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by samplatt 1y ago
>No, it’s unreasonable for end users and non technical managers to simply dictate to IT Again, false dichotomy. It's possible to meet in the middle, collaborate and discuss technical requirements. It's just that that rarely hap
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by samplatt 1y ago
False dichotomy. The manager of the receptionist, or the head of their department, can decide what's appropriate for their job and dictate this to IT, and then they can lock it down. At my work currently IT have the first say and final
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by samplatt 1y ago
...are fences too costly, or something?
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by samplatt 1y ago
Not unlike Win10 vs 11.
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by samplatt 1y ago
That's a pretty familiar configuration... it wasn't a COMPAQ was it? The double-speed CDROM in mine was a SCSI. The SoundBlaster 16 card was also the SCSI controller card. Fucking weird piece of hardware. Many years later I found
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by samplatt 1y ago
To further complicate the issue, "high dynamic range" is a phrase that will come up across a few different disciplines, not just related to the capture & reproduction of visual data.
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by samplatt 1y ago
In reality, holding a piece of paper has nothing in common with relevant ability. Some graduates will exit university as competent people, some won't. This isn't exactly news, or even a recent phenomenon. My peers who finished the
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by samplatt 1y ago
Plus the JSON structure metadata, which for the average comment is going to add, what, 10%?
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by samplatt 1y ago
China consumes roughly a third of seafood caught globally and is the world's leading exporter. If you think China isn't whole-ass into illegal commercial whaling, then I have a bridge to sell you.
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by samplatt 1y ago
I'm guessing that there's just a younger audience, now. We'd just been off the back of two decades of MS buying everything it got near, it was just what the done thing was. Instagram was taking serious oxygen away from facebo
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by samplatt 2y ago
>Most games do skill-based matchmaking <Bitterly laugh-cries in Rocket League>
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by samplatt 2y ago
SO happy to finally see this get mentioned in one of the yearly FOOF threads on this site <3
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by samplatt 2y ago
3.3 people per thousand is pretty common for something that isn't meant to exist at all. I could meet 1000 people and, due to the ostensibly advanced & cultured world we live in, I would be confident none of them should be slaves.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Focus-stacking is a feature on (iirc) the A9 level cameras, which are 5x the price, so it's hardly surprising that they want to lock it down.
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by samplatt 2y ago
A side project I've been neglecting is controlling autofocus on Sony Alpha cameras (specifically the A7ii and A7iii which I have) for the purpose of focus-stacking: shooting a few dozen shots with minimal-step focal differences and ble
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by samplatt 2y ago
To add to the list of drugs, the biggest brand for ibuprofen here in Australia is Nurofen, with Advil being the biggest "cheap brand" version of it. ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant, sold under many different n
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by samplatt 2y ago
Don't even have to look outside America. Have a read of the history of Pullman, Illinois. The wiki page is disappointingly free of all the racism and what would today be human rights violations that George Pullman implemented at the ti
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by samplatt 2y ago
Intended? I don't know, you'd have to ask NASA. Does it have that capability? Sure, if it can deploy arbitrary payloads on destination.
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by samplatt 2y ago
With a far point so far away from Earth it also means that it requires only tiny amounts of fuel for major orbit changes.
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by samplatt 2y ago
I have personally written VBA macros (or hell - just a decent Excel spreadsheet...) that have put people out of their jobs. I didn't know this at the time, I was just a young gun able to see how to make some slow repetitive jobs, faste
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by samplatt 2y ago
There are so SO many databases out in the wild that were built by people with little regard for building them correctly - or they simply not programmers/DBA's in the first place, but their boss told them to just make it happen.
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by samplatt 2y ago
I'm not moving goalposts. I didn't accuse WhatsApp of leaking data, stop twisting other people's words. I think you mean "I'll NOT be surprised if Meta does this", which is the reasonable position of any rati
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by samplatt 2y ago
Thanks very much for that. Been thinking about converting an old server to a router + container host for a while.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Weird hill to die on, man. Like, sure credible evidence is one of the most important things in the world... but what, are you honestly saying that you're going to be surprised if WhatsApp turned out to be leaking data? We don't ne
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by samplatt 2y ago
What routers are compatible with opnsense? Or does it need a full-blown server/container? Been happy with my pihole for a few years, and this thread is full of new information for me.
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by samplatt 2y ago
Some more context: Sun -> Pluto distance is average of 40a.u. 500a.u. is 0.0079 lightyears. Nearest star to us is ~4.5 Lightyears. This exoplanet is ~520 lightyears away.
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by samplatt 2y ago
A lot of anti-drone jamming is severing the wireless communication between a drone and its operator. In most of the write-up, these drones were on pre-planned autonomous routes, and would thus not be affected. Unless you also had anti-radar
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by samplatt 2y ago
>music player with the extremely specific feature I used in winamp If you have any windows boxes around, WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project) is a recent-build of winamp without the bullshit. And includes the Enqueue feature.
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by samplatt 2y ago
That video crossed my path 2 days ago. As much as it';s terrifying, I can't help but be impressed by how fucking close William Gibson and Mike Pondsmith came in writing their background-lore for their respective cyberpunk universe
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by samplatt 2y ago
That's the third time in this thread you've stated "OpenAI is in an existential crisis". It looks very suspicious.

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