bmelton

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by bmelton 16d ago
> The breathtaking speed with which Google Maps happily gets on board with this lunacy Something interesting I learned at National Geographic is that they have a geographer (titled: "The Geographer", which always seemed impossi
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by bmelton 26d ago
If they were just chopping them up without scanning them first, then sure, but I think that scanning books and burning books are polar opposites
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by bmelton 2mo ago
Hawaii would be another place (or set of places, depending on how you want to collate)
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by bmelton 2mo ago
> which is very different If you say so
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by bmelton 2mo ago
Thanks for the answer! It wasn't a gotcha, I was genuinely just curious.
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by bmelton 2mo ago
> The GDPR doesn't try to remove anything from the global internet GDPR Article 17 expressly requires the removal of things from the global internet > You're free to not serve your site in the EU Geoblocking is functionally
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by bmelton 2mo ago
How do you feel about GDPR?
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by bmelton 2mo ago
and I cannot (so either I am AI at a level less than Opus 4.8 or just all-round defective as a human)
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by bmelton 3mo ago
Thanks for the response. As a lifetime Plex passer, I am inured to having to re-learn the navigation UI with every new release, so that part can't be too bad. But yes, I would be thrilled to just pay $250-300 for a hardware device that
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by bmelton 3mo ago
I was also super-early Roku customer, but frankly I have been mostly disappointed with Roku for the past year or so. The hardware on the top tier devices doesn't seem to keep up. Interacting with it is slower and more laggy than it ori
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by bmelton 3mo ago
It _can_ be tedious those 9 times, or especially when it pushes back on something that it thinks is wrong but isn't wrong but it actually has nothing to do with the issue at hand. But yeah, overall I'm fairly certain that it saves
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by bmelton 3mo ago
My system prompt tells it to first challenge my assumptions, and to feel free to be a dick about it where it thinks I'm off on something, or have assumed facts that aren't actually facts. I sometimes wonder how much of my total sp
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by bmelton 3mo ago
I agree with you that the AI market is greatly undervalued, but I also agree with the field that these companies are overvalued
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by bmelton 3mo ago
I would guess they're worried about breaking something, but thanks for the clarification (and apologies for not having RTFA)
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by bmelton 3mo ago
Well, I won't claim to know the answer, but "please do not move between different airlocked sections while this work is underway" sounds a lot like the definition of "shelter" to me
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by bmelton 4mo ago
Meteor Chelyabinsk suffered catastrophic fragmentation, a rapid, violent release of energy accompanied by a pressure wave with debris, which would satisfy the definition of an explosion (an in fact the energy released was equivalent to 400-
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by bmelton 4mo ago
A bad law that only affects other people might be a win for me, but it's still a loss for society
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by bmelton 4mo ago
That I wouldn't know. I only know the above from the one employee I helped (successfully) immigrate to America So, at least one
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by bmelton 4mo ago
If it seems too interesting it's because it isn't true. There are five functional categories of immigrant visa in America, each with several subcategories: Immediate Relatives (IR), Family Preference (F), Employment Based (EB), Sp
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by bmelton 4mo ago
The core holding was this > "congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own."
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by bmelton 4mo ago
Clearly that's because they searched the history of all chats and didn't find the perpetrator
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by bmelton 6mo ago
It was indeed not on by default I appreciate the tip! I'm going to have to put that in an Ansible playbook
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by bmelton 6mo ago
> totally possible to use mac without trackpad As I discover every time I have a mouse fail, it is exceptionally difficult to use a modern Mac without a pointer device because at some point, it became quite difficult to get from (eg) the
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by bmelton 7mo ago
Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-111
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by bmelton 7mo ago
Are they only banned in the cities, or are they banned in the state, which -- even in California, should have rural areas far enough away from cities to be tenable? It's an interesting conundrum though, because in many cases, the citie
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by bmelton 7mo ago
Sorry for the old-heads, but just because I'm new doesn't mean I don't appreciate the craft, or the pains endured by many others before me that enabled this painless experience. But if nobody was fixing the problems everybody
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by bmelton 7mo ago
This _cannot_ be true I'm new to 3D printing, so grains of salt abound, but since I started in on the hobby this Christmas, I've purchased four 3D printers. 3 budget-but-highly-regarded kings to start, but they all gave me tons of
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by bmelton 8mo ago
For significantly less money, one could get these - https://www.amazon.com/Faraday-Anti-Tracking-Laptops-Firepro... I keep backup navigation tablets on my sailboat inside of those, with the idea being that if the boat is ev
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by bmelton 8mo ago
How is it that people haven't turned to bitcoin mining (or similarly large energy dumps) during the daytime?
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by bmelton 8mo ago
A lot of people naively interject "But we're not a democracy, we're a Republic!" at arguments where it has no real bearing, but _here_ it does. We (America) are not a democracy, we're a constitutionally limited repu

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