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by tlavoie 6d ago
Try an app called Merlin, from Cornell University. It's excellent, and basically runs against a regional machine learning model to identify birds.
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by tlavoie 11d ago
TWO! Mine's cobalt as well. My wife picked it out when I'd lost my original gold ring (temporarily, cough ). Besides looking interesting, apparently it was much less expensive than gold is these days.
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by tlavoie 1mo ago
Does the water end up including some of the colloidal silver? As it happens, there is someone living in my area who has taken colloidal silver in some fashion for ages, with the side effect of turning the skin a ghastly grey hue. I can&#x27
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by tlavoie 1mo ago
My fire hall has spray-paint lines to align the rear wheels with in the mirror, including a short cross-line at the stopping point when backing in. Works great!
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by tlavoie 2mo ago
Here's an excellent example of the latter, from a short ways up the BC coast from me. Not caught on film, but found later by heli pilots, and on seismic data: https://hakai.org/stories/the-big-slide
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by tlavoie 2mo ago
It doesn't hurt here that the OCaml compiler is very fast, which makes for quick feedback loops when dealing with errors.
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by tlavoie 3mo ago
Doing what you feel necessary or useful at a local scale is still empowering. Understanding that the effects will be mostly local as well is a good thing, but choosing your battles is perfectly healthy.
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by tlavoie 3mo ago
Not if the company implodes...
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by tlavoie 3mo ago
The files are huge (in pixels and bytes), plus the HN hug of death.
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by tlavoie 4mo ago
It's probably hard to come up with something messier than SqlAlchemy here. Not an expert, but spent more than enough time spelunking queries in the debugger. I much prefer bugs that can be surfaced at compile-time rather than run-time.
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by tlavoie 4mo ago
Maybe if it can start colluding with my other devices over HDMI!
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by tlavoie 4mo ago
I've found a workable approach, browsing HN with my feed reader (FreshRSS, in this case). I have bookmarks for various things, one of which is what I've labeled "AI nonsense". It's not HN-specific, but selects for u
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by tlavoie 4mo ago
Sure, but what can it do without a network?
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by tlavoie 5mo ago
No, in the case of all the desync attacks that James Kettle has found since, HTTP between servers is more like "worse really is worse." At least until they all speak HTTP/2.
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by tlavoie 5mo ago
I've had good luck with my Kobo, for those books bought through their store. (I strip DRM from everything I can, if I can't buy without in the first place.)
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by tlavoie 5mo ago
Flares will burn, and keep burning, once lit. I wouldn't consider them to be especially spicy in the whole context though, since anything that has set them off has already lit the rest on fire. Coincidentally, I'm a volunteer fire
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by tlavoie 5mo ago
How does your car move around _without_ containing explosive, highly combustible stuff?
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by tlavoie 6mo ago
That... seems like a good thing!
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by tlavoie 7mo ago
That works for the books you copy over, but those that come from Kobo will be downloaded as part of a sync that also does updates.
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by tlavoie 7mo ago
I worked for a small company that did work for a cross-border manufacturer. Coming from Canada, we were told explicitly that "meetings" was a perfectly good reason for a day trip, and we were never there "to work". US cu
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by tlavoie 7mo ago
I think the issue here is one of informed consent. You might say, "OK, this makes sense" when agreeing to location data for a weather app. In the context of whether it's going to hail soon, location is reasonable. What you on
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by tlavoie 7mo ago
At that point, why bother to make any posts at all?
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by tlavoie 7mo ago
Yeah thanks, but it doesn't hurt to mention!
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by tlavoie 7mo ago
On the other hand, the morels that seemed to come with a load of wood chips were great for the year or two we had them. I tried growing a little wine cap bed once, and it hadn't gone well. Perhaps it was the chickens pecking at it, can
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by tlavoie 8mo ago
Along with all the general discussion, I found the concept of defensive parsing striking a chord when reading this as well: "The Seven Turrets of Babel: A Taxonomy of LangSec Errors and How to Expunge Them", https://lan
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by tlavoie 8mo ago
The language here is Forth, the odd naming is for a specific implementation.
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by tlavoie 8mo ago
Need to do more, but here I am: https://fractaldragon.net
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by tlavoie 9mo ago
Back in the stone age, I worked at 7-Eleven while in university. Nothing was really computerized at the store level then, even cameras were rare. What was done all the time was a simple, templated, paper-based process that managers went thr
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by tlavoie 9mo ago
Well, yeah. The point was that there are changes that could be made, without having to make it possible for everyone else to build, that would enable continued binary support.
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by tlavoie 9mo ago
Well, or they could release a patch that simply nerfs the license check on the binary. No risk in terms of lost profits, for software they no longer sell.

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