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by leejo 3y ago
Interesting stuff, thanks. I guess it's all the infrastructure around that pushing up the costs.
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I Went to FOSDEM(leejo.github.io)
72 points by leejo 3y ago|38 comments
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by leejo 3y ago
Gah! Brain, I was thinking about which player usually strikes the ball first (hooker) rather than who feeds the scrum (scrum-half). Point still stands though I don't think I've seen a straight feed in years, at least in the Six Na
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by leejo 3y ago
To expand the analogy further the scrum, in modern rugby, is the worst part of the game and has gone through several iterations the last couple of decades to reform it as it often ends in a stalemate or arbitrary penalty to one side (as goo
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by leejo 3y ago
Spurious CVEs have been around for a long time, it seems that people feeding open source codebases into LLMs and asking it to point out potential issues is just the next step in that approach. LLMs don't understand the code they'r
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by leejo 3y ago
The blog post contains a timestamp in the RSS feed. In fact, the referenced post by Julia Evans also contains a timestamp in its RSS feed as well. However, the post is making the point that the date should be in the post as viewed by th
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Print Sales, Costs, and Profit: 2023(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 3y ago|0 comments
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Load Shedding(leejo.github.io)
2 points by leejo 3y ago|1 comments
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by leejo 3y ago
I'm head of processing development at PayProp[^1] where we've been automatically reconciling rental payments for two decades using the techniques described in the article - we just don't call it an AI or a LLM. Our tech saves
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by leejo 3y ago
> My assumption would be the complexity of the print mechanism / tolerances / balancing. I once sat on a chairlift with a lawyer who had represented one of the big printer companies and he explained that printers are the perfec
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I Finally Bought a Scanner(leejo.github.io)
3 points by leejo 3y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 3y ago
> So, having a 2B+ user base If my impression of Instagram is representative then 80% of the 2B+ user base is bots. The worst case here is Meta start automatically forcing Threads down Instagram user's throats if they don't get
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by leejo 3y ago
The prior "object system" was just a way to stuff things into the symbol table. I'm hand waving here, but the point is it that the scope of that system ended at "calling a method on an instance of a class" and there
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The Pre-Play Attack in Real Life (Chip and Pin MIM Fraud)(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
2 points by leejo 3y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 3y ago
Any chemists here know if use of TCE has been phased out in school and graduate labs? When I was doing my degree I recall benzene was out in favour of toluene - which adds a methyl group to the ring, massively reducing toxicity. I'm pr
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Thoughts on AI Images: Art, Convincing Nonsense, and Visual Literacy(cphmag.com)
1 points by leejo 4y ago|0 comments
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Responses to “I Almost Bought a Scanner”(leejo.github.io)
92 points by leejo 4y ago|49 comments
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by leejo 4y ago
Article author here - can you let me know where you're based (details in my profile)? I'll be looking for a solution to keep scanning my Xpan negs, and possibly my F1 project at some point in the near future.
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by leejo 4y ago
I dove in pretty far - to the point of running dtrace on the flexcolor software, and it seemed to get stuck in a thread that was receiving data from the scanner. The Firewire port is dying (well, now it seems to be dead) so this is not a so
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by leejo 4y ago
I reached out to a few people over a couple of months while testing the scanner, including a couple of third party service/repair shops. There are also dedicated user groups around these scanners that are all happy to help and give tip
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I almost bought a scanner(leejo.github.io)
440 points by leejo 4y ago|320 comments
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I Bought a Printer(leejo.github.io)
4 points by leejo 4y ago|0 comments
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Starting a New Instagram Account in 2023?(leejo.github.io)
3 points by leejo 4y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 4y ago
Nah, this was (IIRC) very much a privately owned piste with a privately owned Poma lift. Not the usual case of "this piste is closed for competition/training". Gstaad is an interesting place. They have a yacht club but no lak
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by leejo 4y ago
Gstaad is quite an exclusive resort, but is relatively low level - the village is at about 1,000m. I once shot some photos for the local ski club at one of the slopes there and they wouldn't let anyone but the racers use the piste as t
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by leejo 4y ago
We attended a few gigs in Italy this summer. Two of them we bought tickets first hand, they were indeed tied to a name with ID required. Was ID checked? Nope, of course not. One was a medium sized venue (3000), one a stadium, and one small
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by leejo 4y ago
CPAN is still where the most interesting work is happening with Perl. Often blog posts like Dave's here will highlight features added to recent perl versions, which from outside the community looks pretty underwhelming. Probably it is,
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by leejo 4y ago
I've commented on touchscreens before[^1], but here's my latest anecdote: we finally got a replacement washing machine in the apartment (owner's choice, not ours). It's top loading and has a touchscreen and a spinny whee
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Expectations and Use Cases (Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 2)(leejo.github.io)
1 points by leejo 4y ago|0 comments
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by leejo 4y ago
> Just curious is this 8 year streak for 1 language? No. Probably five years for one and then switching between others (German, Italian, and Spanish). > What % completion are you for a the language? I got close to the end initially th

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