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691.
by euroderf 1y ago
Off-topic but... whatever happened to Real Player? Installing that was always a nightmare.
692.
by euroderf 1y ago
Yup, "Enterprise Java" really grated. Until it didn't.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Some combination of interurbans and golf cart cars and electric scooters and electric skateboards would make a marvelous urban transportation milieu.
694.
by euroderf 1y ago
Get rid of cars in town and city centers. Then you're halfway to the solution.
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by euroderf 1y ago
It should give a boost to technical communication employment, but they'll probably put it all thru LLMs instead.
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by euroderf 1y ago
I'd like to see a move to eliminate the entire idea that a corporation can own a stake in another corporation. Make it individual owners only. Clear the haze.
697.
by euroderf 1y ago
If this kind of topic interests you, check out what the EU is doing with smart couplers.
698.
by euroderf 1y ago
Back in the late 80s, when you wanted to convert your foreign currency to markka, you had to go to a bank and fill out a form. Much friction.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Actually "mop" is just a metaphor cooked up by the marketing department. Odoromap uses advanced catalytic technology to convert nasty odors to pleasant ones.
700.
by euroderf 1y ago
Considering the scale of the universe, take it as a given that somewhere there's critters that make us look like algae.
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by euroderf 1y ago
I wanted an opposite of "procrastinate", but it's not obvious because of etypmologies. The best I could devise is "progesternate" (via "gestern").
702.
by euroderf 1y ago
I'll second this recommendation. And without spoilers. It's a very good film.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Who is going to sell me a system where I stick a couple of Zigbee sensors in my home vegetable garden and I take pictures of the garden once or twice a day and the system uses this info plus weather data to tell me what I need to do the nex
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by euroderf 1y ago
> There are now custom monitors being put on to cattle that constantly measure how much they eat, how much they walk, body temp, etc. If they fall out of expected range the system will call a vet automatically to come treat them as they&
705.
by euroderf 1y ago
> The farmer is there to fix things. Including listening to elevator music while waiting interminably to get thru to John Deere customer support.
706.
by euroderf 1y ago
Okay, I'll bite. Who is Hannu ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
> With LLMs this kind of work now basically becomes free to do and automatic. So is this going to kill the demand for offshored code ? If you can get the same needs-babysitting code quality in no-time and no-budget ?
708.
by euroderf 1y ago
I wonder whether it would help to bust it into fragments with some kind of bomb-borer craft.
709.
by euroderf 1y ago
Often eating a chunk of iceberg is like gnawing on the demon spawn of table legs and styrofoam. Gimme those dark leafy greens.
710.
by euroderf 1y ago
Terraforming 80% complete...
711.
by euroderf 1y ago
Someone help out my memory here. I'm pretty sure that there was a case before the Supreme Court (or other federal court?) back in the late 1980s, where shareholders of a firm sued for the firm to focus exclusively on profit, when the c
712.
by euroderf 1y ago
> Documentation that captures intent, not just implementation. > Knowledge sharing practices that transfer mental models, not just procedures. I've always read good things about project leads making videos that use whiteboards an
713.
by euroderf 1y ago
Shouldn't cleaning out fluid lines & tanks take care of most of it ? Nobody is going to lick brake linings.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Competing plugins, battling for execution supremacy. Let's replay the entire history of web browser plugin development !
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by euroderf 1y ago
Toter Tots!
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by euroderf 1y ago
So the degree of collateral damage will depend upon your AI provider.
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by euroderf 1y ago
If it has value as a recyclable, it will be cleaned up. Does it ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
But how much of the shell cost is the capital cost of precision machining ? And how much is the capital & operating costs of workforce safety ?
719.
by euroderf 1y ago
> Is it better to have a more effective weapon that you can only afford a few of, or lots of cheaper ones? Ah yes, the "wonder weapon" mentality. This was a hot topic in Congressional hearings back during (IIRC) Reagan's p
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by euroderf 1y ago
Basically: yes. If memory serves, NATO had no excuse to intervene until a neutral investigative team (of pre-NATO Finns) determined that yes, Serbia committed a big massacre of civilians.

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