recorded. I have a camera that covers our gate and front yard; it's not charged a lot of the time, but I leave it there anyw
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by dwd 7mo ago
Geez, I have issues with bent bindings and people who lick their fingers to turn pages, but you take it to a whole other level of grossness. You did forgot the common practice of reading on the toilet.
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by dwd 7mo ago
As a kid I often went to the drive-in with my family. Completely different experience to a theatre, but one that I remember fondly. The sound was always tinny and in mono from the small speaker you hooked on the window, but it was fun and v
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by dwd 7mo ago
Would you like a jelly baby? The Tom Baker doctor had the best companion in K9. I was disappointed as a kid at the time when it chose to stay with his other companion. I largely stopped watching from the "Five Doctors" episode onw
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by dwd 7mo ago
They used Scratch at school, but you might be right about the Pi just not being inviting.
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by dwd 7mo ago
Sometimes I feel privileged for being in the generation that learnt to program BASIC on a C64 when it was the coolest thing around at the time. Being that much closer to the metal is a whole different experience of learning what a computer
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by dwd 7mo ago
Thanks for the reminder. Those were heady days. My first programming job out of Uni had dual ISDN to the office.
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by dwd 7mo ago
Some cultural groups also seem more likely to make video calls, where they are walking and talking to someone on their phone screen. Still not a reason not to use headphones as all but the cheapest come with a built-in microphone.
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Lynas locks Japanese rare earths deal(australianmining.com.au)
2 points by dwd 7mo ago|2 comments

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