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by mootothemax 9mo ago
Funnily enough I got the same type of hope from Julia , the 1984-from-Julia’s perspective tome that hints at… well, you’ll have to find out :)
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by mootothemax 9mo ago
I guess this is what makes marketing so tricky; I myself would’ve bought a $10/mo subscription so much sooner given the chance, which by now - and happily, incidentally - would’ve brought in way more dosh than my one-off payment.
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by mootothemax 9mo ago
That’s an excellent point, thanks for linking. My takeaway from this thread is: his theory’s great until you discover that your customers are wiling pay *so* much more. On a more positive note, I’ve been blown away by the (largely, one cons
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by mootothemax 10mo ago
While I don’t disagree with you, for historical purposes I think it’s important to highlight why google started its push for 100% wire encryption everywhere all the time: The NSA and GHCQ and basically every TLA with the ability to tap a fi
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by mootothemax 10mo ago
This is pretty much well what is so remarkable about parquet files; not only do you get seekable data, you can fetch only the columns you want too. I believe that there are also indexing opportunities (not necessarily via eg hive partitioni
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by mootothemax 10mo ago
Hi there - I’m really sorry about your negative experiences. I read the replies to your comment and felt sad that I didn’t read one that recognised how much work you’re putting into what sounds like an indifferent society - and how unfair
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by mootothemax 10mo ago
Zero mention of anything other than WiFi on its tech specs page :-/ https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-wifi/products/utr
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by mootothemax 10mo ago
I’m really struggling to understand the SIM side, the page talks about 5G while tethered to a phone?
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by mootothemax 11mo ago
67 has absolutely no right to be prime. Sitting there looking all innocent.
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by mootothemax 11mo ago
> Just one of the couple dozen databases we run for our product in the dev environment alone is over 12 TB. > How could I not use the cloud? Funnily enough, one of my side projects has its (processed) primary source of truth at that e
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by mootothemax 1y ago
Is it that common to upset people at work and have absolutely no clue why or how or what you’ve done? And not from a lack of trying, and definitely not because you don’t care? Because to me, that’s what masking means: constantly checking yo
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by mootothemax 1y ago
yeah that's not what I'm saying
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by mootothemax 1y ago
Tailwind is magical to me for one reason alone: I can now design. As someone who spent 20+ years as a jack-of-all-trades / full-stack developer, specialising in back-end and database skills, this has largely been... confusing. Before,
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by mootothemax 1y ago
> It’d be bad if there was no alternative. But different people can get different assignments and that’s ok. While there are possibly noble goals behind your suggestion, in practise this puts anyone outside the mainstream in the category
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by mootothemax 1y ago
I’d love to hear your thoughts on BERTs - I’ve dabbled a fair bit, fairly amateurishly, and have been astonished by their performance. I’ve also found them surprisingly difficult and non-intuitive to train, eg deliberately including bad dat
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by mootothemax 1y ago
Yeesh slave.trade.market too!
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by mootothemax 1y ago
You can self-host or run locally Valhalla ( https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla ), reading in data from OSM as a starting point. (For my purposes, I went with local running, generating walking-distance isochrones across
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by mootothemax 1y ago
> most places have a clear and simple address That depends on your definition of "clear and simple" and "address" :) While a lot boils down to use case - are you trying to navigate somewhere, or link a string to an ad
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by mootothemax 2y ago
> I wrapped and modified it to meet our specific needs, tweaking the code so the results differ from the default - you won’t get the same file size or optimization when using it out of the box. I presume this is an oversight; changing Co
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by mootothemax 2y ago
What am I missing about the 2.8mb example image not reducing to 698kb as it says on the homepage? I downloaded https://www.imgfiber.com/compare/original.jpg and dragged it into the try-it-now section - says it's n
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by mootothemax 2y ago
> Having spoken with a number of people who were involved with the 2020 census (mostly on a volunteer, local basis) the answer is not "absolutely every person in the country got counted exactly once". Do you have any thoughts o
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by mootothemax 2y ago
>A census literally counts every individual. I'm afraid that this isn't the case; a census is a best-efforts estimate. There are plenty of people missed for a variety of reason, everything from not wanting to be found, through
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by mootothemax 2y ago
Yeah that’s a fun one to solve. On the plus side, the factory faces a problem as the consequences of being caught are severe. They’ll often take mitigating action to try and obfuscate the source, such as using slightly different materials s
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by mootothemax 2y ago
Once upon a time, I worked on behalf of a few luxury goods makers, tracking down counterfeit versions of their items, and getting the obvious and less obvious fakes removed before anyone could waste money (and their perception of the brand)
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by mootothemax 2y ago
> For physical goods, used items always fetch a lower price than new items This is only true under certain circumstances. If there are supply chain issues, used prices can go up and over the list price. The most extreme (and obvious) e
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by mootothemax 2y ago
> I don't find the cons all that compelling to be honest, or at least I think they warrant further discussion It needs a novel JS port of a C compresison library, which will be wired into a heavily-used and public-facing toolchain,
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by mootothemax 2y ago
I’m happy you’re taking it in the spirit intended :) it’s a trap I frankly despise but that’s cos I’m old and bitter. The problem being addressed - if you’ll forgive the pun - is that you’re not storing someone’s current address; what you h
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by mootothemax 2y ago
Heh, you’ve fallen into the exact trap I was trying to expose, which is why I chose addresses as an illustration point :) The first step with anything address-y is to try and nail down exactly what an address is in the project context. Quic
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by mootothemax 2y ago
> Think bigger. One of the easier parts of this involves addressing, which in the UK is notoriously easy, reliable, and easy to process - especially the best-in-class Ordnance Survey stuff like AddressBase Premium, right? A quick trawl o
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by mootothemax 2y ago
It’s because the recycled option includes the costs that should have been paid by the plastic producers the first time around. At some point, the societal costs of producing a product or material will be taxed or otherwise accounted for at

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