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by sowbug 10mo ago
The recently released One Battle After Another reinforces the impotence of legal rights against a corrupt government entity. In the situations Schneier envisions, corruption will almost certainly be at play.
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by sowbug 10mo ago
It's nice for writing to be sufficiently self-contained for the reader to get the basic meaning without research. How does it affect your sense of perspicacity when a sentence forces you to consult a dictionary just to keep up?
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by sowbug 10mo ago
The one that sticks in my craw is "ofc," especially when it's buried in a wall of text written by someone evidently capable of typing lots of characters in one sitting. I have deduced that it means "of course," but
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by sowbug 10mo ago
At the moment
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by sowbug 10mo ago
The article does address that. ...and even dangling heavy objects in the air and dropping them. (The creativity devoted to LDES is impressive.) But geologic constraints, economic viability, efficiency, and scalability have hindered the com
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by sowbug 10mo ago
I'm looking forward to the next Amendment to the 18th Edition's conduit-fill factors.
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Since they’re robots, automated tests and manual tests are effectively the same thing. I'd buttress this statement with a nuance. Automated tests typically run in their entirety, usually by a well-known command like cargo test or a
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by sowbug 10mo ago
I fear that this would lead to everyone being allowed exactly one account -- why would you need more than one if the one you have can never be fully deactivated? -- and that account would be tied to your human identity forever. Which would
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Until you buy a vehicle, owning one is imaginary/aspirational.
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by sowbug 10mo ago
My dad has been telling the same story for ten years. He wants to take a trip around US national parks, sleeping in the back of the car, under the stars, which is why his car needs a 500-mile range and must be fueled by gasoline. This conve
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by sowbug 10mo ago
There is now an even easier way than vacuuming. Instead of pulling the unwanted air and moisture from the lines, you can push it out with another gas, which itself can somehow coexist with the refrigerant. I haven't tried it because I
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Everywhere I can reach with an extension cord. :)
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Home electricity in California is about 45¢/kWh. If your F150 mileage is typical, you're getting about 2 miles per kWh. 600 miles would cost about $135 here in California. Meanwhile, a 20 mpg gas car would cost about $110/mon
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by sowbug 10mo ago
I'm reminded of Larry Wall's advice that programs should be "strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept." Which, to the extent the world follows this philosophy, has caused no end of misery. Scrapers are j
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Not all digital currencies work that way.
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Or when the site tells you your store doesn't have a part in stock, but neglects to tell you that they do have 350 of the identical part, different brand, in stock. Because who would ever buy a 1/2-inch close Halex rigid conduit
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Something like this would be perfect for a local LLM assistant.
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by sowbug 10mo ago
You probably meant to post this elsewhere.
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Family memberships are not available for G Suite accounts. Sign in with a personal Google account or buy an individual membership to continue. All I wanted years ago was an email address with my vanity domain. Had I only known I was shunt
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Digital currencies don't enforce any policy other than avoiding double-spending. (Set aside smart contracts for now.) Other online payment methods (Visa, PayPal, Stripe, your bank's ACH, etc.) do. These policies start by disallowi
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by sowbug 10mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/amazon-ring-dr...
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by sowbug 10mo ago
Someone already registered the domain jumptorecipe.com but hasn't done anything with it. We can only dream.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
I had an old Prius with a nav system that disabled all the controls when the car was moving. But it also had a full-screen page of legalese that you had to dismiss every time you started the car. So Toyota's lawyers were OK with driver
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by sowbug 11mo ago
Here in California, as a residential customer, I pay close to 50 cents for even the very first kWh I consume each month, and there is no bulk discount. Meanwhile, Google et al. surely pay less than 10% that rate. A single Gemini query proba
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by sowbug 11mo ago
I'm not sure whether we're disagreeing all that much. Your examples are of low-quality results. From a user's point of view, the one and only job of a search engine is to surface high-quality results, especially if it'
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by sowbug 11mo ago
I think you're underestimating economies of scale, and today's willingness of large corporations to provide cutting-edge services at a loss.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
I assume that search engines these days don't care as much about showing results that won't make them money. Either you bought search ads, your site is showing ads from their network, or you're SOL.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
I wouldn't mind my own offline Gemini or ChatGPT 5. But even if the hardware and model were free, I don't know how I'd afford the electricity.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
My trusty TENS device has gotten me through a few bouts of whatever it is I have had for the last year (pudendal neuralgia, sciatica, pelvic floor issue, not sure). But it really is a pain in the ass (ha) to apply the sticky electrode pads.
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by sowbug 11mo ago
It would be surprising if location transmission failure led to complete call failure. You'd think that it ought to fall back to just making a regular phone call.

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