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by gred 9mo ago
> I have a few really good hardware ideas, but I don't believe I could ever market them fast enough and far enough to make it worth spending the R&D to make them happen. Isn't this why patents exist?
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by gred 9mo ago
If the telephone replaces errand boys, should it also pay taxes?
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by gred 9mo ago
> Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" > "There is no particular reason to do it in rust, I just wanted to learn rust, and see if it can work in the kernel." https://www.phoronix.com/news/L
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by gred 10mo ago
Women: surgery to extract eggs Men: wanking into a tube
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by gred 10mo ago
I assume you're talking about malware uploaded to new artifact coordinates (possibly named so as to try to confuse users), not hijacking of existing artifact coordinates (group ID, artifact ID)?
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by gred 10mo ago
NPM has about 4 million packages, Maven Central has about 3 million packages. If this were true, wouldn't there have been at least one Maven attack by now, considering the number of NPM attacks that we've seen?
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by gred 10mo ago
Anecdotally, I know of one child who was homeschooled recently. The mother is a single mother, of modest middle-class means. There was a homeschooling group nearby with a few volunteer mothers handling most of the logistics and teaching. Th
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by gred 10mo ago
> I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures. Popularity is not an exclusively American concept. Just as public school broadened your horizons, so will traveling (or livi
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by gred 11mo ago
> they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it A tale as old as time: > Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accomp
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by gred 1y ago
See sibling comment. Seguimos siendo un país de gitanos que no se ha adaptado a las necesidades infraestructurales, organizacionales, legales o sociales de las renovables. I'm bullish on solar in the long-term, but I expect further pro
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by gred 1y ago
> let them take their money with them The image of taxman as thief has never been clearer.
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by gred 1y ago
Spain is on the same path: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energ%C3%ADa_nuclear_en_Espa%C...
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by gred 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...
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by gred 1y ago
There must be some sort of legal agreement governing the data sharing. NDAs tend to have something like: > The parties acknowledge that monetary damages may not be a sufficient remedy for unauthorized disclosure or use of Confidential In
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by gred 1y ago
Yes, but the license info is included in the font metadata, within the font file itself.
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by gred 1y ago
All fonts from Google Fonts are available under open source licenses. What is the point of padding out this 3-step guide with an extra 3 steps of license-checking fluff?
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by gred 1y ago
> My understanding is that codepoints beyond 65,536 are only used for languages that are no longer in use, and emojis This week's Unicode 17 announcement [1] mentions that of the ~160k existing codepoints, over 100k are CJK codepoin
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by gred 1y ago
Yeah, I think it was a similar concept.
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by gred 1y ago
So sad, he was more willing than most to hear and debate contrary viewpoints (the "prove me wrong" table).
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by gred 1y ago
That's a great point! Large Language Models (LLMs), like GPT-4, offer numerous benefits for writing tasks across various domains. Here’s a breakdown of the key advantages: 1. Enhanced Productivity Faster Drafting: Quickly generate draf
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by gred 1y ago
> less than 10% improvement year-over-year. That will feel like "stagnant"... Especially when, in that same time frame, your code editor / mail client / instant messaging / conference call / container manage
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by gred 1y ago
I don't know enough to judge one way or the other, but I wouldn't be surprised if this were true (unfortunately). On the other hand, some changes have been pretty focused, as far as I can tell (e.g. DEI rollbacks, protecting women
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by gred 1y ago
I'd love to have efficient, relevant, balanced, trustworthy academic institutions. I think we all want that. But IMO we're far from that ideal, and given where we are relative to where we'd like to be , one of the steps al
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by gred 1y ago
> It’s part of a global trend: universities cast as enemies and institutions in need of reform. They are in need of reform. > As scholars who study nationalism, emotion and higher education, we explore the emotional politics behind
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by gred 1y ago
Cool, I could see doing this for some projects. Thanks for going into detail a bit!
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by gred 1y ago
Yeah, I pay $400/month to not be bothered with any installation or upgrade drama, ever. The problem is that I only get 16 threads.
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by gred 1y ago
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1407179/widening-firefox-scr...
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by gred 1y ago
I'd rather not pay for 8 cores / 16 threads, though...
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by gred 1y ago
Also "gift".
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by gred 1y ago
Portable & Graphical

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