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by don-code 3y ago
How do these apps work, in practice? The article states: > If you’re at the wheel focused on the road, but someone in the passenger seat is changing the music on your phone, the app may think it’s observing distracted driving and count i
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by don-code 3y ago
I periodically deliver flowers for a florist in Weymouth. I've never had an attendant operate the pump there.
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by don-code 3y ago
I did a walk-up amateur radio workshop with the Girl Scouts at a STEM festival a few months ago. I likewise was very surprised by two things: the younger kids had _no idea_ what they were looking at (isn't the radio in the phones? Spot
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by don-code 3y ago
One problem with this approach is that the systems underpinning many of the still-accessible sites are likely still located in the US. CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly may make them look like they're coming from a local point of presence
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by don-code 3y ago
> Next, they fed existing QR codes into the Stable Diffusion AI image generator and used ControlNet to maintain the QR code's data positioning despite synthesizing an image around it, likely using a written prompt. A few months ago,
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by don-code 3y ago
I actually did this once (over SMB on Windows, though) - and unintentionally crippled our corporate SAN with all of its polling and locking activity. I had a cluster of 20 workers which would poll every five seconds for messages, and I beli
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by don-code 3y ago
I end up back on campus now and then, despite having graduated and moved away ten years ago - it's definitely just as interesting to see what's changed as what _hasn't_ changed. I graduated right before the quarter-to-semeste
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by don-code 3y ago
I got to experience the old VAX-based system for a few years, before it was migrated to Oracle Peoplesoft in 2011 (?) - which created as many problems as it solved. Interestingly, I'd never heard of the telnet interface to course regis
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by don-code 3y ago
I also use a physical Kanban board on my kitchen fridge with Post-its. I have four columns (To Do, In Progress, Blocked, and Done) and three swimlanes (Everything Else on top, Books in the middle, and a Recurring lane at the bottom, where s
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by don-code 3y ago
I actually do use three 24" 16:9 screens, side by side. Though small by anyone else's standards, 24" is sort of the perfect size for the three monitor setup. It doesn't make me strain my neck _too_ much, but also isn&#x2
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by don-code 3y ago
I get along well with my parents today, and generally always have (for some definition of "get along"). That said, it took me into my 30s to really figure out where my parents fit in my life. In spite of the dynamic we had through
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by don-code 3y ago
I'm not sure if your indestructible 8mpg truck example was facetious, but you've actually, very accurately, described the Grumman Long-Life Vehicle - also known as the truck that delivers mail in most of the United States: https:
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by don-code 3y ago
During our last extended (3 day) power outage, I was surprised to learn that even though I have all of my gear on a very large UPS, the cable network also ceases to function after a few hours. Local nodes apparently only have backup power f
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by don-code 3y ago
For several years, I bought older vinyl not for the vinyl itself, but for the cover art, which I hung on my living room walls with Records on Walls: https://www.recordsonwalls.com/ . Many of them have an aesthetic quality al
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by don-code 3y ago
A few years ago, I erroneously started a process on an unclean dataset, thinking it had been cleaned. This caused messages to be delivered to customers, asking them to take action, when in fact no action should have been taken on their part
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by don-code 3y ago
A couple of years ago, I was dealing with a Redis database that was leaking keys. One day the number of keys started to climb dramatically, and I had a difficult time querying Redis itself to ask what the keys were, without it running out o
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by don-code 3y ago
My take is that the article argues for keeping it on the grounds of technical merit, not of purpose. Senator Ed Markey makes ( https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_automa... ) some better point
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by don-code 3y ago
I have this album hanging on the wall in my living room. The inside sleeve has a comparably small illustration of a hand opening a door from the inside of the room. It turns out that this is also a well-known image, stolen from newspaper cl
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by don-code 3y ago
The way I remember it, Time Crisis had a slide that moved. It emulated the kick of a real firearm - albeit poorly, but as a teenager I had no idea otherwise.
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by don-code 3y ago
I can say that this was not Amazon.
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by don-code 3y ago
I understand that your post is sarcasm, but it does bring up the underlying issue of who's been empowered to make changes, and ultimately, who's had (correctly or incorrectly) trust placed in them. An interesting thing happened at
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by don-code 3y ago
My homelab, up until the beginning of last year, consisted completely of Raspberry Pi's - gen 1 through 4. Because they're so resource constrained, adding new services in my homelab meant adding more Pi's. Pi's themselve
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by don-code 4y ago
This is a fantastic example of _framing_ - how what's generally interpreted as a positive good can, with the right changes to presentation, be re-framed as a negative. The more classic framing example is a child tax credit (generally s
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by don-code 4y ago
For my own curiosity, what's the benefit of a one-time engagement with Usage AI over a continuing engagement with a tool (plus proserv, if merited) like CloudHealth? Much of the trouble with AWS spend is due to deltas as the platform c
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by don-code 4y ago
RIT back in the late 2000s was practically overflowing with hardware in the dumpsters. I easily made a few thousand dollars through daily visits over four years - enough to keep me eating well (not out of the dumpsters themselves, like the
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by don-code 4y ago
I also lived with someone who did this - he called himself a "freegan". My roommates and I frequently worried about him unintentionally ingesting rat poison.
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by don-code 4y ago
I'd argue that restaurants _don't_ have the manpower to do this. Restaurant margins are small as it is, and while I don't have concrete numbers to back this statement up, it feels like designating (or even hiring) someone to
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by don-code 4y ago
The author differentiates between "serverful resources", like RDS and OpenSearch clusters, and "things that should be a platform team's responsibility", like VPCs. I'm currently running a shared RDS cluster, fo
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by don-code 4y ago
As a New England native, I'm ashamed to admit that outside of television and movies, I had never seen tenpin until I went to college. I rationalized it as some kind of Hollywood in-joke, rather than a real thing. Nowadays, bowling alle
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by don-code 4y ago
Home pesto maker here. It's not for the faint of heart. Each year I grow four basil plants - it takes close to an hour to completely de-leaf and de-stem just one plant. I end up with a stock pot full of leaves. Those are then ground wi

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