njovin

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by njovin 23d ago
I'll bite. Things we had in December 2024 that we no longer have today, all of which contribute to the success or failure of major initiatives: - 2.9% inflation - Billions of dollars of grants for state-run energy projects - NATCAST
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by njovin 27d ago
Let's add Palantir to the list while we're at it.
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by njovin 2mo ago
We once interviewed a candidate for a senior engineering position and when asked what his primary role was at his current job, he said "I mostly make sure that nobody changes the software". He wasn't wrong, and his role was s
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by njovin 2mo ago
A better way to frame this might be that Apple tried VR and quickly realized the market wasn't there and moved on. Compare that to Meta, who went all-in (so much so that they changed the company name) despite apparent overwhelming user
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by njovin 2mo ago
The hill to die on might be the one behind your house that has a nice view of the illegal methane generators that these data centers are using, because they sure as hell aren't running on solar.
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by njovin 2mo ago
This is a core misconception about how the 2020 election results have been investigated. Trump has hired multiple qualified firms to find fraud in the 2020 election and thus far none of the reputable ones have found any. > they might tak
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by njovin 2mo ago
Doubtful, the ones I still receive come from people faking caller IDs so these are not good actors and can simply continue abusing the system.
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by njovin 2mo ago
If you're a California resident, under the CCPA you can submit a request for Thomson Reuters to both provide you with and then delete any information they have collected about you. The state's even setup a nice portal to automate
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by njovin 2mo ago
First they gave all the water away for free to big ag, and now they're doing the same with the power.
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by njovin 2mo ago
IANAL but if this is actually true then they're violating California law. I submitted a CCPA request to them to give me and delete everything they had on me. Their response is that they own no data, and I have to make the request to th
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by njovin 3mo ago
I would guess that users of the Steam machine would mostly be as locked-in to Steam purchases as PS5 users are to PS Store purchases. I stopped PC gaming about a decade ago and my current daily driver is a Macbook. I periodically play game
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by njovin 3mo ago
And here I thought my being a murder victim was bad. I looked up the city and year cited by the model for my untimely demise, and it turns out the crime is real, but the real victim was a female sharing my last name, with a middle name loos
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by njovin 3mo ago
> was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species I don't think they were. All the Mars stuff is just dressed up version of The Boring Company - a distraction by Elon to better position his other interest
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by njovin 3mo ago
Much in the same way that the company selling tickets and taking a percentage of all ticket resales shouldn't also own the venues which can then force artists to use a specific ticketing provider, thus creating a monopoly. We have anti
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by njovin 4mo ago
Not covered in the article are two critical reasons: 1. They're breaking environmental laws in order to meet power demands. xAI has already been busted on this [1], but they keep finding willing accomplices in rural parts of the count
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by njovin 4mo ago
Many of us recognize that the days of nearly-free tokens is quickly drawing to a close, and at some point humans may very well have to dig their keyboards out of cold storage and return once again to the code mines.
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by njovin 4mo ago
Have you tried drilling into the reasoning when this happens? This is why I usually leave it in "Plan Mode" and when it proposes a solution that seems unusual or unexpected, I point out why I think it is and ask it to justify it&
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by njovin 4mo ago
Depending on the rate difference, I'd be tempted to setup a 'burner' checking account at a separate financial institution and just auto-transfer the loan amount from my primary bank to the burner every month.
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by njovin 4mo ago
PHPStorm's indexing is incredible. Aside from a scant few times it's been corrupted, which is easily corrected, I've never gotten stale results. Although if you've ever used Claude's search tool, you'll be uns
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by njovin 4mo ago
And we're still selling what little water we have to foreign & domestic corporations for a fraction of what residential citizens pay. We are also refusing to maintain critical water-system infrastructure, setting ourselves up to lo
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by njovin 4mo ago
I've read the same, but for me, a newly-formatted microSD will overheat as soon as it's plugged into the MBP. The OS may be reading/writing something to cause that, but it's automated as part of the mounting process fro
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by njovin 4mo ago
Anecdotally, and as a big fan of Apple laptops, I've had so much trouble with their USB and SDCard hardware when it comes to data transfer that I wonder if I'm cursed or if I'm crazy. Transferring a about a dozen GB of data o
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by njovin 4mo ago
I've been through a handful of SOC2 audits and they've never asked us to _prove_ that we aren't storing passwords in plaintext or with reversible encryption (we weren't). This is why so much of vetting & compliance i
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by njovin 5mo ago
Microsoft buys github. Microsoft forces AI usage down everyone's throats. AI bot usage takes down github. I have to assume that there are some serious fights going on between the poor SRE teams wanting to throttle bots, and MS not want
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by njovin 5mo ago
I'm having a similar issue with Volvo. It occasionally sees a gate track on the ground as a 'hazard' and will hard-brake when slowly backing over it. It's inconsistent but happens regularly.
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by njovin 5mo ago
The ban is specifically on adjusting prices _per-consumer_ based on data known/collected/stolen/assumed about the consumer.
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by njovin 5mo ago
By whom? Which regulatory body is not completely captured in this administration?
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by njovin 5mo ago
+1 to that and I'll also add Cotopaxi and AER (quite expensive but built like a tank) to the list. My year-ish old backpack gave out so I recently committed to extensively researching and buying a new set of travel + tech bags that wi
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by njovin 5mo ago
> If they're out of state, prepare to deal with an expensive legal process > you won in a small claims court - good luck collecting While these statements are generally true, it shouldn't dissuade anyone from pursuing these
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by njovin 6mo ago
It can't be solved 100%, but it can be _mostly_ solved with systemic buy-in to the safety culture. Commercial aviation is a great example IMO. We've spent the last several decades making sure that every single person trained to p

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