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by pram 3y ago
I looked into doing this in the 2010s and it’s really an enormous pain in the ass to scale. A lot of the turnkey options were pretty much scams too. Machines that vended DVDs were popular back then. You have to find the hot spots, negotiate
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by pram 3y ago
ATT has a bunch of Bell Labs stuff on their Youtube channel, it's all a pro watch. This is one of my favorites, about people submitting their code to get processed at their computing center: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by pram 3y ago
The Trabant is such a happy looking car.
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by pram 3y ago
"Leadership in the absence of a skill is just aspiring to run a cult of personality." Great line, and it's true outside of work too.
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by pram 3y ago
It seems like with all the many billions that have been spent on various rural/universal access/subsidy schemes over the past decades we literally could have run fiber to every building in the United States by now lol
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by pram 3y ago
Also production servers with /etc full of files appended with .bak, .bak.oct, .bak.incident, .bak.goddamnit2
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by pram 3y ago
Perfect place to build your anarcho-capitalist utopian city without government interference.
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by pram 3y ago
From looking at the final code it’s probably the performance of copy() as the biggest hurdle.
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by pram 3y ago
Yeah that new map view is worthless, you also can’t do street level view on it. How anyone thought it was an improvement defies any rational explanation.
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by pram 3y ago
It’s not that hard, I bought my two daughters iMacs and threw their tablets away. They got over it. Now they play Minecraft and Hello Kitty which is a slightly less braindead activity than YouTube!
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by pram 3y ago
I agree in spirit. Practically though, a lot of “closed” software are complex, nonsensical messes that can’t really be released as a usable product without significant revision. Mozilla was a good example.
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by pram 3y ago
I mean when it was introduced in MacOS Catalina literally everyone was griping about the popups and menus and how "locked down" everything is. Microsoft probably doesn't want another Vista situation, and who can blame them lo
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by pram 3y ago
Agreed, I moved all my passwords and 2fa to Keychain after the LastPass hack and I couldn’t be happier. The integration with Safari is slick.
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by pram 3y ago
FWIW the government in 1984 actually had automated content generation, since thats how they produced pornography for the proles.
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by pram 3y ago
As someone who has spent thousands of dollars on the OpenAI API I’m not even bothering with Gemini stuff anymore. It seems to spend more time telling me what it REFUSES to do than actually doing the thing. It’s not worth the trouble. They’r
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by pram 3y ago
They have to make sure you’re receiving the most cutting edge chiding lectures when you make naughty and problematic requests.
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by pram 3y ago
TurboTax has this kind of “performative slowness” to convince you it’s doing more than it actually is. It has pointless loading bars and spinning wheel pages as you navigate through every section. I definitely wouldn’t be an advocate of rep
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by pram 3y ago
Well, it is the standard text editor after all.
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by pram 3y ago
For a positive IBM reminiscence: I was really impressed by their AIX support staff. It was one of the very few times in my career that I felt like I was speaking to someone from a vendor who actually understood the product at a deep level.
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by pram 3y ago
It gets a ton of shit here, but Discord reminds me of “the good ol’ days” when I was a teen on IRC and AIM. I think a lot of the problem today is there’s no continuity in community or conversations by design, so a lot of sites feel extremel
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by pram 3y ago
“When you hire a plumber to fix your pipes, you don't become responsible for their condition.” Have you never heard of premises liability?
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by pram 3y ago
I’m pretty sure my father, a baby boomer, never read a SINGLE book after high school. Same with my mother. This is a perennial observation about general illiteracy in the US but who was even alive when this wasn’t the case? lol Fahrenheit 4
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by pram 3y ago
I’ve found a lot of recent teardowns from them are light on interesting details. They seem to be making short YouTube videos now that don’t really cover everything. The screen analysis was interesting but they rushed through the rest, and d
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by pram 3y ago
From my experience, you don’t need to know the exact ending but you should have a general idea of where stuff needs to go. Knowing the end state makes planning the events and character development easier, and can help you avoid pacing probl
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by pram 3y ago
I’ve never used Quora because of this, and also it has always looked like a scam website. You know those pages you find on google that are just SO/Wikipedia articles copied? That’s what Quora looks like lol
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by pram 3y ago
FWIW with the Assistants API you can instruct GPT to do anything you want and it won't have any "safety" denial messages.
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by pram 3y ago
Nice stuff, looks like some of the Futurist designs from the 1910s
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by pram 3y ago
Yeah it's worth a trip I think. Palm Springs/Mount San Jacinto is also on the way (from LA) you can knock it all out in a single day.
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by pram 3y ago
This isn't a great article. The Russian military unambiguously operates this, and there are pictures of the instructions on what frequency to use to listen to messages on it: https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-O5t8V39LpJRaS
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by pram 3y ago
I've been to the Salton Sea, it has to be seen (and smelled) in person to really capture the overwhelming apocalyptic feeling it has. The air when you're dozens of miles away becomes acrid and starts stinging your eyes and nose. I

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