jimmar

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by jimmar 8d ago
The sad truth is that many citizens want a closely surveilled world. Flock delivers the product they want. Imagine a shooting took place in the downtown area of a major city next week that lacked cameras. Do you think people would praise th
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by jimmar 26d ago
In my professional career, my employers give me a lot more assignments than exams.
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by jimmar 29d ago
I like the sentiment from Hitchens that we choose our regrets. Being an absent father was not something I was willing to regret. I know it has cost me some degree of earning potential and career progression. I wouldn't change anything.
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by jimmar 1mo ago
Nice! I flew by my childhood home a few times. My request would be to let it fly slower. I wanted to look around but passed by everything too quickly.
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by jimmar 2mo ago
I searched for "ophthalmologist," got a list of results, and made an appointment. Only later did I discover that my search engine had shown me results for "optometrist" instead of the term I searched for. It was not help
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by jimmar 2mo ago
Nice work! But...I added an image to see what options it gave me. There was no way to add alt text, which leads me to believe that accessibility was not a priority. Unless passing accessibility checks is a feature, this isn't something
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by jimmar 3mo ago
Quadlets and rootless containers are two major reasons I'll be switching from Docker to Podman.
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by jimmar 4mo ago
People predict that in 50 years, no human will be driving a car, and people will be shocked that we let humans drive cars manually. Coding may be the same. So many vulnerabilities in code written by very competent programmers. Manually buil
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by jimmar 4mo ago
Don't we all inherently know that government surveillance will constantly increase over time if we give in? In theory, we could achieve a "happy medium," but the same access used by a thoughtful law enforcement agency are the
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by jimmar 5mo ago
Seems analogous to employees of a missile manufacturer being upset that their missiles were used for their intended purpose.
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by jimmar 5mo ago
I'm not disputing the designation. Per the US Code [1]: > The term "supply chain risk" means the risk that an adversary may sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or otherwise subvert the design, integrity, man
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by jimmar 5mo ago
First of all, what "blacklist?" The article puts that in the title, but never explains anything about a blacklist. > The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top of
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by jimmar 5mo ago
I followed the shooting at Brown University last year very closely. Brown's leadership was heavily criticized for having camera blind spots and not being able to track the shooter's exact movements through campus. I can understand
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by jimmar 5mo ago
So just talk to the people who you think already agree with you?
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by jimmar 6mo ago
One of the first signs that a somebody has Alzheimer's is that they'll get lost. E.g., they've been attending church on Thursdays nights at the same chapel for 15 years, but suddenly they forgot how to get home after a recent
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by jimmar 6mo ago
From the home page: > Stop trusting blindly > One-line installer scripts, Here are the manual install instructions from the "Install / Build page: > curl -L https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git&#x2F
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by jimmar 6mo ago
I've never regretted buying Legos for my kids. Yeah, the kits can be expensive, but they last forever. We've thrown out or donated lots of old toys, but the Legos will never be given away.
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by jimmar 8mo ago
As a kid in the early 1980s, I spent a lot of time experimenting with computers by playing basic games and drawing with crude applications. And it was fun. I would have loved to have something like Google's Genie to play with. Even if
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by jimmar 8mo ago
I've wasted hours of my life trying to get Latex to format my journal articles to different journals' specifications. That's tedious typesetting that wastes my time. I'm all for AI tools that help me produce my thoughts
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by jimmar 8mo ago
Seeing things like, "<h2 id="new-driving-model">New driving model</h2>" on their list of latest releases does not inspire a lot of confidence. Yes, the HTML tags are displayed on the page. Some basic qua
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by jimmar 8mo ago
I took meds for depression a few years ago. I don't know that they did anything other than signal to myself that I wasn't ready to give up. They may have served as a kind of "dumbo's feather" that helped me get thro
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by jimmar 8mo ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7598063/ > Carbohydrate overfeeding produced progressive increases in carbohydrate oxidation and total energy expenditure resulting in 75-85% of excess energy being stored. Alternativ
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by jimmar 8mo ago
> "The Dominance of PostgreSQL Continues" It seems like the author is more focused on database features than user base. Every metric I can find online says that MySQL/MariaDB is more popular than PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL see
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by jimmar 9mo ago
I'm slowly de-Microsofting my computing. I've traded OneDrive for Syncthing. I ditched one PC for a Mac. I have the technical skills to run Linux effectively, but the biggest obstacle for my Linux adoption is distro fatigue. Run U
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by jimmar 10mo ago
I don't know that I'd trust IBM when they are pitching their own stuff. But if anybody has experience with the difficulty of making money off of cutting-edge technology, it's IBM. They were early to AI, early to cloud computi
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by jimmar 10mo ago
Markdown is the minimum viable product. It’s easy to learn and still readable if not rendered in an alternate format. It’s great. For making PDFs, I’ve recently moved from AsciiDoc to Typst. I couldn’t find a good way to get AsciiDoc to mak
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by jimmar 10mo ago
AWS already documents a solution to self-host a NAT instance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/work-with-n...
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by jimmar 10mo ago
People might be fleeing public schooling because lawmakers are dictating what happens in the classroom. There are lots of good teachers who struggle with the resources given to them and the constraints imposed on them. At home, parents can
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by jimmar 10mo ago
> IBM anticipates that the first cases of verified quantum advantage will be confirmed by the wider community by the end of 2026. In 2019, Google claimed quantum supremacy [1]. I'm truly confused about what quantum computing can do
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by jimmar 10mo ago
I installed it, entered one prompt, clicked the "Proceed" button, and got "Model quota limit exceeded." Those quota limits brought me back down to earth quickly.

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