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by leakycap 1y ago
I think this perspective overlooks how human expertise actually works. Humans in cutting-edge research also get things wrong a lot: most hypotheses fail, most experiments don't pan out, and most novel approaches lead nowhere. When we c
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My original 1st Gen AirPods still work - albeit only about 30 mins My original 1st Gen AirPods Pro (2019) still work great and last a 2-3 hours listening to music. I'm not sure something this small and useful is a tragedy when it lasts
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by leakycap 1y ago
Before AirPods, I was running AA batteries through my cassette player and then CD player every few days, as were thousands of us. I don't think the rice-sized battery or electronics here are worth being upset over.
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When a company uses a logo, they assume it is theirs. When an LLM gives a company a 39¢ logo they like that is a copy of someone else, who breaks the news to them that your LLM probably had the other company's logo in its training? Gig
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I was once a young man No one cared what I believed in back then As an older person now, I see why no one cared what I thought as a young man on some topics Why is it any different today?
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It’s as if DHH is so confident in their own work that they skip all the foundational steps and best practices -- even on an operating system project. The un-squashed commits are just the tip of the iceberg, but the installation method is th
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> Could we have high-speed rail if we just asked some French or Japanese company to build it for us? No. Please see SNCF (French rail company)'s involvement in California's high speed rail project. https://www.nyti
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> Like, does COBOL allow out-of-bounds memory access? Modern COBOL compilers will catch this with an error; if you do manage to compile and run, you'll get a runtime error or immediate crash. > How does it compare to C or Rust as
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With so many options popping up left and right, choosing one seems like a bad idea. Better options are coming out every month or so. Save your notes in a folder on your device. When you have a use case for interacting with a tool, upload th
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> How do they do this? This isn't happening. > How is the data obtained? The web is a big plac, but you're spending too much time online andhaving repeat interactions with the same media. You need to spend time away from
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> extremely prolific author, prolific self-published author of free things on the internet sometimes also sold as books > software engineer along with many others who wrote great things in 2005! but what lately? the setup script calle
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What is the world supposed to be doing, exactly? If men and women within Afghanistan are not willing to stand up against the Taliban, which country wants to sign up next to get involved? The US showed time & money is not going to fix it
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by leakycap 1y ago
DHH feels like a mini-Elon. Extremely problematic but somehow great at selling to whoever is interviewing him. The last time I felt DHH deserved headlines was in the early 2000s. Since then I think we're just forced to hear from him be
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The more high-quality tools available without handing over cash, the better. Learning on pgAdmin 4 was harder than it would have been to use DataGrip or DBeaver Community Edition when I was first learning concepts. For those curious, it quo
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I loaded the page (laptop), I got something saying VVV ZZZ and have no idea what I'm supposed to do - so I'd say it needs some introduction maybe?
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Wow - a 327kb iOS App?! Impressive & I can see the use cases!
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Unexpected to whom? It has seemed clear bad news was on the way & nothing has changed, so there will be more bad news next month.
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Taiwan needs continued strong US political support in the region - so I don't see them as having a very strong position to negotiate, unfortunately
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Writing on pen and paper - away from a screen Screens include your phone/tablet/laptop, TVs, and even your smartwatch - so if you want to listen to music while you journal, just start a playlist beforehand There are great journali
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News Minimalist with the cute turtle header has become my daily "newspaper" > Both use AI, with the former ranking news based on importance I like this! If I'm in a rush, I check for very high priority stories. Usually
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Has none of these features: > - File system integration > - Application launching > - Dropdown menus > - Window dragging and resizing > - Dialog boxes Seems like it has a long way to go before it's a port of System 7.
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> spending a lot of time just buying and printing labels through an e-commerce platform Why can't you just connect the platforms? If there is no default way to do this, try Zapier. IFTTT is a very low cost option if Zapier doesn&#
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Ive's works have a solidity to them that I enjoy
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> For this study, researchers analyzed medical data from more than 9 million adults in South Korea and almost 7,000 adults in the United States. Why would the ratio be 9 million to 7,000?
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> This was likely not an intentional act against Apple, which tracks given that the company has been especially supportive of the Trump administration. Tim has made some terrible choices – I'm sad this is so accurate.
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I recently paid the Apple Store to replace the battery/top case/keyboard on my 8 year old MBP because the M-series I have can't do a few things Intel-based Macs can. The M-series are awesome and incredibly fast for web browsi
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google also unofficially did until sometime last week bing now limits to 50 results per page even when signed in
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SerpAPI has a free ($0/mo forever) plan that lets you get 100 results for 250 searches per month https://serpapi.com/blog/solution-to-scrape-100-search-resul... I have not heard of another offering, and the next j
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No https version is an unusual choice
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snake_case because if your column ends up in a Postgres/MySQL environment your CamelCase will be become camelcase And reading those becomes nightmares If you are just working in Javascript/Node.js, CamelCase is the preferred optio

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