pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Although if apple didn't have Siri, then they would likely allow other voice assistants on the platform, and you'd have 'dictation by alexa' instead.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Here is a news report with video footage of one such incident (the part where the victim is decapitated is clipped from the report): https://youtu.be/3IwhsYfnNvs I am personally aware of quite a few speedboat related accide
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
False negatives are more worrying. On a small speedboat, a common cause of death is that the captain falls overboard while the boat is doing a sharp turn at speed. The boat then does a 360 circle and within 10 seconds runs over the capta
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
You should also design all your code to be rollbackable... But for the very rare case that a rollback won't solve the problem (eg. An outage is caused by changes outside your organisation's control), you also need to be able to
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Obviously you do everything possible to stop an outage like this happening... But when it inevitably does, you should be prepared for a full system simultaneous restart. Ie. So that no 'bad' signals or data from the old system c
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Twitter indexing was basically real-time - you could see a tweet within a few minutes of it being made Mastodon seems to take many days to appear, if at all. I suspect Google just scrapes the webui occasionally and doesn't use any pus
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I never really saw how making the counters random helped fight bots. Anyone who wants to know if their bot armies upvotes are counted can just choose 2000 articles, upvote a random half, then see if the half they upvoted have higher vote ta
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
They didn't give permission for the internet service to launch there. But they did give overflight permission.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Remember that Loon, the USA Google balloon project, sent similar balloons around the world, including over China. They didn't shoot our balloons down.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Ask someone local. What's available and rules vary really widely city to city. What makes sense financially also depends on your building construction, climate and fuel prices, which also depends a lot on location.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I just filtered for the word yeti. I don't want a yeti hopper...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
All of those things look pretty 'fixable' in the game of cat and mouse ...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I really want to see ssd manufacturers offer a decent warranty... This drive costs $100, and will last 10 years or until 100TB has been written to it, as long as you keep it within the specified temperature/humidity/power conditio
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It's a shame this is US only. Typically companies that do that will later release in ~10 more countries, or maybe even 50 more, and then give up. If you live in Mozambique, the chances of ever being able to buy this are pretty much nil
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Sketch of a design to solve this: Company can upload some prompts to OpenAI, and be given 'prompt tokens'. Then companies client side app can run a query with '<prompt_token>[user data]<other_prompt_token>'.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It's the chicken and egg problem... If you started a new card provider today, you'd need to get consumers onboard, banks onboard, merchants onboard, and every card machine in the world replaced to accept your new card type. The
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
PayPal does the same... For non-us citizens, USD's either incur a conversation fee to another currency, or an international withdrawal fee. There is no way to get money out without paying one or other fee.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
The patch causes a different root filesystem to be used. Specifically, if the kernel command line specifies a root filesystem that must be used, then that one will always be mounted, even if other devices are available.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> could have involved the use of your phone number to send and receive phone calls Surely from their logs they know if these calls/texts happened? If, during that period no calls/sms's occurred, then there has been no br
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I think no company should be allowed limited liability/bankruptcy protection. If a company can't pay its debts, the shareholders should be required to pay.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
ChatGPT seems to do better on all these prompts...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
All of these things are kinda a necessary consequence of the way the app works. It's a social network... You should consider everything you do on it to be public...
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
This is a neat shower thought... But I don't think it's worth writing an article until you have some results.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I'm fairly confident that something like this wouldn't have been discovered in the USA. 14,000 deaths by asthma like causes spread over 10 years in a population of 300 million is going to disappear into the noise. There is nobody
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There are undoubtedly more things like this waiting to be discovered. Killing large numbers of people 'statistically' is easy when nobody can identify a direct cause for any individual death. See: air pollutants. I worry that da
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
FSD actually isn't a big part of what Tesla sells. They have $1B set aside from sales revenues of the FSD option to pay for implementation. That sounds like a big number, but it's less than the revenue of 2 days car production.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
If you buy anything online (in Europe at least), you can return it for a full refund within 14 days if you don't like it.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
So why didn't they implement the HLT instruction as simply a 'jump to self' infinite loop? Then no special logic would be needed, no extra states, etc. Sure - there would be no power savings, and the memory bus wouldn't
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
When I buy from AliExpress I feel like perhaps only 80% of items work properly for a reasonable lifespan... I still buy there because I quite like the challenge of repairing the things that don't work, and prices there are typically ha
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
In Europe, by law it is the retailer responsible for warranty claims. Many manufacturers will also offer warranty service, and it is up to you the customer which you want to use. Often manufacturers try to persuade you to contact them fi

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