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by rrwo 2y ago
I think the cost of paying for a dedicated email service is worth it. (There are plenty of smaller, privacy-oriented services such as Proton Mail or Fast Mail.) They're better at it than I am, and it means I don't have to fill up
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by rrwo 2y ago
One solution is to use a unique email address for every website, and change the address if the site gets compromised (with the old address getting added to a spam filter).
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by rrwo 2y ago
The last thing anyone wants a smart home assistant for is to purchase stuff. Controlling lights, heating and cooling, play music, find information, yes. But shopping is unexciting and low on the list.
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by rrwo 2y ago
Depends on how much you're willing to pay and how long you're willing to wait for them to be available. The best carpenters will be making custom furniture and wood panels for mansions, and have multi-year waiting lists. There are
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by rrwo 2y ago
The problem with OpenAI isn't about the license or where it's hosted. The problem is that it's not intelligent. It's a word salad generator.
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by rrwo 2y ago
This reminds me of a story that I heard from a tree surgeon. A customer complained about the cost of removing a tree as it was "unskilled" labour, and he asked them if they knew how to remove a 30-metre high tree without it fallin
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by rrwo 2y ago
Thanks for posting that. People tend to overlook that the technologies we use today have a much older history.
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by rrwo 2y ago
A tool like that won't replace auditing dependencies. The total age of dependencies tell you nothing useful.
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by rrwo 2y ago
Why are you in a worse position? That depends on the changes to the library since, and how and where the library is used. Suppose I regularly generate a CSV file, all ASCII, where all the rows are integers or fixed precision numbers. I have
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by rrwo 2y ago
This also wrongly assumes that newer is better. For example, CLDR changed the UK abbreviation for September from "Sep" to "Sept" and broke a lot of code as libraries used newer versions of the data https://uni
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by rrwo 2y ago
Stack Overflow has been less useful for several years before OpenAI. I find for web technologies it's less useful because the technologies keep change, and what was a good answer in 2010 is not now. To answer questions I find it more
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by rrwo 3y ago
There was a paper in early 2000s with some mathematical modeling about that, see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo... TLDR all Europeans may have a common ancestor as late as 1400 BCE, maybe
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by rrwo 3y ago
I suspect that enforcement of licences will be based on who owns the licence. A large corporation? Of course. You're not even aloud to talk about the product without paying a fee. A small creator? Oh no, it's fair use.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes, it means that the plastic is going to start entering the good chain there. Plastiglomerate rocks mean that there are bits of plastic in the soil, and this will be consumed by plants and worms, which will be consumed by animals that ea
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by rrwo 4y ago
Sometimes a feature request is considered a bug by customers: this product would be easier to use if we could do X, and the competing product lets us to that.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Deleting old schema migrations is just busywork. It doesn't hurt if they are there. Disk space isn't a problem, and they still take up space in git repo anyway.
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by rrwo 4y ago
The US authorities can deny a visa or even entry for those already have a visa for petty, arbitrary reasons, including the suspicion that you might engage in "immoral activities". It does not matter whether it is legal in the US.
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by rrwo 4y ago
US law only applies to the US, and what is legal is not the same as what is moral. As for fair use, this is not the same as someone remixing or sampling songs, or writing fan fiction or satire or quoting works for criticism. People do not w
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by rrwo 4y ago
No, it isn't. If I publish something on the internet, I am only making it available for people to read. That does not give anyone the right to use it in other ways.
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by rrwo 4y ago
It's not being "woke" at all. Usually "woke" people are accused of accommodating other cultures to the detriment of "Western" culture. But here you're using it to criticize Westerners for not accomm
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by rrwo 4y ago
A significant number of Americans and Europe whose ancestors weren't directly persecuted by nazis, but who fought in WW2 against the nazis and fascists, and they also find the swastika offensive. Also note that the nazis also murdered
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by rrwo 4y ago
The symbol is going to be associated with nazis so long as nazis keep using it, and people in the west (especially for places and people affected by the nazis) will find it offensive.
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by rrwo 4y ago
IP-based location is mostly usable for country. I've rarely found it gets the city right, often it doesn't even get the county right.
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by rrwo 4y ago
It makes sense to use geolocation for search. It's not just for searching for businesses, as the meaning of a word you are searching for will depend on where you are. IP-based geolocation isn't very reliable. And if people are usi
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by rrwo 4y ago
"A deadly explosion in Poland kicked off hours of near-gleeful speculation about whether NATO would join the fight against Russia." I don't think it was "gleeful" at all. It seems like NATO members were scrambling a
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by rrwo 4y ago
You need people to monitor bwhat users are doing. They realize that users are doing X and Y manually to do Z. So you implement feature Z. If you don't, then a competitor that implements Z might become more appealing to users. But featu
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by rrwo 4y ago
Losing 80% of employees is not the same as losing 80% of the workload. Much of that workload isn't going away, even if they are ignoring it.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Another problem is that the better employees can move to better jobs more easily. So when management becomes a problem, they'll move elsewhere, and that will inspire more employees to leave. You end up with the less productive employee
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by rrwo 4y ago
A company like Twitter isn't made up of just "software engineers". Besides writing software, (likely different) people are deploying and running it, testing and integrating it with other systems, monitoring it, securing it. A
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by rrwo 4y ago
With a couple of exceptions, it looks like the further north a country is, the higher the antidepressant usage is.

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