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by macintux 3mo ago
I'd definitely prefer random disturbed violence by civilians over a government militia with zero accountability.
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by macintux 3mo ago
It seems like all home technology adds friction and inscrutable failure modes in order to gain functionality/flexibility. "Smart" seems to mean "powerful but complicated and frustrating." I get the functionality ben
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by macintux 3mo ago
Imagine how expensive it’s going to be for the world to help Russia if it collapses.
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by macintux 3mo ago
Are you sure? I can't find any reference indicating that. Update: Huh, TIL https://avro.apache.org/docs/%2B%2Bversion%2B%2B/specificati...
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by macintux 3mo ago
I had one of these in my bedroom as a kid. Clearly I slept more deeply than I do now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_clock
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by macintux 3mo ago
I thought of middleware as sitting on one server, with the database behind it typically on another.
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by macintux 3mo ago
You're right, I should have referred to sunrise instead. For me, permanent DST would mean the sun doesn't come up until 9am in late December.
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by macintux 3mo ago
Given how many times in my life I've internally groaned at yet another corporate email or website that references "EST" during the summer, I'm convinced no one is paying attention. And that, if we do actually implement y
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by macintux 3mo ago
I doubt it. People seem to have a strong aversion to sleeping before sunset.
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by macintux 3mo ago
If a pillar is removed from a building with no warning, no one would claim that its collapse was from the unwillingness of anyone else to put a new one in place. If DOGE had announced a 2-year phaseout of humanitarian aid, governments and N
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by macintux 3mo ago
Curiously, it seems difficult to find John Donne's Meditations XVII with the original language. The spelling has been modernized everywhere I can find it online. (I suppose this technically isn't the opening line, but it's th
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by macintux 3mo ago
> A distributed system without consideration into how to coalesce the data together is no better of a solution vs what we have today. Unless you'd rather prioritize liberty over safety. I want crimes to be harder to solve if the a
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by macintux 3mo ago
> I'm not sure he cares since he's not running again Don't underestimate the willingness of the GOP and the Supreme Court to kiss his feet. > ...and I don't see a way he can use it for graft. He's an expert at
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by macintux 3mo ago
Or, just maybe, people are interested in knowing more about history? I certainly never knew there was a Swedish colony in the U.S., so I’m glad the article was written.
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by macintux 3mo ago
> There will come a time when properly designed LLM apps are not vulnerable, and there will still be poorly designed apps that are. Whether it’s possible to properly secure an LLM (and retain its utility) seems to be heavily disputed, in
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by macintux 3mo ago
My city had a very vanilla, but very useful mobile app for submitting problems like missed trash pickup or dead traffic lights. Someone apparently decided it needed to be "more modern", making it nearly unusable for quick reports
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by macintux 3mo ago
No. No, please, no. I won't buy a car that relies on voice for anything, and I really don't want to rent one either. Wildly inefficient, slow, unpredictable.
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by macintux 3mo ago
As is often the case (and I suspect you're already familiar with it) Randall Munroe tackled the moon->black hole question: https://what-if.xkcd.com/129/
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by macintux 3mo ago
At this point, I feel like automakers should be criminally liable for redesigning the automatic shifter UX. It's probably the 3rd/4th most dangerous control in the vehicle; why do we want people to have to relearn it every time th
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by macintux 3mo ago
I'm unconvinced. Navigating the UI via knobs seems much more distracting to me. I have to reach farther in my vehicle, but more importantly, I have to watch the screen anyway to make sure the knob ends up on the right control. Am I mis
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by macintux 3mo ago
I can't believe Russia even took that to the UN. Insane. https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov...
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by macintux 3mo ago
"Oops, sorry, we have no idea how your document was lost in that cloud failure"
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by macintux 3mo ago
> In the end, we need actual laws that tell the market what kinds of models get paused / analyzed, how long that pause can be, etc. A: Congress used to be able to establish regulatory authority in the executive branch to manage deta
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by macintux 3mo ago
I think it'll have more of an impact with used hardware buyers. I wouldn't buy an M5 for Linux, but repurposing a cheap M1 in a few years? Absolutely.
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by macintux 3mo ago
I do my best to find a local or online shop that actually knows & understands what they sell. Getting harder, but for more expensive items definitely achievable.
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by macintux 3mo ago
Banned from Twitter for a 2-word response: https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mky5taqg3222 Plus news organizations are punished for including links in their content. https://www.niemanlab.
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by macintux 3mo ago
He was convicted in 2005 during George Bush's presidency. So the previous previous previous group in power?
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by macintux 3mo ago
Since the beginning of the computer age kids have found ways around parental controls. I'm very skeptical that it's a good idea to punish parents for that, especially since the kids are likely more tech-savvy than the parents. A
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by macintux 3mo ago
I joked on Twitter 10-15 years ago that my dream use case for AR would be to easily identify wash temperature for my clothes as I prepare for laundry. A friend replied with the news that cold would work for just about everything, and I have
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by macintux 3mo ago
At a large enough scale, being beholden to a drug is far more sustainable. We’ve tried shaming people into being healthy. Amazingly enough, it doesn’t work very well.

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