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by rolandog 2y ago
Maybe it's not the case for all of them, but some portals require you to scan a QR code with your bank app, IIRC. Others require you to generate a token with the bank app.
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by rolandog 2y ago
> or make surgery decisions? Analyzing surgical field... Identified: open chest cavity, exposed internal organs Organs appear gooey, gelatinous, translucent pink Comparing to database of aquatic lifeforms... 93% visual match
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by rolandog 2y ago
> So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air. I wholeheartedly agree. Just thinking about how the potentially-unregulated cheaply-manufactured knock-off projectors will result in having t
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by rolandog 2y ago
> The sound-suppressing silk builds off the group’s prior work to create fabric microphones. >In that research, they sewed a single strand of piezoelectric fiber into fabric. Piezoelectric materials produce an electrical signal when s
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by rolandog 2y ago
Chiming in with a suggested correction: s/Philosophy/Philosophize/ And, totally agree with the episodes (#172–#175) being worth multiple listens. They're that good.
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by rolandog 3y ago
I loved the "Stupid walk for stupid mental health" task.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Fuzion Frenzy as well!
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by rolandog 3y ago
The people affected by these "corrections" are the workers that would be laid off due to decreasing revenue,... In order to maintain the expected profits that result in dividend payments to shareholders. So, one could make the cas
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by rolandog 3y ago
Because everything is turned as a cash-grab by corporations and prices never go down.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've been meaning to learn to use autoconf; autoconf caching and your autoswc tool seem really useful!
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by rolandog 3y ago
Guix does provide a guix challenge command to verify that the binaries correspond to the source code [0]. [0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...
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by rolandog 3y ago
Hi there! This might've been posted on the wrong Ask HN. Good luck with the recruitment.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Like watching myself in the mirror.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Estoy orgulloso de tí ;). I like your article. It takes courage to pivot and get out of your comfort zone.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I had saved it for later reading, but didn't get around to doing it until now. It's such a well-written article. Here's previous HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by rolandog 3y ago
I dunno... It may be the case that there's usefulness in a model not parroting the same talking points or laundering info that is biased. It may serve the purpose of doing a good job at moderating discussions online to filter out flame
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by rolandog 3y ago
My money is on some un-upgraded backend/frontend stuff due to "compatibility" and/or lack of budget to hire people to keep things patched and up-to-date.
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by rolandog 3y ago
I may be misrepresenting, as I have used the feature only a couple of times, and not recently. But, if you edit your prompt (or subsequent prompt), you're creating a branch in the conversation and you can switch between branches.
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by rolandog 3y ago
It didn't work for me, but viewing it in the WayBack Machine [0] did. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20231230110629/https://www.thelo...
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by rolandog 3y ago
I would classify their mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" as some light parading acting in the best interests of humanity.
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by rolandog 3y ago
The "beauty" of the plausible deniability in these systems is the hidden reward mechanisms that are in place: you can get a whole country to kick themselves in the groin if the algorithm rewards it and people think they can moneti
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by rolandog 3y ago
Whether we like it or not, delivery is a profession. It requires endurance, alertness and planning ahead (think travelling salesman problem); they also need people skills to deal with entitled customers and bosses. However, there are incen
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by rolandog 3y ago
If I recall correctly, he meant that multi-threading wasn't a direct goal, but a "side effect" of rewriting some parts of the codebase to match the expected conceptual flow, and paying off some re-write debt that had been acc
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by rolandog 3y ago
In addition to lead chromate, in some instances metanil yellow is also used. It can also be potentially neurotoxic and hepatotoxic [1]. I found a spice producer's site that contained some instructions of how to determine if it's a
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by rolandog 3y ago
Agreed. You basically get paid in reputation, trustworthiness, and maybe even beer/brownie/pizza points. I also think that public interactions offer a preview of how easy (or difficult) it will be to work with someone on a projec
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by rolandog 3y ago
Ooh, I love this style of operator overload. Really clever.
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by rolandog 3y ago
In some cases, like with Mozilla's Firefox mobile browser (also tested in Chrome), you can request that the "Desktop site" be shown; that workaround allowed me to choose different songs. There are also a couple of pages that
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by rolandog 3y ago
> [...] the perl6 debacle did a lot to convince people that Perl was kind of a dead end. Not GP, but the Python 2 vs 3 holy wars were also something that kept me from adopting Python as a scripting language a couple of years.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Oooh, that's the type of patriotism that should be promoted!
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by rolandog 3y ago
I have it on good authority that if you archive archive.org into archive.org, you can break the Internet.

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