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by jen20 3mo ago
Slop is less of a problem than the incentive such companies have to “accidentally” hoover up whatever data is accessible.
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by jen20 3mo ago
In the UK, “Wright” is the 14th most common surname. It appears in Chaucer, and appears to cover approximately 900,000 people globally. “Negus” is indeed less common - most prevalent in Ethiopia (where it means “king”) - seems to be 6-7000
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by jen20 3mo ago
Lack of knowledge and the desire to have it run containers for things.
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Slowjson – attack on HTTP servers accepting JSON with chunked transfer encoding(github.com)
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by jen20 4mo ago
Unless they're rebuilt the post office (they haven't, unless they went with "70s retro" as the design aesthetic!), every counter is normally manned.
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by jen20 4mo ago
I don’t know which country you’re in (and don’t disagree with you) but even if the estimate of 30 minutes to shipping labels were accurate, that would still be a net win where I am in Texas - the line at the post office is regularly longer
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by jen20 4mo ago
All of these appear to be proposals only.
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by jen20 4mo ago
If you think the Reddit communities of tenants are bad, you should try reading the Reddit communities of landlords (at least the UK ones).
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by jen20 4mo ago
> FCC is requiring IDs for phones. Sources?
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by jen20 4mo ago
> Compared to ICEs, where advancement has stalled for the last 20 years, It hasn't really stalled: VVT, VCR, Cylinder deactivation that works properly, and start-stop becoming commonplace are all meaningful improvements (though smal
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by jen20 4mo ago
Google seems most likely to capitalize. GSuite is standard practice even among many large companies provided they were founded in the past ~15 years and aren't on the Microsoft teat. Their search is also _so much_ better than Outlook t
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by jen20 4mo ago
Windows 8 was released a whole year before iOS 7, so the blame here is misplaced (though I won't argue that Ive's approach to UI design was worse than what came before).
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by jen20 4mo ago
You shouldn't need to cache a calculator app to make it load quickly - it opened instantly on a machine running Windows 3.0 with 2MB RAM.
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by jen20 4mo ago
The push is that web developers are easy to find, and native software developers barely event exist anymore (and if they do can get paid to work on things like trading software, though web is even picking up there!). Microsoft don't ev
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by jen20 4mo ago
> People treat email has a permanent data store. Email the protocol has this built in. > If "new" Outlook can break some of those habits, we'll all be better off for it. It won't, since email is in fact the best da
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by jen20 4mo ago
> but those that are not 'in the know'. Those are not the target market, and that is OK. > spending extra time to get into the weeds of a version control system is often not possible without sacrifice. Which is why most Game
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by jen20 4mo ago
> I don't mean to be too glib, but some programmers have this decrepit idea that anyone working with computers should understand programming to be able to fully utilize them. Git is a software development tool first and foremost to
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by jen20 4mo ago
> If my wife and I are at the airport, and the gate agent offers me (and only me) an upgrade on the flight, your logic says I should take it since that's strictly better than both of us flying economy. This has happened many times t
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by jen20 4mo ago
I trust AWS in this space. I'm 100% sure that they will be precisely honoring the terms of service for Bedrock (I've never looked to see whether they claim to train on your data though).
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by jen20 4mo ago
> Yes, they can. Then why aren't they?
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by jen20 4mo ago
> Apple designed the system in a way that the operator can invade your privacy. Citation needed.
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by jen20 4mo ago
> Just think about if Porsche would make a press release and calling the US tariffs "un-American". Like this? https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/bmw-ceo-has-blunt-new-m...
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by jen20 4mo ago
DMA is not about privacy.
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by jen20 4mo ago
It doesn't _have_ to stop - the features just can't ship in the EU while these requirements are in place, which is exactly what is happening here. The law is working as intended, just not in the way the proponents thought it would
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by jen20 4mo ago
I know people who put up with Android because they want a foldable phone, to be able to read documents more easily without carrying two devices. They're clearly not for everyone, but the relative sales of Pro vs Air or Mini suggest tha
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by jen20 4mo ago
That’s what the homestead exemption is for.
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by jen20 4mo ago
The thing being hinted at is there is an already an English term to describe the notion of the value of a unit of something decreasing over time, which is “inflation”. Not causation, just definition.
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by jen20 4mo ago
> The biggest issue it created was the execs treated every issue it produced like it was a drop everything and fix the issue type deal While this is definitely not the ideal end of the spectrum either, execs treating security issues as s
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by jen20 4mo ago
Presumably copilot could do it in record time. (Right..?)
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by jen20 5mo ago
Perhaps if they hopped on a quick call for five minutes with some customers, they'd realize quite how little appetite there is for putting up with being opted into things automatically in the US but not in the EU. As an aside, this als

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