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_ugfj
2y ago
> Built with o1. Yes, yes, database with AI written code. NoSQL with a database that can't be trusted with your data? I. have. seen. this. before. To quote a classic: > I suggest you pipe your data to devnull it will be very fa
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> If the airline knows your name, and their attendants see and verify your face when boarding anyway, then are we losing anything through the use of face scans? Your face scan is now online waiting for the next data breach. I have seen n
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_ugfj
2y ago
And it never will The first 90% is easy, it's the second 90% that is very hard.
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2y ago
This is a popular narrative but really, those nukes were a burden on Ukraine and nothing more -- the forces possessing and maintaining those weapons reported to Russia and any launch needed authorization from the Чегет the Russian head of s
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2y ago
You would greatly benefit from watching https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcfqP0PtWDcGKIHGTTbVl...
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Yeah Otellini disclosed Jobs asked them for a CPU for the iPhone and he turned the request down because Jobs was adamant on a certain price and he just couldn't see it. Even if it was hard to foresee the success of the iPhone, he surel
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2y ago
and yet these fuckers downvoted my post without commenting where I am wrong
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2y ago
I must admit I usually immediately disregard any fancy new git tools, they come and go and often don't work right and create a gigantic mess. But... have you seen who wrote this article? Scott Chacon. If there's anyone in this wor
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One more thing: she posted Russian propaganda to her LinkedIn feed. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cristiana-b%C3%A0rsony-arcidi... She also regularly reposts antivaxx posts. Which does not really mesh with her suppose
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As it can be expected the situation is extremely murky. Hungarian press is abuzz with this, I will translate a few hard facts and leave speculation to others. I will also use English sources as appropriate. Hungarian sources are below the l
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> I read in a history book that that author committed suicide in despair because he thought the Nazis would win. [citation needed] heavily so. https://web.archive.org/web/20101014145959/http://www.time
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I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company
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U+237C ⍼ Is (Also) S9576 ⍼
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Bad news -- actually good for residents -- those socialist era trams and buses are gone by now. The typical "UV" trams manufactured between 1956–1965 have been retired in 2007. The Ikarus 260 and Ikarus 280 buses last ran in 2022
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No, this is definitely a Soviet thing. The 1897 census found 79 million peasants out of 93 million, these people basically had no chance of getting a tertiary education. Only the remaining 15% and not that many of those either had even a ch
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> This analogy falls even more apart when you consider LLMs. They also are not Turing machines. Of course they are, everything that runs on a present day computer is a Turing machine. > They obviously only reside within computers, and
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No. Not even close. The problem is that it ships with the OS. When Apple shipped Airtag and we said it's a fantastic tool for stalkers people said "but this is not new, there are other similar tools blah blah blah". Doesn
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1. GDPR Article 6 lists the lawful purposes for processing private data. The only that can apply is "If the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data" and opt out won't cut it based on previ
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For my third shot they were still doing mass vaccinations in Vancouver and the way to get express treatment was by your doctor filling out a stupid form which had a number of conditions but didn't have a way to say "other" so
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This does not mention PyCon US 2024 was one of the extremely, extremely few conferences which did the right thing and had a mask mandate. > We are nice people and many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health an
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The fanaticism of Rust programmers are well known and off putting. Why, one of them just posted about it into a Lua thread. It couldn't be less relevant. Much as I don't have a hard choice between picking assembly and PHP for a ta
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It's interesting to see Haskell vibes mentioned. Where's the "well yes but actually no" meme when one needs it. It's not Haskell, it's Scheme. https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf > Semanti
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https://x.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546 (Gary Bernhardt of WAT fame): > Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000
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And all of that is fine when communicated properly. Even if OP is an unreliably narrator are we to believe they also left out some of CF's emails? To me it looks like https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto
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Western Germany has produced porn even during the socialist years in Hungary.
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The counterweight elevator is -- by far -- the most energy efficient way for people to live and be supplied. As in, if you need to supply a few thousand people with food and services then cramming them in high rises and surrounding those
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You could read https://theconversation.com/why-scrapping-the-term-long-covi... which meets these claims head on and highlights why the research is faulty. The Guardian published https://www.theguardian.com/w
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This is 100% false. I have been running Ubuntu then Arch as my daily driver 2004-2017. As I started a consultant working for Western companies I thought they will care about me being clean copyright wise so I went 100% Linux. This was obvio
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The problem is the storage is not removable in the Apple Macbooks. It is disturbing it didn't sink the Macbooks. It speaks volumes of how little people care about their own data. About their own privacy. There should've been zero
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You can be good and yet the heavy hand of the law still gets you. They got Escobar and "El Chapo" Guzmán too. And his operation was smaller than either of those fine gentlemen's.
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