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871.
by notatoad 3y ago
there's got to be some syntax though. jq does a unique function that isn't defined in any other syntax. i'm with you, the jq syntax is weird and sometimes difficult to understand. but the replacement would just be some d
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by notatoad 3y ago
i don't think it's weird, reputation is one of the whole reasons for the existence of brands. If an ICE brand is willing to put their reputation on the line to bring an EV to market, that means something different than if they we
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by notatoad 3y ago
lower fees is what is needed for businesses to start accepting amex. visa and mastercard are 2-3%, amex is 5-6%. there's no upside for merchants to accept transactions where they have to pay double the processing fees
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by notatoad 3y ago
i'm sure there's some cases where mounting storage as a disk is desirable, but from my perspective "systems can mount it as a drive" is a negative, not a positive. treating storage as an application-controlled thing that
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by notatoad 3y ago
when i logged in to my aws panel this morning, Q popped up with example prompts that make it look like this is what it's supposed to do: https://imgur.com/a/PXGAv27 but when i tried "why can't i ssh into
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Our fridge is often 75-95% full This is me too (or more realistically, my fridge is 95-105% full) but there's definitely people out there whose fridges are usually mostly empty and a camera could reasonably capture everything in it
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by notatoad 3y ago
I can't imagine a scenario where you've got a large enough solar system that you'd want to be running a dishwasher off it, and you don't already have some battery storage elsewhere in that system.
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by notatoad 3y ago
> There are two features I could see being useful: Auto-start during the night, when the electricity cost is lowest Your dishwasher might not implement it, but the existence of wifi-connected start function probably means that home assis
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by notatoad 3y ago
hmm, I wonder if there's any value on top of that functionality that Plex provides?
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by notatoad 3y ago
i don't think you can really say this is ever necessary . or at least, not that microservices make it necessary. this is a business thing. you need this when you're hiring a contractor to add some functionality, and you don&#x2
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by notatoad 3y ago
Dockerfiles are really really simple. they do essentially three things: set a base image, set environment variables, and run scripts. and then as sort of a meta-thing, they prove that the steps in the dockerfile actually work, when you st
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Were executives concerned about possible risks to people, or were they trying to use (misuse?) the police to establish the conditions for a contract clause or insurance policy? this kind of just seems like the system work as intended. i
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by notatoad 3y ago
Google search certainly seems to have the ability to understand video beyond a simple caption search, so I don't see why bard wouldn't have that same ability.
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by notatoad 3y ago
nothing about "you're allowed to hire assistance" implies you're allowed to hire foreigners who aren't legally allowed to work in your country.
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by notatoad 3y ago
AdGuard is pretty good. but it's not free, and the browser extensions are.
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by notatoad 3y ago
So, manifest v3 is out there, and does allow some form of adblocking. are there any adblockers actually implemented with it, so i can see for myself what the adblocking performance is like?
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by notatoad 3y ago
>If we can make something that appears to be able to mimic human responses, isn't that AGI in practice even if it's not in principle? for the purposes of safety, no, absolutely not. the concern is that humans build an AI capab
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by notatoad 3y ago
"screen.width" and "screen.height" will also get you the screen resolution without any need to estimate things based on where the window is positioned on the screen. again, this is stuff that's been there since v1,
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by notatoad 3y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre... have been there since ch
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by notatoad 3y ago
this is very cool, but why shouldn't it be possible?
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by notatoad 3y ago
i'm really sick of people trying to pull the "journalism" card as if journalist is some protected class with special privileges. every random annoying dude with a substack is a journalist. you're not special. and yeah,
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by notatoad 3y ago
okay, but no amount of email obfuscation is going to allow me to disable my spam filter, so this isn't solving the false positive problem.
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by notatoad 3y ago
neat, but tbh there's zero chance i'm going to remember this next time i need to find out if something is toxic for my dog. google knows the answer
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by notatoad 3y ago
i'd be curious to know, of the spam emails received, what percentage were blocked by basic spam filtering? in 2023 email spam seems like mostly a solved problem - i very rarely get any that actually makes it through to my inbox. tryin
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by notatoad 3y ago
>anyone who quits to go with him surely do have airtight non-competes. noncompetes are illegal in california
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by notatoad 3y ago
datetime with locale is how timezones are represented in python. What you're asking for there is a datetime with a timezone, not a datetime without a timezone.
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by notatoad 3y ago
Removing utcnow() doesn't force you to use tz-aware dates though. That's just a leap that the author of this article has made. If you're working in a system where all dates are utc, then datetime.now() gets you a date in ut
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by notatoad 3y ago
Right, but if they do that then people will complain that their USB-C port isn’t working, or about how USB-C is so confusing because you never know what a port does. They’ve got a choice between doing nothing and having a few people complai
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Or the drama around Yishan Wong's sudden resignation as Reddit CEO, to be replaced by Ellen Pao you're missing one noteworthy name who was CEO between those two people :)
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by notatoad 3y ago
Kara swisher is reporting it’s a conflict between business goals and nonprofit goals. Unless there’s some conflicting reporting coming out soon, that probably enough to tamp down any speculation that will undermine the whole ai market.

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