erickj

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by erickj 1y ago
The legality of who owns that work will depend on your work contract and your local employment law. You very well might create something, turn around to sell it to them, and find out that your employer legally owns the copyright to the work
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by erickj 1y ago
That's ok, just go 1 train stop. The grammar will change
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by erickj 1y ago
s/France/Switzerland/
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by erickj 2y ago
> ChatGPT Please give me the Image Magick command to convert a PNG to ICO > ``` convert input.png -define icon:auto-resize=256,128,64,48,32,16 output.ico ``` ...
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by erickj 2y ago
Resurrecting woolly mammoths just in time for their natural habits to become decimated by climate change feels like a cosmic satire on the duality of human technological progress
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by erickj 2y ago
Its pretty hard to ignore Google in any discussion on big scale
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by erickj 2y ago
> Not that this matters for this particular tool. Then the code is perfectly appropriate.
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by erickj 2y ago
These houses still had to be built, hooked up to plumbing, wired for electricity, have a lot cleared and excavated, concrete poored... Also you still need to decorate and provide appliances. Add all that in and you'll see theres a few
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by erickj 2y ago
If I was going to build this prototype I'd start with just a semistructured textual play by play recap as the input. Also including roster, injury, amd schedule information with a fairly basic prompt would probably go a long way. This
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by erickj 2y ago
I believe most Swiss scientific investigations are legally required to involve Cervelat
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by erickj 2y ago
Welcome to fiat currency backed capitalism
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by erickj 2y ago
MTB is pretty fun to get the shiny gear too... But yes, particularly cycling, $3500 for just a groupset. Gross https://www.bike-components.de/de/Shimano/Dura-Ace-Di2-R9250...
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by erickj 2y ago
By continously ignoring that what I really needed was a pushdown automaton.
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by erickj 2y ago
Yet, you believe that you have the right to other people's created works while circumventing their means for recompense. Hmmm ... Let's just put aside the messy distinction between "what you tell your browser to do" and
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by erickj 2y ago
Hmmm... It's as though running root privelege daemons with open sockets could go wrong. Who could have known. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/09/25/rootless-conta...
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by erickj 2y ago
That's the kind of work that can come out of academia and open source communities when societies provide the resources required.
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by erickj 2y ago
Did you name her Adenine?
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by erickj 2y ago
> The archived technology was never touched. Years later there were multiple teams doing stuff redundant to what we did. They didn't know we ever existed and their projects will probably never be released. I've worked there for
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by erickj 2y ago
With absolutely no certainty or linguistic rigor behind this observation... I've always thought that 'boy' sounded suspiciously close to the Swiss German translation "bueb" (or sometimes "buebe"), almost p
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by erickj 2y ago
"Now the property is going for $2,695,000—the lowest asking price it has had on Zillow in the past three years. The public record of the property shows it was sold for only $40,000 in 1994, but between 2021 and late 2023, the asking pr
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by erickj 2y ago
Cigarette smuggling has a few aspects and each state while give it different priority based on its own economic incentives. But for a glimpse at the federal level, the ATF says [1] their justification is interested in enforcement (among oth
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by erickj 2y ago
My $1300 Lenovo X1 carbon gen 3 from 2014 is still running as well as the day I got it (less one m.2 drive and CMOS battery) ... Granted the first thing I did to it 10 years ago was install Fedora. Try putting Pop OS or some Ubuntu flavor o
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by erickj 2y ago
Think of their revenue in an ecosystem. Google announced 2 weeks ago that its Q1 capex for datacenters and servers was $12B. This was up 100% y/y. Goog also expects for this capex spend to be ongoing... A healthy chunk of that is all g
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by erickj 2y ago
Other than an incredible amount of cynicism, does this author offer a single objective fact or 3rd party source to support his argument? The argument that he's trying to make is that AI is overhyped, but his conclusion is that it'
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by erickj 2y ago
I don't know when it was most recently changed, but... "and you grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit such Subsc
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by erickj 2y ago
The tinkerpop writings of Marco Rodriguez are seriously underrated pieces of computer science literature https://www.datastax.com/blog/tales-tinkerpop
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by erickj 2y ago
This is a flat rate dividend, which at the current price equates to a 0.1% dividend. It seems more likely that it's just designed to satisfy a checkmark on the portfolio investor prospectus. This equates to ~$2B payout, while they simu
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by erickj 2y ago
The economy is not a zero sum game (Not defending the Sacklers, fuck that family)
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by erickj 2y ago
Yes, but a once society crossed that boundary then it will be on you and your lawyer to prove that it wasn't criminal negligence, just the regular old kind
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by erickj 2y ago
I saw the pricing page hit HN about a year ago. I sent it to non tech friends in a group chat as a laugh. But... I'd never even consider handing over my credit card or other PII to such an obviously blasé admin.

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