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by ldoughty 3y ago
I agree with the grandparent -- while trying to determine what this was, I looked at other links to try and find the answer and went down the wrong path. > Users from every Matrix homeserver can chat with users from all other Matrix serv
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Traffic cameras as they are now are probably not the best safety encouragement device. I don't understand why states or localities have not run cameras along major routes and looked for speeding over a longer period of time, as opposed
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by ldoughty 3y ago
The source material makes it sound like the traffic stops are like.... profiling people and wasting their time... The 79% on traffic stops is an officer acting on what they classified to be a traffic violation -- it's not 79% of them a
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Blind trust would be the most logical solution. You can put $X into the trust, but you never know which companies that money is invested in. When you ask for $Y to be paid out, the manager of the fund sells what they see fit to fulfill the
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by ldoughty 3y ago
My recent / favorite stack is Hugo, built by a Lambda function on git merge to the master branch. I merge a change to master. Webhook triggers. Lambda builds the static site from a fixed version (for consistency) of Hugo (static site g
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by ldoughty 3y ago
> Every single one of these AI weight things itself is a result of unencumbered, massive, law-breaking, right-violating copyright infringement Maybe the popular and free ones. Adobe has a product in beta that uses "ethical training
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by ldoughty 3y ago
The goal of the bill is not about bodily autonomy... The article makes it clear that the goal is to stop penalizing people who are very often victims (of trafficking or circumstance). They are not trying to stop the trade, legalize the trad
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by ldoughty 3y ago
The article seems to indicate that the goal is to stop double and triple penalizing sellers in the industry. The idea being that those on the selling side are often victims (of trafficking, abuse, no other choice, etc.).. and after they get
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by ldoughty 3y ago
The video on their website is even more damaging... Edit: Note, this is NOT a claim about this company, their security, or practices -- just a look at the "Made in USA" label they press heavily "The integrated circuits can co
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by ldoughty 3y ago
> With time, collapsed ceilings have created holes called dolines, allowing lush foliage to grow and creating a remote and dangerously inaccessible jungle. I would argue that holes from a collapsed ceiling of an underground cave makes it
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by ldoughty 3y ago
I very recently had a 'dont care about the write address' story -- which I think is worth remember for those of us that monitor some of these less-common but known-to-technical-people mailboxes.... When I had an issue with LastPas
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Isn't this akin to: "The cost of an iphone is $500" ? Sure, it's $500 in parts if you just quantify the final working result... but it ignores all prototyping, overhead, and manual work to link together code (e.g. assemb
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by ldoughty 3y ago
I want to point out that the argument in the article is that the YouTuber uploaded a video of a graphic novel, not so much a game. There's a significant difference from showing gameplay of most games, vs visual novels that have basical
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Sounds like the buyer should have ASKED for the sheriff.... Private police threatening fines and jail time? Let them say that with law enforcement around for any follow up lawsuit. A purchase was made and the wrong product arrived at his do
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by ldoughty 3y ago
It's not that hard to modify code.. and I'd argue it's new enough that people should expect growing pains if they want to be early adopters... "Death" of a product for one bug? ....
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Is part of what makes companies like this horrible the fact they WANT to get bought? The one company I have in depth knowledge of going through an acquisition tried to drive employees away where possible, and fire others, down to a skeleton
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Maybe the council environment is different, but I generally feel Microsoft has more often killed the PC game franchises that they have acquired, hurting innovation and choice. The last 2 fallout games I can recall are a phone game and an M
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by ldoughty 3y ago
Yes, adopt a crypto currency that one day is worth 45k, and a month later it's worth 30k, and a month after that it's worth 20k, and 2-3 months later it's 15k (that's what happened in the second half of 2022) You would n
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by ldoughty 4y ago
Man, I would love for him to look at my 2003 Ford Ranger. I turned on the headlights and the anti-lock breaks engaged and the gauges randomly fluctuated. That's the most recent 'fun' story I have with it... Had a parasitic dr
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by ldoughty 4y ago
Everyone* wants to improve their financial situation... A smaller group are able to see that the get rich scheme itself is someone executing someone else's get rich scheme. That's why people listen to these people. *= Some people
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by ldoughty 4y ago
Did you not get the memo? "If you're not with us, you're against us". It's probably more of a conservative/liberal identifier based on US political party ideals... And they likely would filter any metrics from
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by ldoughty 4y ago
I would suspect the team making this tool is not exactly the same team maintaining S3... So adding "server side operations" would require work from the other team to be added.. which certainly could be done if they decided it was
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by ldoughty 4y ago
I asked Google Bard to tell me a short story about a computer hacker. Here was the result, completely unedited... Blew me away: Sure, here is a short story about a computer hacker: Once upon a time, there was a young hacker named Kevin who
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by ldoughty 4y ago
I think the difference is that AWS doesn't have seven frameworks for the same thing.. there certainly different levels to their services, but they generally are abstracting away the lower end each time they make a new product in a cate
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by ldoughty 4y ago
I completely agree with this.. I have been trying to get into front end JS development and it feels like every guide is broken within 6 months... When I actually succeed at one part, I then realize that to add testing, or bundling, I need t
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by ldoughty 4y ago
It's a regulatory filling with the security and exchange commission which is required of publicly traded companies in response to certain events (mainly those that could impact shareholders)
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by ldoughty 4y ago
The UK branch was not at risk, and was in much better shape. Even if they had to close because their parents company was insolvent, you'd expect whomever is responsible for selling assets would want to get a better deal to get money ba
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by ldoughty 4y ago
I also don't understand it. From what I've been reading, the UK SVB bank was in significantly better shape... But there was a fear that people might also run on it as well out of fear/misunderstanding... And that is obviously
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by ldoughty 4y ago
> It's not that simple, some costs on AWS can be high and some tasks don't need the availability/reliability guarantees AWS provides. So even for small startups sometimes having own hardware can be a good cost saver, throu
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by ldoughty 4y ago
shrug I have the same issue as the blog author faced... I appreciated their perspective on the issue. Of course, I did think the topic was going to be about laptops, but shrug still was a nice read.

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