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by pbalau 8mo ago
This reminds me of The Paperclip Game: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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by pbalau 8mo ago
If you are ok with 6x4 prints, postcard size, then canon selphy cp1500 might do it. It doesn't do great with bw photos, but colour pictures are good enough.
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by pbalau 8mo ago
Wait, this is THE Canberra? The Mighty Canberra? The RAF Luton Canberra? This gives those jokes an entire new dimension!
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by pbalau 9mo ago
> What if you have two people with different ideas of how to name a certain variable and they just flip the name back and forth every release? Fire both. There is no amount of skill and productivity that can justify that amount of pettin
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by pbalau 9mo ago
I think an edit is in order, as your post, in the current form, doesn't make any sense.
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by pbalau 9mo ago
Do you put any effort in steering the discussion towards something you care about? A discussion that started about the newest model of some car, ended up with that person fixing my boat's outboard motor.
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by pbalau 9mo ago
What a stupid take, but it showcases the underlying problem: there is no loneliness issue, there is a "me me me" issue. Friendship is a two way contract: you add something to someone's life and they will consider you their fr
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by pbalau 9mo ago
> If your work area is anything other than it, perhaps the Mac isn't necessary. How about photography and video production?
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by pbalau 10mo ago
> Something that surprised me is that very little of the computation photography magic that has been developed for mobile phones has been applied to larger DSLRs. Perhaps it's because it's not as desperately needed, or because
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by pbalau 10mo ago
In my new domain, photography, the most common "advice" for beginners is to learn the exposure triangle, shoot manual and get everything done in camera. This kind of advice comes from beginners, quite close to take a fall from the
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by pbalau 10mo ago
I think Romanian uses that too and it just occurred to me that "linie de dialog" is not dash, but em dash.
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by pbalau 10mo ago
Here's another one: "I can't be bothered to use em-dash?"
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by pbalau 10mo ago
While my research was very shallow, the issue is with the practice. And I didn't look at how large those packages are. It might not be a storage problem right now, but the practice of publishing crap is dangerous, because it can be eas
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by pbalau 10mo ago
> keep the commons clean [from the second link] A glance at the r/python will show that almost every week there is a new pypi package generated by ai, with dubious utility. I did a quick research using bigquery-public-data.pypi.dist
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by pbalau 10mo ago
Doesn't really work on my setup (0). I am curious if it does more than the PhotoPills app, quite a useful thing for city scapes photography. 0. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FB3Ofl4mUvOO4gGqARro9cO_kjJ...
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by pbalau 10mo ago
The stupid answer is that not everything that can be automated should be. The real answer is of a more philosophical nature, if you manually had to check A, B, C... Z, then you will have a better understanding of the state of the system you
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by pbalau 10mo ago
Yeah, that was a brain fart.
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by pbalau 10mo ago
5 years is overnight?
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by pbalau 10mo ago
That's not the problem. The real problem is that if I convince you to run my script, it's going to be quite easy to convince you to give me extra permissions, so I can get to your data. It really irks me when things like Cargo are
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by pbalau 10mo ago
I think this is missing the main problem with security on a Linux Desktop, the user. All an attacker has to do is to convince the user to run InstallSteamWithAllGamesUnlockedForFree.sh You know, the AnnaKurnikovaSexTape.exe of the windows w
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by pbalau 10mo ago
If US and Venezuela are in a state of war, then the head of the US Armed Forces is a legitimate target. Not sure why you have doubts about this.
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by pbalau 10mo ago
> we need human interaction and contact Indeed, but not at McDonalds.
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by pbalau 10mo ago
> Move on, do something useful, don't stop being amazed by AI but please stop throwing it at my face. Do you see the irony in what you did? So, how about you move on, do something useful, don't stop being annoyed by
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by pbalau 10mo ago
> The transaction is expected to close after the previously announced separation of WBD’s Global Networks division, Discovery Global, into a new publicly-traded company, which is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026. Second paragraph
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by pbalau 11mo ago
> To implement progress reporting, it means you are able to know the time a task would take to run upfront, no? No. You just need to know the total number of steps and what step are you currently on.
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by pbalau 11mo ago
Maybe because their robots.txt disallows that? https://www.youtube.com/robots.txt User-agent: * ... Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml ...
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Hedging (1942) [video](youtube.com)
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by pbalau 11mo ago
Also it doesn't find the Batman statue in Leicester Square.
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by pbalau 11mo ago
Perl was killed by mod_php. Not the language, but the easiest setup ever.
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by pbalau 11mo ago
Python is strongly typed.

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