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by rs186 1y ago
> My wife and I now have a computer in our house that runs open-source equivalents to Google Drive, Google Photos, Audible, Kindle, and Netflix. It syncs to all of our devices. It's secured behind our own VPN. And it's wholly,
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by rs186 1y ago
Well, you just answered the question yourself, by inadvertently using a good example. You see, a movie is fictional work, but a blog article most likely isn't (or shouldn't). In this case, I am reading the article because I want
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by rs186 1y ago
I don't think there are many people that say classes are bad outright. After all, you can write Go code that look identical to code in another language with classes. It's more about misusing OOP and unnecessary amount of abstracti
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by rs186 1y ago
> everyone is happy to defend even the most incomprehensible decisions with “privacy as a feature” Not me. I care about privacy and I know they care about privacy, but what I want to see is that they have a product in the first place bef
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by rs186 1y ago
Which means the performance will be noticeably worse than any of the mainstream models. "The responses are worse, but don't worry, at least the queries are private!" says nobody.
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by rs186 1y ago
Even though I don't like the fact that Pocket went away, I agree with Mozilla leadership that they need to focus on their core business. And Proton is doing the exact opposite, going into many ventures with very questionable premises,
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by rs186 1y ago
If you go through the "Recommended Policy Actions" section in the document, you'll realize it's mostly just empty talk.
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by rs186 1y ago
Without providing actual support like money , the government saying they encourage open-* AI is no more meaningful than me saying the same thing. In fact, if you open the PDF file and navigate to that section, the content is barely relev
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by rs186 1y ago
Just looked at my own ride history. All 14 Lyft rides in the past 12 months were with male drivers. Most Uber rides were with male drivers as well.
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by rs186 1y ago
Oh, I can assure you that there are many lawsuits filed for gender discrimination against men in workspaces, some of which are notable and made headlines. If lawsuits can happen, I don't see why it is a problem just want to discuss the
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by rs186 1y ago
> With AppleCare One, customers can now add products they already own that are up to four years old if they are in good condition. Currently, to get AppleCare after purchase or the 90 day window, you need to go to an Apple store before t
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by rs186 1y ago
Imagine an intern did the same thing, and you say "we just need better instructions". No! The intern needs to actually understand what they are doing. It is not just one more sentence "by the way, if this fails, check ...&quo
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by rs186 1y ago
Curious, if you don't find this "annoying", why are you still following the channel? There must be other YouTube channels that offer similar content but deliver it in a better way.
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by rs186 1y ago
Makes me wonder if officials at UNESCO even cares about the decision. "Oh that again?" Probably already used to this.
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by rs186 1y ago
When you have web pages that that completely freeze the Firefox browser but work smoothly on Chrome, you won't call it non-issue.
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by rs186 1y ago
How did this article get so many upvotes? I could write the same article with a little bit of help from ChatGPT, even though I know almost nothing about genomes. Well, in fact, I can't really tell what the author's expertise in ge
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by rs186 1y ago
My company has SharePoint and another internal site for documents/notes (think about Notion/Quip/Confluence). The other site works quite well, and most developers write all their notes/docs on it. But some people just
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by rs186 1y ago
> I'm going to play the games i please on the hardware i please to play them on. Of course, but that doesn't mean it's useful to complain about that hardware. If you made a choice, stick to it and accept all the limitation
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by rs186 1y ago
Basically, there is no backdoor. The front door is wide open, the government just needs to ask. Or not even that -- just take whatever they need themselves.
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by rs186 1y ago
Need some hard evidence of "cryptocurrency failed". Two counterexamples that I can think of, as someone who doesn't even pay close attention to it: * PornHub has been only taking cryptocurrency for payment for a while, and th
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by rs186 1y ago
I mean, anyone who cares about energy use, noise and more general gaming playing experience should get a console, if their circumstances allow it. Gaming laptop is a lot of compromise. The only reasons to get a gaming laptop is that you are
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by rs186 1y ago
Great work. Prompt engineering used for SQL injection style hacking has been predicted long ago, and this is an excellent example of it working in practice. Really hope we pay more attention to this instead of just hyping how agents can cha
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by rs186 1y ago
What comes to mind is whether AGI can gracefully solve the Go error handling problem, once and for all. https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
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by rs186 1y ago
If you are referring to the statistics for "computer-related" positions and trying to equal "computer-related" to "software engineers", I have nothing to say other than you are just trying to push your agenda.
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by rs186 1y ago
When I vibe coded with GitHub Copilot in TypeScript, it keeps using "any" even though those variables had clear interfaces already defined somewhere in the code. This drove me crazy, as I had to go in and manually fix all those th
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by rs186 1y ago
It works in theory, but usability is almost non-existent with this approach unless someone creates an app that interacts with this database and provides file system-like access to users. Any normal human would be better off with Dropbox or
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by rs186 1y ago
Well, surprise, H1B visas are issued to more than software engineers. For biomedical engineers, 120k is a very decent salary. You don't know what you are talking about. P.S. you probably want to provide a source for that number.
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by rs186 1y ago
Only if there is another line of "new green card holder previously holding H1B visa" which is expected to show exactly the opposite trend. You still don't understand the problem here.
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My biggest problem is that you get excited for the first few days, then you realize that there is very little you can learn from these toy projects, and then there isn't a project that is meaningful (to yourself) enough to persue. If y
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by rs186 1y ago
If your style is doing a lot of functional programming, multi-line lambda is a very natural thing to do. Other times you want to use a variable or several variables without actually passing it around as an argument. It makes sense especiall

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