bsder

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by bsder 6d ago
If you can haul a 60 pound lump up 20 stories, this article is not for you.
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by bsder 6d ago
Unions. Northeastern states expect that you will use union labor to build your projects or they will shut you down. Pennsylvania, for example, was one of the few places to take Walmart to task for employing illegal labor. Texas and Arizona
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by bsder 6d ago
This is why when I taught in college I NEVER gave out group assignments. I'm not trying to test whether the best student knows the material; I'm trying to test whether all the students know the material. As the person who regu
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by bsder 6d ago
Matt is a creature of social media and has a lot of minions and sockpuppets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by bsder 7d ago
Probably back room deal between Wordpress board/management and WPEngine board/management. It's a safe bet that WPEngine was destroying Wordpress legally simply because their CEO doesn't suffer from verbal diarrhea and a
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by bsder 7d ago
> I'd much rather all of the resources that are going into autonomous cars was instead going into proper public transit infrastructure. Solving the last mile problem also helps solve the public transit problem. The issue in the US
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by bsder 7d ago
> The numbers wouldn't look as impressive because rideshare drivers are involved in fewer serious accidents than the average person. Citation definitely needed. The last couple of human rideshare drivers I have had were AWFUL .
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by bsder 9d ago
One can read the entire article AND disagree with the fundamental premise. Reading should not feel like wading through slop. Period. If it does, that is simply bad writing. Too many people don't have the guts to simply say "No,
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by bsder 9d ago
I thought this is exactly what Linus Tech Tips did.
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by bsder 9d ago
> So let me trot out mine: regulation is good so long as it is backed up by even handed, robust, transparent, quick and effective sanctions. The issue is that people want quick sanctions until they wind up on the wrong end of the point
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by bsder 10d ago
Doctor Who is definitely the last thing I would dub as "internally-consistent". It's a serial--and the duct taped seams show--sometimes glaringly so. But, every now and then, the writing CLICKS and you get genuine emotiona
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by bsder 10d ago
No, NOT every novel is boring from the get go. And some novels ARE boring. And the fact that so many people recommend the ones that are is the bloody problem. The first thing to accept is that different people like different things. If s
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by bsder 10d ago
Unfortunately, my experience has been that it's the endless cycling with customer requirements that takes all the time. The hardware is generally manageable quickly for me. Even th firmware isn't terrible. And then you deploy it.
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by bsder 13d ago
Without a repo link to design files, I have no evidence that this project is real and not marketing copy. Sorry. I believe it's real, but there are no artifacts to corroborate. That's a poor article. It is sad that the internet
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by bsder 14d ago
Until holding and losing PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is treated and punished like holding and losing radioactive waste, this will not stop. The penalties for losing PII should be sufficiently high that even the most junior pro
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by bsder 18d ago
Applications like Blackboard exist because of the genre of "Checkboxware." A University must comply with Laws and Regulations X, Y, Z, P, D and Q and a host of other regulations the University never heard of and Blackboard went th
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by bsder 20d ago
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct. However, what most people think of as Moore's Law--CPU speed doubles every 18 months--broke somewhere between 90nm and 22nm. And even the actual Moore's Law--2x the transis
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by bsder 21d ago
There are levels of integration in between "Bubba down the block" and "Weyland-Yutani Megacorp" Busting up Taylor Farms into 5 different companies would affect the food safety not one whit. In fact, it would probably im
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by bsder 21d ago
> But I can assure you that Nvidia didn't buy them for 13 billion cause HuggingFace were desperate. From Nvidia's side? You get to keep the shell game of where your money and hardware are going spinning on the table for a litt
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by bsder 26d ago
AI does not make me "smarter" in the important thing I am working on. In software particularly, what AI does do is give me back my time from the drudge work that I don't care about. Keeping my build system configured and m
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by bsder 1mo ago
> I always thought that was a case of "the tech is still catching up",[0] but it sounds like there are fundamental issues that prevent performant implementations? Yes, the fundamental problem is the fact that everybody involved
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by bsder 1mo ago
Because the people driving the RISC-V ISA all care about delivering IP and not chips and, as such, only care about the high end portion of the market. The problem is that RISC-V is never going to win at the high end . RISC-V will never ha
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by bsder 1mo ago
6809 is a better exemplar, but, yeah, we knew this stuff way back when. The problem is that everybody around RISC-V wants to sell IP instead of a chip . Most of the worst brain damage follows from that. The rest of the brain damage foll
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by bsder 1mo ago
> Their government is horrible for a lot of stuff, but in this case they do deserve praise for forcing the "right" (according to me) direction. It's not just according to you. Without open weights, what happens if you get
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by bsder 1mo ago
> This article (and the previous one) is a little weird Yeah, the whole "I'm going to free an object in an arena." is very confusing to me. You free an arena, or you don't. There is no granularity below that if you
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by bsder 1mo ago
> The simplest explanation, the Occam's Razor explanation, would just be that it was a fluke of nature. Horse doping is old . Schwarzenegger was doped up and winning in 1968+ so the science was there. The idea that someone wouldn&
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by bsder 1mo ago
> To think that people won't pay $60-$80/mo to continue using it is wild to me. I'm fine paying $200 per month. Companies seem to be fine at $2000 per month but I would balk at that. Companies are already balking at $20,
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by bsder 1mo ago
> I struggle to imagine thinking that no one does things themselves, for fun. What a nihilistic view. Come on. There are shades here. I guarantee that even your best programmers are using AI to run down certain classes of bugs--especia
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by bsder 1mo ago
You can be safe down to 135F if you give it enough time. https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Poultry_and_Eggs In particular, I use 135F for 90 minutes (75 minimum recommended) to pasteurize eggs that I am going to be
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by bsder 1mo ago
I have one of the Combustion thermometers, and I like it. I used it more than I expected. In particular, I use it for roasting chicken and for sous vide things more than anything else. Then I got a Breville Control Freak, and I used it m

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