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by sebstefan 1y ago
>Planners can set minimum and maximum amounts of time to be spent at each stop, and buses might even be told to skip certain stops during crowded runs >Passengers might be encouraged to wait for a following bus, with the inducement th
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>- The other issue was related to codecs. On Windows, I encountered an error message saying: "No video with supported format and MIME type found." I did get that for a few days! But then it went away. By itself.
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by sebstefan 1y ago
> In the past few years, I've seen the occasional "works best with Chrome" website, which worries me, but so far it hasn't been too bad. Microphone & webcam support, screensharing and stuff like that almost always
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by sebstefan 1y ago
> - I can't run the extensions I develop in dev mode. I haven’t been able to find a solution for this. That said, I don't encounter this issue in LibreWolf. I don't have this problem. I was gonna type a long winded thing t
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Totally unsolvable problems! Let's give up (Put them in a box that says "free" in the lobby of the NY office then throw what hasn't been taken a month later)
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Damn maybe this hack could help me find fucking anything in there.
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Definitely worse article I don't understand how they could quote him saying: “This thin-film technology has the potential to grow from powering small-scale refrigeration systems to supporting large building HVAC applications, similar t
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>I'm a bit confused here. I was referring to the first paragraph in your original post, whereas you seem to be referring to the second paragraph? My point is, I think, that I would wager you are not the norm among the exclusively se
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by sebstefan 1y ago
College being a huge expense is an anglo-centric issue It's important for those concerned, but most people aren't, so I don't like to include it because then the entire "value of college" debate shifts on the econom
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by sebstefan 1y ago
University classes are great. They force you out of your comfort zones. When I was self taught I would never have pushed through learning the socket API in C, doing so many projects in bash, studying the academic side of distributed systems
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by sebstefan 1y ago
There should be a law against displaying a cookie consent box to a user who has their Do Not Track header set.
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by sebstefan 1y ago
I was expecting the article to define "reverse acquihire" >The "reverse acquihire." This term refers to a strategic move where instead of acquiring a company outright, big tech giants hire most of the startup’s key em
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by sebstefan 1y ago
> Rust 1.78 > Primary failure mode: Under our error cascade simulation, some low-level failures in unsafe code regions propagated in ways that eventually caused deadlocks in resource management. What was the point of using Rust if you
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>an oscillating cutter that's safely tucked beneath a puck-like protrusion If it's an oscillation cutter it doesn't need to be that tiny, it can protrude just like a real band saw, it won't cut meat
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Or better yet, switching to firefox
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>the same argument is being made against right to repair and having spare parts available Just as valid back then. There's nothing wrong with the argument. You have to evaluate it every time. For right to repair we just decided it w
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by sebstefan 1y ago
You'd expect that there should be a support line and you should be able to resolve it by reaching a human but Google sucks For stuff like email and cloud there are plenty of alternatives and no dominance of a single company over the ma
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Where's the straw man? If you discuss "banning banning accounts", this is one (edge?) case. >"Why should they be allowed to unilaterally break contracts" In the case of the user infringing on the terms of service
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by sebstefan 1y ago
They're not hypotheticals. Google is big. It happens every day. It's reasonable for Google to have automated systems for this, reasonable to deny service arbitrarily, and they should not obligated to provide customer support. They
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by sebstefan 1y ago
If you're Google and you bust someone for having child porn, you shouldn't have to keep hosting child porn. Maybe a mandated period to download your data when you get locked out and put in read-only. Say they have to give you a mo
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Yes - lots of uninteresting discussion about the importance of having backups. > This feels not only unethical but potentially illegal, especially in light of consumer protection laws. You can’t just hold someone’s entire digital life ho
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Hey. We're not incapable of effort If you don't speak the language, but make an article like this (and are actively sharing it), the bar is most definitely above "you gotta get it proofread". I'm quite sure you&#x27
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by sebstefan 1y ago
My first language is french so I'm not convinced To me it's mind boggling to not proofread a blog post. Posting it on HN is crazy too I don't mind for online comments and the like but a blog post is crazy
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by sebstefan 1y ago
This is a bit circlekerky and the english is very broken Bit ironic considering running it through a LLM would've fixed the 2nd part
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by sebstefan 1y ago
The video doesn't say what you think it says
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by sebstefan 1y ago
It reminds me of Lambda calculus You can express `a + b` or `a * b` in their regular algebraic notation or you can express them as a lambda expressions ADD = λab.(a S)n MUL = λxyz.x(yz) Manipulating these expressions instead of algebra, you
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>Professional software developers are in the business of solving practical problems for people with code. We are not, in our day jobs, artisans. Steve Jobs was wrong: we do not need to carve the unseen feet in the sculpture. Nobody cares
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>Deterministic simulation. Another lightweight method widely used at AWS is deterministic simulation testing, in which a distributed system is executed on a single-threaded simulator with control over all sources of randomness, such as
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by sebstefan 1y ago
Keeping this in my bookmarks for the inevitable moment someone says big tech can shove unwanted AI features up their ass.
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by sebstefan 1y ago
>Not unique at all; AI hate to the point of viewing it as literally the destruction of civilization warranting being stopped by any means is extremely common on Twitter Well maybe because it's not at all being addressed by the other

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