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by ocrow 2mo ago
Seems like a coherent, sensible proposal, as one might expect from djb. Any notable protocols use them?
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by ocrow 4mo ago
It's rational to oppose Flock cameras in particular, while admitting that secure publicly accountable camera use for police purposes may have a legitimate place. YouTuber Benn Jordan did a pretty decent break down of how Flock is not t
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by ocrow 5mo ago
I've tried this approach of instructing the LLM to look for opportunities to abstract, but it's not good at finding the commonalities after the fact, when possibly related functions have already diverted unnecessarily. It writes &
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by ocrow 8mo ago
To most effectively enable stalking applications
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by ocrow 8mo ago
Yes! Curiosity is the way to open these doors. The first step is to keep a log of your thoughts. Anything that pops up, write it in your ideas book. Having ideas isn't an all or nothing. It's a practice. Get into the practice of w
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by ocrow 9mo ago
I had a family member who had sudden onset of massive seizures. He could not remember any of his passwords or hints at all. It was a real challenge getting into any of his accounts to figure out what needed doing.
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by ocrow 9mo ago
A lot of LLM/AI writing these days can feel lost in the weeds – the specifics of very detailed techniques are interesting undoubtedly, but writing that steps back and looks at the big picture, informed by those details, could be very u
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by ocrow 10mo ago
This is a good check on how good your help request is. Hopefully the problem statement includes a brief summary of the approaches already tried and why those were dismissed.
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by ocrow 11mo ago
They can ask. We're the ones choosing to ignore his wish.
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by ocrow 11mo ago
I think Alzheimer's is a particularly difficult case. Before diagnosis, many of us imagine that we wouldn't want to exist in a highly deteriorated state with no ability to care for ourselves. But as you start to decline, you still
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by ocrow 1y ago
Mid X here. The name doesn't bother me. If it works that'd be fine. OTOH this doesn't solve a problem I have. I rigorously unsubscribe all promotional emails, and that seems to work fine.
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by ocrow 1y ago
To unpack that a little, he looks to the writings of the early developers of object oriented programming and identifies the ways this assumption became established. People like Bjarne Stroustrup (developer of C++) took on and promulgated th
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by ocrow 1y ago
It's more specific than that. See sibling comment
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by ocrow 1y ago
The drawback of Ibuprofen is that it tends to cause damage to stomach and intestinal linings. That's why you are advised to take with food and/or lots of water. You don't want it absorbing all in one place. Long term use exac
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by ocrow 2y ago
For one, the OpsWorks configuration management tool is being replaced with Management Console, which is more encompassing, but different. You have to manually migrate or rebuild any deployed resources from one to the other.
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by ocrow 2y ago
It's quite configurable, allowing different key combinations for different window arrangement functions, but the most useful one is that it allows you to bring a single window from another application to the top without rearranging the
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by ocrow 2y ago
The rate of spam to a form is roughly constant over time, whereas the rate of spam to a published email address goes up over time as the site is repeatedly scanned by spam robots and the address added to more and more spammer lists. While s
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by ocrow 2y ago
Both Android and iOS, but especially iOS, have made large accessibility regressions by switching to a frequently gesture based interface where all sorts of quite similar swipes do different things changing the screen context and revealing h
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by ocrow 2y ago
A financial Power of Attorney is the legal document that gives you the ability to act as that person legally in most ways. It requires only the person to sign the PoA document. Using it often requires some bureaucratic hoop jumping, but tha
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by ocrow 3y ago
They're really stretching the definition of readable.
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by ocrow 3y ago
AR goggles have a relatively narrow field of vision making it less likely to notice peripheral movement, such is critical for driving. They have quite short battery life – just a couple of hours. When they fail, you are effectively blind un
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by ocrow 3y ago
So ... hire staff to manage that complexity?
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by ocrow 3y ago
Context?
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by ocrow 3y ago
Does anyone else remember Jeff Minter's virtual light machine (VLM) and other early experimental digital interactive light shows?
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by ocrow 3y ago
A global database of which DKIM keys were served by which mail domains on which day would not be hard for anyone to create and would make it possible to cryptographically validate the sending host after the fact, even for hosts that rotated
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by ocrow 3y ago
Factor in that the carbon is only captured so long as the forest survives. If the forest burns or the trees fall and rot, the carbon is returned to the atmosphere unless and until new trees grow.
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by ocrow 3y ago
We should legalize jaywalking, since it was an invention of the car industry to deflect attention from how dangerous their products were (and are) and is unnecessary for a functioning society. I realize you're using the example rhetori
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by ocrow 3y ago
I'm glad the author chose to disclose this information, but it does make me wonder – was the role of GPT to edit and organize the thoughts or to provide the historic facts? I have misgivings if it's the latter.
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by ocrow 3y ago
You're implying a causative link between the visibility of consumer recycling and the prevalence of plastics, but I don't see that there is one. Is there more plastic packaging now because consumers demand it, or because producers
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by ocrow 3y ago
I'm not familiar with Notion. How does this compare to something like Obsidian?

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