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by slongfield 3y ago
I have a Roomba, it works pretty well for doing 'maintenance level' vacuuming--keeping the level of cat hair to a manageable level, etc. For the most part, robot vacuums have succeeded in becoming boring, which is what I really wa
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by slongfield 3y ago
I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty sure the shop on your corner sells things more than once a decade.
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by slongfield 3y ago
The Unitarian Universalists exist. It's not really non-religious, but it is inviting to non-theist people, or those who don't otherwise believe in the supernatural. https://www.uua.org/beliefs Full disclosure: I&#
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by slongfield 3y ago
A decent amount of AI doomerism I've seen is classic criti-hype (as coined in [1], afaik)--it's promotion of the technology thinly disguised as critique. Fear mongering about AIs taking artists' or writers' job is yet an
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by slongfield 3y ago
Direct link to the reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/16wmrhc/three_... Not sure if there's been anything official from Amazon about this yet, but I bet there is having a
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by slongfield 3y ago
Governments do a lot of things that are effectively investing time and resources into their homegrown companies--things like education of the populace, building and maintaining physical infrastructure, and management of the legal system, to
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by slongfield 3y ago
If the company uses phone numbers to lookup accounts, (Local-Area-Code)-8675-309 almost always works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
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by slongfield 3y ago
There are some people who see it as an ethical position: ad supported businesses need to serve ads to survive. If you don't want to see those ads, and the business doesn't offer a subscription plan, just don't go to those web
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by slongfield 3y ago
This doesn't seem to have anything really related to the AI-generation of the graphics--it's 100% about copyright. The statement from Valve even says that explicitly: if this user had owned the copyright to the training data, they
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by slongfield 3y ago
Skimming your site, something I didn't see in FAQs--is this human review, or are you currently or planning in the future on using ML to do these rewrites? Not currently in the market, but if I were paying/tipping for a service lik
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by slongfield 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
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by slongfield 4y ago
If you've never done it, revisiting places you've been before in Google Earth VR is a kind of surreal experience. Whenever I've introduced friends to VR, letting them visit their old homes is always a hit.
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by slongfield 4y ago
The Linux kernel has not historically had great unit testing practices--it's mostly tested with large integration tests. This is in part because it inherits old development practices where unit testing was less popular, and partially b
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by slongfield 4y ago
I've seen this sentiment elsewhere, but it doesn't match my reading of Twitter's financial statements: https://investor.twitterinc.com/financial-information/quarte... In 2021, Twitter would have been pro
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by slongfield 4y ago
I kind of assumed this was leading up into an overly-engineered joke about Eliza passing the Turing test.
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by slongfield 4y ago
Her sleeves are literally a Yamaha DX7, which makes it obvious to synth nerds everywhere, but... not sure how much of the weeb population are also synth nerds.
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by slongfield 4y ago
Libraries have licensing requirements that your company needs to comply with. Being able to download and use them without any oversight is an recipe for violating them.
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by slongfield 4y ago
If you're worried about it, you can buy searches directly from Bing ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing ). DDG makes no secret that the Bing search API is where they get their link and im
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by slongfield 4y ago
The housing market is somewhat different than the crypto market in that people need a place to live.
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by slongfield 4y ago
A tech lead role is different from a management role. The TL is the person who the buck stops with on technical discussions. While part of the job is providing mentoring for junior engineers, they aren't directly responsible for perfor
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by slongfield 5y ago
Neither Intel nor AMD supply SoC cores in the same way that ARM does--they don't really operate in the same market segment. NVidia's competition in the hardware acceleration space often includes ARM cores for management (e.g., the
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by slongfield 5y ago
If they're credit bills, yes. If they're just phone, power, rent, etc, not unless you've specifically set them up to go to the credit reporting companies.
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by slongfield 5y ago
The section at the end -- "Haugen contacted state officials and the SEC" talks about the parts of the whistleblower documents that show that Facebook was misleading investors. That is criminal under current US law. I think people
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by slongfield 5y ago
“I didn't have time to write you a simple UI, so I wrote you a complicated one instead.” -- Mark Twain, paraphrased.
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by slongfield 5y ago
My impression of the history of the "Noah's flood" story is that mythologists tend to trace it back to the origin of civilization in the fertile crescent, a historic flood plain. Specifically, there are very strong parallels
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by slongfield 5y ago
No---an effective anti-tank weapon is a ditch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_trench You might need to make a bigger one for a modern tank than a WWII tank, but the tools to make big holes have been around for
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by slongfield 5y ago
Some algebra was around very early--there are Cuneiform tablets inscribed with multiplication tables from ~2000 BC: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324587
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by slongfield 5y ago
Looking at the skill they're looking for on their hiring page: https://careers.change.org/ Seems like it's a Ruby/React stack on AWS. Looks like they're trying to grow internationally (hiring "campa
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by slongfield 5y ago
It's probably not scraped, FWIW--Bing has a paid API: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap... (Can't find a source indicating that they're using this, but I'd be su
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by slongfield 5y ago
I type at a pretty decent pace (~80 wpm), but I spend a lot more time thinking about what I'm going to type and reviewing what I just typed than pressing buttons on the keyboard. I'd imagine this is the case for most people not do

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