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by floren 3y ago
whoa, ritvax! A blast from my alma mater's past!
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by floren 3y ago
Oster still sells a blender with a single toggle switch. I have it. Its's loud as hell but it works. Cheap, too.
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Amazon Prime videos to include ads(arstechnica.com)
5 points by floren 3y ago|2 comments
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by floren 3y ago
Being hit by a city bus is unlikely--they're loud, they're in the traffic lanes (not the bike lanes), they move predictably. Being hit by shithead teenagers doing stupid burnout tricks on their rental scooters, on the sidewalks? P
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by floren 3y ago
I used them a bit in Denver this fall. There were plenty of Lyft and Lime scooters around (I used the Lyft ones, because I already had the app installed). People were about 50/50 on riding them in the (pretty damn decent) bike lanes vs
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by floren 3y ago
Or, "say skip to pay $0.10 and skip the current ad". Once they dial in the optimal combo of ad rate and cost to skip, personalized to each user, oh boy the money will flow.
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by floren 3y ago
But when the most common business plan is "1. Spend VC millions, 2. Acquire non-paying customers, 3. ???, 4. Profit!" it kinda seems like the un-written step 3 is "get acquired by a MAGMA company". You just say somethi
518.
by floren 3y ago
Or sign up with a free text provider like eternal september?
519.
by floren 3y ago
It's actually pretty trivial. Eternal-september seems happy to peer with anyone who asks (just send an email), and there's a newsgroup specifically for asking for peers; everyone who posts there gets lots of offers pretty quick.
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by floren 3y ago
You've sorta got to trust your admin. If you don't, it's really pretty trivial to put up your own server (you can do it from home, you don't need a VPS, you don't even need constant connectivity) and then you just p
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by floren 3y ago
That's what e.g. the ADM-3a did and imo it looks a little funny but surprisingly pleasant: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/adm3a.jpg
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by floren 3y ago
You'd have to work really hard to vet, and then continue to re-vet, your sellers in order to keep the crap out. There's just too much potential for profit in abusing the system, managing to sell your $1.50 sweatshop knit hats for
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by floren 3y ago
Depends where you are. Crossing the Bay Bridge, the difference is stark.
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by floren 3y ago
The best parts about the D&D movie were the practical effects, which were obviously effects but obviously practical and therefore charming.
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by floren 3y ago
I assume leadership at other publications will learn from this -- learn that you should take greater care not to get caught publishing AI articles.
526.
by floren 3y ago
If you can prompt GPT to write a blog post and you feel the results adequately represent your views, why not just post the prompt? "paste this into chatgpt 4 for the expanded version"
527.
by floren 3y ago
Well, that's better, but I still think posting the snippet is pointless and obnoxious and mostly a way to make it look like there's already discussion -- Potemkin Posting.
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by floren 3y ago
I've seen this a couple times over the last week, where a person posts something from their own site, and then immediately makes a comment with a verbatim excerpt. I've thought about it and I think it sucks. Let's not do it.
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by floren 3y ago
> I assume the point of Proton Mail using OpenPGP is so that mail sent by Proton Mail can actually be verified/decrypted by other systems that aren't Proton Mail? My experience with Proton is that they really don't care an
530.
by floren 3y ago
We've got to make this sort of data "radioactive", because otherwise the temptation is to just gather it and hope hey, maybe someday we'll have a good use for it. Oops, got hacked!
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by floren 3y ago
I saw one on 101 near the Oyster Point exit. Absolutely bizarre on the road.
532.
by floren 3y ago
That's just ChatGPT though, minus the "corporate magnate" part.
533.
by floren 3y ago
The toilet came up constantly in discussions of Google Glass, as though the presence of a camera on your head would suddenly turn you into a raving lunatic who pops his head over bathroom stalls and peeks over the urinal dividers.
534.
by floren 3y ago
yeah it would be pretty fucked up if I was recorded all the time, like in every store. Or like walking through a neighborhood and half the doorbells call out as you pass to inform your that they're recording. Or if you do anything slig
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by floren 3y ago
Yes, there is LSP support. Yes, it can be automated. Yes, you can write programs to run in acme, just like you can in emacs. I love using acme spread across the two big monitors on my desktop machine. I can keep so much code, so many files
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by floren 3y ago
Sometimes you just want to point at something -- so use the pointing device!
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by floren 3y ago
The invention of "anxiety" as a condition afflicting everyone under 40 means it's a faux pas to knock on a door, call a phone, or otherwise interact with anybody unless you warn them ahead of time.
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by floren 3y ago
Can you mine $1+ bitcoin with $1 of Azure credits? The questions are equivalent and the answer is no.
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by floren 3y ago
There are lots of small text-only providers, but they're not widely known because they're small. ES is special because they allow low-friction signups; others you will mostly need to know the admin to get an account.
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by floren 3y ago
I've configured my news server to just drop everything that originated from Google Groups. It's been a big improvement.

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