jammygit

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   by jammygit 7y ago

   It’s worth mentioning the huge advantage that impossible dropship or blink micro can give. It isn’t raw apm, but perfect timing sometimes that is an issue. The management of attention is truly important
2. 572.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   If I build it, who’s in for a online cofounder dungeons and dragons? Meet in the game, change the world!
3. 573.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   Out of curiosity, why is this downvoted?
4. 574.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   I didn’t realize you could use slack as an rss client
5. 575.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   If he’s going offline from search, he should create an rss or mail list. I didn’t see where to subscribe, so honestly I will probably forget his site exists in a week...
6. 576.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   I wonder what the global cost to the economy of a 24 hour stripe outage would be. It’s crazy when you think about how important certain “infrastructure” is
7. 577.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   It is a substitute for teacher-student lecture content however. My vision for education involves entirely pre-recorded content combined with a work area where teachers move from table to table answering questions or doing micro lectures as
8. 578.▲
   by jammygit 7y ago

   Anyone want to recommend a book? Let me join in by suggesting the Asimov robot books, which I’ve just begun
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   by jammygit 7y ago

   “... In some cases, teams use the audio of users’ voice requests as training data—all anonymized, Apple says. > We leave out identifiers to avoid tying utterances to specific users, so we can do a lot of machine learning and a lot of thi
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    As somebody in an oil and gas town, I can assure you that more than zero oil and gas company owners and executives think global warming is a paranoid delusion or even a political conspiracy Not everyone of course, but I just want to point o
11. 581.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    I use my function keys constantly as text editor shortcuts
12. 582.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    Facebook is enough of a problem without letting them control part of the money supply too
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    Had no idea that goodreads and IMDb were amazon
14. 584.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    It’s like Microsoft noticed all the spyware and adware people kept accidentally installing, and thought: I want in on that.
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    As a counterpoint, my XP’s 13 gets fairly mediocre battery life (4-6 hours?) because I never figured out how to configure the power settings. It also doesn’t fully wake up sometimes, but that’s pretty rare now - Ubuntu 19 seems to have fixe
16. 586.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    I read years ago in a book about gangs that knife wounds lead to death far more often than gunshot wounds
17. 587.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    So... what’s the risk? If a person updated their Ubuntu computers this or last week, are they in trouble?
18. 588.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    Imperfect how?
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    I just get captchas
20. 590.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    Inspiring
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    Is GCP carbon neutral? If amazon is hiding emissions data, I wonder if we should look at other providers. Which are the greenest clouds in general?
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    This is a temporary state of things and people need to be less caught up with the technical shortcomings. It’s the world where machine vision is fully accurate that is the real problem, not only the one where the machines are buggy
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    Amazon ring and echo captures a lot of data, but imagine how much more they get as an isp?
24. 594.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    Ecosia seems to send your IP address with search terms to bing. Other than that, they seem great
25. 595.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    If you do care about the telemetry and ads, try a Linux computer
26. 596.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    Depends where you live... where I live, that is a lot. Makes me want to move but my family is here
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    No feedback, but thank you for doing this!
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    Relevant heroes from a a post the other day: 2 million trees planted over 20 years https://www.pupperish.com/photographer-helps-forest
29. 599.▲
    by jammygit 7y ago

    I always think he’s mostly right, but a little too uncompromising, but then everything he says comes true. I don’t know how he predicted so far ahead at the time, it’s humbling. As a software author working at startups, am I part of the pro
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    by jammygit 7y ago

    Is it easier or harder to just do a full reinstall and reconfigure it with a script (chef or something custom), while preserving your data directory?