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by freeopinion 8d ago
It's interesting to me that most of the people who are motivated to vandalize Flock cameras seem to balk at vandalizing Ring cameras. Indeed, they may own and operate their own Ring cameras. Most everyone can understand the utility of
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by freeopinion 10d ago
I think Canada might recognize that it needs to be a much faster process than anyone expected. Europe is getting some pretty strong signals and should be accelerating the process. Ukraine is obviously already in a full war footing to accele
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by freeopinion 20d ago
The Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices was published in 1206. https://historymedieval.com/ismail-al-jazaris-marvelous-mach...
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by freeopinion 1mo ago
Just to present another reality... a lot of kids coast through high school academically. They sleep through classes or play video games on their school-provided laptops, or play on their phones all day. They know about "minimum-F"
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by freeopinion 2mo ago
I thought about the volatility, too. But here are some additional thoughts: Many AI uses are not that volatile. I had a 20 minute conversation today with some company's AI phone assistant. It was extremely good and would have been very
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
I have a simple mind. I think of a company with 100 employees building a dozen houses at a time. That company could replace a six-person framing crew with a two-person, one-robot team as an experiment. They could do various experiments to s
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Wallace Shawn was in on the joke when he expertly delivered the original line. It seems like Anthropic has spent years and billions of dollars to recreate the entire scene. But what will become of the princess in Anthropic's recreation
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Be careful to properly identify the bad behavior. A customer who buys a product for less money than it cost to produce has not necessarily done anything wrong. They just took advantage of a loss leader. That's on the seller. Did you no
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Or... use a protocol that hides packets in Minecraft traffic with out-of-band control through steganographic Discord audio. It's really slow, but its private.
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
You mean @fooco.com? Or @foocousa.com? Or @fooco.xyz? @fooco.ai? @foocoltd.net? @foo.co.uk? How would LinkedIn validate that your email domain belongs to the company you claim to work for?
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
There's an endless list of improvements on a project like this. - Dragging a group should also drag the tables within the group. - It would be nice to be able to drag relationship lines to reshape their curves around other tables. But
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
This headline claims large-scale production, but the article never indicates what that would be in terms of quantity per year. Their motor is pretty cool. So are lots of other ideas and concepts. This is supposed to be about production. Arg
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WSL vs Wine
3 points by freeopinion 3mo ago|2 comments
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Incarcerating people is not free. And the more people you incarcerate the more you normalize incarceration and it loses its power of dissuasion. Surely it is worthwhile to encourage other ideas. We might have to experiment with a lot of ide
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
A lot of people on this site grew up lower middle class or below and benefited from the generosity of a lot of other people. But they leveraged that generosity into an education and a skill set that improved their economic security. Then th
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
I'm sure different jurisdictions are different, but many places don't allow random people to show up with a suspicious pile of metal. They have to file photo ids and sign a document. Sometimes there is a waiting period for payment
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Considering that stolen wire carries a lot of risk, the market value is considerably less than normal scrap prices. I've seen thefts that required special equipment like cranes and probably 10 man hours to recon, plan, and execute. All
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Ignoring the obvious math problem here, I think the broader scope is important. Some of the point from preceding comments is that overall longterm output is not changing. So if somebody is oneshotting a week of work in an hour, but has the
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Do you find it controversial to have different tracks for Geometry, Swim, and Orchestra students? These are different types of students. Arithmetic, Algebra, and Statistics are different classes should be taught separately. "Please wak
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
No, we don't have calculators to do that. AI, maybe. But a calculator cannot form an equation out of a social context and solve the equation. If you bought 6 liters of soda for £3/2-liter bottle with 8% consumption tax, how much s
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Walter, I have a great deal of respect for you. Your math skills are much greater than my own. But you have stretched your statement too far. Flash cards can be very helpful in teaching math. Timed tests for math facts can be very helpful.
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Budgets are a region-specific thing. In the USA there are approximately 50 million students aged 5-18. If you paid for each student to get 1:1 attention one day a week, you would need one teacher per five students in schools that meet five
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
IMO, the best questions around revolutionizing school should address whether children should be coerced into learning something. It seems obvious to me that the answer should be yes. So the follow ups should be figuring out how to move a st
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
It would be very interesting if you could accumulate privileges by stacking logins. So `login a; login b` gave you both a and b privileges. `logout a` would drop a's privileges but keep b's.
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Thank you for this contribution. Your repo has a link to the standard[0], which might interest some people. It makes me unreasonably happy to know that this was funded out of Singapore. [0] https://posithub.org/docs/pos
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
If you take a 1x dev and a 2x dev and apply an AI force multiplier, do you get a 10x dev and a 20x dev? Or do you get two 10x devs? If a human element is required to get value from AI, but any human will do, then devs should get minimum wag
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
During a recent semester final exam with fill in the blank questions, a student raised their hand to ask the teacher, "Do we get marked off for spelling?" The class was bewildered when the teacher answered, "Of course."
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
FWIW, I don't think climate change is a scam. I think humans need to be better stewards. I certainly don't think I "just know better". I think I have been pretty clear that I am not a fan of Microsoft or Amazon. It is pu
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
If it soothes you at all, you can think of it the other way around. All members of a society have a duty to pull their own weight. But everybody stumbles. So sometimes we have to pull more than our "fair share" and sometimes someb
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Some might say that Capitalism (with a capital C) was born in Wealth of Nations. IIUC, you argue it was birthed by Muscovy or BEI some centuries earlier. I argue that capitalism (lower-case) is as old as humans. Was not the shift away from

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