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by macintux 1y ago
There was a fairly large local grocery chain who just required the last 4 digits of the phone number to get a discount. I’m not sure who thought that was a good idea, but they’ve since gone out of business (I’m reasonably certain there’s no
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by macintux 1y ago
Isn’t it?
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by macintux 1y ago
I know for some people the prospect of losing their Google Cloud access due to an automated terms of service violation on some completely unrelated service is worrisome. https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs&#x
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by macintux 1y ago
From other comments, it sounds like you could rescue your credit by simply telling them you can't, but you'd like to pay something more reasonable.
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by macintux 1y ago
I almost mentioned the Jasper-Pulaski FWA. I've visited once or twice during migration season, very impressive. Depressing, however, just how much smaller the wetlands are now thanks to settlement. Up to 1 million acres lost.
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by macintux 1y ago
I suspect that depends on the nesting status. Long ago I worked in an office building where a mated pair would frequently raise their chicks outside the front door, and before the eggs hatched they would aggressively harass anyone walking t
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by macintux 1y ago
I rarely see them in Indiana, but hearing them fly overhead while migrating is a joy. Such a distinctive call. I just discovered there's a map of places to find them: https://sandhillfinder.savingcranes.org/near
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by macintux 1y ago
Discussions (with more than 2 comments) of the planned bridge: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854834 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817863 - https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by macintux 1y ago
Spent over a week wandering the backroads and state highways of the American southeast region, and I was amazed at how out-of-date Apple Maps was regarding local businesses. Often I’d see something on my map that had clearly been abandoned
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by macintux 1y ago
> You really think the casualty rate from programmers--with all our mistakes--can beat that? I think that if my infrastructure + code had any direct connection to patient outcome, there would be a lot of harm done. Not that I'm part
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by macintux 1y ago
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675851 (56 comments)
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by macintux 1y ago
> Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.” > Baltimore County Public Scho
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(2023)
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by macintux 1y ago
I would think "no comment" would be safer/smarter than "yeah, your kids are at risk of being shot by police by attending our school, deal with it".
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by macintux 1y ago
I think the most amazing part is that the school doubled down on the mistake by parroting the corporate line. I expect a school to be smart enough to say “Yes, this is a terrible situation, and we’re taking a closer look at the risks involv
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by macintux 1y ago
My cousin lives in Kentucky, and apparently her chickens are hugely beneficial with tick control, which is a big deal.
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by macintux 1y ago
You said: >...it finally told me that it generated « the most probable » urls for the topic in question based on the ones he knows exists. smrq is asking why you would believe that explanation. The LLM doesn't necessarily know why i
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by macintux 1y ago
I don't know for certain what you're referring to, but the "bulk downloads" of the Internet that AI companies are executing for training are the problem I've seen cited, and doesn't relate to LLMs checking thei
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by macintux 1y ago
That’s very common to distributed systems: much better to have a failed node than a slow node. Slow nodes are often contagious.
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by macintux 1y ago
That's a shame. News article covering the apparent abandonment: https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/22/apple-has-abandon...
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by macintux 1y ago
I wouldn't recommend picking one that doesn't tell you what tools you can use to configure it, but that's a wise precaution regardless of HomeKit.
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by macintux 1y ago
There's an ancient joke about liberal arts majors who, when presented with a malfunctioning microwave that's throwing sparks, desperately try to turn it off; eventually an engineering student wanders by and pulls the plug.
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by macintux 1y ago
HomeKit certification doesn't mean that it can only be configured via Apple devices.
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by macintux 1y ago
No man is an island, entire of itself
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Not to mention that the knowledge, skills, experience to troubleshoot/recover is rarely evenly distributed across the teams.
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by macintux 1y ago
Apparently it’s called “Advanced Voice Mode”. https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-talk-to-chatgpt-on-your-p...
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by macintux 1y ago
I’m on a long, meandering road trip and I decided to start using the conversational feature in ChatGPT. Truly amazing stuff. Discussed some sights I’d want to see along the Natchez Trace (although perhaps unsurprisingly it did not anticipat
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by macintux 1y ago
It’s obvious in hindsight, but before I lived in the Boston area I never appreciated just how critical it is to have buses to supplement a subway, subway & buses to supplement light rail. Whenever the idea of light rail came up in my ho
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by macintux 1y ago
You're correct. I didn't know much about the various battery technologies at the time, but they were pretty old batteries.
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by macintux 1y ago
~15 years ago I was visiting New Orleans, and I had an old Canon 1D DSLR with me. I was a little nervous about leaving my camera batteries charging in the small b&b where I was staying, fearing I'd unintentionally destroy a histori

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