renlo

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by renlo 14d ago
> Since the 2022 price change, according to the undoubtedly reliable numbers from the US government, consumer-price inflation has added up to almost exactly 20%. Enjoyed the sarcasm, but does anyone actually believe these numbers? Is the
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by renlo 1mo ago
It was neither backwards nor goofy for a man in 18th century Europe to create a system only his 18th century European peers could use (the only peers whom he could even come into contact with in 18th century Europe). What actually would be
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by renlo 1mo ago
My strategy these days is to scan and look for the tells and click out when I see them. Mine was the same "honestly ranked, with no silver bullets on offer". I suspect in less than a year we won't be able to tell the differen
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by renlo 1mo ago
A similar argument was made a couple of years ago, here's the rebuttal of the argument from back then [2022]: https://andersource.dev/2022/04/19/dk-autocorrelation.html
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by renlo 2mo ago
what happens to your database with all of these metrics coming in? edit: could loading a performance dashboard affect peoples ability to buy their product?
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by renlo 2mo ago
> That means that rightsholders can expect at least $3,000 per title (less costs and fees), which will be shared among the rightsholders for that title (if there is more than one rightsholder) > if there is more than one rightsholder
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by renlo 2mo ago
For the downvotes, my response is to read: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/wh... > If there is a current publisher(s) (which still possesses an exclusive license), the author(s) will s
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by renlo 2mo ago
remarkable / remarkable2 also work with KOReader. KOReader provides a very good ereader experience - can import dictionaries, export word lists (ie it tracks words you look up), and supports numerous ebook formats and lets you modify t
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by renlo 2mo ago
the irony is that all of this money will go to rent-seeking publishers who won't pass it on to the artists; basically a dispute between the wealthy you're upset with
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by renlo 3mo ago
> 1500 years I’m curious what the Lindy Effect would mean in this case
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by renlo 6mo ago
> When conditions are adverse, i.e. fog, heavy rain, the system simply shuts off and reverts back to manual driving. I also own a Tesla, and there is no indication shown to the user that FSD's vision is degraded. They need to add th
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by renlo 7mo ago
I use this tool, which allows one to select the branches to delete instead of just deleting everything: https://github.com/stefanwille/git-branch-delete Unfortunately its name makes it hard to search for and find.
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by renlo 8mo ago
“We have facts, they have falsities”. I think the crux of the issue here is that facts don’t exist in reality, they are subjective by their very nature. So we have on one side those who understand this, and absolutists like yourself who bel
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by renlo 9mo ago
The key is to work around the text input. If you want to say "kill myself", you input "kill my" then complete the "self" portion by pressing delete (remove space), then s-e-l-f. I feel like most of my typing ti
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by renlo 11mo ago
Most eye opening experience in my personal development was attending HR conferences (we sold an HR product but I am an engineer), where speakers were openly saying this out loud. I know you won’t believe me given your statement, but using c
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by renlo 11mo ago
Localstack makes that pretty easy. Before Localstack I had a pre-staging environment (dev) target I would deploy to. Their free/community offering includes a Lambda environment; you deploy your dev "Lambda" locally to docker,
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by renlo 1y ago
> The trouble is that "fast" doesn't mean anything without a point of comparison. This is what people are missing. Even those "slow" apps are faster than their alternatives. People demand and seek out "fast&
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by renlo 1y ago
as a layman, wouldn't you need a more-accurate clock to measure the accuracy of a clock? How is clock accuracy measured when the clock is the most accurate clock?
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by renlo 1y ago
felt more like an article legitimizing an origin myth than authorship
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by renlo 2y ago
Great video, I really enjoyed how down to earth it was. It reminded me of The Secret Life of Machines [1], where we get to peek behind the curtain and see how seemingly "magical" machines (in your case a digital computer) emerges
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by renlo 2y ago
Spotify used to have a "dislike" button for their Discover Weekly which helped with pruning music you don't like, but with the natural law of tech enshitification they removed that feature a month ago.
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by renlo 2y ago
function x() {/* ... */} const x = function() {/* ... */} const x = function foo() {/* ... */} const x = (function() {/* ... */}).bind(this) const x = (function foo() {/* .
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by renlo 2y ago
Agree that the repository/service pattern is a good way to adhere to separation of concerns and make refactoring and readability easier. That said, I really disagree with any precommit checks. Committing code should be thought of as ju
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by renlo 2y ago
He was saying that Uber will no longer operate in NL/EU, the pining was for "equal access to US services", not your data. FWIW, I am annoyed myself about having to accept GDPR popups on every website I visit, so I too pine fo
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by renlo 2y ago
As was LinkedIn, who was forced to rate stop limiting / IP-banning scrapers for public pages.
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by renlo 2y ago
I think the issue primarily is that there are two frames of reference used: "earlier" / "later" terms use the absolute frame of reference (time progressing forward), the numerical terms ("100s" / &quo
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by renlo 2y ago
Not to be pedantic but I was genuinely confused by this statement: > He lived and wrote in the late 200s and early 100s BCE Shouldn't this instead be phrased as: > He lived and wrote in the early 200s and late 100s BCE He was bor
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by renlo 2y ago
Who ever answers these questions truthfully though? It seems that this just tests for the ability to spin yarn at the interviewer. I was recently asked this question, and while I've had some disagreements with coworkers over minor thin
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by renlo 2y ago
non paywalled, found on Reddit: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-it-s-hard-to-g...
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by renlo 2y ago
> It shows that family/environment influences life outcomes Not to nitpick but this statement implies causation (family environment causes life outcome) which you contradict right after. Sorry to sound obtuse, but, I asked because i

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