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From Taipei to Budapest: the mysterious trail of exploding pagers(ft.com)
4 points by whoisstan 2y ago|0 comments
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by whoisstan 2y ago
Right. I just can‘t imagine how it passed tests for a common configuration that is exhibited by large number of windows machines. Stuff always can go wrong, but OS is not booting should be caught?
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by whoisstan 2y ago
Can someone with experience explain how integration tests did not detect that?
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by whoisstan 2y ago
Any links?
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Bark Air - Dogs Can Fly(air.bark.co)
3 points by whoisstan 2y ago|0 comments
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Our Partnership with OpenAI(meta.stackexchange.com)
2 points by whoisstan 2y ago|1 comments
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by whoisstan 3y ago
The Spin by Robert Charles Wilson is magnificent. Set in a contemporary setting, the sun and stars are replaced by projection shield that simulates them, and as the topic suggests it’s because the sun has died, but who did it??? https:&#x2
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by whoisstan 3y ago
Warren Ellis at Thingscon 2017 "1. It’s hard. Don’t get me wrong. I know it’s hard. And Samsung and Apple and several other large corporations want in on it. On the bright side, that will give you lots of exit opportunities, and so
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by whoisstan 3y ago
>I hope that the foregoing reflection will encourage efforts to ensure that progress in developing forms of artificial intelligence will ultimately serve the cause of human fraternity and peace. It is not the responsibility of a few but
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Putin goes meta by talking to his own deepfake on official TV(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by whoisstan 3y ago|0 comments
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by whoisstan 3y ago
https://www.tableau.com/blog/colors-upgrade-tableau-10-56782
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by whoisstan 3y ago
The article doesn't explain "nation built on efficiency", its a theme that continues to persist despite any significant examples.
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by whoisstan 3y ago
>Not sure what this has to do with the current discussion, but to answer your question… Simply curious what this massive infrastructure is used for after the crypto collpase.
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by whoisstan 3y ago
may I add to the list: - Covid Vaccination Rollout - Government plane routinely breaking - Berlin Airport Construction - Military Weapon Procurement - last but not least, German National team
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by whoisstan 3y ago
I am confused because I don’t understand what the bitcoin crypto use case is in 10/2023. Didn’t the idea of crypto payments crash?
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by whoisstan 3y ago
What is the use case for those bitcoin mines? I don't know anybody who is using, which isn't a good argument of course, but I also don't see on any website as payment option and (thankfully) NFT/web3 is largely a goner.
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Tiny Forests with Big Benefits(nytimes.com)
3 points by whoisstan 3y ago|1 comments
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by whoisstan 3y ago
Autonomous Trap 001 by James Bridle comes to mind https://jamesbridle.com/works/autonomous-trap-001
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I Want to Be a NPC(nbcnews.com)
1 points by whoisstan 3y ago|0 comments
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There Will Never Be Another Second Life(theatlantic.com)
5 points by whoisstan 3y ago|0 comments
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by whoisstan 3y ago
ES Modules have an unfortunate syntax. I much prefer the function syntax to retrieving a module. >import {URLSearchParams} from "url"; >const {URLSearchParams} = require("url"); or different destructuring from regu
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by whoisstan 3y ago
> Why else would "they" spend all those resources? Entertainment? Random Number generator? Maybe they are in the future and doing some historical analysis. Plenty of reasons to spend resources.
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by whoisstan 3y ago
His infamous search your home video comes to mind as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2Wc4Y5CxE
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by whoisstan 3y ago
100% agree. I watch Bundesliga, with sky Germany over VPN you could watch all games 2/3 years ago, not some of them are on DAZN which also charges. ChampionsLeague used to be sky as well, not its prime. Not to mention English, Spanish
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by whoisstan 3y ago
IMO it's best to start as clean as possible and start migrating logic into the database over time as performance or security needs arise. Same with clean code, start with it and if there are performance issues start adding shortcuts an
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Next-Gen Apps with Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
4 points by whoisstan 4y ago|0 comments
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by whoisstan 4y ago
For Fraport > document.querySelectorAll("path").length > 5000 They might need combine/reduce the elements. Or use a canvas?
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Microsoft Bot Tay (2016)(theverge.com)
8 points by whoisstan 4y ago|0 comments
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by whoisstan 4y ago
"Microsoft targets Google’s search dominance with AI-powered Bing" :) :)
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by whoisstan 4y ago
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.9848593,-97.1882493,3a,74.99... Starbase streetview is pretty cool

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