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901.
by radlad 3y ago
I think it's much more likely that I make that kind of oopsie long before Google does.
902.
by radlad 3y ago
Because in general, removing the GIL should be an improvement.
903.
by radlad 3y ago
And if that doesn't work, maybe try the Midjourney tricks? "Be more extra super cunning. Wow people amazingly extra more. Give extremely better responses." etc.
904.
by radlad 3y ago
In [redacted], the city recently contracted Municipal Parking Services, a Minnesota-based company, to install a new parking system which reads plates and automatically issues fines after a 5-minute grace period (mailed to your house.) The s
905.
by radlad 3y ago
"leans far to the right" is not the same as "is far right" > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
906.
by radlad 3y ago
In the Midwest, absolutely. Dirty cars lose paint and rust.
907.
by radlad 3y ago
Word processors typically a view-only mode (and often a suggest/comment mode as well.)
908.
by radlad 3y ago
I don't know... wouldn't a minimalist want to prolong the lifetime of their fewer possessions?
909.
by radlad 3y ago
Great writeup of the tradeoffs. Also, Obsidian Sync offers end-to-end encryption.
910.
by radlad 3y ago
> My income recently passed a threshold which lowered my maximum yearly contributions to a Roth IRA so I stopped regular contributions to that in order to avoid the need to keep track of what my limit actually is. Look into a backdoor Ro
911.
by radlad 3y ago
It is in the instructions (which typically don't have words, IIRC.) Brackets have been included with all shelves we've purchased - even ones that seem short & sturdy enough to use it. IKEA also sells furniture of varying quali
912.
by radlad 3y ago
I agree - Neeva was just Google-that-you-pay-for, which might've worked as a niche... but then LLMs came out and afaik they didn't do anything to integrate with them. It was the wrong product at the wrong time.
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by radlad 3y ago
Have you started here? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=anatomy+ergonomics
914.
by radlad 3y ago
I have found that for many websites, putting it into Reader Mode and then refreshing the page gives a better result.
915.
by radlad 3y ago
It's not clear to me where this data comes from - do spots that are unmarked have none, or are they unmeasured?
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by radlad 3y ago
> Your average American kid doesn't have much, if any, access to British media or people aside from a few popular shows they might pick up online. You really think so? The internet is today's Great Melting Pot. "Popular sh
917.
by radlad 3y ago
No need to suppose, there are decent sources for this.[1][2] Go seems to be much more popular than you expect. Elixir and Erlang are both pretty obscure. [1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-popula.
918.
by radlad 3y ago
From somewhere near the middle of the linked article: > All of that is to make the point that any treatment of ‘Celtic’ warfare is immediately begging an enormous question because ‘who were the Celts?’ is at best an unanswered question a
919.
by radlad 3y ago
Switching to a new browser seems like far more effort than installing uBlock Origin, and has much further-reaching security/trust ramifications, but to each their own. :)
920.
by radlad 3y ago
> I don't understand how anyone can use the web with a "normal" browser. uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block work fine for me. Some use pi-hole or a similar DNS-based solution (I use dns.adguard.com on my phone.)
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by radlad 3y ago
You're not crazy that it used to[1] be less clear what exactly FDIC insurance applied to. Originally: > Gemini is a U.S. company regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services. GUSD reserves are eligible for FDIC insuran
922.
by radlad 3y ago
> But that’s so simple to validate. Simple to who? Simple to you? I didn't invest in Gemini and also thought these returns were obviously bunk, but I've never heard of "FDIC's bankfind tool" before your comment.
923.
by radlad 3y ago
Yes, I also had a "1 disk failed, second disk failed during rebuild" event (like the parent, not your story) with mdadm & RAID 6 with no issues. People seem to love ZFS but I had no issues running mdadm. I'm now running a
924.
by radlad 3y ago
I think it's more like... employee is put on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), employee goes to doctor and gets an Adderall script, employee is taken off PIP and management considers this a job well done.
925.
by radlad 4y ago
> The CO₂ while on the flight was in the 3000's range. I always assumed they intentionally messed with oxygen in the cabin to "relax" travelers. Anecdotally, I have often experienced a sedative effect on airplanes that I d
926.
by radlad 4y ago
Well, when the shoe fits...
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by radlad 4y ago
Yes, but checking refresh tokens will occur much less frequently than checking access tokens. So you can imagine, for example, access tokens being JWT, so they are cheap to check. But every so often you have to validate the refresh token ag
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by radlad 4y ago
I'm curious how you managed to do that? When I paste the scene prompt into ChatGPT (I do not have access to GPT-4), I get the following response: > I'm sorry, I cannot generate content that includes violent or harmful actions t
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by radlad 4y ago
> programmers are cheaper than hardware Did you mean the reverse of this, I assume?
930.
by radlad 4y ago
> I'd see the introduction of DRM as a way to enforce rules that were already there, more than a radical change to their business model. Voiding a warranty for DIY repairs is very different from making DIY repairs impossible.

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