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by rekabis 1y ago
But what if someone wants to be alone, and who relishes solitude? I am one of those people who prefers solitude. I can be entirely by myself for days or weeks on end with zero issue, but can feel immensely lonely in a crowd. Even spendi
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I have long since come to the conclusion that happiness is a bullshit goal. It’s like trying to capture Fae - are you sure it even exists? I’m not so sure. Buddhism, in particular, teaches that wants will only ever cause pain and suffering,
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> I still rinse dishes This! I mean, at least get all of the low-hanging fruit with a quick, needle-spray pass of hot water. And to do so while the plates are still fresh so that stuff hasn’t had the time to dry. Like, we’re talking abou
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And the more important thing is just how much damage those lunatics can do through Microsoft using American laws -- even current ones, much less new ones. Microsoft would be a mostly helpless puppet in this entire exchange; a cat’s paw, a
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This is the first time I have ever heard the term “database developer” to mean a developer of the database internals, of the database engine itself. Every other use I have ever come across has meant the development of the databases thems
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Plus, with sulphur no longer in marine diesel, the cooling effect of those emissions has vanished. There is credible evidence that warming has kicked into overdrive, and we will see more warming in the next 10 years than in the last 50. Thi
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Because AI is bullshit. To me it is four things in particular: 1. How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been demonstrated across all industries from software developers to
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Isn’t this what Craigslist does with their geographical regions? They all store in the same “eventual consistency” DB, but IIRC each city gets its own server in a datacentre in that city. I’ve even built websites the same, with a public log
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On mobile at least (through the HACK iOS app), this is a stunning failure of marketing. Absolutely no clue what it is, what it does, what market it is targeting, or how it benefits me. Why should I sign up if I have zero clue what it’s abou
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Good news, yes, but the more reliable method is to let the DB create the UUIDv7 upon insert. So the real question is how well your current fave DB can autogenerate UUIDs other than v4.
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Considering how so many things have an API due to client-side development, is there not a possibility to automate the OIDC workflow from your own end, such as in a customized app on your own servers that provides a wizard interface for your
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> for a lot of jobs in security it's pretty hard to measure how well it's being done Nothing going wrong: “What are we paying you for?” Everything going wrong: “What are we paying you for?” It’s a no-win situation unless you ma
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Transparency breeds trust. Sure, it frightens away the short-sighted or particularly excitable people, but anyone who understands how unrealistic perfection is will be comforted by such transparency. Exposing the warts not only sets expecta
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Defence № 2 and № 3 are ones I would do everywhere as a knee-jerk reaction, regardless of any justification to not bother with them. It’s just an ingrained habit at this point. It’s № 1 which I could not have guessed at or gone for. Good wr
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These days I am having trouble telling America apart from a Black Mirror episode… The slide into authoritarianism and fascism is becoming more blatantly obvious every day. It’s legitimately terrifying.
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> figuring out what that use case is difficult. Which is why observability is so damn important. Observability allows you to grock what your users in aggregate are doing, and adapt your product accordingly. You can take the lower-40% of
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> Households that make $100,000 or less make up about 40% of its total sales. Strange that they chose such a bizarrely high household income value, when the American median for people 25-35 - their stated “core demographic” - is just $34
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Any app that requires an account just to run a totally-local app, is also a company that can unilaterally deny your ability to run said software on your own computer for whatever reason they want. Thanks, but no thanks. If I install it, it
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I have a non-technical father with dementia, and passwords+TOTP are almost frictionless for him, with minor exceptions. We are able to share around passwords and TOTP codes without any problems so I can properly monitor his online activitie
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When you truly examine it, true end-stage democracy (and _not just_ a Republic) - which would be “by the people, for the people”, allowing everyone direct participatory contributions via technology - is the political expression of communism
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Almost makes an 18-hr body cam worth it.
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And so the madness spreads…
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> Even just basic automation/scaffolding of spreadsheets would be a big productivity boost for many employees. When most of it is wild hallucinations? Not really. For many employees leveraging Excel for manipulating important data,
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> let the intelligent few rule The flagnark?? The intelligent few? When becoming fantastically wealthy is almost 100% down to luck, doesn’t he really mean the lucky few? Because I’m seeing some pretty stupid and moronic people ther
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I have enough problems with gratuitous hallucinations in my Google search results, I don’t need the browser as a whole to go off the deep end.
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There have been a number of investigations into this week’s outage that strongly indicate that said outages will continue to occur and even become more frequent and severe due to the surplussing of employees with deep knowledge of these sys
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My god, the stupidity of giving any company so much of your life, when they’re only going to be giving you back mere pennies for your wage on every dollar of value you provide to them.
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I cannot seem to find the exe/msi for Windows, or the dmg/pkg for MacOS, to install with. I am looking for the exe/msi installers for Windows, in particular, for the more extensive installation options they provide, including
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When the AI bubble bursts, it is going to utterly eviscerate GDP growth for a generation. Or to be more precise, the bubble is so large that its popping will take a generation - or longer - for GDP to recover back to the values it currently
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> When nuclear fission was discovered in the late 1930s, physicists concluded within months that it could be used to build a bomb. Epidemiologists agree on the potential for a pandemic, and astrophysicists agree on the risk of an asteroi

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