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by k310 6mo ago
Please, a locally run FOSS means of characterizing my thousands of photos known only as DSCN_somethingorother from some date. Apple image search is dumb as a brick. It can't tell a tractor from a brick, and "cloud or Claude"
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by k310 6mo ago
In a highly interconnected world, any nation or group can cause enormous havoc. The "might" of large nations may rest on weak links which are easily severed. And their leaders may be oblivious to that fact in their stale ideas of
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by k310 6mo ago
Dumbass Trump has no honor.
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by k310 6mo ago
1. People are sticking with Trumpism, even if Trump looks batshit crazy, because they are in it for the racism, misogyny, homophobia, faux Christianity, anti-immigration, xenophobia ... all the things that "Make America Great Again&quo
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by k310 6mo ago
I live really alone in the woods. The population is so damn sparse that I have one or two friends in town, 12 miles away, whom I can never find, nor would I pay for a 17 mile drive back and forth to the "nearest" brew pub. This ai
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by k310 6mo ago
I get "helpful discovery" from Duck Duck Go. So, I can be looking for some bit of cosmology and get a search result indicating the nearest brew-pub among the scientific results. I live and drive by myself. This is not an ad. It&#x
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by k310 6mo ago
Not very modern, but still a learning tool, Unix Text Processing [0] taught me tons about unix commands and utilities. It provided a foundation for things to come. Even if it's heavily into troff (we had DWB on the work computer) the
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by k310 6mo ago
Everything in his first term directly benefited Putin. Everything in his second "full disclosure" term has been an intentionally chaotic distraction from the (still) impending full Epstein Files release. And grift.
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by k310 6mo ago
Some important matters pop up. No spoiler, I am interested in these. 1. With a vast proliferation of code generated, there are limits to code review, presuming that humans do code review. IMO, even without AI-generated code, this is already
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by k310 6mo ago
Syndicated at MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/the-mystery-of-...
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by k310 6mo ago
We are right now living in the world of Science Fiction. Minimal Spoiler: > Nearing Eminiar VII, the Enterprise receives a message from the planet warning them not to approach, but Ambassador Fox orders Captain Kirk to proceed. Kirk, Fir
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by k310 6mo ago
Why not let the government pay people $36,000/year (est. enlisted) when Palantir needs those billions a lot more. When I served, pay was roughly $3000/year. I don't see Alex Karp volunteering to take up arms, fight wildfires,
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by k310 6mo ago
Be thankful for great vision. I often have to process scans of PD scores. The paper they replace weighs hundreds of pounds.
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by k310 6mo ago
For Score is OK except when a half page scroll puts the line I want to read above the screen. I use arrow keys for now with the keyboard case. Tapping the screen was not to my liking and $$$ gestures are beyond my skill level. I scrunch too
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by k310 6mo ago
> A new challenger approaches. Enter RentAHuman, a platform that AI agents can use to find humans to perform actions they themselves are not capable of completing. > Think about that for just a second. It's the Silicon Valley equ
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by k310 6mo ago
I've dealt with such people. Here's the playbook. • I want it ALL • I want it FREE • I want it NOW, and • I want delivered on a silver platter. Gold is OK, too, for the extra vain.
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by k310 6mo ago
It's perl versus java. Larry versus Larry? I learned perl somewhere around perl3. Things I noticed. Java never had a "perl6" moment,in which /usr/bin/perl was replaced with radicchio or whatever. Perl doesn&#x2
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by k310 6mo ago
Free at Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/technology/white-house-give-us-agenc...
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by k310 6mo ago
Tim Donaghy's betting scandal in the NBA is still in many of our memories. > Donaghy resigned from the league on July 9, 2007,[4] after reports of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegations that he
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by k310 6mo ago
Alas, there's the screenshot.
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by k310 6mo ago
I never would have thought of that. Thanks!
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by k310 6mo ago
I got an iPad Pro a while back. I use iPads mainly to hold music scores, and at the time, the Roland Piano Keyboard just would not hold a laptop securely. Since then, I got a Yamaha Clavinova to replace the Roland and there always was the r
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by k310 6mo ago
Like, the Manhattan Project was all about cocktails? Governments want weapons so as not to be subordinate to others. Solar and wind power are far more easily deployed, if electrical power were being addressed. There WAS a treaty in place th
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by k310 6mo ago
I get daily requests to answer polls. Like my time is worth zero. Is theirs? Delete.
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by k310 6mo ago
But hasn't Microsoft always said that software licenses are the cure for ... everything ? Some original thinking there.
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by k310 6mo ago
Jealous that Iran is collecting tolls. Wants a piece of the action. All of it.
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by k310 7mo ago
Free to read https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/... https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/the-latest-vance-hea...
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by k310 7mo ago
John J. Mearsheimer's Substack John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
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by k310 7mo ago
I am looking for 35mm slide, print and b/w film, 120 ditto, and have more Ilford b/w 4x5 than I will use in a long time. Fujichrome is not available anywhere. Recently, ektachrome was in stock in 35 and 120. I'll report what
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by k310 7mo ago
That stinks. I checked it on the desktop or never would have listed it. I'll ask that it be removed. Mobile devices just don't have the blocking capability of desktops. No warning from safari/ios. Sorry about this. Puts a big

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