semanticist

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by semanticist 4mo ago
GameStop's idea behind using their physical locations isn't for ease of shipping so much as ease of verification. People buying brand-name stuff off eBay (and Vinted, etc) pay for verification services to make sure that it's
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by semanticist 4mo ago
Not even ill gotten, the guy had legitimately pre-ordered them and was sent them early. They turned up at his door and threatened him and his wife, awful stuff.
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Code for Cats – or how your LLM is a cosplayer(colincornaby.me)
2 points by semanticist 8mo ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 9mo ago
There’s no reason to think this works fine given the readme mentions the author is waiting on their first meshtastic device to test against and the install instructions include ‘insert download link here’. It’s a shame this is just slop, an
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by semanticist 10mo ago
There's a difference between BMW ignoring their warranty and who gets found liable during the wrongful death lawsuit after the mechanic gets electrocuted due to poor/unsafe EV design. I'm sure BMW would love to not be liable
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by semanticist 11mo ago
"Prior to the most recent update, some Knives, like a Doppler Ruby Butterfly Knife, could fetch around $20,000 on third-party storefronts like CSFloat." They're mentioned right there in the article this is nominally meant to
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by semanticist 1y ago
The left accuse the BBC of bias because, eg, the new Green Party leader has not been on any relevant BBC politics programs while Farage and other right wing politicians are regular fixtures. The right accuse the BBC of bias because they fac
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by semanticist 1y ago
With 'ned' in the username I might've thought Glaswegian. :D
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by semanticist 1y ago
Red Dwarf used practical effects in the era when VideoToasters were a thing. For some reason the BBC replaced the lovely miniature shots of space ships with crap CG in a mid-2000s remaster.
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by semanticist 1y ago
The OP isn't talking about iPhone devs, they're talking about a decade before that when Apple was called 'Apple Computer' and had mad a series of bad business choices (confusing product line up, allowing other companie
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China just turned off us supplies of minerals critical for defense and cleantech(cleantechnica.com)
65 points by semanticist 1y ago|27 comments
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by semanticist 1y ago
If you're not familiar with MUDs than perhaps a system based on "being a MUD" just isn't aimed at you?
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by semanticist 1y ago
Literally the first piece of software I looked at there does not have any option I could find for paying once, just one and three year subscription plans. (NanoCAD.) So it looks like they'll list anyone who pays the fee, making the who
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Interview home coding tasks: my policy(hunsley.io)
2 points by semanticist 2y ago|1 comments
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by semanticist 2y ago
There's no ad breaks on the BBC.
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by semanticist 2y ago
Oh, that's a pity. I'm pretty bad at keeping up to date on MacOS releases, but I should probably start figuring out `wdutil` so that my muscle memory is adapted before I've got no choice!
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by semanticist 2y ago
Want to scan the local wifi networks from the command line, and get useful information like signal strength? /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -s I se
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by semanticist 2y ago
Apple offering expensive upgrades for storage and memory pre-dates the existence of iCloud storage by decades. It was entirely standard before MobileMe, or Apple offering any kind of "cloud" services. Apple just charge a lot of mo
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by semanticist 2y ago
That doesn't sounds like brilliant margins, to be honest. You've left out the entire "running a business" costs, plus the model training costs. They need to pay their staff, offices, and especially lawyers (for all the l
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by semanticist 2y ago
I don't think it really matters how much people love their product if every person using it costs them money. I'm sure people would love a company that sold US$10 bills for 25c, but it's not exactly a sustainable venture. Wil
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by semanticist 2y ago
Backup testing can be automated. I don't do this for my personal stuff, but at work there's a box that does a restore of our primary DB from backups, loads it into MySQL, and runs some smoke tests to make sure it looks roughly rig
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by semanticist 2y ago
This is called a 'cut-and-shut' and is considered to be extremely dangerous. There's no way you'd get insurance for one if you disclosed its origins, which he probably wasn't when he was selling them on. In the UK a
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by semanticist 2y ago
Even 'salaried' in the UK means a contract that has a specified number of hours in it. In theory if you work more than that you should be getting either overtime or time in lieu, but in practice that might not always happen depend
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by semanticist 2y ago
The statement doesn't say it's the Best Novel. Maybe there's someone who would happily drop a ton of money to be a Hugo-award-winning Professional Artist? Or maybe Paramount are desperate to beat Doctor Who in Dramatic Presen
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by semanticist 2y ago
Volunteering, not working. Few, if any, people involved in running a WorldCon are getting paid for it.
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The Humanmade Mark(humanmademark.com)
4 points by semanticist 2y ago|0 comments
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by semanticist 2y ago
They did in the '80s, after a run longer than the current revival. Sometimes things come in and out of fashion.
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by semanticist 2y ago
If the UK road system interests you at all in any way (if it doesn't, that's probably reasonable), I highly recommend Auto Shenanigans' 'Secrets of the Motorways' series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.co
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by semanticist 2y ago
"Limited liability" is specifically about not passing consequences through to owners (normally in the context of financial liability), and that's the language the OP used.
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by semanticist 2y ago
So the owner of Boeing should be held personally liable? Okay, cool, except Boeing is a publicly traded company which means that the 'owner' is countless individual shareholders around the world, many of which are in turn other co

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