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by selkin 10mo ago
> It's odd to always say "Hashicorp, an IBM company". Looks like they want to assign blame. Or it's legal trying to preempt a risk. If it was the author just wanting to point at IBM, they'd mention it just once o
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by selkin 10mo ago
You could write a lot of bugs in Rust. Or in any memory-safe language. Just not some bugs. It's just that starting a non-toy project using a non-safe language today is really in the "you could, but didn't stop think if you sh
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by selkin 10mo ago
By having a use-after-free bug that caused a noticeable and catastrophic incident.
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by selkin 11mo ago
Someone engaging this mode by error or stupidity, and then causing an accident makes me think some things should remain lock behind some "I know what I am doing" barrier, which the subject of the original link seem to not have sca
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by selkin 1y ago
Oxide’s efforts are commendable, but I don’t know what compliance regime their customer adheres to. In other words, it’s a neat feature, but maybe not one many customers actually request.
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by selkin 1y ago
At the bottom of the page, it reads "By using this site, you agree to be bound by the CDP Terms of Service and Global Privacy Policy." Shouldn't that be at the top? If you want me to agree to a EULA no one would read, at leas
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by selkin 1y ago
Industrial pays different rates than homes. That said, I am not sure those numbers are true. I am in California (PG&E with East Bay community generation), and my TOU rates are much lower than those.
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by selkin 1y ago
Those are two different things, yet you only considered one of those important enough to highlight in your original message.
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by selkin 1y ago
Employers already have to publish H1-B applications, including wages (but not personal information of the applicants, which would be a very bad idea to publish).
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by selkin 1y ago
That would force a career change to become a political grifter. Might work for you, but not for many.
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by selkin 1y ago
Everybody has an accent. If you wish to hire accent-less people, you’d have no one to hire.
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by selkin 1y ago
A device connected to a non-European Apple account can use this feature while physically located in Europe, so it's probably not consent.
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by selkin 1y ago
I'd argue this is true for every corporation that didn't need that regulationas a moat (some have found they could use those regulations to their advantage and block competitors, mostly due to implementation costs)
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by selkin 1y ago
Microsoft did both.
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by selkin 1y ago
Both organizations have some great and some horrible engineers. I don’t think that is the cause for the difference in their products quality.
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by selkin 1y ago
Or are management.
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by selkin 1y ago
Many hold that mindset because that is what they do themselves, and hence believe others must be the same.
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by selkin 1y ago
Setting schedules on the devices ain't bad as on some "dumb" thermostats, but it's a real pain in the ass.
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by selkin 1y ago
That you consider it sex (rather than gender), is exactly why there’s a preference for female coded voices. Consider where we do hear male recorded voices used as default.
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by selkin 1y ago
If you don't know, it's on you to learn. If you do know and prefer to make an asshole of yourself, that's also on you.
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by selkin 1y ago
Different use cases: If you need a not-visual output of text, SoyA is a waste of electrons. If you want to try and mimic a human speaker, then it ain’t. Question is why would you need to have the computer sound more human, except for “becau
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by selkin 1y ago
Results correlate to investment, and there’s more in synthesizing female coded voices. As for the why female coded voices gets more investments, we all know, only difference is in attitude towards that (the correct answer, of course, is “it
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by selkin 1y ago
S^2 isn't a special case though: Brouwer's showed the theorem can be easily extended to high dimensions, hence today we usually consider the more general statement that there is a nonzero tangent vector field on the n-sphere S^n i
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by selkin 1y ago
Drugs discovered by humans are not under the protections of copyright as well.
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by selkin 1y ago
Or ask customer service to extend the validity period. YMMV, but this worked for me the few times I tried.
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by selkin 1y ago
That’s not the reason national projects get there. Federal funds get funneled to red states to secure the votes of their representatives.
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by selkin 1y ago
It used to be, though the previous Trump administration xenophobia set it on a policy of reducing the support for Taiwan. Now their xenophobic tendencies against China are stronger.
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by selkin 1y ago
You can’t build a modern fab (which this one doesn’t seem to be? But even old fabs are extremely expansive) without subsidies. They’re extremely expensive to build, and depreciate so quickly, no private party is willing to put the funds.
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by selkin 1y ago
KIP-932[0] adds queue semantics for Kafka. You may still want to use another queue though: as always, no one size fits all. [0] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...
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by selkin 1y ago
(If it's a problem) it is a problem with every Email provider. It is part of the design.

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