cbsmith

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by cbsmith 12d ago
Anyone else immediately think "Clippy for developers".
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by cbsmith 19d ago
I thought we all moved over to Niquests and/or aiocquic and HTTP/3 these days.
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by cbsmith 1mo ago
"my bet is that close to no one knows what the acronym BDD stands for". That's disconcerting. Software engineers ought to know.
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by cbsmith 1mo ago
As a guy named Chris Smith, I can tell you, people do absolutely "match people on first and last name", and it causes me no end of trouble.
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by cbsmith 1mo ago
> I don’t know if that’s true. More schooling does not mean more trustworthy or careful doctors. And I suspect some negative trait selection. The medical boards are well aware of this, which is why the standards are far more than just ab
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by cbsmith 1mo ago
Everything old is new again. ;-)
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by cbsmith 2mo ago
The article concedes that there is a minimum power consumption. Thinking that therefore defines your generation strategy (e.g. I will have plants that constantly generate that minimum amount and the rest I'll handle with separate peak
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by cbsmith 2mo ago
...because they have other goals beyond reduce carbon emissions.
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by cbsmith 3mo ago
Better a financial barrier than a physical one. If satellites and spaceships are literally smashing in to each other, I have a hard time interpreting it as anything other than a regulatory failure.
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by cbsmith 3mo ago
Are there other OSS LLMOps projects that have overtaken you? I couldn't think of one.
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by cbsmith 4mo ago
As someone who has jumped from one industry to another: I'm sorry, but domain expertise isn't much of a moat. Yes, it takes a while to learn a particular industry/business, but it doesn't take that long, and worse still:
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by cbsmith 4mo ago
Confirming it was fixed and it worked well.
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by cbsmith 4mo ago
Installing collected packages: sortedcontainers, boolean.py, urllib3, typing-extensions, tqdm, tomlkit, tomli-w, tomli, tenacity, stevedore, shellingham, ruamel-yaml, regex, PyYAML, pyparsing, pygments, pycparser, platformdirs, pip-api, pac
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by cbsmith 4mo ago
Wow. I remember the Toronto PET Users Group. That takes me back.
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by cbsmith 4mo ago
He he. If you think the costs for an education will go down because they're seeing fewer applications and they're getting less funding from other sources, I have bad news for you.
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by cbsmith 4mo ago
This is a bizarre article, and it kind of reminds me of the concept that the only truly good software is the software you've never used.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
Also correct. I see the problem as particularly rampant with the video sites.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
I was going to say: "in what way is the problem restricted to health?"
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
It's kind of a comprehensive guide to all the ways that restricted shells don't.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
Yup. Sounds right. Interestingly though, you can use the new input cover with the older frames.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
More like the reverse: if you want the new battery you need a new bottom.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
Ask yourself why airlines deliberately overbook flights while venues do their best to never overbook events, why are subject to identify verification before a flight, and why you go through the TSA before you board... and you'll start
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
> If only the federal government were allowed to pursue this case, it would have ended when the administration changed. This is more why DOJ cases should remain independent from the executive branch. Politically controlled prosecutions m
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
> Because artists don't always want to extract the maximum money possible from their fanbase? I think that's both true and not. The larger truth is that trying to maximize the extraction during a single ticket sale is incredibl
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
> They don't seem to mention the most obvious reason: the same companies profit from both the primary and secondary market. That's not true. Ticketmaster has a monopoly (or near-monopoly) on the primary market. On the secondary
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
> Why not just ban the transfer of tickets and allow refunds? There are laws against transfer bans. Also, people don't like being required to provide identity information just to buy a ticket to a live event, and venues HATE enforci
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
> A perhaps bigger issue is the vertical integration (if that's the right term) of first-party ticket sales and resale in one company. The monopoly findings were about vertical integration, but the resale issue wasn't. I think,
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
Appears being the operative word.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
It sort of doesn't matter. Bottom line is it isn't an effective platform for them.
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by cbsmith 5mo ago
If you think it is "essentially zero cost", I'm going to respectfully suggest you do not understand what you read. If you think they reached 13 million people on X last year, you do not understand social media. They have made

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