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by plorg 10mo ago
In the late aughts I worked a summer at a company that was designing an articulating (flat screen) TV mount. I went with the engineers to one of the Intertek testing sessions. We wanted it to be rated for a 60" TV, but I was given the
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by plorg 10mo ago
It's not exactly nothing, but it's a pretty small change . Some publishers sell DRM-free on other platforms, and to be honest I was under the impression Amazon used to allow this in the past as well. Of course if they really belie
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by plorg 10mo ago
I found it unnecessary and annoying, but there was a toggle for it in the settings, it wasn't even hard to find.
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by plorg 10mo ago
Surely there is a difference berween "surveiling" records of institutional actors that answer to the public and dragnet tracking of individuals operating in their private capacity.
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by plorg 10mo ago
More like it's okay for one store to steal from another if they can offer you better prices.
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by plorg 10mo ago
I think you're missing the point. Once we've bruteforced the computer god into being he will absolve us of all the sins of destroying the place we live and magically create for us a utopia of so much free energy that we won't
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by plorg 10mo ago
It's also a kind of ideological signpost.
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by plorg 10mo ago
Selling shovels
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by plorg 10mo ago
If any engineers think that's what they're doing they should be fired. More likely it's product managers who barely know what's going on in their departments except that there's a word "AI" pinging around
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by plorg 10mo ago
Perhaps this is just a different mental model thing, but in a spectrum each of those colors would be, maybe, a frequency of light or maybe even a range of frequencies measured at different intensities. Autism might be thought of as a band i
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by plorg 10mo ago
And in fact the owner was not the person who installed the part!
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by plorg 10mo ago
The report further states that the part included in the original design (part of the kit) was made of a carbon fiber composite where the epoxy had a listed glass transition temperature of 84⁰C. If there is an element to be critical of along
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by plorg 10mo ago
After I got the screen replaced on my previous phone the fingerprint reader didn't show up, and I didn't bother to try fixing it. I hadn't specifically requested a new panel with fingerprint reader , but supposedly it could
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by plorg 10mo ago
Clicking through 4 examples I found it hard to understand even what I was looking at. All 4 appeared to just be garbage that a human could get Canva to shit out in a couple of minutes, but the features that put them in the AI Slop bucket we
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by plorg 11mo ago
Might as well complain about how we get free roads and fire services.
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by plorg 11mo ago
Youth sports have been moving in this direction since long before sports gambling was a meaningful economic force in the US at least. I attended both a high school and a college that started football programs while I was a student because t
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by plorg 11mo ago
I think it reads as too cute by a half. The wire was just the one of dozens of problems that happened last. It's natural to attribute cause in that way, but it's not really helpful in communicating the purpose of these investigati
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by plorg 11mo ago
That seems like a difference between the report and the press release. I'm sure it doesn't help that the current administration likes quick, pat answers. The YouTube animation they published notes that this also wasn't just o
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by plorg 11mo ago
They may feel (or their counsel may suggest) that it presents more of a legal risk than it's worth. A prudent city government would have evaluated this before installing such equipment, but maybe we can be generous and imagine that b
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by plorg 11mo ago
Can I dismiss that distracting little pip without having to click through a tutorial for every new feature? Can I just turn this off? This is especially irritating when, say, you set up a new phone and the app treats you as if you've n
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by plorg 11mo ago
As in every other dealing, OpenAI would have you believe they are so important that they are exempt from the legal discovery process.
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by plorg 11mo ago
And not for nothing, the SSDs that GP is describing are exactly this - NVME sticks with a USB/Thunderbolt interface and some kind of usually aluminum enclosure with a layer of thermal conductive material.
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by plorg 11mo ago
I'm coming here from a follow up post. I would find it difficult to follow a YouTube version of these instructions, but I might resort to searching for it because it is much easier to find this kind of information on YouTube than thr
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by plorg 11mo ago
I have some pretty aggressive filters on Firefox/uBO, and relaxing my dynamic filters as much as I can conveniently this page still loads blank. It's not worth digging any further to figure out what's getting in the way (I&#x
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by plorg 11mo ago
Better yet, pursue structural remedies. Break up or shut down bad actors.
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by plorg 1y ago
I can't say that I think it would be a saner world to have the equivalent of a teacher or hall monitor sitting in on every conversation, even if that computer chaperone isn't going to automatically involve the cops. I don't
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by plorg 1y ago
I would take any scientific claims touted on HN with a grain of salt - there are plenty claims associated with overlapping orthodoxies and heterodoxies being presented all the time.
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by plorg 1y ago
Imagine if the answer to the Fermi paradox ends up being not "they destroyed themselves through war" but "they destroyed themselves trying to find meaning in money and fake thinking machines".
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by plorg 1y ago
That claim was made in response to a different claim above, to which "orcas have not been clearly shown to attack humans outside captivity" is a perfectly cromulent response. Pedantry like this really is annoying. This isn't
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by plorg 1y ago
Assuming you mean dielectric, but I do like the idea that different colors are different arguments in conflict with each other.

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