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by vel0city 3mo ago
As an update, I enabled that setting and I'm still not able to have Gemini actually be useful for calling people or changing playlists in my car.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I agree there's a huge amount of energy that would need to go into a commercial kitchen to replace gas, and I also agree its probably a bit unfeasible at a lot of locations with current technology to do it at any reasonable scale and h
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> Finding out your colleague also plays chess can segue into an invitation to play chess outside of work, and launchpad that into building a friendship. Yeah, but if you make a point of never shooting the shit with your coworkers how w
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by vel0city 3mo ago
It's a balance though, isn't it? Like, sure, don't bring your whole self to every single bowling game, you're there to bowl so focus at the task at hand. Nobody is going to have a good time if every bowling game devolv
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by vel0city 3mo ago
No drugs even in a medical setting? Man, that's intense. Can't take anesthetics when facing surgery or similar situations. No epinephrine for anaphylaxic shock. Can't take insulin. Pretty rough. Ketamine is an FDA approved dr
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I'm not especially fast and it normally takes me about two hours to play 9 holes. I also sometimes go to practice at the driving range or putting greens if I don't have that much time but want to do some golf things. It's not
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by vel0city 3mo ago
That then applies to practically any kind of recreation. A city park and playground? Only for the rich, you need to be rich to have the spare time to do it. A public swimming pool? Only for the rich, you need to be rich to have the spare ti
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by vel0city 3mo ago
The courses around me cost like $25-50 for a group tee time reservation. It's pretty cheap to get a set of second hand clubs, my small collection was had for like $75 over the years. You don't have to be rich to play golf. Plus th
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by vel0city 3mo ago
As opposed to the US models which will commit crimes on your behalf and kill your nephew. Pick your poison.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Oops, what a funny autocorrect. A vending machine.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> coins quickly devolve into carrying a giant pile of loose change with near-zero value. Which is why it'd be better if they weren't all nearly zero value in today's money. Coins of tiny value really suck, I agree. What am
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Coins are far more durable and usually easier for machines to properly sense. If you're using vending machines to buy drinks it's nice just dropping a coin or two into a machine and getting a beverage. Notes can get worn and fail
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by vel0city 3mo ago
VMT is a common divisor used in human traffic comparisons. Like when you're trying to see if a given area is safer than another area to drive, you'll often compare by VMT to have a more fair comparison. As for bad divisors, accide
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Registration info usually also includes a physical address and names.
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Is sometimes drawing a path on a screen and clicking execute really "driving" the car? They've got 70ish people as operators controlling a fleet of thousands of cars. Does the operator have a desk with like 50 steering wheels
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Its a common way of analyzing these kinds of statistics especially on large scales. What other divisor makes sense to you?
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by vel0city 3mo ago
So what, its Waymo's fault we don't have a public option in healthcare? I didn't realize they invented a time machine to go back and bribe Lieberman. Are all tech companies supposed to just stop and send all the engineers hom
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Should we have also not cheered on electric computers replacing all the expensive, skilled mathematician/computing jobs that used to exist? Keypunch operators? Telephone switchboard operators? Advanced printers replacing the vast major
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by vel0city 3mo ago
> The last time I used Windows seriously, which was Windows 10, this was not the case. Apps like Chrome and Spotify have been doing it for almost 20 years, since they made their Windows apps back in 2008. Python updated their installer t
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I can only speak to my own experiences with salaried work. I'll also preface that I don't like healthcare being tied to employment. All the job interviews that went to the point of discussing compensation, healthcare benefits were
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Tons of Windows apps these days install into user's AppData these days. Its common for installers to ask "Install for everyone or just me".
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by vel0city 3mo ago
You do patent ideas , but the actual words written in a book describing that idea would only be protected by copyright at best. FWIW, the exact words describing the idea being patented are technically public domain; that's the whole
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Let's assume model output can be claimed by copyright or some form IP. You can't really patent it, as the output isn't a novel idea or process, much like you don't patent a book or a movie. But for arguments sake, let&#x
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I agree the US has torched a lot of international goodwill. Once again how does this relate to passkeys? You don't have to use US companies to use passkeys. There are European providers of authenticators. What country is Yubico based o
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by vel0city 3mo ago
If a service wanted to do that they could already do that, you even point to an example with a platform requiring their specific app to use the account. I've had banks which required me to have their own time-based code physical securi
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I use this feature a bunch across dozens of different Windows and Mac devices from various device vendors with multiple Android phones and seemingly never had an issue. But I'm also a person who generally never experiences the issues s
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by vel0city 3mo ago
I made this comment a little bit ago, I'll share it again: I think the biggest change in public sentiment in datacenters is a reaction to the extreme scale they're being deployed at these days. They're really vastly unlike da
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by vel0city 3mo ago
Passkey on an iPhone, logging into a public-ish terminal by scanning a QR code? Yes. In fact, if you have your Apple Passwords app set to sync through iCloud, you can: - Make a passkey on your Mac for a site in the Passwords app - Go to a d
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by vel0city 3mo ago
But you still have all the negatives/limitations of passwords, of which there are tons .
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by vel0city 3mo ago
If I'm on someone else's computer and I want to use a passkey on my phone, the computer will display a QR code. I scan the QR code with my phone, the phone signs the login request and posts it to the service's callback. Then

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