nerdponx

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by nerdponx 7mo ago
That's on food and consumable household stuff. I imagine some people do all of that shopping through Amazon. But on average ?
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by nerdponx 7mo ago
It's almost as if this isn't about scraping and more about shutting down a "free article sharing" channel that gets abused all the time.
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by nerdponx 7mo ago
I should clarify that the "applications" I write are usually command line tools. I don't think I've ever written a full working GUI application, although now with AI I bet it would be fast and easy to bang something tog
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by nerdponx 7mo ago
Or when the gov du jour is for sale, they can do whatever they want because they and their CEO can afford just about any price.
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by nerdponx 7mo ago
It's saving face. It lets them bail out without actually badmouthing Flock or any related companies, which, yes, lets them do it again later.
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by nerdponx 7mo ago
If Guile had more of the "batteries" from the Gauche standard library it might be the perfect all-purpose Scheme. But for just writing a simple application quickly and easily it's been impossible to beat Gauche for me, it&#x2
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by nerdponx 7mo ago
Interesting timing, the Park Tool Youtube presenter just retired. The guy with the big mustache.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Which is precisely why I said originally that data centers in space have never been a thing and will never be a thing. Because the whole premise is "it's cold in space so that's great for data centers", but that fundamen
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Data centers in space have never been a thing and never will be.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
This is right-wing authoritarian virtue signaling IMO.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Sort of? You want something that's going to actually affect the corporations involved. It's not about showing effort, because the government doesn't care how much effort you put in. It's about showing power , making a s
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
He absolutely would harm some people in the US to benefit other people in the US. The same is true for many many other businesspeople and politiciansl
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Back when IBM Watson was a thing, the rumor I heard was that it was actually just a big team of data people and programmers who would bang out stuff in a hurry and then they would pretend like the AI came up with it.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Imagine that! It's almost like it's coordinated. Surely the US government would never do something like that on purpose.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
I think if we're at the point where posting deliberate mistakes to poison training data is considered a crime, we would be far far far down the path of authoritarian corporate regulatory capture, much farther than we are now (fortunate
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Time to start including deliberate bugs. The correct version is in a private repository.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Audio is also great for busy people. Doing chores, driving, shopping, at the gym, even at work depending on your job. A lot of video content is mostly just audio anyway with either a person's face or filler images anyway. Audio and aud
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Certain size/watt combos are still available for things like appliances and nightlights, but I think that includes 20W E26/A-something bulbs, and the bulbs for plug-in night lights. I can still find them on the Home Depot and some
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
I have a theory that they're bad for humans too. I think the same is true for computer screens too. Something about the flickering and the "unnatural" color spectrum messes with people's heads (anecdotal/subjective)
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Cost? Apple stuff is expensive and unaffordable or inaccessible to a lot of the world. Google'd Android is the only option if you can't shell out for an iPhone (assuming you don't want to buy an unsupported 5+ year old device
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Does Fastmail have any clout in Europe? I've been a customer for the better part of a decade (with my own domain name) and I've never had a mail delivery issue.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
This is speculation tinged with economics dogma.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
And it's easy to miss them as several have been covered over or filled in, depending on where you are and how big it was.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Other types of ships also had castles, such as the carrack and galleon. They are super tall and ungainly looking compared to modern ships, even those from the 19th and 18th centuries.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
I came across this medievalists site the other day in a search and quickly realized it's SEO slop. Unsurprising that they are branching out into niche topics now that more typical areas (food, home improvement, software, etc) are becom
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Prediction: In 2026 the Trump administration will attempt to ban all other forms of voting and will claim that it is in the interests of election security, because the Democrats can't be trusted to count votes (remember the 2020 electi
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
Efficiency for the voter and efficiency for the vote counting process are totally different things.
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
One thing that often gets forgotten in the discussions about whether to soft delete and how to do it is: what about analysis of your data? Even if you don't have a data science team, or even a dedicated business analyst, there's a
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
I can't edit my own post but there are two other big differences between the Prolog example and the Word2Vec example. 1. The W2V example is approximate. Not "fuzzy" in the sense of fuzzy logic. I mean that Man Woman Queen Kin
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by nerdponx 8mo ago
The difference is that Word2Vec "learned" these relationships auto-magically from the patterns in the surrounding words in the context in which they appear in written text. Don't forget that this was a revolutionary result at

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