samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
Tech has been given the benefit of the doubt since its literal humble beginnings. This modesty and DIY quaintness is exactly what people latched on to, you could see the nerdy kids who rented out a garage in SV, where many famous companies
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by samtho 3y ago
Fandom (and a few others like it) is really what you’re looking for although the adverting on these sites makes it very user hostile. I don’t know if there is a better business model for this other than charging directly. I would probably j
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Maybe, if I’m traveling with more than one person it might make more sense to drive. They have a weekend promo for $5 per leg for addition round trip tickets on weekend that might be more worth while, however. The transit center is next to
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by samtho 3y ago
The problem is that everyone has their own implementation of it following loose, at best, standards. Some like Auth0 are fully hosted by them, but ORY’s is self hosted, configurable software. Then you also have Amazon’s IAM which is its own
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I’m happy to see this. As someone coming from Sacramento, I am liking the location a little more than San Mateo as it cuts my travel time in half.
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A related pet peeve of mine is when people use the subject/title/first-message as a useless statement of intention or a useless greeting, sometimes made very annoying by futile efforts to communicate urgency. For example, an email
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by samtho 3y ago
I’m very pro-free market but I would be happy to see this structure replaced with almost anything else. We chose the worst possible combination/bastardization of systems: colleges are given a massive amount of funding by the federal go
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by samtho 3y ago
> Funny, a stream of data at a constant rate makes much more sense to me intuitively than packets, specifically for uncompressed video. There is a data rate floor for how fast the device that outputs must meet. We’ve surpassed this (due
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by samtho 3y ago
I cannot imagine a more sinister, callus, and destructive way to punch down on some of the most vulnerable people. 18 year olds did not elect any of the people making these laws, every adult before them parrots “go to college”, financial ai
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This data is what I used to convince my parents were very much anti-student loan forgiveness (we paid ours so you get to suffer too), that a certain level of it is appropriate. I honestly don’t think a lot of people realize just how bad its
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by samtho 3y ago
My biggest problem with 3rd party feature flag setups is that I have high expectations for them and it is technically difficult to meet all of them: - local/static access: it should not have to call out to a 3rd party server to get bas
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While there may be some, the most notable ones seem to hide behind the veil of “proprietary training data” but assuming the data is open, the method to generate the model must also be reproducible, thus the toolchain need to be open too. I
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by samtho 3y ago
> I wonder whether online discussion is at the source of this, but I doubt it. Perhaps this is something for sociologists to ponder over. We have have access to more information than at any point in history, but it seems like our knowled
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by samtho 3y ago
> Am I completely missing the idea? I don't think trust in LLMs is all that different from trust in code typically is. It's basically the same as trusting a closed source binary, for which we use our meaty and fallible notions
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My wild-ass guesses of where the future is going and its associated problems: I think we are going to see additional polarization in online discussion and we will continue to see this spill into the physical world as violence. This level of
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This will only start a cat and mouse game between app developers and users feeding junk data. There will be statistical tells or artifacts in fake data that will be identified which will prompt vendors to improve the entropy or patterns it
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by samtho 3y ago
Likely not much, if you were to go further south, there are a few parallels/latitudes where no landmasses exist. This creates a very hostile environment for maritime vessels due to 90mph (150kph) westerly winds and 50ft (15m) waves. As
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by samtho 3y ago
There is a lot of federally owned land especially in the mountains. If you managed to hold on to a plot that is surrounded by USFS managed forest, that’s entirely plausible.
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by samtho 3y ago
Yeah, I botched the specifics on that. My fault for not rereading what I wrote prior to posting.
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In most situations, a non-profit entity cannot be owned by a corporation in such a way that would give it controlling interest. If you are planning on filing for tax exemption, this is absolutely the case. A non-profit, however, can own (pa
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by samtho 3y ago
I do some homebuilding and I encase all my wires within walls (especially telecom) in PCV conduit (not quite Chicago style of using EMT), which allows me to pull what I want through and after the walls are finished. It also lets me upgrade
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by samtho 3y ago
#2 is becoming decreasing true as more general education is piled on to both make up for the knowledge that students increasingly lack of abilities (as high schools are pressured to just pass them) as well as the perverse incentive for coll
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by samtho 3y ago
I fully agree, and being in tech has insulated me from many of the repercussions of not having a degree. Yes, there are a few non-negotiable "must have a bachelors in X" but I've not lost any sleep over those opportunities. H
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The “everyone goes to college” mantra has caused educational inflation caused by misaligned incentives created from a misunderstood effect. In the past, wealthy people self selected to go to college because they could afford to live and pay
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Yes, but energy is not consumed by that process, it is only converted into heat. The degradation usually is a result of the heat produced. If we’re talking about mater to energy transitions, we need to start talking about special relativity
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We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. I don’t see the same criticism for anything else that required prior human knowledge and achievement.
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> Anyone attempting to solve climate change with software is at best skimming value off of the work being done by others in the physical world, and at worst creating markets for corporate greenwashing. I fully agree with this assessment
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This is a little known fact outside of the HVAC trades as everyone associates mini-split systems with the infamous wall-mounted indoor unit. I bought this LG unit[0] which I used some duct-foam board to build an adapter for and fanned out d
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An A/C works almost identical to your refrigerator. Using a closed loop of refrigerant with specific thermal properties, it will remove heat from one side and emit heat from the other. If you are able to run this system backwards, you
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I never hopped onto the LXD train because when I needed it years and years ago, it wasn’t quite ready for my use-case so I built my what I needed around LXC itself and it’s worked great. I wonder how LXC will evolve and if another product w

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