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811.
by edent 3y ago
That's fine. You can donate your work. But you cannot forcibly donate the work of others.
812.
by edent 3y ago
I think the ethics are pretty clear. 1. Don't do things to people that they don't want to be done to them. 2. Do as you would be done by. It really is that simple.
813.
by edent 3y ago
That does sound interesting. Write it up and Let us know.
814.
by edent 3y ago
I used https://squoosh.app/ to losslessly compress the PNG further. If you download the PNG from my post, you can check the filesize.
815.
by edent 3y ago
Thank you! I tried using Brotli on the original and the compressed PNG. It was several bytes larger when run through Brotli.
816.
by edent 3y ago
Please try it and find out!
817.
Compressing Text into Images(shkspr.mobi)
89 points by edent 3y ago|62 comments
818.
by edent 3y ago
If you're not going to bother making the prices easy to find, I'm not going to bother downloading your app.
819.
ChatGPT Inventing Case Law(bailii.org)
1 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
820.
Kindle Scribe to Mastodon(shanedowling.com)
1 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
821.
AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me(adrianroselli.com)
3 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
822.
by edent 3y ago
The device is an eReader. The majority of battery power on tablets goes to keeping the screen on and updating it 60 times per-second. The eInk screen is low power to change, and requires zero power to stay on. The device sleeps between scre
823.
by edent 3y ago
No. He was a brash and confident young man. He just didn't recognise that a woman was worth responding to. He looked at her when she was speaking, but directed his answers and questions only to the men in the room. But let's pr
824.
by edent 3y ago
It depends what you mean by "cultural" reasons. We interviewed a very qualified candidate. Answered all our questions excellently. Well, he directed all his answers at me - and completely ignored my boss. Every time she asked him
825.
by edent 3y ago
Please feel free to write this blog post.
826.
by edent 3y ago
Isn't this a bit of a non-story? There's no evidence that they were forced to do anything. Nearly every senior job is advertised somewhere . For example - you can apply to be Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar if yo
827.
What's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image?(shkspr.mobi)
30 points by edent 3y ago|24 comments
828.
by edent 3y ago
Yes. I'm using Pop and my Firefox is installed through apt. You can use Snaps and Flatpak if you want.
829.
by edent 3y ago
How much of the $10 for a CD went to paying off the loan for the CD press? Or the transport costs of shipping boxes around? Or the built in cost for breakages? Also, you know you can still buy CDs, right? Vinyl as well if you're a maso
830.
by edent 3y ago
This isn't necessarily about mathematical fairness. The cake-slicing algorithm beloved by parents of waring siblings is a good example. "I cut, you choose" isn't guaranteed to give a 50/50 split. But it incentivises
831.
Reductive thinking and the unfairness of Spotify payments(shkspr.mobi)
34 points by edent 3y ago|63 comments
832.
Introduction to FIDO2 (2021)(support.nhs.net)
3 points by edent 3y ago|1 comments
833.
Tech Predictions for 2024(shkspr.mobi)
2 points by edent 3y ago|0 comments
834.
by edent 3y ago
I have batteries in my home - 4.8kWh worth. The technology is very real. But, also, we have to plan for tomorrow. We can predict with some degree of certainty how technology will develop. Tomorrow's computers are likely to be faster th
835.
by edent 3y ago
Phase out and replace . If your spouse asked you to phase out the 20% of your income which comes from [insert distasteful activity here] and replace it with [insert wholesome activity here], would that be a big deal to you?
836.
by edent 3y ago
The people who read the FT usually pay for it. Most of these LLMs are trained on a set of pirated content that they didn't pay for - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llam... Most
837.
Court of Appeal ruling will prevent UK museums from charging reproduction fees(theartnewspaper.com)
194 points by edent 3y ago|55 comments
838.
by edent 3y ago
Why do people rob banks? Because that's where the money is! Why do people post on forums? Because that's where the people are! Nothing's stopping you from copying your contributions over to your personal blog. But if you&#x27
839.
by edent 3y ago
Who is driving 600 miles without stopping for a piss at least once?
840.
by edent 3y ago
You could say that 1W can move a mass of 1Kg a distance of 1m in 1s. The battery can store NN kWh and the car weights XX Kg. How many Km can it travel? It ignores wind resistance, road incline, use of air con, external temperature, number o

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