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by whyenot 2y ago
One of the very nice things about working in academia is that I now have a private office. It has been a huge productivity and quality of (work)life boost. I don't understand why tech companies continue with open plan offices when they
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by whyenot 2y ago
AT&T has 110 million customers. Let's be optimistic and assume that each customer only has to spend one minute of extra time managing their account due to the break-in. That is more than 209 years of lost time. Laws related to data
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by whyenot 2y ago
I’ve read quite a few news stories on this and I still don’t understand what Musk is trying to accomplish. Tesla has been hugely successful. The model Y is the best selling car in the world. Sure, there is a downturn, but why make such dras
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by whyenot 2y ago
If they are "useless," then people won't "accept" them, and per what you quoted they are entitled to a refund.
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by whyenot 2y ago
US lawmakers are deeply concerned that TikTok might exploit some of the data they collect on their users, ...yet they turn a blind eye to the fact that GM not only collected driving data on their users, apparently in some cases without
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by whyenot 2y ago
For the same reason Google's and Apple's results also reach the front page. HN users upvote the posts. Maybe it's because Meta is one of the largest tech companies in the world and for many people their results are interestin
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by whyenot 2y ago
Here in the US there has been the problem of endangered sea lions eating endangered salmon below the Bonneville Dam. The salmon are easy pickings for the sea lions because they tend to collect below the dam as the migrate upriver to spawn.
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by whyenot 2y ago
The "best regards to your mother" at the end seems so innocent. Nowadays, it would read like a reference to an SNL skit starring Andy Samberg and Mark Whalberg.
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by whyenot 2y ago
I'd argue an even bigger issue is the way Amazon clogs up its search and product listings with sponsored results. Amazon isn't interested in selling you what you are looking for. They want you to buy some sponsored junk instead. T
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalate(politico.com)
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by whyenot 3y ago
It's a really nice logo. I wish someone would clean away the dust and cobwebs.
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by whyenot 3y ago
Water quality: see https://www.sfpuc.org/sites/default/files/documents/SF_Regio... Efficiency: see https://www.epa.gov/watersense/point-use-reverse-osmosis-sys... For example, a ty
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by whyenot 3y ago
"For example, a typical point-of-use RO system will generate five gallons or more of reject water for every gallon of permeate produced." https://www.epa.gov/watersense/point-use-reverse-osmosis-sys...
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by whyenot 3y ago
It really does depend on what your water source is and the pipes from there to your tap. For example, the Hetch Hetchy water that supplies San Francisco and some other parts of the Bay Area is very pure. Reverse osmosis is not going to remo
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by whyenot 3y ago
It reads like you are conflating newer with better. It was more than a few years ago, but I remember the posts on Slashdot where tech people were wringing their hands over the fact that election offices were not adopting touchscreen ballots
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by whyenot 3y ago
> That's of course great, if you're in the business of selling saws, not so great if you're in the business of buying saws. OTOH (literally?) keeping your fingers but having to buy a new saw seems pretty reasonable.
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by whyenot 3y ago
It depends. How accurate is Roku's guess that you may have psoriasis? Now repeat this exercise but replace Roku with Meta or Google.
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by whyenot 3y ago
peel off the RFID tags from the expensive vine ripened tomatoes and replace them with tags from the really cheap ones (people already do this with the plastic stickers)
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by whyenot 3y ago
How would this cheap RFID system work for produce and other items sold without packaging or by weight? (for example fruit/veg)
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by whyenot 3y ago
"Ginger Market" on the SJSU campus has attempted to use a similar "Just Walk Out" approach. It has not worked well. I've been double charged, charged for items I did not take, not charged for items I've taken,
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by whyenot 3y ago
My dad worked at SRI for over thirty years and my mom also worked there. Money has always been an issue at SRI. You always had to be on the lookout for the next contract. If some company or part of the government wasn't paying for your
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by whyenot 3y ago
I used to play D&D after school with Tal Tversky and Jon Barwise at the Tversky's Eichler home on the Stanford campus. This was in the early 1980s. I had no idea how famous either of my friend's fathers were (or would become).
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by whyenot 3y ago
It's amazing to me that the "chat bot" interface for ELIZA, developed in the mid 1960s really isn't very different from that of ChatGPT 4, 60 years later.
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by whyenot 3y ago
Sign me up! As a botanist I used to work in some areas where it would not be unusual to remove hundreds of ticks from my field clothes in a day. Inevitably one or two would slip through.
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by whyenot 3y ago
Imagine setting up a Beowulf cluster of these /s
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by whyenot 3y ago
Oh wow, thank you sharing your dad's nursery. I am going to purchase some germinated seeds from him for the university greenhouse collection that I manage.
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by whyenot 3y ago
> AI your home... "AI" is now a verb?
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by whyenot 3y ago
I paid for a subscription to Consumer Reports, and while it’s not a perfect solution, it has been very helpful. To a lesser extent Wirecutter from the NYT has also been helpful.
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by whyenot 3y ago
This isn’t really explaining the logic behind your original statement. You said “there are 5.5m people in Norway vs 334m in the USA.” Why does the population difference matter so much? As a counterexample, California has over 40 million peo
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by whyenot 3y ago
The world is changing before our eyes. It's exciting, sure, but I am also deeply afraid. AI may take humans to the next level, but it may also end us. ...and our future lies in the hand of venture capitalists, many of whom have no mora

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