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811.
by zzzeek 3y ago
I guess I dont understand what the actual problem was. People were doing drugs on public street corners? this is my question. It's not hard for people to drink alcohol in places other than street corners, even on days that the bar
812.
by zzzeek 3y ago
first AI came for the artists, and I said nothing, for I had no talent. take that, artists!
813.
by zzzeek 3y ago
alcohol is perfectly legal, yet it's illegal to walk down a public street with an open can of beer. This all seems to work out fine. Why didnt this work with other kinds of drugs?
814.
White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon(reuters.com)
11 points by zzzeek 3y ago|3 comments
815.
by zzzeek 3y ago
so glad pypi actively removed support for package signatures and even sends you an annoying email if your scripts dare to actually upload a signature anyway
816.
by zzzeek 3y ago
"By default, driverless passenger vehicles and trucks can ride anywhere in the United States, unless a state explicitly says they can’t. " how is that possible? what constitutes a "driverless" vehicle? If I build some
817.
by zzzeek 3y ago
bad news for pythons!
818.
by zzzeek 3y ago
definitely any binary file checked in must be suspect after this event. Packagers like deb and rpm (I work for Red Hat and have done some rpm packaging) should modify their build processes so that while they may run test suites ahead of tim
819.
by zzzeek 3y ago
> Would you bat an eye at this? If it were from a trusted developer and the code was part of a test case? well lets all agree that now, if we see commits affecting / adding binary data with "this was generated locally with XYZ&
820.
by zzzeek 3y ago
can we start considering binary files committed to a repo, even as data for tests, to be a huge red flag, and that the binary files themselves should instead, to the greatest extent possible, be generated at testing time by source code that
821.
by zzzeek 3y ago
I dont use mailing lists for patches, I use gerrit that would put a great big highlight over that character
822.
by zzzeek 3y ago
the period right there on the left edge? if I saw that in a patch I'd be through the roof, that looks completely intentional
823.
by zzzeek 3y ago
sourceforge was like a big klunky 8-track tape player of open source hosting. it was awful, and it's all there was. literally anything that people put up and managed to publicize a bit would have replaced it. a more interesting que
824.
Urgent security alert for Fedora 41 and Rawhide users(redhat.com)
31 points by zzzeek 3y ago|2 comments
825.
by zzzeek 3y ago
MongoDB came into the community like a ton of bricks, taking over conferences, flooding the zone with mugs and t shirts, and for a time there, you couldn't view the front page of hacker news without at least two MongoDB posts. The de
826.
by zzzeek 3y ago
I see fast moving water and tons of bits of blurry things moving all about. are those fish? or debris? they could all be blurry black and white goldfish for all I know. What does a positive picture of "a fish" look like here?
827.
FBI Tells Passengers on Alaska Flight They May Have Been Crime Victims(nytimes.com)
8 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
828.
by zzzeek 3y ago
of course, but Lyme is most prevalent and, I'd like vaccines for rocky mountain etc. as well, and there are efforts towards each (Well probably not for the alpha gal sensitivity caused by lone star ticks). there was an actual ready to
829.
by zzzeek 3y ago
I'd suggest Chomsky for this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat... of course there are others who disagree with him but they're wrong of course
830.
by zzzeek 3y ago
there's a vaccine for Lyme. I'd like that. not a pill that is literally poison, putting deet on our skin is bad enough.
831.
Movement of pilot's seat a focus of probe into Latam Boeing flight, report says(reuters.com)
17 points by zzzeek 3y ago|21 comments
832.
by zzzeek 3y ago
at last a great example of positive cooperation between Earth and Romulans
833.
by zzzeek 3y ago
as others are saying, it is ridiculous to assume short term changes in the job market, which are affected by lots of things like interest rates, inflation, overhiring during covid, etc. are due to "the rise of AI". LLM tools at
834.
by zzzeek 3y ago
humans can have original ideas, since they possess reasoning ability, whereas large language models cannot, since they have none
835.
by zzzeek 3y ago
and brakes, though regenerative braking takes a lot of the pressure of those too
836.
by zzzeek 3y ago
it's plagarizing other people's essays
837.
by zzzeek 3y ago
im sure their service departments at dealerships love still having a huge gravytrain of ICE maintenance / oil/ transmission / belts / exhaust etc issues continue.
838.
It's not just you. Eggshells really are chipping more(businessinsider.com)
3 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
839.
Eshima Ohashi Bridge(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
840.
by zzzeek 3y ago
I had some battery issues with my previous BackUPS 750 but once I got a new battery, things were fine with apcupsd. Have been on a BackUPS-Pro 1500 S for a couple of years now also using apcupsd and zero problems. it legitimately records

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