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by trog 2y ago
I didn't particularly enjoy the Baroque Cycle the first time I read it, but increasingly enjoy it the more often I read it! I think a lot of it was adjusting headspace from "Stephenson == Sci Fi". It is a fantastically detail
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by trog 2y ago
I actually stopped using bash for shell scripting and started using PHP, probably about two decades ago. It's not for everyone - I never got fully fluent in bash, so find it a million times easier to write shell scripts in PHP, and can
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by trog 2y ago
> The article needs some examples. I wouldn't call doing a curl call in PHP particularly comfortable. Not something I'd want in a shell. :-) There are a couple of other ways to make web calls in PHP that don't require cur
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by trog 2y ago
Every so often they try something clever with video to try to give you player POV or to make you feel "part of the action" and it drives me absolutely bonkers because it takes you out of the game and you lose all sense of the flow
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by trog 2y ago
A bunch of my photos from our local LAN (QGL in Brisbane, Australia) made it into this book, it was a blast going through them again.
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by trog 2y ago
Yup. And I'm sure it's a completely unintended side effect that this massively helps US social media companies, who have been struggling to compete! Whoops!
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by trog 2y ago
Just seems weird that this "foreign adversary" is also a critical "trading partner". Why is TikTok being singled out? The discussion about data and privacy seems totally disingenuous. This seems like a free speech issue
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by trog 2y ago
Feels like giving them billions of dollars in trade every year and making them a critical dependency of the US economy is a weird way of being at war. Are you sure that's not just a typo for "valued trading partner"?
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by trog 2y ago
I think you're right about it being a diversion, but I think it's because the American government specifically does not want to make this into a free speech issue because it would directly undermine American businesses that do exa
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by trog 2y ago
Not wrong, but arguably, the entire basis for our civilisation since the dawn of time - it's why we've had societies forming from groups of like-minded people, evolving into city states and then nation states.
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by trog 2y ago
There are different types of danger and I'm not sure which one you're referring to - there's the general economic danger of relying too heavily on one trading partner (if China decides to put export tariff on anything to the
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by trog 2y ago
Is it weird then that China is a "foreign adversary" that is otherwise allowed to sell the US the vast, overwhelming majority of consumer goods and participate in the economy in many other ways?
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by trog 2y ago
> With their current approach, they can share one content authoring environment over an API that splits all render concerns to the consuming client. Do you need an SPA for this? You have to write some code to handle different devices, I
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by trog 2y ago
Thanks!
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by trog 2y ago
> Respectfully - while that's no doubt useful for your visiting family, weighing that up vs the social costs of taking a house off the market when it could be used by a family, in the midst of what I think is the worst rental crisi
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by trog 2y ago
Hmm, can you disable the av1 support? I use Firefox on streaming services specifically because it uses an older codec which is easy to capture video clips from in OBS
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by trog 2y ago
It hasn't made a dent /yet/ but one of the key causes of climate change is that these billionaires were able to become so by taking advantage of a great big externality - dumping waste into the environment. If the price for (
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by trog 2y ago
There's someone here in Australia doing advocacy work on behalf of renters who has just started publishing a list of vacant houses for people who need a roof over their head (1). It is irritating a lot of people but we are in a massive
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by trog 2y ago
I run stable Firefox and have only ever done so and have had the same problems, especially with anything video related. To the point where I don't bother using Firefox for things like Google Meet almost all the time - I don't want
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by trog 2y ago
Huh? Isn't the entire point of GP's comments that they are /not/ gone? Just because Chrome is a bit less terrible than IE6 in terms of user/dev experience (which, to me, is entirely a matter of more sophistication i
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by trog 3y ago
Your post sort of boils down to me as "be annoying and measure stuff all the time" or "hope you get lucky". I think there's a middle ground in there but it's too easy to err on one side or the other ad a method
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by trog 3y ago
Yup. If you're not talking to customers and hearing the problems on the front line you run the risk of solving problems nobody has. There is a balance though - in some cases you have to roll the dice and strike out in bold new directio
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by trog 3y ago
Yeh, I guess I'm used to that in pretty much all software with Debian - you're almost never going to get the bleeding edge unless you're compiling from source. I generally kind of see this as a good thing, in that you can ass
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by trog 3y ago
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but Podman docs say it supports "Debian 11 (Bullseye) repositories and later" - 11 is flagged as the next LTS version, with Debian 10 (Buster) LTS support ending June 30th this year. So on the surf
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by trog 3y ago
Is it open if it doesn't include the training data? Genuine question - I am not familiar enough with the terms and technology to know. But my understanding is the weights is just a more or less static collection of data that has been (
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by trog 3y ago
My aunt - a professor of musculoskeletal anatomy here in Australia - has developed a programme called Onero[1] specifically to deal with this question. I've done a bit of general IT work to help her recover from her tech partner going
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by trog 3y ago
I would split the difference and say a bunch of companies are /trying/ to replace workers with LLMs but are finding out, usually with hilarious results, that they are not reliable enough to be left on their own. However, there are
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by trog 3y ago
One thing of value that was lost was that the ABC (Australian national broadcaster) had hired 60 reporters, mostly in regional areas (typically more undeserved by journalists) from the revenue they got from this deal. Those jobs are now at
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by trog 3y ago
> VPSs being “easy to manage” is a strong option full of assumptions. There are definitely many footguns with managing a VPS but I think the threshold to get vaguely competent with a VPS is not really that far off with getting familiar w
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by trog 3y ago
https://coolify.io/ might be worth a look

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