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by logifail 7mo ago
> Determining progress in a therapy setting is usually a collaborative effort between the therapist and the client. An LLM is not a reliable agent to make that determination Can anyone describe how to determine how a (professional, human
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by logifail 7mo ago
"If the user chooses to opt-in and grants location-tracking permission, the app is then, and only then, able to track the user's location?"
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by logifail 7mo ago
> Airports desperately need to be displaying accurate information [..] Airports and airlines may have information that they deliberately do not share with passengers. For example: a large European airport that I once did some work for ra
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Ask HN: Is Gemini disclosing the last part of its system prompt?
2 points by logifail 7mo ago|0 comments
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by logifail 7mo ago
> If you have no DRM and people can just share the install disk, they will do that and piracy will be universal There are plenty of consumers who are happy to pay a reasonable price for an easy-to-access product. The question is, does ad
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by logifail 7mo ago
Was merely commenting on the observed preference vs stated preference issue (aka "the Say/Do Gap"), not the underlying point about raising prices.
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by logifail 7mo ago
> consumers don't generally like it I'd prefer looking at what (potential) consumers actually do rather than what they say . "Saying" is a really weak signal.
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by logifail 7mo ago
> EU laws attempt at least to restrain some of the most egregious speech online. Isn't the difficulty that rules designed to suppress the most harmful speech often create a wide blast radius, affecting legitimate expression in ways
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by logifail 8mo ago
> In my experience, the bus is not a nice experience. The bus feels dirty, unsafe and hostile. This depends very much on where you are in the world. Full disclosure: I have visited a lot of cities/countries, approx 70k flown miles l
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by logifail 8mo ago
> I added that last line as a honeypot Ouch. > No matter what I say positive about some country, culture, or institution, someone will pop into the conversation to say: "Yes, but what about this one incident. See, X is not so gre
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by logifail 8mo ago
As part of the unofficial bargain in which we limit screen time I get to spend a big chunk of my spare time driving him (and his siblings) to and from various sports fixtures. Just one of the many joys of parenting :)
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by logifail 8mo ago
> At this point the harms to children from social media use are very well documented Our middle child (aged 12) has an Android phone, but it has Family Link on it. Nominally he gets 60 mins of phone time per day, but he rarely even comes
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by logifail 8mo ago
> This is a problem [..] (This is a genuine question) please could you describe the underlying problem that age verification is attempting to solve?
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by logifail 8mo ago
> their democracy appears to be very high functioning, which demonstrates this form of democracy can work well This probably depends on your definition of "working well". In March 2025, after the last Federal elections were h
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NASA's Artemis II rocket experienced interrupted flow of helium(nasa.gov)
2 points by logifail 8mo ago|1 comments
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by logifail 8mo ago
NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to
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by logifail 8mo ago
Shouldn't "where are we sourcing our content" be part of any publication review process?
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by logifail 8mo ago
> Since I could tell which “state” the airport is in from looking at flightradar clearly there is a pattern. However the pattern is not easily definable [..] Errm, what? "Not easily definable"? Based on what? I've just
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by logifail 9mo ago
I'd say a BOM is more like the list of ingredients (or inventory) of what's in a product. Depending on what the product is, this may still be a long way from the full "recipe" (or method) to recreate the product.
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by logifail 9mo ago
> They can try to solve that problem Well, they could always try actually paying content creators. Unlike - for instance - StackOverflow.
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by logifail 9mo ago
Except it seems that it's often large companies - typically those with lots of lawyers - who seem to get away with what I can only describe as "corporate misdeads" most regularly. "Following regulation" sounds g
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by logifail 9mo ago
Sorry, but I'm not convinced that the EU is actually capable of reducing regulation. There are some who talk the talk, but when it comes down to it, the behemoth that is the Brussels (and Strasbourg!) machine will never accept reduci
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by logifail 9mo ago
> It's none of their business what you want to do with your company There are plenty of European member states that want the ability to control very precisely what you do with "your company". You want to call yourself &
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by logifail 9mo ago
Happily using MariaDB (as packaged with Debian) in production here...
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by logifail 9mo ago
I'm not sure "open access" in this context actually means, err, that the access is actually open.
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by logifail 10mo ago
I suspect the underlying problem is that the gap between legitimate use of gift cards and fraudulent use of gift cards is just not very large... Years ago I briefly played around with "manufactured spend" (on credit cards, to earn
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by logifail 10mo ago
I wish there were more open discussions about how "Journal Impact Factor" came to be so important. It seems absurd that researchers fret about where to submit their work and are subsequently judged on the impact of said work based
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by logifail 10mo ago
> Now that Google is yanking it, Mozilla needs to find alternative sources of filthy lucre How do Mozilla's costs look?
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by logifail 10mo ago
> To put it bluntly, it is a sham I suspect there may be a pattern, every time I hear on the radio that it's "World $x Day" I'm afraid I start wondering who's actually behind that specific press release and/
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by logifail 10mo ago
(Genuine question) What's your current plan for when your cloud provider goes offline? Do you have a failover story, or it a case of "wait for them to come back online"?

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