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by megadata 2y ago
Muons were also recently on hackaday. DIY ground penetrating radar ... Building A DIY Muon Tomography Device For About $100 https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/building-a-diy-muon-tomograp...
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by megadata 2y ago
Totally. You'll get the Lord of the Flies scenario. Even with with a manager, if the manager isn't doing much managing then the flies will start buzzing.
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by megadata 2y ago
Personally I think Microsoft was in the right. Obfuscated code like this shouldn't be in an extension, at least with out a very big warning and a red flag.
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Microsoft apologizes for removing VSCode Material Theme extension(bleepingcomputer.com)
6 points by megadata 2y ago|7 comments
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by megadata 2y ago
Attempt? Isn't that project still in full swing?
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by megadata 2y ago
I was on mobile, too much cortisol vs endorphin.
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by megadata 2y ago
I had exactly the same experience.
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by megadata 2y ago
Slick as silk! But too fast too quickly. Gimme some easy endorphin in the first few levels before I start struggling.
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by megadata 2y ago
Not amateurs, but a NASA contractor managed to mess up Hubble's mirror back in the day. Involves chipped paint and household washers. https://hackaday.com/2020/04/29/test-equipment-shim-washers-... Simon
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by megadata 2y ago
That's Cursor Pro. What's the monthly subscription price for being patronized like that?
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by megadata 2y ago
SO was never a problem. Low effort questions were. "This doesn't work, why?" followed by 300 lines of code.
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by megadata 2y ago
I think it's definition on what's a "person" is way too broad. I've had similar problems, it's pretty shitty.
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by megadata 2y ago
Yeah, your can do your dishes with the fire hose too.
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by megadata 2y ago
Not only sharing, bluetooth in general can be a painful experience in some circumstances.
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by megadata 2y ago
The Stockholm Syndrome. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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by megadata 2y ago
At least LLMs are very often ready so acknowledge they might be wrong. It can be incredibly hard to get a person to acknowledge that they might be remotely wrong on a topic they really care about. Or, for some people, the thought that they
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by megadata 2y ago
Is JTAG undocumented?
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by megadata 2y ago
It'd never have been an issue if this was documented.
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by megadata 2y ago
> How's this any different It's undocumented.
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by megadata 2y ago
There are many ways of rightly praising Discword without sucker punching LOTR.
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by megadata 2y ago
> reward practices Yes. People are incentivized to do very stupid things to grab this years bonus or promotion. See Google intentionally degrading search results for example. The resentment and loathing for Google is at all time high.
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by megadata 2y ago
Prefer an outlaw, masquerading as a cowboy but they see him as a drone.
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by megadata 2y ago
Spot on. People learn to recognize it from miles ahead and in now what's up.
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by megadata 2y ago
The entitlement is big and burly with this one.
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by megadata 2y ago
I've seen people age into the classic "grumpy old man" so there's something to it. But there's probably a lot more to it too I'd think.
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by megadata 2y ago
The missing documents case is mentioned in this brilliant podcast, Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford | Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-s4nk7-1bcc6872 He mentions a lot of o
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by megadata 2y ago
Agree. It's funny how the internet gang reinvented the summary by calling it tldr. But on the other hand tldr is often like a summary of the summary. Having a good summary at the top at least doubles the usefulness of your document
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by megadata 2y ago
I like the idea. It has it's downsides too but it's way better than either a wall of text or nothing at all. I know a guy who writes a wall of text. He literally calls it a wall of text. No one reads it and he gets really angry.
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by megadata 2y ago
He forgot to write a small doc for the server requirements.
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by megadata 2y ago
> This is no different than what amateurs have been doing for a long time. Yes it is. They now have a cohort, a drunk hallucinating expert. >Hopefully they’re not taking in PII or charging anyone for these apps. You bet they most defi

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