orthoxerox

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by orthoxerox 7d ago
I used Lotus Notes in the 00s and 10s and greatly preferred it to Outlook. The full featured one, not the OWA version. Yes, the UI was clunky, but it was quick. It was McMaster-Carr quick. The mail client was never a barrier between you and
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by orthoxerox 22d ago
What will they do if they learn you installed your minisplit yourself?
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by orthoxerox 22d ago
As a European, I expect the waiter to show their face within 5 minutes, at least to ask if we want anything to drink while still determining what to eat.
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by orthoxerox 22d ago
You'd still need to reverse engineer it to build a better firmware without this anti-feature.
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by orthoxerox 24d ago
Just like how you need two legs to walk, you should regularly switch between reading and writing. You can't learn what to look for in the writing of others until you write something yourself. And you can't find your own voice unti
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by orthoxerox 24d ago
It more or less was. He grew up in an extremely cosmopolitan household and was trilingual.
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by orthoxerox 24d ago
The first problem with web serials is that you write your weakest chapters first and release them into the wild. The second problem is writing too much. I am reading a popular web serial right now to see what's all the fuss is about an
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by orthoxerox 25d ago
OOXML is incredibly complicated, but LLMs can write it well enough. One of my colleagues was using an LLM to generate PNG slides for a presentation. They looked pretty, but changing anything was a pain. I fed the images to free ChatGPT and
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by orthoxerox 29d ago
If I remember correctly, the second book was published posthumously, and my guess is the editor's hands were tied.
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by orthoxerox 29d ago
Their ads could star the Kardashians.
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by orthoxerox 29d ago
Are you the staring Brazilian piano player?
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
DuckDB keeps getting better and better. I wonder when something like Apache Gluten will pick it up as a backend.
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
There's a link to Dynomight's webpage in another comment thread. I've seen olo myself with it. It's to cyan what ultramarine is to sRGB blue.
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
I think I've read a short story by Cory Doctorow that explored this misconception.
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
In general, yes. But Hive, for example, doesn't support embedded newlines or record separators that are not newlines, which means that a lot of older CSV files containing big data do not allow quoted newlines.
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
That one is honest at least, makes you aware that you're the product.
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
How can you tell?
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by orthoxerox 1mo ago
...20% of the attacks causing 80% of the casualties?
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Were they the villains? I remember the rogue three-letter-agency executive being the BBEG.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Not "life", "wholeness". I also quit midway through the second book out of four, too much woo.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Text boxes should jiggle where I click them, not always in the middle. Drop-down boxes do this correctly.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Ukrainians were the Soviets. It's like Scotland complaining about British colonial policy.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
You can fit a Jetson Orin Nano on a winged drone. It has plenty enough power to run a vision model.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Yeah, just a smaller version, naval CIWS are designed to shoot down missiles.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Dazzle camouflage doesn't work on killer drones. Even civilian LLMs recognize that the object on the photograph is a military truck, except they can't explain why it's been painted to resemble a zebra. Most dedicated machine
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
Why won't EMS providers strip down their services to the level where Medicare/Medicaid rates completely cover their costs?
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
People (like the guy from the article) literally take Uber rides instead of ambulances, so they are a reasonable substitute good in many cases.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
It says, "Officials are checking whether travelers have received draft notifications". Which means not everyone in this age bracket is prevented from leaving, only literal draft dodgers.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
> Why not conscript the bulk of their manpower reserves and actually invade in earnest? Because it's hugely politically unpopular. There's a risk that this will happen after the parliamentary election this autumn.
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by orthoxerox 2mo ago
> The draft in Russia now covers all males from 18 to 30. In that age range, men can no longer leave Russia. This is incorrect.

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