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by aposm 1mo ago
I'm now pretty convinced that this is the best argument for persuading non-technical and non-internet-privacy minded people why this is a problem. It's hard to explain all the technical factors that make it impossible to implement
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by aposm 3mo ago
I only got hallucinations of random combinations of my (fairly unique) last name & first names that do not exist, combined with very accomplished and completely fictional biographies. I guess I'm not notable enough which is somewha
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by aposm 4mo ago
Maybe you should not omit those "dozens of words" that clearly explain what you're trying to portray as a contradiction. > These molecules have a particular property: When they come into contact with air, they oxidize and
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by aposm 5mo ago
When I lived in Japan it was in a relatively recent (last 10 years) but not brand new apartment block - Maybe if you are talking about a rural area or an old postwar Showa era house, sure. But either way the sound proofing is worlds better
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by aposm 5mo ago
All the major metro areas on the Acela corridor are also on a straight line, on significantly flatter land than Japan. Notice how the Acela never spends 10+ minute periods in long, deep tunnels under mountain ranges. The Acela primarily spe
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by aposm 5mo ago
I think a big part of it is also that (partly because of the necessity of building for earthquake resistance), Japanese construction is a lot more robust than American housing, and also tends to have extremely good soundproofing on windows
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by aposm 8mo ago
Yikes. I also just noticed that all the plugins (part of the pro feature set) rely on separate apk downloads from the Play Store, which all appear to be dead/delisted. This is really a shame, I too have thought of this as "the bes
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by aposm 9mo ago
Yes, it is enabled by default (in fact this caused problems earlier on). Licensed hams (in the US) can increase transmit power (and theoretically use additional spectrum outside of ISM) but even the default "public" channel was en
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by aposm 9mo ago
We frequently get juniors or interns who are perfectly capable of pumping out many LoC with the use of AI in various forms - the issue is that they _don't_ actually ever learn how to think for themselves, and can't fix problems wh
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by aposm 10mo ago
A few years later but similarly - I am still running a machine built spur-of-the-moment in a single trip to Micro Center for about $500 in late 2019 (little did we know what was coming in a few months!). I made one small upgrade in probably
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by aposm 11mo ago
How can I take your comment seriously if you didn't read the article? It looks like someone didn't actually make an effort to understand the context of the images.
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by aposm 1y ago
> Moore's law is supposed to drive down the cost of electronics The core of the article is this complete misunderstanding of Moore's law. From there, all the rest of the confusion follows, unsurprisingly leading to the author&#
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by aposm 1y ago
A human working on an existing codebase does not have any special signal about what is _not_ in a codebase. Instead, a (good) human engineer can look at how a problem is handled and consider why it might have been done that way vs other opt
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by aposm 1y ago
I had a coworker making very similar claims recently - one of the more AI-positive engineers on my team (a big part of my department's job is assessing new/novel tech for real-world value vs just hype). I was stunned when I actual
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by aposm 1y ago
Oops..... we are currently trying to sell an elixir-based greenfield project internally. This doesn't affect elixir by default as other commenters pointed out, but still might make our project a bit harder to pitch to management...
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by aposm 1y ago
Nothing they do makes sense until you accept that hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug, for them and their base. They know that what they're asking for is impossible to meaningfully comply with...
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by aposm 1y ago
There is no secret lost knowledge that enabled a steam-powered train to go from New York to Chicago in 16 hours in the 1930s. We simply do not care to run fast passenger trains anymore since they have largely been replaced by domestic air t
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by aposm 2y ago
Yep, I had a cheaper MIP garmin watch that I was very happy with until it spontaneously bricked itself one day. It was just barely in warranty, and they replaced it, but refused to give me an equivalent replacement and instead sent the newe
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by aposm 3y ago
Another fun observation in that page - You can only have up to 20k max participants in a Teams live event. The footnote says you can do larger events with Microsoft Stream, but following that link says Stream live events are deprecated, and
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by aposm 3y ago
I am fascinated (mostly genuinely, not in a snarky way) by the fact that you express concern about storing your information on other people's untrusted/unreliable computers, then link to a twitter page - which notably decided to s
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by aposm 4y ago
Heat management, the EU import tax, all of those are certainly small factors. But the main reason is absolutely market segmentation: if you want to record "professional" video content, better buy a professional video camera for a
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by aposm 4y ago
That's precisely my issue with React though - JSX is a DSL that looks almost like normal HTML, but differs in small uncanny-valley ways. Sure, it's fine once you're used to it. But it's very much not standard HTML.
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by aposm 4y ago
However those are well-documented to be data-harvesting devices placed by a for-profit company, despite receiving government money as well. PhilTel is a non-profit volunteer organization run by community members.
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by aposm 4y ago
There's an easy solution if the law is truly intended just to prevent unlicensed pop-up repair shops - just ban unauthorized _commercial_ repair. In fact, that's almost certainly already prohibited by regular residential zoning. I
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by aposm 4y ago
Well I'm sorry to be a broken record, but I think the best answer is to switch to a browser (and/or browser engine) that isn't trying to kill content blocking & user choice for profit.
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by aposm 4y ago
Keep reading the article - it's explained later as a way to extinguish the torches when no longer needed.
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by aposm 4y ago
I got halfway through this before reading the line "Docker, Elastic, and MongoDB are great examples of succeeding with the hosted open-core SaaS" and realizing I have a fundamentally different idea of the meaning of "open-cor
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by aposm 4y ago
Awesome breakdown - as someone who is fairly familiar with TCP theoretically but not with the details of the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel, this was just the right balance of detail. Great technical writing IMO!
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by aposm 4y ago
The only people who actually do believe performance reviews (as they are practiced in the corporate world) genuinely measure performance... are the Dunning-Kruger'd tech bros who have convinced themselves tech is a "meritocracy&qu
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by aposm 4y ago
By "the world" I think you mean a specific subset of people: investors/execs/the business side. I don't particularly believe that average end users or competent engineers feel that way...

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