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by bpp 1mo ago
Rekordbox is extraordinary in that it has completely captured the DJ market and absolutely everyone hates it. AlphaTheta (nee Pioneer DJ) makes arguably the best club DJ equipment – CDJs and mixers. Audiophiles may disagree but it's go
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by bpp 6mo ago
If I put a tontine on the blockchain does that make it legal?
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by bpp 7mo ago
I'd assume the real trigger here is "reaching AGI," which would help OpenAI shrug off some of their Microsoft commitments thus making OpenAI models available on Amazon Bedrock. Which is what Amazon is really after.
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by bpp 2y ago
It's not illogical to staff up an agency charged with efficiency so you can cut more staffing elsewhere. This is honestly what most SaaS does.
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by bpp 2y ago
I have a few friends who were involved in the creation of the US Digital Service, and as it stands it is one of the absolute best parts of our government. Formed after the Healthcare.gov disaster, the USDS brings Silicon Valley tech knowled
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by bpp 2y ago
I work in AI product eng for a larger company. The honest answer is that with good RAG and few-shot prompting, we can consider actual incorrect output to be a serious and reproducible bug. This means that when we call LLMs in production, we
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by bpp 3y ago
Laughed out loud. And FWIW loved Final Fantasy VIII. More then VII. The soundtrack was fantastic, I used to have an imported full orchestral arrangement that was in heavy rotation in my tweens.
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by bpp 3y ago
I haven't thought about that episode of "Pinky and the Brain" in years, thanks for a chuckle.
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by bpp 3y ago
I wouldn't call Monkeypox a maybe virus, especially along with these. Its spread was mostly limited to a single community (sexually active gay men), and it absolutely would have spread out of control had there not been a very strong va
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by bpp 4y ago
Works until you get a bug in the deletion job. I've seen exactly this happen.
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by bpp 6y ago
When I was a student at Brown, Facebook would report which dorm you were logged in from, right there on your profile (for all to see!). If Facebook knew where you were on campus, campus IT certainly has a view into your physical location.
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by bpp 6y ago
This seems worth taking with a grain of salt. I've never heard of this source before today, and the top story on the homepage opens with "MOST MAINSTREAM MEDIA MAVENS ARE BRAZEN PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENTS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.&qu
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by bpp 7y ago
The explanation I saw indicated that they keep readers on the site longer, which helps with both SEO and ad revenue (if they scroll deeper).
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by bpp 7y ago
With regard to the phone number spoofing: I recently had an actual call from American Express's security department marked by AT&T as "Fraud Risk," presumably because it's been spoofed in the past. It delayed the det
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by bpp 7y ago
Been using Stackdriver for four years and will back up those who are saying it works very well.
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by bpp 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying – really changes the connotation of the headline.
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by bpp 8y ago
Came here just to post this link; it's really stuck with me over the years.
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by bpp 8y ago
Roughly 1/3 of cannabis is grown inside [1], primarily for reasons of quality control. I'd actually expect this number to grow as the legal market expands and tighter control is needed to keep up with regulations. Which is to say
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by bpp 8y ago
I'm curious why Congress has chosen not to regulate (or ban) the grant of tax incentives to companies as enticements for development; this seems to easily fall under the interstate commerce clause. All states lose out when they compete
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by bpp 8y ago
That's not quite right. We won't know how pay works out until there's an appropriation ending the shutdown, but in past shutdowns both essential and non-essential employees have been paid what they're owed (I'm not
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by bpp 8y ago
Huge market opportunity for OnlyFans.com and similar Patreon-for-porn sites.
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by bpp 8y ago
Assuming poor security practices is the new assumption of monetary debt from a merger. One wonders what it will take to get companies to take auditing potential acquisitions' security practices in greater depth.
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by bpp 8y ago
Wow, was thinking of this exact comment. 100% correct. (Somehow the online mattress craze seems immune to the same downfall.)
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by bpp 8y ago
Your point about FDA's mission is paramount, but in this case it extends to HHS (its parent) as well. It'd be foolish to expect large (calcified) government agencies to, of their own accord, take on tasks so far outside of their c
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by bpp 8y ago
Not sure how the new map was generated, but it would be extremely cool to be able to plug in any city and have a map generated. Or at the very least have it for other major cities; I'd totally buy one with times from San Francisco.
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by bpp 8y ago
You seem to be implying a dichotomy; it's definitely a work hard/play hard kind of town.
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by bpp 8y ago
Unfortunately there are far too many women and people of color on that team for it to be believable. (Stole this comment from a friend, but...worth it.)
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by bpp 8y ago
Woah, EFNet...I was definitely 12 years old on EFNet back in the day.
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by bpp 8y ago
Your toilet analogy is partially true but is incomplete. Toilets manufactured immediately after the regulations went into effect are in fact less effective. However, the industry innovated, improving previously inefficient bowl designs and
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by bpp 9y ago
Go has the empty interface, if you really need it.

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