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by rogerb 2mo ago
It states that it causes no ordinary harm, implying it causes extra ordinary harm, I.e. incredible harm.
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by rogerb 4mo ago
>>The reason is that if you're truly good at something, if you have a real talent for it, then it's easy for you to do it well from the start, so you rarely judge it or realize how good you are. I've often wondered abou
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by rogerb 1y ago
No discussion of shielding in this article :(
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by rogerb 3y ago
Seems to be fixed now: "On Wednesday, Apple released iOS 17.1. Among the various fixes was a patch for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42846, which prevented the privacy feature from working. Tommy Mysk, one of the two security re
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by rogerb 4y ago
Never meet your heroes.
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by rogerb 4y ago
Replacing sql analysis would be more correct than replacing a sql analyst.
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by rogerb 4y ago
Very cool and well done.. is this retarget-able to the 6502 ?
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by rogerb 4y ago
prompt: write a short essay as a scientist which is better, celsius or fahrentheit partial answer which some faulty reasoning about precision: First, the Celsius scale is based on a more intuitive and logical reference point. The Celsius sc
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by rogerb 4y ago
:( Looking for Mastodon users progress, scanned 366 of 366 users you follow on Twitter. Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon who have previously linked their Twitter and Mastodon accounts by logging into Twitodon.
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by rogerb 4y ago
Have a look at this: https://en.chessbase.com/post/is-hans-niemann-cheating-world...
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by rogerb 4y ago
> understand that your want for a new vehicle every couple years you're making a lot of assumptions here. In general I'd agree with you.
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by rogerb 4y ago
AFAICT it was totally random. I would keep my hands on the wheel at all time but even then it felt very surprising. After a couple of times I never engaged it again, except for couple of times to show others how ridiculously bad it all was.
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by rogerb 4y ago
Slightly off topic: I am the owner of a Tesla, and until recently a 2021 model 5 series BMW. The 5 series had 'keep your lane' and 'follow' functionality, and I've been absolutely flabbergasted that this functionali
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by rogerb 5y ago
A lot of the comments (not all) really personalize the issue by using Jeff Bezos as the villain, when it's the system and laws that have allowed him to capture so much wealth that is the problem. And IMHO, that's the part that nee
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by rogerb 5y ago
Every time I see a Fabrice Bellard submission here - it's like a little cake that you found in your fridge unexpectedly. Great stuff!
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by rogerb 6y ago
I like the thinking. I visited the Netherlands, and some of the last mile vehicles I saw there are amazing. Think electrified cargo bikes - stunning and moz def the future :)
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by rogerb 6y ago
Yep: http://sbcl.org/platform-table.html
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by rogerb 6y ago
Its (obviously) not about the renumeration of any individual, but about accountability of the source. There are several examples - Tabacco, Asbestos, Bopal, Oil, Medication, ... where billions of dollars of fines assessed against the source
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by rogerb 6y ago
I'd love to see a class action lawsuit keeping the people who lied accountable for the amount of additional waste in effort, resources that are used to separate and collect these separate streams. Stuff like this (h/t @neltnerb):
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by rogerb 7y ago
I love seeing this: there are massive opportunities to build fundamentally differently architected database based on evolving computer architectures (ram, persistent ram, GPU, heck - even custom hardware) as well as improved understanding o
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by rogerb 7y ago
Fantastic implementation - rock solid. It does feel like the OS X version trails the rest of the platforms, is that true ? It hasn't mattered much for the work I've done with it but curious.
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by rogerb 7y ago
That was a thing for a while to protest real estate speculators, but its considerable less now.
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by rogerb 8y ago
No
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by rogerb 8y ago
I have this pet peeve towards "unstructured data". There's no such thing - only data you don't understand the structure of. :P
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by rogerb 8y ago
I'm not defending the idiotic system that is US healthcare, but you can opt in to COBRA until you find something else. 2 main disadvantages are that it is time bound (i think max 12 months) and it is expensive, you have to pay both the
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by rogerb 8y ago
If you have insurance through your employer you'll be ok. If you don't you'll pay anywhere between $800 and $3000, a month, for healtcare.
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by rogerb 8y ago
In Australia we went to the doctor after my kid had an allergic reaction. They medicated him, had a nurse within 10 feet and kept him for 6 hours until symptons receded. Total cost - AUD$40. The US systom is absolutely insane, expensive an
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by rogerb 8y ago
It might be a little hard for you to understand - but on the other side of the USA is... another country ! And they are free to do whatever they want, which in the case of developed countries is universal health care !
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by rogerb 8y ago
I live in the US and I pay taxes in the US, so yes - healthcare for US citizens/residents paid for by US/citizens residents ends at the borders. If there is a better, more efficient system that is morally right (i.e. provides bas
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by rogerb 8y ago
That's a different question which is outside of the scope of healthcare in the US IMO.

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