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by knodi123 4y ago
They can't see what you're doing on HTTPS sites (barring any probably-illegal tinkering like MITM), but they can mostly recognize which sites you visit, your level of traffic to them, and enough schedule-based information to build
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by knodi123 4y ago
damn, if we only had a functional democracy.
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by knodi123 4y ago
yeah, that did it. thanks!
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by knodi123 4y ago
How do you actually use it on a project? I see where you can order a dedicated piece of hardware, but I'd love to download this and replace pyttsx3 on my homemade IoT linux server. But all I see is documentation, discussion of what t
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by knodi123 4y ago
I get tons of email like "Thanks for the application, you're the kind of person we're looking for, please come interview at such-and-such a time, and bring the following documentation..." If I was looking for entry-level
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by knodi123 4y ago
That's not AI, that's a human doing a comedic impression of AI. And I suspect the real AIs among us would find that just as offensive as modern Chinese people do when a white guy starts pulling his eyes to the side and going into
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by knodi123 4y ago
> The guy who wrote it originally was "anti RTOS" and had died after riding his motorbike recklessly That's literally the example in the literal textbook of why you shouldn't write code like this!
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by knodi123 4y ago
Counterpoint: State machines in Ruby should be used sparingly, and only when necessary, because they start out quick and easy, but almost always grow into things that are big, ugly, and difficult to refactor or remove. Here are somebody&#x
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by knodi123 4y ago
since, ironically, my old phone has a better camera than most security cameras I've ever seen
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by knodi123 4y ago
> - self cleaning toilet and bathroom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CCI-ysfFr8 My wife watched that video, and was nodding along... "It's a bit wasteful of water, but I like the idea!" And then th
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by knodi123 4y ago
Yeah, I call that the fallen world fallacy. Once you recognize the basic concept, you start to see it everywhere . Atlantis was some amazing civilization that did everything right, but then some corrupt stinker spread his corrupt ideas i
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by knodi123 4y ago
Any online order or phone order is an automatic opt-in to their catalog. I used to let my wife handle her own mail and I handled mine, but it got so out of control that I saved all her garbage for 1 month and showed it to her, and now I&#x
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by knodi123 4y ago
Not the ones that have fake caller id. Those guys aren't in america, and are completely untouchable by the law. It's a real problem.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> It is a cliche, but truly, they are only cheating themselves. > Careers eventually filter out (most of) the cheaters. Some yes. Some no. I cheated in my computer architecture class. I was already an accomplished programmer in Per
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by knodi123 4y ago
> It should come as no surprise that having neither situational awareness or common sense is often hazardous to one's health, wallet or both. Common sense says that getting under shelter during a storm is a good idea. If your commo
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by knodi123 4y ago
to a naive kid, this sounds like a great idea - humans are pretty much vision-only, so cars should be able to do the same! makes me feel like there are a lot of naive kids over there. I know they have some geniuses, I'm just saying
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by knodi123 4y ago
if humans were any good at taking that specific piece of advice, the world would be a better (and very different) place.
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by knodi123 4y ago
a security rfid tag is about as secure as a security QR code.
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by knodi123 4y ago
If you've learned how to glance at airspeed, how to pitch for speed, and when to flare, you're 90% of the way there. Those are the hard parts you need practice for. Right? And everything else, ATC can talk you through. I mean,
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by knodi123 4y ago
Ask any lottery winner what the secret was to their success. I bet most of them have theories!
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by knodi123 5y ago
Thanks, that's not the answer I wanted but it was sadly convincing.
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by knodi123 5y ago
can you answer a noob question I've always wondered? Is there any reason AI research has to run at fast speeds? Like, any modern learning model that you're researching with could certainly run on a million dollar gpu farm or what
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by knodi123 5y ago
> A second mortgage is extra risk to a person's most important asset Okay, fine, so that's the reason we don't like borrowing money to invest. Now explain why it's good to have a mortgage at all? Don't just say
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by knodi123 5y ago
I'm just saying that this particular symptom is a vague which has been attributed to the boogey-man-of-the-week for a thousand years.
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by knodi123 5y ago
> "Luke, you bottle that, you're a millionaire." Or you get assassinated by Big Mosquito Repellent. I wouldn't mess with those people. Stick to inventing a cheap carbon-negative replacement for gasoline. Far fewer
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by knodi123 5y ago
> This is essentially borrowing money to invest Yeah, I don't know why more people don't see it this way. Everyone seems to agree that you shouldn't eagerly make extra mortgage payments to pay off your home loan ASAP. Bec
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by knodi123 5y ago
of note, fertility issues were also one of the main symptoms of evil witchcraft, back in the days when witchcraft was considered a valid health concern.
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by knodi123 5y ago
the concorde reference: https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde/DOC/index.html
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by knodi123 5y ago
> I also know the maintenance responsibilities aren't inherently and legally mine Yes, that's right, they are legally the landlord's. And if they stopped maintaining it, they are breaking the law, and you can sue them
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by knodi123 5y ago
> legally I am forced to keep 3 bedrooms empty. Not at all! Look into what it would take to lease them out to a self-storage facility. :-P

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