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by sho 2y ago
I was lucky to have symmetric 512KB/sec from about 1997 on, but even before that the most dedicated sort of nerd could definitely download ~700MB movies over 56K with some effort..
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by sho 2y ago
From a practical perspective I feel like we are right back in the 1990s in terms of how easy it is for me to obtain access to movies I want to watch. The big streaming players just seem to get worse every day - it's probably not an exa
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by sho 2y ago
> I also literally see no other path for Boeing but failure. This is, to put it mildly, premature. No-one expects Boeing to actually go under. This discovery is a setback, and Emirates won't be happy (also to put it mildly), but it&
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by sho 2y ago
I'm long gone and never signed anything so have no problem mentioning that we were quoted USD$150/m per vCPU core with a 12-month commitment (from memory). The project called for a minimum of 4 replicas and likely 8 vCPUs per, so
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by sho 2y ago
This reminds me of "aircraft wake snapping" or "vortex snapping", which is a very audible sound one can sometimes clearly hear shortly after a plane passes over you if it's low enough, such as on final landing appro
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by sho 2y ago
All I can surmise from comments like this is that you must have invented some completely unreasonable bar for "evidence" that nothing can possibly pass. Either that, or you simply haven't looked at all.
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by sho 2y ago
It was a data domiciling project so just went with sharding in good old postgres. Cockroach would have been perfect but it was going to cost something like $5k/m just to turn it on..
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by sho 2y ago
> if you required any enterprise features For me it was the multiple regions. It's like.. with that disabled why are we even here? Data residency is the whole point...
129.
by sho 2y ago
Probably a good move. I'd looked at Cockroach before for a project - they basically disqualified themselves from the start by nerfing the "core" version so bad it was useless, while Enterprise was some absolutely insane figur
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by sho 2y ago
I like and use fastmail but I'm yet to hear any sort of convincing argument why passkeys are better for me in any way, shape or form than passwords (with a password manager)?
131.
by sho 2y ago
Oh man, I tried to use WARP for a project and it was the most confused, hard to understand product I've seen for a while. After a couple of hours of reading unhelpful support pages and trying increasingly random settings I simply gave
132.
by sho 2y ago
It's actually only americans who unaccountably make do with these horribly underpowered kettles. The rest of the world wants their tea and they want it now...
133.
by sho 2y ago
The "scientific management" was just one example out of many, and I disagree its lessons form the thesis of the book. The thesis as I understood it was that states seek legibility of domains under their jurisdiction, and the exa
134.
by sho 2y ago
Yeah, they have to fix that. ChatGPT used to have the same issue.
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by sho 2y ago
Well, I don’t think of it as true AI, of course. But even LLMs can be extremely useful in their own way. I happily pay for them; there have been times (like today) I feel they paid for themselves in a single response! They’re not culture le
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by sho 2y ago
I paid to upgrade my Anthropic account to pro today, ending a long monogamy with OpenAI, and one thing that struck me was how hard to describe the advantages of one over the other were . I like claude.ai's "style" more, and
137.
by sho 2y ago
Huh, I hadn't even considered Andy Weir to be science fiction. Good stuff, but not thought-provoking in the way "real" scifi should be... in my mind, at least. I hear you about the Revelation Space series. The first (titular)
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by sho 2y ago
That's what SC is for..
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by sho 2y ago
I think that's unfair and definitely being too cynical. I'm pretty skeptical about LLM-AI in general too, and yet can readily admit it's highly effective at certain limited tasks such as.. summarizing things. And I'm s
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by sho 2y ago
> I highly disagree about Russia being a modern nuclear power Look, I'm as pissed at Russia as anyone but it doesn't change the facts. They are indisputably a modern nuclear power, and they have ramped up their spending in rece
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by sho 2y ago
> I'm generally pragmatic about things Not nearly pragmatic enough. Of course the war is terrible and of course Russia is to blame. But the world doesn't stop moving and high level co-operation still needs to continue. Russia i
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by sho 2y ago
"Well a wave hit it!"
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by sho 2y ago
Yeah. I'm still not sure how to parse the GP's comment, "it created an attack vector of one". On its face, that sounds like a good thing, less attack vectors! I mean, not like sourcing materials locally alleviates things
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by sho 2y ago
OK, I checked it out too and I'm a little less impressed. I don't mean to knock the OP too hard, but I feel like I've been seeing the exact same "glitchy morphs in time to the music" for ever, like literally for dec
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by sho 2y ago
Coming back to this, having read some of the (great!) replies, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that in theory, this sounds possible, and fun, but highly impractical. I'll assume that by "scan" you mean a high end &
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by sho 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about the NK situation making the diplomatic pouch an attack vector? Can you elaborate? Fun fact, those "pouches" don't have to be a pouch or even a bag. They can be boxes or even crates and ha
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by sho 2y ago
this seems responsive: https://superuser.com/questions/140874/is-it-technically-pos...
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by sho 2y ago
I ran into so many obscure, incomprehensible issues with OBS I just gave up. I'm sure the other two can also be coerced into doing what you need but Quicktime just works. Maybe things are different on PC.
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by sho 2y ago
I've been trying to level up my pop sci medical reading the last few months, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that our understanding of the human body, how it works and how to fix it, is really still very basi
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by sho 2y ago
Yeah, the cheapest good-ish solution is the ~$100 elgato camlink 4K, which will give you 4K 30fps in. It works well enough. Skip the really cheap crap, as you say.

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