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by ldoughty 2y ago
1. Get huge amounts of raw, unfiltered, unmoderated data to feed model 2. Apologize, claim there's no way they could have possibly obtained better, moderated, or filtered data despite having all the money in the world. 3. Profit... whi
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by ldoughty 2y ago
The only 2 bicyclists I know that were injured both (effectively) said they expected the car to yield or see them. One of them was in 2 accidents 5 years apart. Certainly, legally, the cars were in the wrong every time... But the cyclists&#
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Looks like it was ~65k in November of 2021, and at near the current value (~74k) earlier this year. On a >4 year scale, yes, it's slowly going up, but keep in mind that if you bought at the 65k peak of November 2021, it took 2 1&#x2
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by ldoughty 2y ago
It seems you need the M4 Max with the 40-core GPU to go over 36GB. The M4 Pro with 14‑core CPU & 20‑core GPU can do 48GB. If you're looking for ~>36-48GB memory, here's the options: $2,800 = 48GB, Apple M4 Pro chip with 14‑
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by ldoughty 2y ago
I generally agree that "the grass is greener" is common for IT people I think. It's a huge field, and you hear about people doing cool things all the time. But on the flip side, that one cool thing might be the ONLY thing the
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Looks like most of the information features require a purchase... And the price is only visible at checkout.
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by ldoughty 2y ago
I would argue you can't win either way... If you use real link, your training people to trust what the text says is actually where you're going to go.. By making people do extra work to see where click here goes you might actually
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by ldoughty 2y ago
If you make the same query twice, relatively close together, they give you back the same results.. this is intentional, since it won't consume another search request, and it allows you to return to your search if you didn't find t
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by ldoughty 2y ago
And this is exactly why _they_ don't want NASA pointing back to Earth... And why they want them to only have enough funding for the megaprojects that redirect federal money into red states. "There's nothing to see here! Move
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Kagi is already ahead of google, in my opinion, for my search needs. It may be because I've been able to customize my domain raise/demote/block list, so my version might not be "stock search results", but that'
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by ldoughty 2y ago
I hate that Zendesk refused to pay out for this bug. The author made a good faith effort to report it. The author also tried to escalate it. After they decided not to work on it, they later came back and asked him for more information and t
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by ldoughty 2y ago
This is why we need competition, and to stop the big guys from buying the small guys. This is trying to innovate for the customer, making search better for my areas of interest and desires. One of the few subscriptions that make me very hap
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Being an old grey beard you probably know these... but for others: > * Final punctuation within the quote at the end of sentence (Did you just say "what?") can be placed after the final quote if the quote is for a literal strin
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Yep, I certainly would prefer food get thrown away then for somebody to drive up to my property, harvest all of the fruit, and then go and sell it to other people. However, that's less about deserving it, and more about the food being
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Takes a long while to get to any points.. > Chronic high carbohydrate consumption — especially of refined grains and added sugars — drives obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other metabolic disorders Also, the article mentions saturat
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Reread the quote -- You're misinterpreting the sentence. 70% of Americans are overweight. But not all of those are obese.
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by ldoughty 2y ago
> The video got banned a month later because big Pharma didn’t like it. In this day, that sounds like the common tinfoil hat statement: "trust me, my video was blocked because I am infallible/right/oppressed, not for ANY o
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by ldoughty 2y ago
> “It’s a form of corruption,” he said by phone Tuesday. “My approach to how I handle them is not going to change, even if some boss is going to try to punish me. I’m still going to go out there and I’m going to do exactly what I feel is
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by ldoughty 2y ago
He is not. > FMLA applies to all public agencies, all public and private elementary and secondary schools, and companies with 50 or more employees. Source: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/benefits-leave/f
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by ldoughty 2y ago
If you have a Twitter account, you agree to arbitration if someone drives their Tesla, on auto pilot, into your bedroom. Damages are limited to your Twitter subscription fee, or $1. I can see it happening.
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Sadly, I don't think we can get good numbers on the number of people who take higher education seriously. I managed an R1 universities LMS for several years, and I taught at community college, as well as going through my own 8 year Ass
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Who will pay devs to convert World of Warcraft into a single-player game? This is probably covered by "reasonable means to continue functioning" and the answer will be "there are no reasonable means".. but the comment pa
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by ldoughty 2y ago
This looks great from an academic point of view, but there's at least 2 problems that concern me: 1. If you have a distributed system, soft deletes can allow you to stop a process gracefully.. e.g.: if making a user causes provisioning
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by ldoughty 2y ago
I can see this. I didn't really think about it until I switched to Kagi search. Being able to block (or deprioritize) sites because I find them abusive in advertising practices has been great. I would love to see an old netflix-like al
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by ldoughty 2y ago
It also rules out people who use any form of light in their household... including candles. But I do believe the author was jokingly referencing landlords adding generic catch-all clauses without understanding the issue, and understood it w
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by ldoughty 2y ago
According to the article, the data was being made available to other businesses... From the detail level involved, I imagine the NSA has some sweeter deal with telcos... And they have much richer data.
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Unlocking phones does not free the individual of contractual obligations... Yes, there's room for abuse in the system.. and perhaps prepaid phones won't be as well subsidized.. but people getting contracts typically take a credit
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by ldoughty 2y ago
In this case, the developer sold the user account & repository for money (no ownership change to monitor).. so if you were not privy to that transaction, you really couldn't "easily" avoid this without e.g. forking every
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by ldoughty 2y ago
Wouldn't help in this case, the post author banned the bot in the robots for, but then when asked the bot to fetch his web page explicitly by URL... If a user has a bot directly acting on their behalf (not for training), I think that&#
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by ldoughty 2y ago
If starlink thinks it may have 40,000 satellites at full capacity[1] .. and we expect at least 1 if not 2 competitors.. With a 5-year lifespan for an LEO sat, that's potentially 120,000 deorbits every 5 years... That will add up quickl

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