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by kec 2y ago
If the goal of these tags are metadata for AI consumption, and the solution to generate them is “use an AI”… what is the point?
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by kec 2y ago
That is very much not true, Excel does type coercion, especially around things that happen to look like dates: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
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by kec 2y ago
Until you have a large amount of data & need either random access or to work on multiple full columns at once. Duplicated keys names mean it's very easy for data in jsonlines format to be orders of magnitude larger than the same da
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by kec 2y ago
Sure, but TikTok coming back online around this time would have also allowed for that & been more effective propaganda for Trump as savior of the app.
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by kec 2y ago
If that’s the case this was totally bungled, the app was down for less than 12 hours, overnight during a weekend. If they wanted maximum effect Trump wouldn’t have tweeted until 5pm eastern to give people a chance to come to terms with the
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by kec 2y ago
Often-illegal hotels which largely circumvent taxes to enrich some landlords and possibly the local tourism industry (at the expense of everyone in the community who requires housing) is almost certainly not the best use of limited housing
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by kec 2y ago
Denmark has a smaller population than New York City, America is a very large place.
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by kec 2y ago
Both of your links refer to that entitlement being required on iOS, not macOS, are you sure it applies to Mac (and if it does, does that even matter given non-app-store-apps can assert whatever entitlements they'd like with impunity)?
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by kec 2y ago
That’s essentially what adding decoupling capacitance to a circuit does. All of this is going to be limited by the fact that without extra switching logic the entire circuit wants to be the same voltage, once your fast source drains enough,
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by kec 2y ago
This video is laced with profanity and focused specifically on animation, but give a pretty good overview of why interpolation does not inherently make things look better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KRb_qV9P4g
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by kec 2y ago
This is only really true if you have a 240v charger at home, not everyone has the ability to have that kind of setup.
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by kec 2y ago
"Thinking about gas" for 99% of people means either glancing at the fuel gauge when you get in the car and making a 15 minute detour + pit stop if you think it looks a bit low for your trip, or just ignoring it and making the 15 m
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by kec 3y ago
The largest chunk of R&D spending is going to be employee comp, that differential is almost certainly due to google hiring like mad during the pandemic versus Apple famously running very lean.
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by kec 3y ago
I’m not sure that “try capitalism” is the best response to an article complaining about a market failure due to unpriced externalities.
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by kec 3y ago
A no-frills pack of bacon at Whole Foods in Cambridge is currently $6.99 not on sale (unless their online / delivery prices are radically different than in-store).
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by kec 3y ago
Becoming the go-to person in a given area or process will quickly get you to "senior" which is what the article is talking about. It is easy to get stuck at this level as you say but the trick still works to get to staff the flavo
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by kec 3y ago
Laptop and desktop monitors have been advancing just fine over in the Apple world with high ppi, brightness and color accuracy being standard for nearly a decade... it's just expensive and so one of the first corners cut for PC as most
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by kec 3y ago
How is that relevant to the example of enabling disabled folks to interact with society & some bad actors abusing it?
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by kec 3y ago
In practice that shouldn’t matter, as the law states that any service animal can be turned away so long as the business provides accommodation to the human (which is the point of the limited questions). The fact this rarely happens is more
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by kec 3y ago
Boston is a very small, dense city, only about 50 square miles. A quick check of wikipedia shows Tokyo proper is nearly 15x the size.
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by kec 3y ago
C is a multiple of current but is linear with (nominal) energy, no reason that would force this.
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by kec 3y ago
You can’t really make this claim without measuring the actual impact, especially on a system with frequency scaling and 8+ heterogenous cores.
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by kec 3y ago
How would satellite imagery help at night, during cloudy/stormy weather? What sort of latency does the imagery have? Can commercial imagery even resolve things like painted lane markers, construction detour signage, etc?
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by kec 3y ago
Continental America averages on the order of 4.5kWh/m^2/day total solar irradiance. A clean, car roof sized solar panel in direct sunlight all day would be good enough to offset parasitic drain with maybe enough left over to charg
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by kec 3y ago
There were laws making it illegal for people of color to live in Oregon territory which persisted through statehood and weren't fully stricken until into the 20th century.
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by kec 3y ago
That’ll switch spaces which makes more logical sense as they’re stably ordered left to right and apps (unless pinned to a space as a full or split screen app) are not.
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by kec 3y ago
Swipe up with 4 fingers to enter Mission Control.
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by kec 3y ago
Deflation means a dollar tomorrow is always worth more than a dollar today meaning a rational person should strive to spend as little money today as possible. This eventually locks the entire economy up into a death spiral.
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by kec 3y ago
Imprecise language, but the article is specifically referring to questions like “why do you think I asked you that?” Or “how are you answering these questions?”. LLM’s can’t engage with these types of questions, the best they can do is to r
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by kec 3y ago
The problem with customer support broadly isn’t having the agent understand you, it’s often about escalation until you get to an agent with the authority to handle your particular exceptional circumstance. There is no godly way any company

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