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by kahnclusions 4y ago
With eSIM when I buy a new phone I just open my provider’s app on my old phone and request a new SIM, then scan a QR code on the new phone and bam my new phone is setup using the same phone number. You can have multiple eSIMs on the device
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
An important thing to keep in mind is that the singularity is more of a mathematical dead end than a real thing that’s supposed to exist. The singularity existing in the math suggests that our theories are incomplete, and I would say it’s n
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
I’ve tried playing around with it quite a bit for the “choose your own adventure” type games. It’s really good at generating text and following prompts. Letting later responses use the previous prompts and responses as input really gives th
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
Ahah! A time travelling AI!
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
How is that dangerous? You have the freedom to run or change the code however you like, but if you use the software to provide service to users over a network, then you must share any modifications you make to that software. In other words,
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
That’s exactly what they are: statistical parrots. We know how they are built and how they work. What makes them so “amazing” is just the truly massive body of human language they are trained on, which gives them the _appearance_ of intelli
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
You are making the statement that this is “fraud” and the commenter above has asked for legal references. The burden of proof is on you, because at this point you’re just making stuff up. But you can’t provide references. You haven’t even e
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
But they’re glitchy and sometimes slow to open (I presume because they’re trying to access the network)
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
You’re not alone. I am utterly baffled and infuriated with typing on my iPhone 12 Pro. I used to think typing on old iPhones was amazing. But over the past several years there is a noticeable decline. It constantly makes the most bizarre an
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
I’m not a fan of Many Worlds. Communication or even detection of the split universes is impossible, which means it is impossible to measure. And science requires measurement to confirm our theories. Which means the MWI is equivalent to a si
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
This is a big one. Disposable razors are an epic waste of money. I spent £30 on a good quality safety razor which will last forever, and spend another £4/year on blades.
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
This is true, if you have nixos-rebuild available on your current machine. I just use a script to run the command remotely via ssh and point to the flake in git.
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
Nix makes it really simple and easy to manage several machines. Builds are declarative and reproducible. For my homelab I’ve setup a git repo with config for several VMs: Plex, Bitwarden, torrents, Samba shares, etc. Deploying is as simple
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
I don’t see how it can be doxxing when it’s publicly available information that anyone can look up at any time. Naming and shaming the usage of private jets is a useful public service if you ask me. Blocking an entire competitor service jus
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
The recorded magnitude of an earthquake depends on your distance from the epicentre. The farther away you are, the weaker an earthquake feels. The recording of 6.9 was made hundreds of kilometres away from Taipei. What was felt at Taipei 10
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
No, this does not logically follow. General rule: don’t use the comma. If the sentence is ambiguous to the reader in a specific case, then either: add a comma, or rewrite your sentence to be less confusing.
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
People aren’t robots. Not enforcing the Oxford comma doesn’t mean you mindlessly write ambiguous sentences. Style guides that don’t use the Oxford comma will suggest either: adding the comma where necessary to avoid confusion, or rewriting
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
I live in the UK and we have a similar system here. I have a tax code assigned that describes my personal circumstances. My employer reports everything to the government. Taxes, refunds, etc, are all handled automatically through my payche
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
I live in the UK and have multiple current accounts.
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
> Most people don’t. Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use things like: … “Most people” don’t have a clue what any of those things are. The only non-tech people I know who have any of what you mentioned only have it because I
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
In general no, I doubt it. Even though there have been breaks and setbacks caused by the fall of empires and rise of religions, in general our technological and scientific progress has been a steady constant from ancient times until today.
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
The ‘mailto:’ thing is a dealbreaker. A _significant_ amount of users, especially non-technical ones, won’t have a properly configured email client. They’ll click signup, it’ll open Outlook or Apple Mail, and then they’ll give up on your ap
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
I don’t think you’re giving enough credit to physicists. Dark matter isn’t just adding a fudge/“God” parameter to the equations to make the numbers work. The “stuff” that’s thought to be missing is described with very precise propertie
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
Sorry, I’m not really sure what you’re trying to add here? Yes, the foreign company can obviously decide to ignore the Polish government. As a consequence they will have to stop employing all their “contractor” employees in Poland. If they’
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
What could happen to the company: is that the Polish government or courts could deem the foreign company to be illegally operating in Poland (by virtue of employing you through a hidden contract), and require the company to set up a local l
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
When you eat your own dogfood (or rather, feed it to your own dogs), to demonstrate confidence in your product. You can experience things as your users do, which can help give you a better understanding of how people use your product and th
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
Why anyone would want X11 to remain relevant is beyond me…
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
Yeah. We have both Scala and Node (TypeScript) backend services and honestly the latter are much nicer to work on.
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
There are a couple reasons that compound together. From the user’s perspective the native version can be faster, smoother, and more reliable than web. Part of the reason for this is that, on iOS at least, the functionality of web apps is de
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by kahnclusions 4y ago
Yup. Travelling in an Asian country recently and in order to buy a prepaid SIM they needed to take scans of my passport and visa.

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