simmonmt

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by simmonmt 4d ago
It's not entirely the fault of the industry. Consumer preferences are part of this equation too. https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertising/roku-vizio-lean-... If consumers are unwilling to shell out for a TV pri
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by simmonmt 3mo ago
Maybe? If you assume a cell can just disappear at a moment's notice, then I'm guessing you don't even try backing it up. Whatever goes into and out of the cell (request logs and results) gets backed up, and no doubt that&#x27
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by simmonmt 3mo ago
Yep. When did virtual screens come in? My last full time experience with X was with Xsun in the early 2000s under Solaris. There was a shared cursor, I thought you could drag windows between monitors, but I also thought the DISPLAY variable
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by simmonmt 3mo ago
This is pretty cool - especially that it's at the point where it can be used with a real window manager. I'm curious why multiple screens is considered legacy baggage and thus out of scope, given how common multiple monitor setups
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by simmonmt 4mo ago
This was one of the reasons given, at the time, for why Netflix created fast.com. It's served by the same infra that does their streaming, and is thus difficult for isps to game. That is, it'd be hard for them to do some hack to m
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by simmonmt 4mo ago
I mean ... step 1 is probably fixing the part where it lands in the ocean, falls over and explodes. Once they've done that and can get their hands on the tiles I'm guessing they can continue to iterate there until they get a more
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by simmonmt 4mo ago
It jumped out at me too, but because I wondered what it would look like in the AI version of this story. Having had it build the SQL version do you ... a) miss the leap because you don't understand how it works, don't care to know
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by simmonmt 5mo ago
That's true, but the human can do a much better job planning for the journey if they know what to expect along the way. One example, from the end of the journey: knowing in advance where the actual entrance to the business is, or the s
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by simmonmt 5mo ago
> When they want data about a school intersection in SF at a certain time of day, they just... synthetically generate it and simulate I think it's more about detecting changes to the world. You need boots on the ground, so to speak,
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by simmonmt 5mo ago
I think he meant a very small (stub) MEMORY.md whose sole contents are something like "don't write here - write there".
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by simmonmt 5mo ago
If you consider say elevator music - music that's just there to fill space, rather than to be listened too - then I don't think there's that much difference between using AI to produce it and using AI to produce clip art or b
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by simmonmt 7mo ago
That's an anti pattern, at least the way we use it. If you need to add complexity, you define custom functions. If that's not enough, CEL probably isn't the right choice, and you'd be doing yourself no favors banging it
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by simmonmt 8mo ago
Interesting. I made the same jump and noticed a huge increase in speed and decrease in memory pressure (the likelihood that iOS will kill an app I've switched away from). I miss the physical silent mode button though.
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by simmonmt 8mo ago
The alternative is not charging. JFK somehow manages. Yes there's traffic, but it keeps slowly moving.
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by simmonmt 9mo ago
I'm not normally a fan of tips, but this seems like a reasonable use of one to me. The picker isn't paid on the shininess of the apple they bring you -- they're paid to pick as quickly as they can from what's on offer. T
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by simmonmt 10mo ago
They stopped building B2 bombers 25 years ago.
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by simmonmt 11mo ago
Fewer challenges, but no more space between them. They still come out daily starting December 1st. They just stop coming sooner.
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by simmonmt 11mo ago
Costs are a big thing, sure, but for me it's electrical reliability. For better or worse our heating oil and natural gas supply are both more reliable than our electricity supply. I don't need the heat going out in the dead of win
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by simmonmt 11mo ago
It depends on the item. Let's take this screw pitch gage: https://www.starrett.com/details?cat-no=155 Starrett doesn't really compete on price, as evidenced by the fact that this is a $95 item whereas the cheap al
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by simmonmt 1y ago
TFA is a very short blog post that says you should go watch this YouTube video. Here's a direct link to the video: https://youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8?si=wra84H0R8fy2XCnd
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by simmonmt 1y ago
Uphill both ways
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by simmonmt 1y ago
The Children's Television Act didn't have anything to do with it? My understanding is that that's what brought in the E/I programming that fills (filled? it's been a few years since I looked) the space Saturday morn
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by simmonmt 1y ago
Nothing apart from Raspbian ... and Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/certified/202310-32202
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by simmonmt 1y ago
I'm not pinning anything. I'm commenting on why SpaceX failures get more press than SpaceX successes. If it bleeds it leads is the way it's always been. And I'd be remiss to point out that there's /more/ a
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by simmonmt 1y ago
If it bleeds it leads. Also a bunch of people are cheering Musk's failures, so anything along those lines gets even more clicks.
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by simmonmt 1y ago
"I have two guns. One for each of you"
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by simmonmt 2y ago
That's one possibility, but another is that they're deterred. Suddenly doing the bad thing hurts, so there's a good chance you'll go find some other person to pick on. But of course you can't /know/ the ou
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by simmonmt 2y ago
Probably more this sort of meddling: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-boosts-nra... , where New York leaned on banks and insurance companies to stop doing business with organizations they (the regu
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by simmonmt 2y ago
I think the mismatch here is in your definition of smartphone. Expand the definition to include any feature beyond placing and receiving phone calls. I live right next door to takes perverse pride in his inability to text. It's a thing
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by simmonmt 2y ago
You can enjoy living in a city but also enjoy outdoorsy pursuits. TTS is a measure of your ability to do both. It can also be a measure of the maximum size of city you enjoy. There are people who like cities but still wouldn't want to

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