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by xrd 3y ago
Good question. This is my opinion, but I feel I've got facts to back it up. I don't want them using iPads because I consider the walled garden of apple to be hostile and predatory. Specifically, this is a place where I cannot cont
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by xrd 3y ago
That's a good idea. Does that require pihole or something? I've got that installed but wasn't aware that I could do that. I'm not aware of how you can throttle traffic without intercepting on the device directly.
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by xrd 3y ago
It's a fight between me, my wife and YouTube, sadly. But, your advice is 100% correct.
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by xrd 3y ago
I've been experimenting with making a Firefox plugin to hobble YouTube. I don't want to outright ban it (easily done using /etc/hosts) because there is good stuff on YouTube. I talked to a guy at a conference who seemed
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by xrd 3y ago
As you point out, I am assuming malicious intent and you have every right to assume the same of me! I should have put that other part in. It just didn't jibe with me and still feels like it is an easy and obvious upgrade. But, you are
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by xrd 3y ago
I was curious about the automated CLA process. It is interesting to me to read the answer about not supporting GitLab: https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant/issues/534 Very terse answer that says:
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by xrd 3y ago
It's interesting to hear this when places like the Pacific Northwest seem to be getting more rain fall. With a warmer climate, the atmosphere holds more moisture and results in more rain. It's been speculated before, but when will
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by xrd 3y ago
The irony of Icaza now working for M$ is thick. He's an amazing guy and I don't begrudge him at all.
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by xrd 3y ago
I was discussing LLMs with a non technical person on the plane yesterday. I was explaining why LLMs aren't good at math. And, he responded, no, chatgpt is great a multivariate regression, etc. I'm using LLMs locally almost always
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by xrd 3y ago
What was your experience with hotel prices?
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by xrd 3y ago
It's really good. Good find.
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by xrd 3y ago
This is tangentially related but fascinating. A terrific movie called Minbo came out in Japan thirty or so years ago. It's about the Yakuza and not very flattering. The director was stabbed at the premier. Then, later, died of suicide
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by xrd 3y ago
I love Observable. And, this is a phenomenal approach, untethering Observable from observablehq.com. I'm so excited. It probably goes without saying that EVERYONE should have a blog, and this approach from Observable means journalists
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by xrd 3y ago
I've been working on an idea for a long time which is to break classic public domain books (in the original foreign language) into small chunks for study of the source language. An example passage is here (from one of the greatest work
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by xrd 3y ago
I often feel frustrated by the community here but having this story be at the top of HN gives me so much hope for my little sheltered world. Kudos to Bob, and kudos to all the people of HN.
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by xrd 3y ago
I used the "don't break the chain" rule to write a book and it was the only thing that kept me going through small kids and the inherent "distractions." It was interesting to read how demoralized the author was when
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by xrd 3y ago
I thought this was really fascinating. One, interesting that celebrities in China shill for educational products. Compare that to US celebrities shilling for sports gambling. To each their own. Two, fascinating that tutoring has been severe
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by xrd 3y ago
I would really like to see a comparison of damage to piers in California and Florida. The "costs" of hurricanes keeps rising, but Florida is also a place with a lot of insurance fraud, and it would be great to see an analysis of t
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by xrd 3y ago
There is a trend towards using LLMs as backends to search engines. After reading this story, I can't help but think that those LLMs are going to be so much easier to hack than Google, which has a history and massive infrastructure to c
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by xrd 3y ago
I just wonder if that can be extended to every. single. news. organization. They all do it. Doom gets more clicks than happy talk.
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by xrd 3y ago
Yes, it is insane how these things work. We bought a 60s house which presumably had bad wiring. The sellers elected to use "smart bulbs" and "smart switches" for everything to probably save money on the rewiring cost. Th
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by xrd 3y ago
I recall having a conversation with one of the most brilliant people I ever knew in high school. This was the college he wanted to attend. I hadn't heard of it before and later in the conversation referred to it as Palm Springs and cou
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by xrd 3y ago
This four minute video of him is a terrific way to learn Kanji. I love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icA1VaYg80
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by xrd 3y ago
I didn't know that. I self host this on my own hardware in my office. If I wanted encryption at rest, I would just do it at the hard disk level I suppose.
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by xrd 3y ago
I agree. It's an incredible clone. Flawless.
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by xrd 3y ago
I came here to ask the same question. Anyone?
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by xrd 3y ago
I really enjoyed this review. I'm a little surprised that some aggressive VC doesn't promote crypto as being the answer to doing unsavory, or maybe even illegal, things. There is some value in being able to buy porn and not having
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by xrd 3y ago
I'm really fascinated by the demoscene, but clicking on those links only gives me music which seems completely devoid of humans. And, I suppose I'm really interested in the demoscene because I really want to know the humans behind
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by xrd 3y ago
OK, I need to say more about this code snippet. I'm really fascinated by it. This is typescript, which is interesting because we have more confidence the JS "works." But, it is also embedding SQL directly into your typescript
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by xrd 3y ago
Ha, Taylor, of course this is you doing cool things in cool outfits. I should have known. Thanks! My favorite truth in that site: "Anyway, instead of learning biochem and spanish I went and built this stupid website." I don't

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