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by thih9 1y ago
For context, the original joke is: > There are 10 kinds of people in this world — those who understand binary and those who don’t. There are other versions too[1][2][3]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7036594
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> AWS will establish an independent advisory board for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, legally obligated to act in the best interest of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The above quote implies that the threat from Bezos should have no
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Wikipedia says: "Currently, some aircraft, such as helicopters, balloons, and ultralights have no minimum safe altitudes."[1]. I don't know if drone counts as one of them, but I'm not aware of a specific number being lis
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Do we know how exactly are these certainty ratings determined? Edit: seems like it’s all arbitrary? E.g. in a PR[1] I saw random new words get added with no explanation of why a certain rating gets assigned. [1]: https://github.c
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> FAA has no legal authority at low altitudes, except near airports. False, at least according to this FAA Fact Sheet: “The FAA has exclusive authority to regulate airspace efficiency for UAS at low altitudes” https://www.faa.
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The question is so common that it has its own section in the FAA’s drone FAQ > Can you shoot down drones above your property? > It’s illegal under federal law to shoot at an aircraft. A private citizen shooting at any aircraft – inclu
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Congrats and thanks for sharing, both the code and the story. Which Claude plan did you use? Was it enough or did you feel limited by the quotas?
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Makes sense. Perhaps one could engrave without specialized hardware, i.e. increase the nail and hammer dpi resolution a bit, use a pixel font and become a human dot matrix printer. But yes, punch card decoding may be not a problem and a pun
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Cool but wouldn’t you forget how to decode it after some time? I.e. wouldn’t engraving regular characters be simpler?
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There is ongoing work[1] and cameras that offer some support already[2]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiat... [2]: https://leica-camera.com/en-int/photography/c
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Higher ups say yes to remote learning and no to remote work. Interesting to see this side by side like this.
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> The Amazon engineers said that managers have encouraged them to use A.I. to help write one-page memos proposing a solution to a software problem and that the artificial intelligence can now generate a rough draft from scattered thought
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> If you have to rewrite an awkward passage, you'll never do it in a way that makes it less true. You couldn't bear it, any more than gravity could bear things floating upward. So any change in the ideas has to be a change for
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About pain points / feature requests: Is there an idiomatic way to duplicate a hash while replacing one of its values, preferably something that supports nesting? Whenever I work with react and immutable structures, this comes up and I
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> Devstral excels at using tools to explore codebases As an AI and vibe coding newbie, how does that work? E.g. how would I use devstral and ollama and instruct it to use tools? Or would I need some other program as well?
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Apparently people confuse cities when flying too, here’s an article about a passenger going to the wrong Sydney, and more examples: https://simpleflying.com/ameican-airlines-passenger-flies-si...
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You ignore the scale of the project, still present an estimate and compare the effort to something irrelevant, from a very different time and place. Are you my PM?
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> will cost billions of euros, affect more than 9,200 km of track, and take decades How is a change like this going to be implemented? E.g. are they going to mainly update some tracks everywhere (and have two systems running in parallel)
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The article addresses some of these points: > EIB President Nadia Calviño emphasizes the bank's willingness to take more risks, notably speeding up the venture capital financing process, which could be pivotal for startups in a fast
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Thanks for sharing and congrats! How do you deal with updates? I.e. how do you decide whether to maintain a product or move it to "dead"?
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I’m seeing a list of conferences, and for each a popup is saying: > Sorry, we don't currently have any offers for this event. Register your interest to be notified when something becomes available.
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(I know nothing about NLP) Does it make sense to check the process with a control group? E.g. if we ask a human to write something that resembles a language but isn’t, then conduct this process (remove suffixes, attempt grouping, etc), are
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I guess winning like this cheapens the victory. Then again, this strategy continues to be used at all levels of disputes and politics. I wish there was a way to stop that, not just in student debates.
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> return { error: "User declined to execute the command" } I wonder if AIs that receive this information within their prompt might try to change the user’s mind as part of reaching their objective. Perhaps even in a dishonest w
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> Claude is trained to recognise the tool format and to respond in a specific format. Does that mean that it wouldn’t work with other LLMs? E.g. I run Qwen3-14B locally; would that or any other model similar in size work?
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It’s arguably pointless. > despite the absence of the device on Tile’s app, it can still be tracked and located through other means available on the device. > Tile Tracker with Anti-Theft mode has a static Mac-Address, which may make
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This is the recommended way to handle old books. > We're often led to believe that wearing gloves is essential when handling precious books. In fact, it poses a serious risk of damaging them. https://www.nationaltrust.org
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What does “secondary” stand for here in the error message? > You have exceeded a secondary rate limit. Edit and self-answer: > In addition to primary rate limits, GitHub enforces secondary rate limits (…) > These secondary rate lim
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This and more is addressed on the "why.html" page. E.g.: > (...) you and I are likely to be dead before Collapse OS is actually useful. or: > People who are less technical have trouble seeing the point of this project and as
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Off topic, in case this needs a backronym with no profanity, sharing some ideas; first one is my favorite: - What's That Funny Internet Site? - Web Threat Forensic Inspection Service - Warden That Flags Internet Suspicion

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