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by apothegm 3d ago
I switched from MP to Homebrew over a decade ago. At the time, Homebrew was less finicky and better at resolving dependency conflicts. It was a lot easier to get a system running MacPorts into a an irretrievably borked state. Not long afte
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by apothegm 5d ago
Data-harvesting makes it sound far more innocent than it is. It exists to influence the outcome of elections. Through using the harvested data for propaganda, intimidation, and I’m sure they’re looking for ways to interfere with the actual
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by apothegm 5d ago
It is not reassuring that these things have a human driver, when that driver has no rear view window.
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by apothegm 6d ago
The LED will display it first, but will the signal reach your visual centers first? And how about the time for your brain to process that signal and make you consciously aware of the visual vs. the way the pain signal is forwarded to consci
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by apothegm 7d ago
If it’s allowed to write any sort of scripts, it will find a way to execute arbitrary code. If it’s got access to any form of internet connection it will find a way to use that arbitrary code to do as it wishes with that connection. So much
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by apothegm 10d ago
Many though not all of these patterns are useful even in a small company. I’m on a tiny team building an application that’s unlikely to ever average more than a handful or two of concurrent active users. We’re using DB replicas for redundan
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by apothegm 13d ago
You start over from a point in the chat history from before they screwed up, or you start a new chat.
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by apothegm 14d ago
For those of us not in the know, what happened at The Australian?
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by apothegm 14d ago
Somewhere on the order of $25M, adjustable for inflation. Enough to live darn comfortably off the interest for one’s entire life even in a mediocre stock market, and to leave a heck of a legacy for one’s dependents. Not enough to single-han
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by apothegm 14d ago
Why not both?
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by apothegm 14d ago
Set up an overnight job that sanitizes snapshots of prod data — replacing PII or other sensitive data with randomly generated cruft — and loads that into a pre-prod environment for use in debugging. For easiest troubleshooting, have it pres
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by apothegm 16d ago
“Need”?
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by apothegm 16d ago
There were fewer ramps and more stairs in airports and their parking garages prior to the 90s, due to the ACA. And people drag luggage around on city streets all the time. Many tourist destinations are pedestrian cities even outside their m
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by apothegm 17d ago
And yet strollers predate rolling luggage by over a century. (Even 2.5 centuries depending on which sources you trust.)
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by apothegm 18d ago
In fact, for some people high contrast is headache-inducing. I’ve installed a utility on my laptop that supports “sub-zero” display dimming for nighttime use because monitors are now over-optimized for max brightness, with min brightness be
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by apothegm 18d ago
Yup. Or people with temporary disabilities — who have simply broken limb or had a surgery. Most places are hellish to navigate on crutches. Heavy doors alone make so many places nearly inaccessible, and that’s before you even get to stairs.
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by apothegm 18d ago
Not to mention luggage. I find it hard to believe that it’s a coincidence that rolling luggage became common shortly after curb cuts and wheelchair ramps did.
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by apothegm 18d ago
Regulators were able to restrict CFC use because the patents had expired and the manufacturers were ready to move on to the next compounds they’d already developed anyway.
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by apothegm 20d ago
Money from a dominant investment doesn’t accrue to the founders. Money from an acquisition does.
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by apothegm 21d ago
Starting a war that makes fossil fuel painfully expensive and its supply uncertain has a tendency to do that.
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by apothegm 22d ago
The trouble is that we’re adding renewables to add capacity, not as a way to bring significant amounts of fossil fuel capacity offline.
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by apothegm 22d ago
Because when we did that accidentally the outcomes were so great?
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by apothegm 23d ago
And no one will force you to. For me, this one doesn’t seem to have enough accuracy to be worth the trouble. But a few years of improvements and maybe a blood test like that is what you need to get insurance to cover a baseline neurological
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by apothegm 23d ago
Kisunla. Apparently my family member had about the best reaction to the drug you could hope for — from what I understand it’s not always quite so effective. With the original course of treatment complete we then transitioned to a maintenanc
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by apothegm 23d ago
As someone with a family member taking one of the newest drugs, I can attest that it does seem to meaningfully slow progression — from rapid decline nearly to a halt in my loved one’s case. The risk of dangerous side effects seems to be muc
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by apothegm 24d ago
Is there an easy way for a n00b with LMStudio to switch it to medium? Asking for a friend… XD
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by apothegm 1mo ago
I agree that the opposition has lost the plot, but to depict that as anywhere approaching this administration’s level of grift, extreme anti-intellectual (invent-your-own-reality) stance, or what I’ve seen described as “the cruelty is the p
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by apothegm 1mo ago
The availability of universal healthcare does not preclude the availability of privately paid healthcare as well.
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by apothegm 1mo ago
Sensible politicians? In the US? In this era? For a _generation_???
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by apothegm 1mo ago
It looks like that from inside the US too. At least, to a lot of us.

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