ajford

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by ajford 9mo ago
Sure, but that shouldn't be a time-dependent charge. If my build takes an hour to build on GH's hardware, sure thing, charge me for that time. But if my build takes an hour to build on _my_ hardware, then why am I paying GH for th
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by ajford 9mo ago
Inclusivity and democratic governance of a project is a strike to you? Seems like perhaps your hat is showing...
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by ajford 1y ago
Interesting. I'm somewhere on the aphantasia spectrum, but I very rarely have vivid dreams. Most dreams I would describe it almost like remembering an audiobook instead of a movie. But I do occasionally have a vivid dream, and though I
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by ajford 1y ago
I interpreted it as more of "concepts" and not the word floating in space. That's closer to how I would describe my experience. With effort I can kinda force a static visualization but for lack of a better explanation it feel
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by ajford 1y ago
LASIK is well known to only be a short to mid-term solution. The eyes age like the rest of you, and any correction will eventually be outpaced by the natural weakening of your ocular muscles to the point where you can no longer pull focus a
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by ajford 1y ago
I elected for LASIK as my near-sighted prescription was severe enough that I could only see about 6-8 inches in front of my eyes without my glasses. Also, I could only get my prescription filled in high-index lenses as the normal lenses wou
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by ajford 1y ago
I always figured it was from Nuclear pearl-clutching and genuine fear about launch disasters. Especially after the various Apollo and shuttle disasters. Though with how SpaceX has been blowing up rockets left and right, probably a good idea
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by ajford 1y ago
> As someone who has actually built working micro payments systems The Github repo clearly has Python and Typescript examples of both client and server (and in multiple frameworks), along with Go and Java reference implementations. Maybe
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by ajford 2y ago
Yep. They claim all sorts of things, but there is no transparency or proof that any wastage or actual fraud was present. It's all just ideological things that Project 2025/MAGA/Daddy Musk doesn't like. The CFPB is a pe
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by ajford 2y ago
It's a damn shame the IRS funding is getting gutted and those billionaire 1% will be getting cuts anyways. Hard to go after those not paying when Daddy Trump and Daddy Musk cut the legs out from under the enforcement and audit folks.
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by ajford 2y ago
Haven't used the M8, but I just set up an AGM M9 on Mint Mobile two days ago. That said, that's kinda cheating since Mint is a T-Mobile MVNO and I haven't tried it outside my usual T-Mobile service area.
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by ajford 2y ago
One of my favorite series in the last few years. The tech side of things are believable enough (at least compared to the usual handwavy nature of sci-fi books) and now I understand why, as it seems Wells has a history in IT! I'm strugg
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by ajford 2y ago
It seems like the profit-driven attitude put us in the ecological situation and maybe it's time to put the environmental impact first.
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by ajford 2y ago
It also doesn't help that the bid/contract process is skewed to select the lowest bidder. You can always forget to add some margin here or there, or fail to plan for problems that might pop up. It's easy to game the system be
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by ajford 2y ago
And how many would assume that the incorrect unit abbreviation would mean something else? If I said Kbps and KBps, it's an entirely different unit of measure. NM and nm are VASTLY different, and unless you are already familiar with mea
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by ajford 2y ago
I too first read it as nanometers. Perhaps it's just those with engineering/science backgrounds who have far more experience with nanometers than nautical miles? I've never had cause to see the abbreviated form of nautical mi
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by ajford 2y ago
Recently unionized at my workplace and the most vocal anti-union folks were high-level/long term employees that went "Well I have mine, I can negotiate my own wins", while saying they weren't willing to pay dues just bec
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by ajford 2y ago
The question was would you spend that on a device you spend 8+hrs in each day, which is something people often ignore. This is a device you _live_ in. This is someone's mobility and independence you're talking about. Not a "I
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by ajford 2y ago
Well that's reductive and dismissive. These are perfectly understandable mistakes or scenarios one might find themselves and a simple method to avoid/rectify them. Find is a very powerful and useful tool, and the author gave a cle
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by ajford 2y ago
I taught my research group Git version control in college. It was part of a "new student/researcher onboarding" series that we put all the new grad students and undergrads through. But we were in Radio Astronomy, so there was
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by ajford 2y ago
Why wouldn't you take a scratch-build EV on the road? People build kit-cars all the time, and an EV has a much simpler control system. This is a very simplified project to prove the concept and provide a test bed for further exploratio
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by ajford 2y ago
Given that the engineering safety folks are more than likely not the ones writing the code, I doubt it.
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Employees at Bethesda Game Studios Unionize(twitter.com)
35 points by ajford 2y ago|11 comments
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by ajford 2y ago
The university I studied at had a Gravitational Wave center under the Physics dept, and all the professors would joke about how LISA had been "less than a decade away" for 20 years.
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by ajford 2y ago
It's serving as both a demo of their generative AI and is an entertainment pre-show. It's not meant to be a presentation or deeply informative.
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by ajford 2y ago
And how is that any different than any other piece of jewelry? It in no way impedes or impacts your life, just like hair color or cut, earrings, other necklaces, even wedding rings. Why does it matter that it has a significance beyond &quot
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by ajford 2y ago
Used to do radio astronomy before switching to software, and we would joke that you could fund all of US science grants for a decade by driving to the local airforce base and stealing couple of jets and their loadouts. It wasn't that f
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by ajford 2y ago
I love the intention of the law, but it's so... flexible... in implementation that shitty implementers ended up making the browsing experience horrible with intrusive pop-ups and geo blocking. On mobile every page load ends up with me
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by ajford 2y ago
There's an entire section titled `Why Sell`. > I missed writing code.... and > My wife and I also wanted to start a family. TinyPilot only occupied about 20% of my time, but it occupied 90% of my stress. I would have done a terri
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by ajford 2y ago
Because telecoms keep pocketing the money instead of actually building out broadband. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

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