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by jon_adler 3y ago
Why did reddit choose to charge app developers (causing financial uncertainty) for API requests instead of charging the end-users? By purchasing my own usage and loading an API key into Apollo, I could continue to pay Apollo for the app alo
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by jon_adler 4y ago
My uncle, a dedicated ham, worked his entire career in radio. Now he makes some nice pocket money in retirement keeping some old rural AM stations running because no one else really understands how they work.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Isn’t this built into the American Dream ethos and a product of individualism at the forefront of American culture?
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Can you reference what you mean about being illegal to teach critical reasoning in Texas?
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I bought a $9 C.H.I.P computer many years back which had pretty decent specs. They might have been too cheap though, because they sadly went out of business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP_(computer)
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by jon_adler 4y ago
This is a good example of the low hanging fruit that GPT models will feast on. A really nice usability improvement with a very simple implementation. I expect to see a tonne of these products/tools spring up over the next year.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Probably the Odyssey Blue, which uses a Celeron rather than an Atom CPU. I disabled the fan so it is silent, and the temperature stays very stable (and pretty low). It’s a wonderful device. I’ve programmed the Arduino and use it with Home A
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by jon_adler 4y ago
> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting donald t
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I’m not sure. I dislike the Ibis quite a lot, and so does this guy (funny, NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE
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by jon_adler 4y ago
The ibises are usually located on the coast, by a beach where humans hang out. In Queensland, the council typically provide free BBQ facilities to cook your lunch. It’s often a great experience. The free BBQs are electric and on a timer, wi
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I prefer macOS however my work machine is Win10. To improve matters, I use Cmder for my terminal with WSL2/Ubuntu. It isn’t perfect however it isn’t awful either.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I used to think like this too, until I saw the physical pain that an older bricklayer experiences every day. Whilst I can also relate to the loss of enthusiasm, I also know that my body is much happier staying in IT.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Working fine for me. Perhaps already resolved?
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by jon_adler 4y ago
In Australia, legislation needs to pass through both lower and upper houses. In this situation, the opposition party was able to block crucial legislation from passing through both houses and into law. If legislation is repeatedly blocked,
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I’ve got a home lab with proxmox as the hypervisor. I’m running openwrt (x86) for my household router (in a qemu VM) and I’ve got transmission running in a (lxc) container. When the transmission container boots up, it gets its IP address vi
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by jon_adler 4y ago
This is my 20th year of continuous subscription. They were my first SaaS purchase! I have never once experienced a disruptive issue, and my mailbox is still spam free after all these years.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I used accu.co.uk (in the U.K, not EU) for a project, and they were fantastic. I’m only a hobbyist though. Can someone explain what it is missing?
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by jon_adler 4y ago
An enjoyable read that reminded me of another recent article about an Asian American: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32049672 https://longreads.com/2022/06/16/love-song-to-costco/
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by jon_adler 4y ago
A couple of counterpoints. I think you underestimate how difficult it can be to emigrate to another country without plenty of money (although it is relatively for EU citizens, rights the British have recently given up). Secondly, why should
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by jon_adler 4y ago
This scandal is mentioned by Noam Chomsky in this interview with Andrew Marr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjENnyQupow
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Cointelpro: Series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the FBI(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Successful companies are rarely leading their industry because they have competitive advantages across their HR or Accounting or CRM or Inventory or manufacturing (etc etc) processes. Large company requirements are typically the same or ver
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Great video! I was wondering which country he was in when I heard the unmistakable screech of the cockatoo (or possibly a galah).
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I’m an ex-Peoplesoft dev and the productivity was pretty mind blowing in that environment. More recently I was involved with a SAP project, and the development estimates for what seemed like trivial things were days and weeks. Your experie
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Same. Professor John Gough was heavily involved in Modula-2 and Oberon compilers at the time. I really liked using it.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Sail assisted cargo ships are under active development as a method for reducing energy consumption.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Are any plagiarism detectors capable of recognising generated content? I’m not even sure how they might ever go about it?
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Trade compliance requirements may require embargoing occupied Ukrainian territories however it isn’t necessarily possible to distinguish between occupied and unoccupied regions. Export controls might be applied based on geoIP with granulari
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by jon_adler 4y ago
I hadn’t heard of Datasette until you published this blog entry. I have to say, on watching your intro video, it looks really fantastic. Congratulations on creating such an excellent tool. I look forward to playing with it over the coming d
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Collaborative content creation in tools like Miro/Lucid can work well, especially when on an audio call at the same time. It’s the best execution of the whiteboard experience in a remote working environment that I have experienced so

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