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by washadjeffmad 9mo ago
It's the same amount of effort to install Linux and never have to question who the owner of your computer is again.
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by washadjeffmad 9mo ago
They didn't say listening to audiobooks was bad (unless they edited their comment), just that it's a different activity than reading.
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by washadjeffmad 10mo ago
I think that's a reasonable point - is there anyone doing "State of My Framework" reports? It's hard to know how true their claim of timelessness through upgrades and repairs is without that.
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by washadjeffmad 10mo ago
Relevant to "I'm returning my Framework Laptop" from a day or two ago (500+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375174 I think the Framework model (OTC/commodity parts + mainboard) is neat,
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by washadjeffmad 10mo ago
There's a short story with a similar plot from "Valuable Humans in Transit" by qntm.
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by washadjeffmad 11mo ago
Somehow, continuing the trend, this will affect none of the people responsible and only harm Millennials.
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by washadjeffmad 11mo ago
It's a protection for the faculty and students. If you fail someone who rarely attended class, and they claim that they did, asked you for support, and never received it, how might you defend yourself? If you have an excellent student
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by washadjeffmad 11mo ago
I tend to do the cookie baking, so it'd be a little silly for me to be mad over someone eating them. And for what it's worth, no one deserves blame for their cookie habits.
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by washadjeffmad 11mo ago
The 'blank in the firing squad' technique of snacking is a pretty typical girl thing. Eating cookies? Perfectly fine. Eating an entire bag of cookies? Gross. Unthinkable. But how many cookies is really fine to eat? The safest best
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
I'd much rather not have every part of my society for sale to someone with infinitely deeper pockets. We're not the customers of healthcare, insurance, mortgages, etc. The planet's wealthiest pensioners are. No difference in
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
GCC was a psyop to destabilize the private compiler industry. -Someone, surely
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
> James Mulvenon says he has been targeted by suspected foreign agents ... “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman” If I were the journalist, I would ha
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
You know, I realized the same thing after seeing a guy in one of our 3D print communities consistently printing life-sized models scaled with LuBan for his students. He had a garage full of Bambus, a bunch of photos of his models in an appa
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Tokyo, private room. I'm sorry, I made it sound like that's what it cost at a food court. It just tickled me so much that he admitted he was a little disappointed that he didn't get an "authentic hibachi experience"
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Food is cheap, but skilled labor is expensive. In the US, it's common to go out to eat because the reputation and wages of labor for food service have been crushed, but in Japan, asking another human to pour your beers and make you foo
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
The gimmicks aren't the product, and the customers of frontier technologies aren't the consumers. The gamers and redditors and smartphone fanatics, the fleets of people who dutifully buy, are the QA teams. In accelerated compute,
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
https://archive.is/w0izj
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
This is mostly commentary on the state of Matthew's knowledge of AI tooling. You can use preprocessors, train your own text encoders, build pipelines to automate tasks that you might not want to dwell on so you can focus on art. AI is
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
It's a brand with household name recognition. It's also a bit of a plug piece (NWL has had a rough decade). The most newsworthy detail here is probably the WSJ publishing an article that could be construed as somewhat pro-labor.
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Search for "workshop labor rates meme". It's just part of knowing the business beyond the craft.
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
I just googled this: https://www.scribd.com/document/924955773/Kirk-Letter
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
I've stopped using YouTube and run a bi-yearly Google Takeout (and wipe). https://takeout.google.com/
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Yet its expressionlessness captures the lobotomized drone-like corporate flair that characterizes mainstream Linux today. I'm not against it as long as we don't erase Tux from older projects.
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Do you know what a Cracker Barrel is? They're not exactly celebrations of modernity.
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Same. I interface with a team who refuses to conduct business in anything other than Excel, and because of dated corporate mindshare, their management sees them more as wizards instead of the odd ones out. "They're on top of it! T
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
I tend to skip these threads because there's a gulf in understanding between those who have accepted the marketing and those who are hoping to profit from them. "PhD level reasoning" means they have asked PhDs questions and f
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
They only seem to call it 'aspirational peerage' when you're young, but when you're established, you still need to find and figure out what others ahead of you are doing so you have an idea about what you might be doing
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Universities aren't the lofty, inviolable, autonomous institutions of lore; they're generally immediately dependent on alignment to their local and state governments. The governor (Abbot) would have replaced the BoR, which could a
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
The leading indicator to me was when I started spending more time trying to recover from identity thefts every year than not. The frauds became novel, no longer just maxing out retail credit lines to baby goods and lingerie shops, but explo
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by washadjeffmad 1y ago
Why, can he not get down?

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