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by dleavitt 2y ago
The layer with the radial gradient you're putting in front of the Turing Test card blocks interaction with it - can't click or hover on its links.
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GitHub Copilot Reenables Itself When Disabled(github.com)
15 points by dleavitt 2y ago|6 comments
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by dleavitt 2y ago
Github's major closed-source Copilot extension reenables itself if you try to tone down the aggressiveness of its suggestions. Some malware / reverse-useless-machine vibes. A lot of us are sort of waiting for the other shoe to dro
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by dleavitt 3y ago
The article didn't focus too much on solutions, though a couple of things were mentioned: 1. Reducing patent protection 2. Price controls (?) So let's assume we want these companies to reduce their profit margins (and instead lowe
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by dleavitt 3y ago
Looks like it's "mod_speling" from an old version of apache: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_speling.html
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by dleavitt 3y ago
Not to mention the innovations that voluntary regulatory standards plus enlightened self-interest have enabled in the manned submersible space.
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by dleavitt 4y ago
I think maybe it's only strange if you assume the SEC has unlimited money and time. Grandparent comment says it better, but they're likely focusing on cases they think are pretty clear-cut.
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by dleavitt 4y ago
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by dleavitt 4y ago
This was/is exactly the business model of SolarCity and a lot of residential solar. The more general concept, sometimes called "Savings as a Service" or "Efficiency as a Service", is pretty ubiquitous in the energy
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by dleavitt 4y ago
HN should use this thread as a honeypot and ban anyone who commented without understand that this is parody.
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by dleavitt 5y ago
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by dleavitt 5y ago
Allumia | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Remote, US-only :/ (Seattle-based) | FT | Senior Software Engineer Allumia provides a platform to fund, design, install, and maintain energy efficiency upgrades for commercial and industrial bui
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by dleavitt 6y ago
Allumia | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Remote, US-only :/ (Seattle-based) | FT | Senior Software Engineer Allumia provides a platform through which utilities can fund, design, install, and maintain energy efficiency upgrades for comm
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by dleavitt 6y ago
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification! Do you think it's a good idea to have a "passthru" option at all?
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by dleavitt 6y ago
I think the term for this is "location transparency" and it tends not to work well in practice. A local function call and a RPC call over a network have very different performance characteristics and failure modes; trying to abstr
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by dleavitt 6y ago
Allumia | Clean Tech | www.allumia.com | Remote (Seattle-based) | FT | Software Developer Allumia provides a platform through which utilities can fund, design, install, and maintain energy efficiency upgrades for commercial and industrial b
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by dleavitt 6y ago
This appears to be a human interest piece (specifically a local Welsh one) rather than science journalism. A quick check of the Wikipedia page for "Asteroid impact avoidance" indicates that this is a well-established and well-fund
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by dleavitt 7y ago
This is salient too though: The new Java-based implementation has improved performance significantly, and made Storm's internal APIs more maintainable and extensible. It's not totally clear if this is because it's been re
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by dleavitt 8y ago
Yeah, not a great article and doesn't seem concerned with the "why." A couple of possible explanations: 1. There are beneficial effects other than tax revenue - maybe these municipalities are hoping the new data centers will
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by dleavitt 8y ago
The author's point that functional programming principles are important to systems programming and should be taught alongside it is well taken. I think he confuses the issue somewhat with all the discussion of what is a "systems p
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by dleavitt 15y ago
Why is he comparing himself to the New York Times? TechCrunch is a gossip column, having more current gossip than the NYT doesn't make them the future of journalism.