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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I really really don't understand why the f** they thought it was a good idea to do away with the Latitude and Precision lines, as at least I had some idea of what the intended purpose of the device was and what to roughly expect.
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I recall a WSJ article during the 2024 election that was about the fact that Tim Walz and JD Vance were both big consumers of Diet Mountain Dew, and how basically America ran across the board on various types of Mountain Dew. Can you really
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I guess we're coming full circle back to red offbrand Hacker News
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
Unless the data is huge, you're probably going to be better off with M-Disc Blurays or DVDs, as they're explicitly designed for what you're trying to do.
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
But not the reverse, if its a bare fork and not strictly using basically mutex and shared resource free code (which is hard), and there's little or no warning lights to indicate that this is a terrible idea that fails in really unpredi
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
Im curious as to the down votes on this. It's absolutely true, and when I was maintaining a job runner daemon that ran hundreds of thousands of who knows what Python tasks/jobs a day on some shared infra with arbitrary code for a
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
> observability tooling for Python evolving As much as I dislike Java the language, this is somewhere where the difference between CPython and JVM languages (and probably BEAM too) is hugely stark. Want to know if garbage collection or m
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
Kind of expanding on this, it feels like a huge chunk of specialized operating systems are just someone just putting their own skin over Debian. The vast majority of services and tools they wrap aren't any more complicated than the wra
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I think this another sign in the flood of slop to come. I really suspect SNR (for whatever definition of signal most use) will continue to drop and mitigating is going be kind of like bailing out the ocean. Maybe a strange consequence of th
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
You know it's bad when reading "you're absolutely right..." causes you to oscillate between wanting to laugh and also violently destroy the computer.
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
Other than this being probably challenging to enforce fairly, I think I agree that if you had strong proof of an account largely or completely posting comments/stories/whatever that was adulterated by an LLM, that is really probab
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I have come to doubt that single core or CPU performance in general, other than maybe specialty applications like CAD and some games, is all that noticeable for most computer users in the last decade. I can take relatively pedestrian users
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
First rule of Fight Club is...
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I think you believe the average developer, especially on enterprise software where you see this sort of shit, is far more competent or ambitious than they actually are. Many would be horrified to see the number of monkeys banging out nasty
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I've been honestly amazed people actually buy stuff that's not "workstation" gear given IME how much more reliably and consistently it works, but I guess even a generation or two used can be expensive.
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
The better question is why on earth do school kids need computers, especially anything beyond a robust desktop PC that they use extremely sparingly? No one ever seems to be able to give a good answer as to why we do this to ourselves, espec
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by rpcope1 7mo ago
I mean you could say the same nonsense non-answer about sports betting. Are these adults getting involved? Yeah, probably mostly. Do they put some hotline you should call if you think you "have a problem"? Yeah, probably a lot of
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
Yeah I struggled reading through the whole thing...too much delusion and narcissism for me.
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
The joke here is that in 20-50 years I'll bet worst Korea will be begging best Korea to reunify given the absolutely apocalyptic state of TFR south of the 38th parallel.
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
Can you give me an example of a code requirement on a modern home that you think is wrong or onerous?
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
After watching a lot of Cy Porters work, I kind of suspect (maybe too negatively) that everything built in the last 5-10 years isn't even close to being compliant to code and the city and regional inspectors are asleep at the wheel (at
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
This is honestly why it's important to insist on Z-wave or Zigbee if you don't have control over the device firmware and must have smart controls. Why people don't seem to understand now that if it's "WiFi" it&
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
I mean whenever things like the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank came into existence. They've been the biggest marks to unload your dumbest equity into for as long as I've been paying attention (so at least 10-15 years now
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
If nothing else, if the pedigree of the training data didn't already give open source maintainers rightful irritation and concern, I could absolutely see all the AI slop run wild like this radically negatively altering or ending FOSS a
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
That's the dirty secret, is that a lot of the side-by-sides kind of suck in relation to an old Tacoma, S10, Mahindra Roxor or a Kei truck, and cost an arm and a leg. It's amazing to me that Polaris sells as many as they do, given
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
> DKIM, SPF, etc, was all alien to them. Ironically they had pretty bad support in general. So basically good old fashioned "quality" enterprise shitware.
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
When and where can I buy a cannon with grapeshot? They had that during the revolutionary war, and the founding fathers probably owned at least one, so I want to be able to yell "Tally Ho!" too.
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
They sort of tried with the remote ID and FRIA shit, I really doubt anyone but the kind of person that buys DJI or maybe the most broken hall monitor types bother with remote ID on fixed wing even above 250g. I think the Trump admin banned
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
I can't believe they haven't tried banning anyone from having a knee mill if they don't have an FFL yet (or just banned it entirely). It's not hard to convert an old inexpensive Bridgeport to CNC or just mill the parts b
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by rpcope1 8mo ago
I think it's possibly more informative to look at what happened with SolarCity and Tesla and contemplate if there's not a similar dynamic here.

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