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by mdekkers 3y ago
Thats not Hue’s fault though, your friend should be better at planning and implementing their Hue implementation. Hue bulbs default to “normal on” when power is restored, and also work with sensors, dimmers, and switches.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Fair use is intended for humans. Is it? Can you quote relevant legislation or case law?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> making training them at scale legally perilous would be a huge win. Why?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Small, well-behaved companion dogs have been allowed to roam free since medieval times, including indoors. The dog in question is not small. In fact, a pyr is one of the largest dog breeds.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
OP/Author is Dutch, not Chinese.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> > Fight bullshit and bureaucracy every time you see it and get other people to fight it too. >I am curious about others' track record doing this. I nearly lost my job fighting bullshit and bureaucracy at my current gig and h
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Aldi is German, and “grocery packing” is the unsung national sport, everybody is at it, all the time. You have not know humiliation if you have not experienced a line of slightly elderly shoppers mildly frowning and tutting as you hurl your
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Leonardo da Vinci was human, he had flaws, he wasn't always right, and I think these are important things to point out in order to make the real achievements stand out. I don’t think any, or many, people believe da Vinci had no fl
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by mdekkers 3y ago
It sounds like they work in a genuinely toxic environment, and utterly exhausting. I get that the Chinese have few options, but why would you voluntarily subject yourself to this level of physical and emotional abuse?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
To compare the current situation in any way with the situation as it was at the time of the Russian revolution is, at best, overly simplistic. Pretty much the first thing the revolutionaries said was “well that was easy, let’s make sure tha
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Power comes, everywhere on our planet, from owning and maintaining the monopoly on violence. Which is vested in the military and police. As you rightly point out, going against those is nigh impossible.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I suspect they are slowly making 4 worse so that when they launch 5 it will appear so much better than 4
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Yeah I read that, and for the folks that believe it - please note that I’m currently running a Holiday Spacial for several famous bridges
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by mdekkers 3y ago
“Cede power”? What would you have them do?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Ah, 37Signals, famous for producing mediocre software and the founder and CTO, DHH, telling their employees to “just shut up and work”. what a lovely bunch.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
“All hell broke loose” is some fine hyperbole. Someone found that the bot was just a ChatGPT frontend, due to the prominent “Powered by ChatGPT” label right on top of the chat window, and got it to write some python script. Other people wen
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I hope nobody needed pointing out that it is (obvious) satire
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Wait until they equip it with systems to collect and convert its own energy, that’s going to be wild. I propose a bipedal locomotion system, two extended manipulators, some stereo vision sensors and possibly some audio processing. Can’t wai
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Those planes will likely be communicating with ATC via networked protocols that have yet to be proposed and standardized. The protocols are not the issue, it’s the high-bandwidth, low-latency wireless network that’s missing. LEO satcom
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Nomad is really pretty awesome
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Awesome, couldn’t have happened to _nicer_ people. Now do Consul and Nomad!
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by mdekkers 3y ago
All of these “cloud is better” reasons have all proven to be no better than some kind of local nas + backup, but a lot more expensive.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
https://nifi.apache.org https://docs.saltproject.io/en/getstarted/ https://stackstorm.com
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Please stay away from any safety critical systems, thank you.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
You don’t need to explain every detail of how you do what you do, your product should speak for itself - outcomes count. If you go to a restaurant, you don’t demand to stand in the kitchen and inspect each ingredient and process, right? I a
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by mdekkers 3y ago
The words “attack”, “exploit”, “vulnerability”, and “safety” do some herculean levels of lifting in this post. This is simply LLMs doing LLMs things.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> That's going to look like Factorio in your kitchen. Why are you trying to make that sound like it is some kind of problem?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I apologise for not making it clear enough that I separate “award winning show dog” breeders from “puppy mill” breeders. There is a special place in hell for those that run puppy mills. The same goes for the buyer though. It isn’t hard to f
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> … "award winning show dogs" can have all sorts of horrible health problems that lead to an early, painful death. There are a few breeds that have serious health problems, but the vast majority don’t. I have an award winning s
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I do believe that Germany blocking CF endpoints would knock Germany even further back into the stone age, and would hurt Germany a lot more than it would hurt CF.

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