xondono

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by xondono 5d ago
Experts from 2005 I guess, because that’s the last time I heard about bots not being able to mimic human-like interactions. Everything you’re talking about is trivial to automate with playwright.
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by xondono 6d ago
Are you seriously claiming that as a fact? You really believe 12 minutes is too long for a bot or something? Because that has to be the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard. Measuring bot activity became harder after the API changes (I wonder why!
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by xondono 7d ago
Yes, Twitter is so “successful” Musk had to write off 50% of his “investment” out of the gate, and had to come up with an AI-hyped merger with SpaceX to compensate the banks that went in with him. The only reason Twitter has more active use
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by xondono 7d ago
> According to Isaacson's biography Isaacson’s “biographies” are glorified puff pieces. Musk is as unrecognizable in his as Jobs was in his. Both Tesla and SpaceX had teams keeping Musk busy on bs just so that the engineering teams
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by xondono 7d ago
Given the original specs are the kinds of numbers Musk pulls out of his behind, I wouldn’t expect it to anytime soon. It’s certainly an achievement of SpaceX engineering what they can do despite his constant meddling.
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by xondono 3mo ago
I’ve been looking for a good solution for doing the exact opposite, being able to connect stuff through USB in my bench, and see them pop up in my office desktop as if they were usb devices. The closest I’ve gotten is using a raspberry pi i
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by xondono 3mo ago
Germany, France and Spain are some of the biggest offenders here. Some years ago a case became quite famous in Spain. Someone wanted to turn a winery into a eco-tourism boutique hotel with a winery tour and experience. Should be simple in t
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by xondono 3mo ago
I think these simplifications end up hurting more than helping. 30% tree cover looks very different depending on the trees your municipality chooses. For example, Barcelona covers everything with a variety of Platanus, which is easier to ke
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by xondono 5mo ago
But that isn’t the point at all. For most businesses, you’re not the target audience of your website, your potential customers are.
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by xondono 6mo ago
Don’t know the specifics of the Espressif RISC-V cores, but in general they can’t really compete on those aspects with ARM. ARM is a much more mature platform, and the licensing scheme helps somewhat to keep really good physical implementat
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by xondono 6mo ago
Well, that depends on what you count as a backdoor, but Espressif has had some questionable flaws: - Early (ESP8622) MCUs had weak security, implementation flaws, and a host of issues that meant an attacker could hijack and maintain control
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by xondono 6mo ago
> I've been impressed by how this isn't quite true. I’d say it’s true, but the LLMs and humans don’t have the exact same definition of what “obscure” is. Karel is almost a subset of Pascal with some keyword swaps. And there’s a
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by xondono 6mo ago
Except that strategy gets you killed through a thousand paper cuts. What would have you done when the Bitcoin fork happened 50/50? Would you have gone int ICOs? Which ones? Etc… There’s simply too many “new things”, so by trying to get
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by xondono 6mo ago
This depends very much on your line of work. As a freelancer I do a bit of everything, and I’ve seen places where LLM breezes through and gets me what I want quickly, and times where using an LLM was a complete waste of time.
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by xondono 6mo ago
The way early adopters got rich was by scamming others, so not sure I see your differentiation there
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by xondono 10mo ago
I’d expect this crap from Google, but not Apple. If this doesn’t get fixed, I’m going to have to rethink a lot of my digital life, including my company’s.
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by xondono 10mo ago
Funnily enough, the text is so distinctively Cantrillian that I have no doubts this is 100% an “organic intelligence” product.
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by xondono 10mo ago
> Most of the harsher regulations only come into effect when the company hits a specific size. That’s very market and country specific. Spain makes more than 1k tweaks to it’s food regulations each year , which would kill lots of restau
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by xondono 11mo ago
That's BS, you can have spies with or without unique IDs, and there's better ways to get votes than creating fake people. Also, a lot of countries do have IDs...
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by xondono 11mo ago
> "Features aren't rights" > see: Consumer Rights. Consumer rights aren’t features, and they’re very intentionally written to not be. > "Force of the state making sideloading mandatory is bad" > ...Excep
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by xondono 11mo ago
There isn’t a duopoly, it’s just that the two top contenders are way ahead of the rest, so wanting that niche feature requires a big sacrifices. Nowadays it’s not even that hard to build your own phone, but it’s not going to be a slick smar
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by xondono 11mo ago
I’m honestly very tired of this argument, everything about it is bad. Features aren’t rights, if you want a phone that let’s you run whatever you want, buy one or make it yourself. What you’re trying is to use the force of the state to make
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by xondono 11mo ago
> Who is we here? Do you have examples of any countries having successfully done what you are proposing? Does it really matter? There’s always a first country to do anything. It makes no sense actual exposure to radiation is increasing b
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by xondono 11mo ago
> Good luck building nuclear in non-generational timescales and at reasonable prices. Or we could treat nuclear rationally and stop increasing the price three orders of magnitude past diminishing returns..
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by xondono 1y ago
This has been in Rust since before the 1.0 release. Also, you can’t converge to a diverging number, for Rust to get close to C++’s level of complexity, the C++ WG would have to stop with their garbage.
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by xondono 1y ago
Sure it can, but then it’s not published. My only point is that if you get published in a journal, at least two people have seen it.
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by xondono 1y ago
> that’s some Apple level QA Are you nuts? X-ray inspection is not that rare, there’s even small assembly houses here (Spain) that can do xray automated inspection. This has been standard for years to the point I’ve been sent forms for a
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by xondono 1y ago
Technically speaking, being published means at least the editors have reviewed. The quality of their reviews is another thing entirely.
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by xondono 1y ago
That’s because we’ve basically reinterpreted what “peer review” is. Peer review used to mean “some peers have reviewed it”, mainly the editors, who pushed for correctness and novelty. There was a clear difference between publishing and maki

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