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by shagie 1y ago
Headstones https://youtu.be/Y8LBkYjniTU
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by shagie 1y ago
The relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1040/ (there's a large version of it too) There's a mentioned fun fact that is what reminded me of this: The Edmund Fitzgerald, the Kursk, and the Lusitania all sank
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by shagie 1y ago
It does float, though not necessarily at the top of the water column. It's also larger and thus a bit more difficult to get mixed into the sand. It is still a problem. 1997 Lego spill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by shagie 1y ago
> I love Dijkstra’s writings, but, yes, he had very strong opinions that at times were abrasive. Alan Kay said it best when he said, “arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.” https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by shagie 1y ago
I'm amused at EWD498 - How do we tell truths that might hurt? https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498... Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of o
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by shagie 1y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/technology/personaltech/a...
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The key is to not give it any agency over the work product but rather have it act as an editor or advisor that can offer suggestions but every thing that goes into the document is typed by human hands. Giving it a document and asking it abo
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by shagie 1y ago
I'm going to refer to Philosophy of Computer Science ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20912718 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388603 ) and say "its not an easy or decided problem&quo
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by shagie 1y ago
RFC 2550 Section 3.1 has years from 0000 to 9999 as four digit but zero padded (so the fall of Rome was 0476). It then gets appropriately weird as it was published April 1, 1999. You might also enjoy the Kurzgesagt human era calendar - ht
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Many of these words transferred during the Norman Conquest. During that time, England was ruled by French speakers. The upper class and nobility in England were French (and French speakers). When someone in the upper class wanted boeuf, t
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by shagie 1y ago
I believe the key word in that passage is "decisions". You can't use ChatGPT (or other OpenAI offerings) to grade essays, decide who is the least risky tenant, assign risk for insurance, filter resumes, approve a loan, determ
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by shagie 1y ago
I read this not as "you can't ask ChatGPT about {medical or legal topic}" but rather "you can't build something on ChatGPT that provides {medical or legal} advice or support to someone else." For example, Epic
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by shagie 1y ago
For a time warp from The Onion - June 22, 2021 : De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ https://theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to... I'd also call out
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by shagie 1y ago
https://news.mit.edu/2017/analyzing-language-color-0918 and also https://theconversation.com/languages-dont-all-have-the-same... VOX : The surprising pattern behind color names around the world https
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by shagie 1y ago
Comparing US job openings from 2024 to 2025 seems to be selective. Is the job in sudden decline? Or a reset to a norm? Or is the decline something that has been happening over even a longer timeframe? Taking two years and drawing conclusi
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As an aside, you might also enjoy the inline inferred annotations. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/annotating-source-code.h... Seeing @NotNull in there even if the author hasn't specifically written that
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(for those interested in reading more about this...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_(psychology) In psychology, incubation refers to the unconscious processing of problems, when they are set aside for a
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by shagie 1y ago
Like AWS or GCP? https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ - https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
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The question is "what do you want to secure against?" Describe the threat and then go from there. What are you securing? Is it meth-head or teenager? Or is it person determined to get in while making your insurance grill you o
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Long (often an hour long) with significant snark videos going over the filings: https://www.youtube.com/@RunkleOfTheBailey/search?query=Prov...
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https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/29/google-water-data-cen... > The company has negotiated a pair of agreements with The Dalles city officials that would significantly reduce property taxes Google m
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by shagie 1y ago
NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renewable_Energy_Labo... ) had a neat dashboard of their cooling system for the HPC data center. https://www.nrel.gov&#x2F
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by shagie 1y ago
On Reddit, /r/MadisonWI has had photo posts of updates for them. The most recent post was last night - https://www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/comments/1oh6f53/saw_the_...
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by shagie 1y ago
I'm a proponent of them. They help separate out atomic commits ("I'm writing the feature here... I'm doing a refactor there"). They also serve for being able to quickly identify where I need to look in the story I
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This is part of why I'm completely ok with Jetbrains subscriptions - they have a perpetual fallback license. When they transitioned from the "buy a version, use it forever" licensing approach to a subscription model they add
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Microsoft’s Seeing AI, a decade ago. https://blogs.microsoft.com/accessibility/seeing-ai/
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A modern Cyrano de Bergerai.
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I'm asking "if cookie consent banners are the less than idea solution, why isn't the official EU government site implementing it in a way that is ideal?" If a company is deciding how to comply with the GDPR on its webs
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> The problem here is not the law, but malicious compliance by websites that don't want to give up tracking. If that was the case, then why does the site from the EU first off track... and secondly why does it use a cookie banner ra
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I think the scale was on the hundreds of thousands of years. We're dealing with 700 ml of hydrogen and 70 ml of methane at standard pressures and scaling this up to 90,000 kg of hydrogen and 635,000 kg of kerosene (with the 1:1 methan

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