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541.
by nomel 6mo ago
The only way we make meaningful progress has never changed, for a scale that matters: have a cheaper alternative.
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by nomel 6mo ago
I require Jira for all my work to protect myself from three things, definitely not productivity: 1. µManagement asking "What have you even been doing?" Now they have a dashboard, and I have a nice record. 2. Protect me from people
543.
by nomel 6mo ago
> these things aren't really an advantage at all? Which things? Intelligence and looks are a well documented advantage, for an individual. A society is made of individuals. edit: lol, didn't have my coffee yet.
544.
by nomel 6mo ago
This is a very legitimate question: In the US, where is it not? Public buses aren't safe, clean, or timely. Where I am, it's 2.5 hours rather than a 26 minute commute by car. The only reason you ride one is usually if you are al
545.
by nomel 6mo ago
Pass2U is neat because you can make somewhat arbitrary "Cards" with it. Cards with nice layouts that include QR code, images, titles, text, whatever. I have a card for my drone license, insurance, medical, and a few others. Super
546.
by nomel 6mo ago
Title was changed. Now it's: > Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, *publishers allege*
547.
by nomel 6mo ago
Can't access that one with an ad blocker.
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by nomel 6mo ago
I miss reading human experiences, written by humans.
549.
by nomel 6mo ago
It's unfortunate there was never a standardization around how to print different "levels" of messages. Imagine how nice things could be if we had a standard system call for the equivalent of log level, early on!
550.
by nomel 6mo ago
All levels of the US education system teach (now at least) that race is a social construct. There's no concept of population-genetics taught, until much later, in hard science classes.
551.
by nomel 6mo ago
I would claim it's "better" these days than previously. At first, everyone thought they were getting something for free, no strings. Now it seems that even the "uneducated" public understands most of it...they just
552.
by nomel 6mo ago
I'm seeing the same, for gains being largely from documentation. I feel strong making "dev" documentation though, since it seems a bit redundant/superfluous. I fully suspect nobody is going to read it at this point.
553.
by nomel 6mo ago
Sure, but the context changes who "someone" can be. In this case, it's a personal open source project with pull requests open, where that "someone" means "anyone". We can implement the feature if we want
554.
by nomel 6mo ago
Sure, but that hasn't been the common use for "cyber-" for the past ~46 years , which is about ~2x longer than the time between when the term "cybernetics" was coined and the "cyber" was taken from it in
555.
by nomel 6mo ago
> The quality was generally crap. The code near unmaintainable. It usually wasn't written by experienced programmers. This has nothing to do with the language. > any low/no code style environment Did we use the same VB6? Are
556.
by nomel 6mo ago
Any possibility that there could be a compromise in making it work seemingly well (benchmarks around this?) with post-knowledge-cutoff information, which appears to be their primary use case for it?
557.
by nomel 6mo ago
Note the date of the commit when this was posted: 10 months ago
558.
by nomel 6mo ago
Merriam-Webster dictionary: Cyber: Of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks (such as the Internet) This is what I've always understood the word to mean, and how I've always seen it used, for decades.
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by nomel 6mo ago
> needed to match human performance. This is not a remotely a real world requirement for them to be useful, and for them to sell like crazy.
560.
by nomel 6mo ago
Edison, famously, solved problems in a light dream state [1]. [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thomas-edisons-na...
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by nomel 6mo ago
> because spotify wants to earn more money by pushing ai slop to its listeners If people listen to AI songs, how does Spotify get a bigger cut, as you seem to be suggesting [1]? Or are you suggesting that Spotify is generating/has r
562.
by nomel 6mo ago
> The internet doesn't have borders. The overwhelming majority of internet connected devices have an internet connection that's physically connected , for 99.9??% of the distance, with wires or fiber cables, to every other use
563.
by nomel 6mo ago
> "doesn't support: ... Web UI." "Doesn't" doesn't mean "can't". Someone just needs to do the work (with no thanks or pay expected). edit: the perspective of open source projects has real
564.
by nomel 6mo ago
If you're suggesting a private disclosure channel, made for all the maintainers of the ~600 actively maintained distributions (including those that pop into existence just to get access to the disclosures), then that would be a point y
565.
by nomel 6mo ago
Ffs, we're talking about open source projects here. Those mailing lists, mentioned there, ARE PUBLIC. Make them private? Now you have a nice stream of zero days, long before fixes are available, making bad actors who made it in filt
566.
by nomel 6mo ago
> It was much more expensive than I thought it should be For 10G with copper, short runs will work fine on most anything (10m), with longer working ok on cat-5e cable (20 - 30m or so). So, if you have existing wiring, especially in wall
567.
by nomel 6mo ago
I like it when people make conclusions with data, rather than emotion. It's good someone benchmarked it.
568.
by nomel 6mo ago
To get an idea for required rigor, this is also what eye glasses fall under, in the UK.
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by nomel 6mo ago
> influenced by urbanization Urban heat islands, which are 1-7 degrees warmer [1]. [1] https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/urban-heat-islan...
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by nomel 6mo ago
CFR 21 is the whole thing. I'm specifically referring to Part 820, within the context of a stethoscope .

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