rodgerd

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by rodgerd 1y ago
There's measurements to support your feeling that primes are better than zooms: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/11/stopping-down-some-... and https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2
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by rodgerd 1y ago
No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country.
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by rodgerd 1y ago
As you say, network programs activating from a master network management is, of course, the history of Unix. It's ironic to see knee-jerk complaints about it.
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by rodgerd 1y ago
This to me is interesting when it comes to free software projects; sure there are a lot of people contributing as their day job. But if you contribute or manage a project for the pleasure of it, things which undermine your enjoyment - clean
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by rodgerd 1y ago
There are already companies promising to attack Wikipedia and product LLM-bait YouTube content. Ship's sailed.
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by rodgerd 1y ago
Foxes live happily in urban areas all over Britain. The problem here is the Google employees.
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by rodgerd 1y ago
> AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business". AI companies have, in fact, said that the law shouldn't apply to them or they won't make m
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by rodgerd 1y ago
If you cared about your privacy, why are you handing all this stuff to Sam Altman? Did he represent that OpenAI would be privacy-preserving? Have they taken any technical steps to avoid this scenario?
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by rodgerd 1y ago
> Designers hated Nielsen. Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should actually be usable. It is still one of the high points of
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by rodgerd 1y ago
I imagine Telegram-based training data will bias Grok to reflect Musk's own views more reliably than any other platform out there.
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by rodgerd 1y ago
You're correct that Christian Zionists only care about Jews to the extent that the right number of them will be in Israel to be killed as part of the End Times prophecies based off of Revelations. But they are fanatical supporters of t
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by rodgerd 1y ago
Man, I remember the absolute hysteria here over the non-profit trying to reign Altman in. You'd have thought they were murdering babies. I agree with your analysis, but it's hilarious that it's now top-voted, when the sentime
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by rodgerd 1y ago
> South Korea The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.
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by rodgerd 1y ago
I mean it's true that there's a rule, but at this point in US history I think we have reason to be sceptical that it will be enforced.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
And yet South Africa and Israel aren't glass.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
It's stupider than that - a lot of people believe that the manufacturer will just eat a 25% hike in tax. Build a tariff wall and make China pay, as it were.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Before the election: "Project 2025 isn't real". Now: Oh you better believe it's real.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> This is obviously aimed at the Leica/Ricoh crowd, No-one who shoots M-mount at this point is giving up their rangefinder for an LCD-only camera with no viewfinder.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
"Worse glass" is a religious position if we're talking about Sigma glass. Especially considering how likely it is that any given name-brand lens is actually a Sigma design, or a Sigma design and build.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Firstly the main failure of connectors in cameras isn't the connector per se, it's generally the board that the connector is mounted on breaks off from the mainboard. Secondly, and more importantly, the lifespan of your camera is
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by rodgerd 2y ago
"We need you in the office for CoLlAboRaTIon." "OK, we'll have coffee after our morning standup." "Absolutely not."
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Would you say the East India Company had no command when its armies conquered India?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
The only CEO who I've worked for who I would describe as winning at capitalism is a former bank CEO who worked in the job for 8 years, retired in his late forties (IIRC) having pulled in a minimum of $50m over that time. And actually r
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by rodgerd 2y ago
The only formal study that I've seen shows that there is 15% more fraud in remote financial services work. Do you have any studies pointing to this being wrong?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
No-one you know, old person.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNJd06iyWU&t=7s
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I don't know. Why don't you ask Matthew Sheppard or Brandon Teena?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Donald Trump is a wallet inspector. So is Sam Altman.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs. This is why programmer-driven open source projects are a paragon of usability and have taken over 90% of the mobile phone, desktop, and app market.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I am a great deal more risk of being killed by a driver when I walk than I am being murdered on a train. Especially as Waymo program their death machines to blow through pedestrians at crossings 70% of the time.

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