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It was neither backwards nor goofy for a man in 18th century Europe to create a system only his 18th century European peers could use (the only peers whom he could even come into c…

My strategy these days is to scan and look for the tells and click out when I see them. Mine was the same "honestly ranked, with no silver bullets on offer". I suspect in less than…

A similar argument was made a couple of years ago, here's the rebuttal of the argument from back then [2022]: https://andersource.dev/2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html

what happens to your database with all of these metrics coming in? edit: could loading a performance dashboard affect peoples ability to buy their product?

> That means that rightsholders can expect at least $3,000 per title (less costs and fees), which will be shared among the rightsholders for that title (if there is more than one r…

For the downvotes, my response is to read: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/wh... > If there is a current publisher(s) (which still possesses an exclusive …

remarkable / remarkable2 also work with KOReader. KOReader provides a very good ereader experience - can import dictionaries, export word lists (ie it tracks words you look up), an…

the irony is that all of this money will go to rent-seeking publishers who won't pass it on to the artists; basically a dispute between the wealthy you're upset with

> 1500 years I’m curious what the Lindy Effect would mean in this case

> When conditions are adverse, i.e. fog, heavy rain, the system simply shuts off and reverts back to manual driving. I also own a Tesla, and there is no indication shown to the use…

I use this tool, which allows one to select the branches to delete instead of just deleting everything: https://github.com/stefanwille/git-branch-delete Unfortunately its name make…

“We have facts, they have falsities”. I think the crux of the issue here is that facts don’t exist in reality, they are subjective by their very nature. So we have on one side thos…

The key is to work around the text input. If you want to say "kill myself", you input "kill my" then complete the "self" portion by pressing delete (remove space), then s-e-l-f. I …

Most eye opening experience in my personal development was attending HR conferences (we sold an HR product but I am an engineer), where speakers were openly saying this out loud. I…

Localstack makes that pretty easy. Before Localstack I had a pre-staging environment (dev) target I would deploy to. Their free/community offering includes a Lambda environment; yo…

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> The trouble is that "fast" doesn't mean anything without a point of comparison. This is what people are missing. Even those "slow" apps are faster than their alternatives. People…

as a layman, wouldn't you need a more-accurate clock to measure the accuracy of a clock? How is clock accuracy measured when the clock is the most accurate clock?

felt more like an article legitimizing an origin myth than authorship

Great video, I really enjoyed how down to earth it was. It reminded me of The Secret Life of Machines [1], where we get to peek behind the curtain and see how seemingly "magical" m…

Spotify used to have a "dislike" button for their Discover Weekly which helped with pruning music you don't like, but with the natural law of tech enshitification they removed that…

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Agree that the repository/service pattern is a good way to adhere to separation of concerns and make refactoring and readability easier. That said, I really disagree with any preco…