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mianos

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    The flaw in 'calling attention to their methods' is that you rarely have a meaningful opportunity to argue against a bureaucratic system that operates this way. Whether individuals…

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    Comment #49253181

    > Anyone who brings up kids is trying to manipulate you into giving up your freedom for security. The immediate reply is the accusational: "why are you trying to trying to prevent …

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    Comment #49194048

    I just asked it to do a summary or a status page for my staff so I can share the high level details. Somehow it retrieved a version of the page from two weeks ago and summarised th…

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    Comment #49097001

    With the explosion in token usage, why not write it in z80 assembly and run it in a z80 emulator written in webasm?

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    Comment #49096985

    There is still a place for 'but rust’, in between too much and too little LLM usage.

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    Comment #49096968

    There are also a lot of mcp agents for Joplin: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/ai-agents-and-joplin/46168 Dare I say, another, more popular, note taking app for you and your agen…

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    Comment #49054336

    Also, highly related, in the previous paragraph, they say: "We know a lot more about the biology of disease - although God knows, not nearly enough". Anyone smarter than a 10 year …

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    Comment #48972706

    Once I had more than a few esp32 sensors about the place, with my own firmware, I got serious about getting the OTA updates working and a good c++ wrapper around the nvram manageme…

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    Comment #48957283

    Same, I often wondered why the openai logo looks like an interpretation of goatse.

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    Comment #48931402

    There are lots of good books and some great vids on youtube, but I'd start with this statement and work backward, because this is the non-obvious thing most bootcamp trained, promo…

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    Comment #48830367

    I run zfs as the storage pool for my incus (next lxd) services. It is the ideal fit. Here is a list: - Instant, zero-copy container cloning from images via Copy-on-Write. If you bo…

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    Comment #48774617

    I have a 15 year old Mercedes. I got the old integrated CD player and radio pulled out and Alpine makes a nice dash surround and canbus support module for the steering wheel contro…

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    Comment #48726512

    Which grows out. So if it was substantial, you can just stay inside a while and eventually your hair will grow out and replace the faded hair.

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    Comment #48640721

    ps, this is not how I 'think' it happens. In some countries this is literally my code.

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    Comment #48640703

    40 years building exchanges.. > Only extremely wealthy people participate in stock markets, in general. Other people use one of those wealthy people as an intermediary. This confus…

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    Comment #48636702

    This is all false in modern days. What you are saying was pretty true 100 years ago, except the google bit. I'm pretty sure you didn't take your meds today.

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    Comment #48549009

    This is exactly why I call it 'resume++'. You have to use it to attract talent. People want to use it to expand their employment pool. This is not justification to using it. To use…

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    Comment #48548513

    A power function seamlessly maps 0 to 0 and 1 to 1, easy for black to white. An exponential/log function requires arbitrary clamping or offsets because you cannot represent pure bl…

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    Comment #48419597

    I've been a developer for 40 years. Used VC since rcs. If only people had such pedantry for the actual code, the world would be a better place. I look at the author way more than I…

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    Comment #48392897

    I have tried one. It has no torque. For what looks like an awesome product, it does not have the power to drive a peristaltic pump. I used the same motor on a TMC stepper controlle…

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    Comment #48378343

    They may not wear dark glasses and suits, but these are the peeps who organise disposal if there are not vetted personal to decom it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLA_Disposition_…

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    Comment #48366138

    CVC3000, they should send some guys in dark suits and glasses to pick it up.