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by perlgeek 1y ago
Probably familiarity bias; the author has more contact with EVs and/or expect the reader to have more contact with them.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I guess they want to do it first where the opportunity for monetization is best.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Is this an app that puts random stuff from the Internet through an LLM, making it vulnerable to command injection?
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by perlgeek 1y ago
In theory, we know how to do wealth redistribution, AI or no AI: tax value creation and wealth transfer, such as inheritance. Then use the money to support the poor, or even everyone. The problem really is political systems. In most develop
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by perlgeek 1y ago
CI/CD actions for pull/merge requests are a nightmare. When a developer writes test/verification steps, they are mostly in the mindset "this is my code running in the context of my github/gitlab account", which
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Companies should create value, and capture a fraction of that value. What Synology did was trying to significantly increase the fraction of value they captured, at the cost of their customers, who would have to pay that, and without providi
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by perlgeek 1y ago
It kinda feels like you turn from a software engineer to an offshoring manager. Offshoring software development means letting lower-payed software developers from somewhere far away do the actual programming, but they have a very different
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by perlgeek 1y ago
That's why in high-quality DCs, battery backup is in a separate room with good fire isolation from the IT space. Yes, the servers still have some small batteries on their mainboards etc, but it's not too bad.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
That's why the top-security DCs that my employer operates have large quantities of Nitrogen stored, and use that slightly lower the O2 saturation of the air in the case of fire. Yes, it's fucking expensive, that's one of the
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I've worked in an environment where 3 applications accessed the same database, one of the applications wasn't really maintained. Having computed (stored or virtual) columns would've been awesome. The use case isn't reall
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Long term Latex user here, I've been working on generating automatic invoices in Typst for a year now. On the plus side: * Getting structured data into typst is sooo much simpler than into latex. For latex, you basically have to render
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Also, when you get a new requirement that needs a modification of the data model, you have to both remodel your CRDTs and make sure you have a migration strategy. After doing this a few times, your stakeholders are probably fed up with th
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by perlgeek 1y ago
It's like going to the doctor and getting a runny nose diagnosis because you've got a runny nose. In the end, a diagnosis only helps the patient if it enables a treatment, hopefully an effective one. If you have a cluster of sympt
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by perlgeek 1y ago
WASM doesn't have a DOM API, as far as I know.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Many doctors in Germany stick very closely to the recommendations of the Stiko (standing committee on vaccinations) and take a lot of convincing to vaccinate more, or they outright refuse. It's really annoying. My health insure only co
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> This isn't a JavaScript problem. What, structurally, stops the same thing happening to PyPI? Or the Rust ecosystem? Or Lisp via QuickLisp? Or CPAN? For one, NPM has a really sprawling ecosystem where it's normal to have many
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I'm really scared that technology-enabled authoritarian regimes become much more powerful than they used to be. In the past decade we had some examples where some countries had really big anti-government movements and protests... and t
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Another little thing you can try: music from their childhood / youth. Just yesterday I randomly came across a song we often heard in our shared apartment during University, and immediately I had 10 different memories from that time swi
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> it should be noted that CBT might confuse cause and effect https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-good/202503/... explicitly discusses the arrow of causality here > and the goal is to mo
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Yes. "not just a symptom" would have been more accurate.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a core symptom of a number of common psychological disorders and may be a modifiable process shared by many psychological risk factors that contribute to the development of cognitive impairment. Th
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Back when he was working on Ada, they didn't store text sources at all — they used an IR called DIANA. Everyone had their own pretty-printing settings for viewing it however they wanted. What about comments? Were they part of the
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Thank you! I hadn't even thought that I could be affected, but I have written some programming books, and some of them show up on libgen. I've submitted my contact info, maybe something will come out of this...
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Zuckerberg has basically complete control over Meta, and sits on a huge pile of cash. While FB still generates a ton of profit, it's clear there is a limit to its future growth. So, what do you do in such a situation? You look for new
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by perlgeek 1y ago
What problem do they want to solve? From a security perspective, the real problem seems to me that LLMs cannot distinguish between instructions and data; I don't see how this proposal even attempts to address this, but then I haven&#x2
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I'm familiar with some civil nuclear power plants, my father worked for decades in the industry, and I did some internships too. (No contact with nuclear power on submarines / carriers) All the designs I know of have a pumped (act
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I think the origin of the "four chunks in short-term memory" comes from giving people tasks to calculate some numbers, and seeing after how many digits they became noticeably slower. A fact that you need to remember about code mig
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by perlgeek 1y ago
> Use nuclear magic to make the hot side, cool with ambient temperature. If you use ambient temperature for cooling, you are severely limited in your total power output. Like, we're talking about less than a megawatt output (dependi
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by perlgeek 1y ago
I remember 3-core CPUs being sold back in the days, which were just 4-core CPUs where one of the cores was defect, and switched off in microcode.
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by perlgeek 1y ago
Your use case sounds more like "scratch" folder, not really what /tmp is meant for.

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