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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> If the company consents The company ultimately being the shareholders. Hard to imagine a scenario where allowing an employee to trade on insider information would benefit the shareholders.
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> Interesting. I required all my devs to use local VMs for development. It doesn’t work when you’re developing on a large database, since it won’t fit. Database (and data warehouse) development has been held back from modern practices j
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That’s all been confiscated already.
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Most people are capable of long-term learning. Some people are capable of discovering and inventing new things. I think the two are related, and current NN architecture doesn’t allow this. An AI that can cobble together a CRUD applicatio
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There’s no getting around it. If we reduce CO2 emissions to zero it’s either plants or carbon capture, and one way or another the planet will have to do something with all that carbon. Last time it took plants millions of years, and that
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But some people do believe that AI is all hype and it will all go away. It’s hard to find two people who actually mean the same thing when they talk about a “bubble” right now.
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It gets into your gut and kills beneficial bacteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_microbiota#Effects_of_anti...
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I love scripting in Python too. I just hate trying to install other people’s scripts.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> But if you are in the habit of using custom elements then you will likely continue to use them even when a more useful element is available You could say the same about divs. I’ve seen pages where everything is a div. No paragraphs,
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But these days you’re defending against the likes of squadrons of low flying B52s firing 20 (possibly nuclear) cruise missiles each. The bombers can fly back and re-arm much more quickly than any fleet, and there are a lot more bombers tha
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Some of Britains most celebrated monarchs were women, so that might have some influence on how women in positions of power are regarded.
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Often I find photos rather dull compared to what I recall. Unless the lighting is perfect it’s easy to end up with a poor image. On the other hand the images used in travel websites are laughably over processed.
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> I'm imagining a sort of Logan's Run-like scifi setup where only people with a documented em dash before November 30, 2022, i.e. D(ash)-day, are left with permission to write. At least Robespierre needed two sentences before c
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> too wish we were weaving exotic matter metamaterials out of the aether, We’ve known how to make hydrocarbons out of air for decades, it’s just cheaper to dig up the remains of plants that discovered the process billions of years ago.
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The producers vary production to drive price movements, not the other way around.
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It can be synthesized from air and water with energy and the right catalysts, although the process isn’t cheap. However if solar power keeps getting cheaper it might become feasible to produce it this way instead of drilling.
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We don’t know who else is watching.
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Two things can be true.
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There’s a lot of research of people for whom punishment obviously didn’t act as a deterrent, and unsurprisingly this research concludes that the prospect of punishment doesn’t act as a deterrent. There is no research I’m aware of on people
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> purchase transaction The licensee has to offer code to users (more precisely, to any third party). It doesn’t say they have to purchase anything to be a legitimate user.
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> In theory, that written offer only needs to go to the device suppliers. The GPL clearly specifies recipients, it doesn’t say anything about suppliers.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
> first sale doctrine) dictates that copyright is exhausted upon the first sale of the device (i.e. to the distributor). The copyright doesn’t go away when copies are sold to a distributor. Someone (probably the manufacturer) still has
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Podcasts are fine for entertainment, great for tuning out people or the traffic. I don’t expect to absorb information quickly, but try reading anything serious on the train when some guy is non-stop on his phone using his outside voice.
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> Something wrong about representing the weight of US dollars in metric units. The traditional unit of measure of truckloads of money is (drum roll) a dump truck. A large dump truck holds 16-20 cubic yards. https://www.catdum
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The constant threat of open source (and other competitors) is what keeps the big fish from getting complacent. It’s why they’re spending trillions on new data centers, and that benefits Nvidia. When there’s an arms-race on it’s good to be
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It’s probably not a coincidence that these monuments that seem to serve as calendars happened to spring up just as farming was becoming widespread .
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> It wasn't settled until after the last ice age. The UK wasn’t permanently settled until the mesolithic either. There are older artifacts like axes, but no monuments.
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There’s a minimum level of energy consumption (and thus heat) that has to be produced by computation, just because of physics. However, modern computers generate billions of times more heat than this minimum level. https://en.wi
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> The railway also allowed milk to be brought into the cities. So they added vitamin D to milk. That and (later) refrigeration allowed dairy products to be transported to the cities, which helped with calcium intake, as well as vitamin D
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Maybe use excess power to produce methane via the sabatier reaction, store that, and then burn it in turbines or use it in fuel cells when needed. It’ll be interesting to see how the economics of these various solutions play out.

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