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by zdragnar 1y ago
I saw an article today from the BBC where travellers are using LLMs to plan their vacations and getting into trouble going places (sometimes dangerously remote ones) to visit landmarks that don't even exist: https://www.bbc.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Yubikey in a safe deposit box is about as good as we can get, at least for the services that allow it.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Paying for an IDE is fine. Letting them train their AI on your code isn't. I don't have the rights to give access to third parties. What I'm working on isn't even anything special, but that doesn't change the fact t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
For many countries, pure renewables plus batteries only works with an international grid. In a different thread here, Germany was coming up quite a bit during the dunkelflaute, and the only way to go pure renewable is to import energy from,
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Not GAP, not even clothing, but still retail.
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Doesn't QT have a webview component though? Why bring in the full weight of Electron?
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I was part of a team helping a Fortune 500 company whose inventory system was basically a master spreadsheet that maybe 8 people in the company actually had write access to. Everyone reported numbers up to them and the spreadsheet had read
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by zdragnar 1y ago
My aunt used baby talk with my cousin so much she accidentally invented a new language with him, and he ended up needing a bit of speech therapy to get back to a "standard" level of English for his age. Perhaps coincidentally, he
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by zdragnar 1y ago
To me there's a certain appeal to not putting (too much) logic in tests. A test with a false positive because there's a bug in the test logic is a false confidence signal that I've seen enough times to resent. I shouldn'
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Sadly, I'm doing dotnet work, including a legacy webforms codebase. Not running mssql server directly, but lots of other tools- visual studio, sql server profiler, sql server management studio, that sort of thing. EVEN IF all of that w
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I was just looking at an HP laptop with a snapdragon X processor that claimed 34 hours of battery life while watching video. It'd be tempting if I had any idea what the software compatibility story would be like. For example, the compa
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Even into the 1950's and early 60's, my dad went to a one-room school, probably until he was around 14 years old. No running water or air conditioning, the job of the first student to arrive in colder months was to start a fire in
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Perhaps it is an arbitrary limit picked out of concern for weight and / or live energy in a place normally meant as living quarters. Too much of either on a balcony would be a hazard, especially if everyone with a balcony was doing it
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Back when I started, I think maybe half of the people I worked with had a relevant degree at most. Even that might be an overestimate. Back then, CS degree programs didn't even teach higher level languages than C/++ as they were t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The official tutorial at https://nodejs.org/en/learn/getting-started/an-introduction-... says to use `npm install` and makes no mention of `npm ci` at all. Further, the name of the command (though not the cle
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by zdragnar 1y ago
1- I want my dependencies to define a range for the libraries that they work with, so we don't have 20 different versions of some common library because our dependencies are hyper specific 2- I want every install of my project- be it o
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Boys are diagnosed with autism 4 times more than girls by age 8. There's a certain amount of supposition that this is due in part or largely down to "boys being boys" type handwaving, though my two nephews are on the spectrum
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Fiber is a decades long investment into hardware- one that I would argue we hardly needed. Google fiber started with the question, what would people do with super high speed? The answer was stream higher quality videos and that's about
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> We are fighting human animals What else do you call people who rape and murder civilians, then parade their dead bodies around to cheering crowds? Hamas will never have any sympathy from most people who watched the October 7 attack foo
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There's also a bit of whitewashing of what it means to give someone to a victim's family. Without having looked deeper into it, it sounds rather like giving them someone to be a slave in recompense. It's not like trading adul
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by zdragnar 1y ago
A person may assert their beliefs, but those beliefs do not extend to trademark law, most especially in the context of "sue everyone else who uses the name of a historical religious figure that I have decided to take for myself".
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That's a fantastic way to fall victim to grift. Your "panel of experts" can easily be as biased as anyone else. When you give people vast authority on the basis of their expertise (even assuming the expertise is genuine), any
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> That's how technology always goes This is not how AI has ever gone. Every approach so far has either been a total dead end, or the underlying concept got pivoted into a simplified, not-AI tech. This new approach of machine learn
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The monthly mortgage payment on a house in many rural areas in the US is far less than shared rent in dense cities. A friend of mine was making $20 an hour at a part time manufacturing job while he had classes, and full time plus overtime d
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Isn't South Africa the exception? There have been sanctions on many more countries who have not changed at all, or even doubled down on bad behavior as a result. I can certainly understand, as a matter of foreign policy, not wanting ou
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Hence why I included the bit about false endorsement, which is a federal rule. Notably, from your link: > Therefore, a trademark is "not property in the ordinary sense," but only a word or symbol indicating the origin or sour
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The way it works on mine is that I open it in the morning to find it powered off because it chose to force quit my running applications to apply updates.
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You can trademark a novel turn of phrase that includes historical figures, but not the actual names, as that falls under the "right of publicity" and protections against false endorsement. So, you could start a new church and trad
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There's not much point to the thought exercise. You wouldn't get the trademark in the first place.
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I wonder what percentage of people in California would go bankrupt if LVT were passed implemented there. Anyone, residential or commercial, with a mortgage would simultaneously find a massive amount of their net value erased while stuck wit

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