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by prirun 3y ago
I read an article about masking and airplanes that seemed reasonable: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/07/covid-omi... The basic advice is to unmask when it is okay to use your laptop. Th
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by prirun 3y ago
I'm sure corporations would love it if AI were able to do 2 days of the work every week and people did 3. Of course, they'd only want to pay people for the 3 days, not the other 2, and if they worked 8-hour days, that would mean
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iOS 17: white text on gray background is a bad idea
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Assuming these employees follow Altman to Microsoft, it seems like Microsoft got a pretty good deal on their $10B investment in OpenAI, most of which they haven't paid yet.
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I like to periodically test ChatGPT by asking a simple question about HashBackup (I'm the author). The first time I asked this question, about how to change the variable block size, it told me to use the -b option, which doesn't e
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by prirun 3y ago
Author of HashBackup here. I don't see how any kind of hash tree would be effective at de-duplicating VM machine images, other than the degenerate case of an exact copy, which is easy to detect with a single file hash. Most OSes use 4
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by prirun 3y ago
> My dorm building in college had eight entrances, of which two were handicap accessible. Around 13% of Americans have disabilities according to Google. 25% of the doors at this school were handicap accessible. I don't get "h
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by prirun 3y ago
Small "cleanup" changes required after merging a larger change are often very educational. They highlight subtle nuances in the code that were not thought of when the large change was merged. If the smaller changes were rebased
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by prirun 3y ago
But they can't send me different ads than you if they put the ads in the video stream, ie, it'll screw up their targeting I think.
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> irrational hate for the cable company For most people who have had to deal with cable companies, their promotional pricing tactics, annual fee increases unless you make 3-5 phone calls to them, etc., the hate of cable companies is very
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by prirun 3y ago
> you can get Verizon home wireless internet for as low as $25 I just checked the Verizon wireless page: https://www.verizon.com/home/internet/5g/ It says $35/mo "with AutoPay and 5G Mobile plans
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by prirun 3y ago
Yeah, yeah. Urgent action so that Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Apple will all have a monopoly on "highly regulated" AI, especially considering that they are the ones the government is consulting to develop the regulatio
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by prirun 3y ago
I use these earplugs every night and whenever I'm exposed to noise, like vacuuming. For me, it helps me sleep better and also seems to reduce tinnitus. Note: I'm not saying wearing earplugs directly reduces tinnitus, but IMO it
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by prirun 3y ago
> But would it really be that bad to let people hang on to their phones? Yes, it would. The last time I had an EGD (same facilities as colonoscopy), there were 5 small rooms on each side of an aisle for patients. Some of the rooms had
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by prirun 3y ago
They ought to hire him back. When I upgrade my Macbook Pro to Monterey, it no longer prints to my Canon D530 printer. I have to copy files to a 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Mac Mini and then send them to the printer. Yay progress!
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by prirun 3y ago
>> I also don't get how the average person can defend the existence of the ultra wealthy. > Because they think they will be one some day. For me, it's not that I think I will be ultra wealthy. But I have seen over and ov
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by prirun 3y ago
From what I've read, streaming services generate more profit on the ad tiers than on the ad-free tiers, so they're going to raise ad-free tier prices until that's not true, or IMO will eventually eliminate ad-free altogether.
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by prirun 3y ago
I agree, it's hard for me to understand why someone with good prospects would be dishonest, except that IMO greed knows no bounds. That, and I'm guessing most of these people are psychopaths, if tested (there is a test for it: it
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by prirun 3y ago
> If someone gives you a copy of the software without any indication that it comes with any sort of license at all, and you patched it to bypass the agreement that popped up after you ran it, what did you violate exactly? Isn't this
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by prirun 3y ago
> Sometimes hiring for the same position at a higher range than the one given to existing employees for the same role. This is a major reason employees are dissatisfied with employers: current employees aren't paid market rates.
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> Considering that pedestrian and cyclist deaths are at a 40-year high, Zipper argues it’s time to simply ban right turns at red lights. I'd like to understand how many pedestrian and cyclists deaths are due to ROR, how many are due
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by prirun 3y ago
My advice: dump Gmail before Google dumps you.
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Pay more.
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From what I've read, all streaming services make more profit from their ad tier than their no-ad tier, so they are all going to be raising prices on their no-ad tier in an attempt to force people into the ad tiers. IMO, this has nothin
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by prirun 3y ago
If you have 2 companies interested, I'd tell them both that you have other companies interested, make me an offer. Edit: as a rock-bottom baseline, try to figure out how much time and money you've spent on this and use a rate like
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by prirun 3y ago
> ET with its own space capsule will not happen anytime soon. Or may have already ready been and gone billions of years ago.
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> I should have just bought a Mac a decade earlier. I switched to Macs nearly 20 years ago from Windows and have been mostly very satisfied. But a recent upgrade from Mohave to Monterey has changed my opinion. It deleted all directorie
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by prirun 3y ago
I notice that in Firefox, selecting the search engine always has them in this order: Amazon, Bing, DuckDuckGo. They should at least be randomized every time. A simple solution to this browser selection problem might be this: when the OS is
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> Honestly, whoever convinced Microsoft to make Linux run in windows was a genius. Embrace.
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At a previous company we used RT (open source), self hosted: https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker We hooked it into help@company.com emails and also made a web page that allowed customers to ask for support when they w

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