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by teeray 6mo ago
How about a random sample of registered voters too? It would be nice to have a cohort that cannot be bought and paid for.
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by teeray 6mo ago
Were they ever banned?
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by teeray 6mo ago
Instead of “I accept”, you’re given a quiz
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by teeray 6mo ago
”AI” is the new “.com”
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by teeray 6mo ago
“Automation can lower the workload in some cases. But in other situations, using automation when it is not appropriate can increase one’s workload. A pilot has to know how to use a level of automation that is appropriate... Whether you’re f
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by teeray 6mo ago
> the scientists and ship's crew were surprised by the sudden appearance of an island that had previously only been marked as a danger zone on the available nautical charts. There is definitely cursed pirates treasure on that island
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by teeray 6mo ago
> There are hundreds of ways that different websites ask you to pick dates Ugh, date pickers. So many of these violently throw up when I try to do the obvious thing: type in the damn date. Instead they force me to click through their ina
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by teeray 6mo ago
> What is gained by “unmasking” Satoshi other than satisfying one’s curiosity? Those sweet, sweet clicks, and the eyeballs they bring along with them, of course
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by teeray 6mo ago
I’ve been learning Gregg Shorthand (Anniversary) since the start of the year. It’s a fun challenge even if it feels fantastically obsolete at this point with transcription models getting better and better every day. I’ve always liked paper-
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by teeray 6mo ago
I just learned about Postcrossing from a small bookshop owner in Iceland! I was buying some postage to send some postcards back to family in the US. We talked about how fun the format is (and challenging! You don’t have a lot of room!).
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by teeray 6mo ago
Today, you get the more streamlined experience of push, 3 clicks to restart CI & container build, push 1000 yamls, click to restart the build again, cry when it all fails.
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by teeray 6mo ago
If your ticket was in the form of a piece of music that you had to perform on your violin to gain entry, would you feel the same way? Keep in mind, it’s only in the last 15 years that playing the violin in this world became commonplace and
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by teeray 6mo ago
The same could be said about a Roulette wheel set before a seasoned gambler
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by teeray 6mo ago
Usually this results in approvals to approve the approval to approve making the change. Everyone signed off on a tower of tax forms about the change, no way it can fail now! It failed? We need another layer of approvals before changes can b
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by teeray 6mo ago
“Rebuild” is also a four-letter word though at this stage too. The customer has a panel of knob-and-tube wiring and aluminum paper-wrapped wire in the house. They want a new hot tub. They don’t want some electrician telling them they need t
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by teeray 6mo ago
That feels like something that could suffer from frequency analysis.
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by teeray 7mo ago
It’s simple, reliable, and effective. Shortwave receivers can be made fairly compact. They’re also very prevalent in most countries (every ham transciever), so there’s nothing suspicious to pack. People find numbers stations interesting, so
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by teeray 7mo ago
> Looking around, and especially forward, it would be military tech, e.g. [1], and its supply chain, e.g. [2] Only viable if you’re okay with the ethical implications of funding war.
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by teeray 7mo ago
If your debts are also denominated in USD, their value will be fixed relative to your cash assets. This assumes a fixed rate, of course, but a 30 year fixed is common in the US and makes up a substantial portion of most folks’ debt.
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by teeray 7mo ago
Companies love externalizing the costs of making efficient software onto consumers, who need to purchase more powerful computing hardware.
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by teeray 7mo ago
> Conventional rebase creates a fictional history where your commits happened on top of the latest main This is not fiction though. If someone added a param to the functions you’re modifying on your branch, rebasing forces you to resol
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by teeray 7mo ago
It’s always amazing going to these stores and seeing the support they provide for frequent “how do I computer?” questions. To me, this is like going to the water department because you need a new faucet on the kitchen sink. We make no such
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by teeray 7mo ago
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-2-oV5vk8q/?igsh=MWFtZmR5MHl... EDIT: acknowledged. fake.
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by teeray 7mo ago
Jokes aside, this octogenarian was living his golden years enviably. He was summiting peaks last fall, doing 500 lb barbell curls, and still sparring in his birthday video just 10 days ago. We’ve all gotta go sometime, but the way Chuck Nor
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by teeray 7mo ago
You can, but then you lose the power of a collective and have to manage a lawsuit yourself. If you are being represented as part of a group, then you should have means to direct that representation.
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by teeray 7mo ago
> It is a class action lawsuit… the parties agreed to settle instead of waiting for the trial… It would be nice if members of the class could vote to force a case to trial. For the typical token settlement amount, I’m sure many would rat
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by teeray 7mo ago
In fact, they want 10 years of vibe coding experience
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by teeray 7mo ago
> Do you really need to go to the ER because you stubbed your toe? Where else are some people supposed to go? Maybe that toe is starting to change colors… is it broken? Do I need to have it set? Is that possible for toes? People have val
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by teeray 7mo ago
Code reviews are a volunteer’s dilemma. Nobody is showered with accolades by putting “reviewed a bunch of PRs” on their performance review by comparison with “shipped a bunch of features.” The two go hand-in-hand, but rewards follow marks o
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by teeray 7mo ago
It’s the lack of transparency that is the problem. There should be a clear labor exchange disclaimer: “we are asking you to do X minutes of AI training for one unit of in-game reward.” What people take issue with is Tom Sawyer tricking peop

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