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by tjr 2y ago
I had been largely oblivious to raw milk until just a few weeks ago when someone suggested I look into it. From what I can tell, raw milk per se is not likely to be problematic, but problems can get injected if the cows and/or general
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by tjr 2y ago
You might reconsider describing the free tier as being for "(soon to be) dropouts". It seems to come across as simultaneously insulting to potential users, and dismissive of your own product. (Is the free tier really that bad?)
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by tjr 2y ago
Frequent writing of programs along the lines of Knuth's might be a good approach: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html These aren't shippable end-user applications, but implementations of
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by tjr 2y ago
Sounds like there were multiple levels of failure here. Curious that the headline seems to suggest "remote work" was the culprit.
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by tjr 2y ago
Just for fun, I did ask ChatGPT: There’s one silent "p" in the word "prompt"—right at the beginning! The “p” isn’t pronounced, but it sneaks into the word anyway.
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by tjr 2y ago
If they signed such a deal, I wonder what the legal definition of AGI is?
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by tjr 2y ago
Guy's quote there came from a mailing list at MIT that was formed out of the 2001 Lightweight Languages Workshop. Archive of the original post here: https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/
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by tjr 2y ago
I think it could be, but I found realizing the correlation between differentiation and integration to be just beautiful. I think offloading those calculations to a computer system, at least while initially learning, would be a disservice.
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by tjr 2y ago
In my experience, I don't see any desktop warning until the battery is very low indeed, such that it might be too late for me to do anything about it. Probably depends on exactly when it runs out, and if you happen to be actively using
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by tjr 2y ago
The main issue I run into with this is, if I neglect to charge it, and I go to use the computer and the mouse is dead. So then I need to plug it in for a bit, and can't use it until it is charged. But that really hasn't happened t
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FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications(fsf.org)
53 points by tjr 2y ago|11 comments
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by tjr 2y ago
Anything that was certified as 100% Pure Java
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by tjr 2y ago
Having worked in aerospace software for decades, I believe that software engineering exists. I also realize most software projects don't have (or need) that level of planning or rigor.
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Free Software Foundation to serve on "artificial intelligence" safety consortium(fsf.org)
7 points by tjr 2y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 2y ago
Sounds similar to this: https://kottke.org/09/07/the-steve-ward-diet but maybe not quite the same.
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by tjr 2y ago
Especially the meetings which are held for the purpose of planning more meetings.
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by tjr 2y ago
Some possible counterexamples: - Amazon Wish Lists (or other similar constructs) have made it easier to buy a non-monetary gift for people, largely ensuring non-duplicate gifts that they actually want... assuming of course that you can pers
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by tjr 2y ago
My utility bills seem to arrive without issue.
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by tjr 2y ago
I would be interested in seeing an AI developed to listen to auto-generated podcasts, removing humans from the equation altogether.
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by tjr 2y ago
It follows that if you just started using Fastmail, and there have been two nontrivial service outages in the past few weeks, that probably doesn't look very good. On the other hand, I've been using Fastmail for years, and on the
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by tjr 2y ago
https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl... What was missing from the 1990 Web? The original Web did not effectively support the one-paragraph idea. A reader who encountered a Web page containing o
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by tjr 2y ago
Is the intended purpose of Lynx to access the "modern web"?
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by tjr 2y ago
Would you say that Lynx is not good software?
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by tjr 2y ago
I would say it's still worth reading The Inmates Are Running the Asylum . I'm sure some of the examples are antiquated, but it's a really interesting book. Programming Pearls too would still be worth reading
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by tjr 2y ago
Exactly, years of muscle memory and files. If I was involuntarily forced off of Sibelius at this point, I would be rather annoyed. I'm not even sure what I would do. Last time I tried it, Dorico did not support everything I needed to d
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by tjr 2y ago
I used Finale for years before switching to Sibelius about 13 years ago. I found Sibelius much easier to use, but I'm surprised that there aren't enough unmovable legacy Finale users to warrant continual maintenance of the product
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by tjr 2y ago
A few years ago, I was on a business trip that flew me in to SNA, and I had a few hours to myself. The Nixon museum was nearby, so I figured that might be interesting. I was a bit embarrassed to go in, because, well, I didn't know much
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by tjr 2y ago
True, but there's still a whole lot you can do with virtual instruments, synthesizers, direct-recorded guitars, and minimal (or even no) good room acoustics. That does leave some niches open for the value of recording live instruments
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by tjr 2y ago
I got the impression that the FSF rather downplayed their own kernel development after Linux became available. I remember reading things like, you can still work on Hurd if you want to, but it's more of a research project.
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by tjr 2y ago
I suspect that the pressure to fill "a whole album" has diminished as recorded music publication has shifted largely toward digital distribution, and especially streaming. I don't think that prohibiting the publication of who

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