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by devsda 9mo ago
Do thermophotovoltaic cells operate on different kind of heat? Is it impossible to convert heat into other forms of energy without "consuming" materials like in the case of steam, geothermal or even the ones that need a cold body
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by devsda 9mo ago
May be the teams developing AI crawlers are dogfooding & are using the AI itself(and its small context) to keep track of the sites that are already scraped. /s
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by devsda 9mo ago
> When Linux is awful, there is a genre of people that made using Linux an integral part of their identity, that will explain to you how your frustrations are really your own personal failures. There are also people who often claim that
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by devsda 9mo ago
Isn't that one of the marketed advantages of 5G. Lot of smart IoT devices including TVs being able to connect independently. What we are lacking is implementation but the tech and probably the intent was always there. If HDMI ethernet
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by devsda 9mo ago
What does it take to make a rebranded fork of Firefox popular similar to Brave or Edge? Ideally the fork should compete with Chrome and not Firefox for market share while acting as a hedge/warning against bad decisions from Mozilla and
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by devsda 9mo ago
> there are some people who will dress up homeless but are actually just begging for profit. This always reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes short story - The man with the twisted lip > They're easy to recognize, because they'
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by devsda 9mo ago
I know people like to say that it is American companies that innovate and Chinese companies just copies. This may be true in certain areas, but I think some Chinese companies do take the idea and then they iterate on the product to the poin
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by devsda 9mo ago
> same Mike in an org wide email: thank you all for your support. Starting next week I will no longer be a developer here. I thank my manager blah blah... I will be starting my dream role as Architect and I hope to achieve success. >
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by devsda 9mo ago
Can someone explain the VC economics behind this during a bubble. Is it 1. Funding for other projects gets diverted to AI 2. Traditional VCs see potential for greater risks, rewards and increases portfolio 3. Funds available to traditional
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by devsda 9mo ago
Lets say I have some private and silly questions that I need to take a note of & check first or I'm venting some frustration(hey that's what happens in meetings sometimes) in the notes, what do I do ? May be add a small sectio
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by devsda 9mo ago
On Virgin Media's page, if you answer "no" to the "is it helpful" question, you apparently get the support forum and chat with us options.
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by devsda 9mo ago
I really want to believe that many of the "fuck off contact pages" that we see are a result of just naive clients mimicking other flashy sites but I think that in most cases it is just a conscious decision to reduce/limit su
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by devsda 10mo ago
I've used it around early 2010s as a live cd to fix partitions etc. Definitely recommend as a lightweight distro. Was a little tricky to install on disk and even on disk it behaved mostly like a live cd and file changes had to be commi
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by devsda 10mo ago
> My manager hates me, how do I get promoted? > My manager looks down on me because I'm a member of a different caste, what do I do?" There may be legitimate cases but if someone runs into these issues often, may be its just
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by devsda 10mo ago
Still it is a faulty metric. 200% improvement may just be the result of feature A and 40% may just be the max performance gain from feature B. Comparing developers over the effectiveness of features they implement is mostly rating the PMs o
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by devsda 10mo ago
If everybody gets extension, say a 2 hr test becomes 3 hrs, then eventually there will be someone who claims 3 hrs is the new normal time and still demand an extension over that. It really depends on the perception of whether the goal of th
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by devsda 10mo ago
> Nation states, on the other hand, have the compute resources and patience to occupy a lot of bandwidth, even if no single sockpuppet account they control is that popular. If you control the platform where people go, you can easily laun
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by devsda 10mo ago
Since we are on the topic of bans & Google, I have a question. How likely or difficult is it for Google to engage in, for lack of better word, "thought policing"? You ask your "private" AI assistant to answer a naugh
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by devsda 10mo ago
> American tech dominance elsewhere has more to do a lack of competition, Do you believe the lack of competition is purely because the products are superior? US tech is now sort of like the dollar. People/countries outside the US ne
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by devsda 10mo ago
> OP didn’t do such a bad job with IT that the campaign failed lol Some non-tech people tend to think of IT folks as jack of all trades with the ability to fix their faulty printer all the way to hacking email accounts for fun/profi
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by devsda 10mo ago
Its an interesting read for sure. With those little takeaways in between like talking to users first to understand their requirements, building an mvp and shipping it as early as possible I was half expecting the article ending with the kin
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by devsda 10mo ago
> Creative workers bargain with one of five publishers, one of four studios, one of three music labels, one of two app marketplaces, or just one company that controls all the ebooks and audio books. > when Congress gives creators new
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by devsda 10mo ago
What's the end goal of that? Do you think Meta will run out of good engineers to hire ? With that attitude, how long does it take to justify going after the next Meta?
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by devsda 10mo ago
I wonder if at some point AI will help big tech extort money from businesses or individuals (similar to the mugshot publishing industry). Google or its competitors can theoretically accept(or demand) money for its "Answer engine"
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by devsda 10mo ago
This is all true but I'm not sure about establishing credibility with a blog, especially when an LLM can help fudge the details. I like your idea of blogging about TILs. There are shallow posts about TILs(plenty on medium) and then the
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by devsda 10mo ago
> Who can push back? Obviously not China or Russia, where the problems are even worse. Why not China or Russia or any other country with the capability? Competition is good even if some or all of the players are bad individually.
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by devsda 10mo ago
> that does mean the app is more risky since it's not monitored by Google. Why is Google the arbitrator of risk here ? As a user I'm capable of assessing the risk directly or indirectly by delegating that responsibility to anot
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by devsda 10mo ago
Oh, TIL! Thank you.
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by devsda 10mo ago
Ah, the good old days of browsing wap sites to download "apps". Installing some of them only to find that my budget phone doesn't support the j2me profile required to run them. The java ecosystem of those days had similar te
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by devsda 10mo ago
Like hacking, sideloading is now a loaded & misunderstood term. It is considered as something only nerds or bad actors do. Let's just call it alternate install.

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