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by slyall 6d ago
There is also this video that dropped last week if people are interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC8zIESRyVs " WordPress powers about 41% of the internet. It took Matt Mullenweg twenty years to build that. It
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by slyall 10d ago
Yes. https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3
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by slyall 1mo ago
From yesterday 100 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285418 Also just one station not all of PBS
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by slyall 1mo ago
NZ had very strong lockdown but once the country had zero covid there were months of no lockdowns at all. Other countries had longer lockdowns or even when they didn't people were not going to concerts etc.
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The Fifteen-Minute Principal Engineer(markatwood.substack.com)
1 points by slyall 1mo ago|0 comments
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by slyall 2mo ago
I guess you've never come across electric heaters or if you want to go into the bedroom electric blankets ( 5000 fires per year in the UK in 2011 )
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by slyall 2mo ago
The "PGA Tour Champions" ( formally the Senior Tour ) has golf players over 50 and pretty much does what you suggest.
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by slyall 2mo ago
"who failed to live their faith" - ie if they had lived up to their faith would have been good. I'm saying that the practice of "faith" and being "good" are largely unconnected. There are plenty of faithfu
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by slyall 2mo ago
I was mainly replying to this sentence: " Others have been hurt by Christians who failed to live their faith or were otherwise misguided in their actions or teachings. "
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by slyall 2mo ago
A thing you might want to consider is that how "good" a person is is largely independent from their level of religious faith. It is common for religious people to assume they are linked and that a religious person does good deeds
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by slyall 2mo ago
Good creator of AI music videos (with human editing etc) is "ALFfx Visual DJ" Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lWArXcsxYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn-4lIFhybA https://ww
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by slyall 2mo ago
Well just live somewhere that is so lacking in density there is no congestion. Or a small town that is surrounded by farms. Just avoid suburban housing as far as the eye can see with a limited number of roads everyone gets funneled on to.
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by slyall 2mo ago
Remember you are only seeing a selection of the thousands of times this has happened. The drone operating side will release more of the ones where it didn't work. It does work at least sometimes. If it didn't work at all soldiers
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by slyall 2mo ago
Left out Charles Hamilton It has been estimated by the researchers Lofts and Adley that Hamilton wrote around 100 million words or the equivalent of 1,200 average-length novels, making him the most prolific author in history. He is known t
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by slyall 3mo ago
> massive overspend until someone notices and has to painstakingly go round checking what all your instances are for. and when you reduce your companies AWS spend by 30% (which is usually easy) you get a good review/bonus/prom
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by slyall 3mo ago
If copyright was shorter blockbuster movies could still recycle comic book characters from the 50s. It just means that any filmmaker could do it rather than just who can afford to pay Marvel/DC
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by slyall 3mo ago
Except that the timezone in British Columbia has now changed. Lets say you stored the appointment for November in UTC. So you set the time to 10pm UTC to match 2pm British Columbia. But because the timezone for BC has changed that 10pm now
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by slyall 3mo ago
Because traffic laws work for cars and pedestrians. Anything else in between in fuzzy and hard to define or legislate
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by slyall 3mo ago
Did you read the article. Half the problem is the government regulations ( stairwells, elevators, parking ) that force the developer to build things worse.
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by slyall 4mo ago
I've also seen people using the term "slop" for low quality human-generated content (lowbrow movies etc)
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by slyall 4mo ago
One of my favorite tunes ever is from Northern Exposure: Expeditions The Silence by Mike Koglin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDdM_0sotY Yeah, I was/am a Depeche Mode fan
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by slyall 4mo ago
Definitely agree in some cases. eg where I live ( Auckland, New Zealand ) plenty of people read stories in the local paper or facebook that highlight every single incident in the Central city. So they are scared to go there. Reality is thou
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How a $1k AWS Bill Made Me Redesign My ECS Architecture(jch254.com)
5 points by slyall 5mo ago|2 comments
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by slyall 5mo ago
But if you did the exercise 10 years ago you'd find the lyrics were originally about the songwriter's daughter and the band tweaked it to be able the the band manager's hypochondriac ex boyfriend. Then they hired a session si
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by slyall 5mo ago
I'm using it too. Unfortunately their Android support is a little rough these days. Their official client stopped being developed and while there are options it isn't straightforward
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by slyall 5mo ago
They charge for a lot of things "by the hour". Things like S3, load balancers, storage. Deleting those when a customer hits a limit will lose customer data or remove things that might be hard to add back. The "I hit my AWS li
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by slyall 5mo ago
20/68 is for human comfort/health.
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by slyall 5mo ago
Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.
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by slyall 5mo ago
A few do. At the extreme end you'll get invited to conferences but further down you could have other products you are pushing. Even non-AI related that takes advantage of your "smart person" public persona.
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by slyall 5mo ago
Pretty common for authors to get people to pre-order their books so when they go on sale they top the chart for that day (the book's release day) in their category.

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