jedberg

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California's Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills(nytimes.com)
4 points by jedberg 5d ago|1 comments
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by jedberg 5d ago
In this market, 6 months isn't enough.
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by jedberg 5d ago
Reddit's /r/programming is very well moderated, and they specifically don't allow articles about AI, unless it's programming AI. You should check it out.
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by jedberg 6d ago
You'd be surprised how many people don't know the names, only "regular paper" and "long paper"
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by jedberg 7d ago
I meant they aren't political in their pricing. They don't charge less or more for something because it is considered liberal or conservative.
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by jedberg 7d ago
Letter, Legal, Tabloid, and Ledger: https://papersizes.io/us It's bizarre and makes no logical sense.
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by jedberg 7d ago
Most people in the US aren't aware that everyone else uses a different size of paper. Heck, most people in the US aren't even aware that there are names for the sizes of paper we do use.
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by jedberg 7d ago
Same here. I wish I could just use A4 paper, but usually when I put something on paper it is to share with others, who will not have an easy way to store or process it. It has to be a widely mandated switch. Like only allow A* paper for g
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by jedberg 7d ago
Oh man if this is what got the US to adopt metric paper I would be so happy.
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by jedberg 7d ago
People don't try to type on their passport though.
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by jedberg 7d ago
Actually I think he would appreciate the beauty in using 1:1.4, the same as metric paper, to maintain the ratio.
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by jedberg 7d ago
One thing I love about metric paper is the beauty of the simplicity: When you fold it, it maintains its ratio. This is because it is 1:1.41, aka 1:sqrt(2) When I saw that this new phone is 1:1.4, I instantly appreciated why it is that way
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by jedberg 7d ago
My wife's first question: Will this fit in a woman's hand?
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by jedberg 7d ago
Car insurance companies have their problems, but pricing risk is not one of them. We saw this before -- they used to charge people who lived in high crime areas more money. They had to stop because it turned out that those high crime areas
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by jedberg 7d ago
Why? Insurance companies use detailed risk data. If they discover that letting you drive your own car is a much higher risk than an auto-drive, why should they not be allowed to account for that? Insurance companies aren't political
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by jedberg 7d ago
With how good LLMs are getting at coding, running a DevTools company with both an open source and commercial component is getting harder and harder to do. It's easier every day to just vibe code the commercial part if you have the ope
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by jedberg 8d ago
First batch was 2005. :)
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by jedberg 9d ago
There was a lot of evidence last winter. But with the active El Niño it’s starting earlier this year.
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by jedberg 9d ago
That person is probably misremembering or looking later after the update. I pull weather data from multiple apps all the time because I’m a weather nerd and they all agree equally poorly.
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by jedberg 9d ago
It's because the current administration cut NOAAs funding, which means fewer weather balloons, which means less data to make a prediction. And it means less real time updates. So yeah, when it rains, it might take a few hours for that
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by jedberg 9d ago
It's not only energy though. Desalination takes space, and you have to do something with the salt. Last I saw, to have enough DeSal capacity for all of California, you'd have to replace every beach with DeSal plants to have enou
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by jedberg 9d ago
> Do you own your home? Here in Ca? Yes and yes. And I pay 10K less a year than my neighbor for the same value house. And I pay 10K more a year than my other neighbor. I get a huge advantage from Prop 13, but I still think it needs to
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by jedberg 11d ago
Regulations about 95th percentile decible levels at certain distances, and regulations about max decibel levels at certain distances, for all buildings.
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by jedberg 11d ago
Trying to educate them that water and power usage are the less problematic parts and not as bad as everyone thinks. It's the noise and lack of green power that are the problems.
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by jedberg 11d ago
I'm saying the people who are affected need to lobby their own local governments, because the companies will never do the right thing until they are forced to do so. But what people are most upset about are water and power, which are t
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by jedberg 11d ago
I don't do that anymore since I got laughed at by coworkers when I suggested we focus on using green power and reducing noise. So yes, my conscience is clear.
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by jedberg 11d ago
No, there really isn't. It's more a question of how the data center is cooled. There are quieter more expensive options, which is why they often aren't used.
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by jedberg 11d ago
No thanks, they are loud. I even called that out. But no one should be living next to them. Those people need to get their local government to regulate noise from all buildings. The companies won't do it on their own. (This is part
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by jedberg 11d ago
I have a lot of left leaning non-tech friends. They are all very much against AI data centers. I've built AI data centers, and I keep trying to educate them, but they just won't listen. The water is mostly part of a closed syste
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by jedberg 12d ago
I've been meaning to switch my in-laws to Quad9 and just not mention it to them. They fall for too many scams, I'd love for those websites to just not work anymore.

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