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by floren 2y ago
Instead, in 3 years your washing machine will refuse to run if your Tide Pods subscription runs out, or if you attempt to use bootleg pods.
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by floren 2y ago
Or any malicious user on the airport wifi. The compromise will linger until however many weeks later when you decide to print something...
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by floren 2y ago
I don't think Mythbusters had the budget to deal with a possible result of "bullet gets sucked directly into the insanely expensive machinery, destroying it"
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by floren 2y ago
> But to the extent you're pitching it as some sort of reactionary lashing out against the bright glorious shining future... sorry. It's not me. It's tech. There has been a real change in the tech space. I used to just be
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by floren 2y ago
> What was required to start a new usenet domain? Assuming you mean a new newsgroup (discussion forum for a single topic e.g. comp.lang.lisp): - If you wanted it in the Big 8 hierarchy, you had to campaign for it and get support and prov
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by floren 2y ago
> You don't hear people saying, man, that asbestos and lead did a bang up job on X. Well, asbestos is a great insulator and lead makes beautiful bright paints, it's just that the downsides outweighed those great properties.
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by floren 2y ago
"The sins of the father's are also the son's" are basically political orthodoxy for a large portion of the very online crowd these days.
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by floren 2y ago
I read The Hobbit aloud to my wife at bedtimes about 2 years back. Challenging at first, but it got easier, and I think we both enjoyed it.
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by floren 2y ago
Gemini is Markdown-but-worse over HTTP-but-worse. The modern Web and all its crappiness didn't come about because there's something inherently wicked in HTML and HTTP, it came about because people built things on top of the basic
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by floren 2y ago
Well it sounds like a lot of work to turn a readable and correct article (since it still "is" all of those things) into a very tortuous if somewhat slightly more technically-correct version... so I assume there are already half a
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by floren 2y ago
I'm mostly on board with you but what kind of "scouting" are you thinking of here? When I talk about scouting before a hunt, I'm talking about wandering around the countryside, looking for animals, looking for scat, etc.
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by floren 2y ago
> sitting in miserable weather Only in some parts of country... further west you're frequently hiking miles and miles (in miserable weather) instead.
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by floren 2y ago
Yes! We don't charge for SSO, but thankfully we've only had our largest customers ask for it -- and every time it required significant back-and-forth to get it set up. Basically every time somebody comes in with a new IdP, I have
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by floren 2y ago
So was it that LLMs used to be capable of making actual jokes, or were they always this bad and I was just more impressed by the talking computer back then?
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by floren 2y ago
I was talking more SCIF, less prison.
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by floren 2y ago
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, you don't lock them in, you just set off major alarms and send an armed response if the door ever opens without badge activation. This presupposes some things about the facility and the facility o
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by floren 2y ago
But places that actually take access control seriously do implement bidirectional badging, and just opening the door to leave without badging out will send a group of people bearing guns in your direction right away.
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by floren 2y ago
Does anyone else just assume that anything with a lot of bulleted lists is probably LLM slop these days?
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by floren 2y ago
It felt pretty clear in the article that he was talking about people who were frustrated, tired, perhaps depressed, not in duress or under threat of harm. Hedging every exception makes the article weaker; I think you can write an article ab
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Facebook Marketplace Is a Joke(jfloren.net)
2 points by floren 2y ago|1 comments
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by floren 2y ago
I'm talking purely about the vibe of the advertisement, and of targeting insecure urban millennial adults.
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by floren 2y ago
> In some cases this conversion is easy, 3:100 becomes the integer 100. Huh, I'd have said it should become the string "100", based on earlier examples such as 5:hello
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by floren 2y ago
It's got the same vibe as those online pill mill ("Hims", "Hers") ads, which is actually extremely on-point.
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by floren 2y ago
It's right smack in the Tenderloin
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by floren 2y ago
I agree with your first point, which is that by all appearances the acquisition of the product is the entirety of the hobby -- look at any subreddit for musicians or ham radio operators or whatever, it's all photos of some newly-purcha
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by floren 2y ago
The textile industry. Dockworkers. Migrant workers (see Cesar Chavez). Youtube content moderators. The list goes on.
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by floren 2y ago
> I know people that take buses to "do city things", and it takes them > 1 hour to get anywhere. I know others that walk (20+ minutes) or drive (20+ minutes to get a mile away, or to get a few city blocks due to traffic). I
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by floren 2y ago
I've gone as far as filling out the form given to me by an Elk who was willing to sponsor me but when I got to the part where you have to affirm that belief I just couldn't make a solid case to myself. It seems there are plenty of
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by floren 2y ago
This sounds like the sort of route I hope to take with my son when he's old enough. We've already made it past a year without ever sitting him down for TV/tablet/phone time (except video calls with grandparents) but I&#x
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by floren 2y ago
Visit SF, you can easily spend $10 on a mocktail out here. Kinda makes sense, all the cost is in the labor and the cleaning, a shot of vodka is like $0.20

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