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by sib 16d ago
Cornell / Merlin / eBird publishes a global species frequency DB indexed by location and date (so, how likely is a species to appear in a place, on a day of the year)... In a project that I was working on, this helped a lot when u
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by sib 20d ago
See current situation where the Carpenters' Union in California is pushing hard against an initiative that would make it much easier to build more housing in the state because it would also reduce requirements for union labor. Unions a
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by sib 21d ago
I mean given that effectively all other ISPs delivered nothing under these programs, it's a lot better for folks living in rural areas to get Starlink than nothing...
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by sib 25d ago
2 decades ago
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by sib 29d ago
I'm sorry, but how does a business writer lead an article with garbage like this: Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ads. Every week . Each week , they sell merchants and publishers enough search-distorting
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by sib 1mo ago
>> And a detection system that works 50%-90% of the time is better in a lot of cases than no automated detection at all. For example, universities need to make cheating with chatgpt risky for students. I would say that's not nece
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by sib 1mo ago
A different but equally interesting book about extreme sailing (solo race around the world in the 1960's): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6055.A_Voyage_for_Madmen
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by sib 1mo ago
"Not guilty" does not mean "did not do it" - it means "the state didn't prove that they did it beyond a reasonable doubt."
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by sib 2mo ago
"Disturbing" to be able to economically provide cooking, cleaning, laundry, yard maintenance, snow shoveling, etc., for an elderly parent who lives alone (by her choice)? Why is that disturbing?
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by sib 2mo ago
As a person in my 50's with a parent in her 80's, this would be incredibly useful right now. And I've got many, many friends in similar situations.
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by sib 2mo ago
>> Only one specific device can ever login > That's entirely service dependent, and the standard doesn't mandate "Service must not allow multiple passkeys" Unfortunately, given the laziness, incompetence, and co
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by sib 2mo ago
Yeah - and as a user, I don't want my device manufacturer to have that level of influence or control over the authentication that I use for unrelated services.
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by sib 2mo ago
Stronger than "don't care about" (at least if I and some friends I've discussed this with count as normal people): this is actively what I don't want ! I want control over my authentication and I don't want it
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by sib 2mo ago
Yeah - for sure I found it a bit strange... I guess the use cases (and maybe target users) are different: Merlin - Use lots of data, storage, and analysis to help me identify what bird this is eBird - I can personally identify lots and lots
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by sib 2mo ago
And their eBird app! A masterpiece of design for a user base that they deeply understand. Something of a learning curve, but extremely efficient and useful for advanced / expert users.
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by sib 2mo ago
I spent around 20 minutes arguing with ChatGPT when I asked the question and we eventually came to this conclusion... It's a visa that's not a visa.
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by sib 2mo ago
There are many examples of important paper records (property, birth/death, etc) being lost in fires or floods, so it's not the case that "everything worked perfectly fine" in those days either.
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by sib 2mo ago
Podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/
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by sib 2mo ago
>> The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job >> If knowledge and prestige is all that matters I disagree. The primary purpose of the college degree is the job. If you don't need a job (which derives from the signaling fa
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by sib 2mo ago
When all the "simple solutions" are "not that simple," maybe it's a problem with the regulations, not the solutions...
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by sib 2mo ago
Which is actually a good reason for entities subject to GDPR to forbid use of personal messaging apps on work devices... (And to forbid users to use work / official apps for personal messaging.)
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by sib 3mo ago
So... I used to work in the "digital movie & TV selling" industry. Our product detail pages, like pretty much all our competitors, had language on the call-to-action buttons that said "purchase" (and also, as an alte
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by sib 3mo ago
You can fit about 8,000 MacBook Pros into a 40-foot container in their retail packaging. If the cost of shipping a container went up by USD8,000 (a very large amount), that would be about USD1 per MBP. It's not the shipping that's
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by sib 3mo ago
A strategic reserve of a commodity that (historically) depreciates at ~50% per year is a terrible trade for occasionally avoiding demand-driven price spikes.
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by sib 3mo ago
Is that relevant here, given that Google was creating an official thing quite close to his thing at the same time? (And why are we writing like this?)
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by sib 3mo ago
Pretty sure that the agreement that Google employees sign (a "contract") when hired reflects exactly that. At least at did when I joined (I left > 3 years ago, speaking here only for myself...)
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by sib 3mo ago
I mean, if you look at it that way, it's already named 100% after a single company...
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by sib 3mo ago
>> how can a general purpose robot perform them better Better than what? It seems that as long as they perform the tasks "better" (cheaper / faster / lower-error) than the humans that are currently performing them,
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by sib 3mo ago
You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years
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by sib 3mo ago
Sorry, but why is that a problem? If they didn't find someone, they closed the posting, then reopened it later, what is the issue? Or, as in some cases, perhaps they did find someone? I've been at companies where we hired many eng

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