thinknubpad

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by thinknubpad 4y ago
The two points aren't mutually exclusive. That sort of scleroticism can happen as systems become less representative. If there is no effective mechanism to remove populist decision makers who act like authoritarians, they will slowly a
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
I don't follow. If you're working remotely, you don't need to spend 8h of your waking time with other office drones. You can spend it near people you care about, interacting with your coworkers briefly as needed.
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
>It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable. We tried that before, outsourcing was a huge trend maybe 20-30 years ago? The problem is the second part of your sent
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
>im also not sure you can really correlate the fall of rome to a single oligarch hitman Probably not, but Crassus did live in the time of Rome's centuries-long inflection point. It's hard to use a phrase like "richest pers
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
>Depending on age, you may be able to prevent it from booting while still allowing the rest of the system to run, but probably not. How old?
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
The Android version of Firefox does support NoScript and ad blocker extensions, though. Releasing it on iOS would be huge. No more almost-functional Safari ad blockers with multiple pricing tiers! No more all-or-nothing JavaScript toggle bu
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
You are very fortunate to have had that experience. Usually, when a manager/director/etc decides to write a lot of code, the result is barrages of rushed pull requests made between meetings. You will be lucky if the code in any of
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
It's cost-prohibitive to start a new business in those fields due to large-scale regulatory capture and capital barriers. How many new car companies have been successful in the past decade without the personal fortune of a multi-billio
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
Could it be the same mentality as a copycat crime? When a corporate executive sees a competitor decimate themselves without facing immediate consequences, they start to think that they could probably get away with it, too.
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
>As a user, if I am asking this question to a search engine, I definitely do not expect to need to fact-check the results. This is scary to read. You always need to fact-check the results, whether they come from a search engine, an AI,
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
The advertising will probably be more insidious, but no less profitable. My guess is that the hidden pre-prompt will end up including something like: >You are a generative model designed to provide reasonably correct information, with a
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
Why not simply tax vehicles relative to the wear that they induce on the road, i.e. total weight^4? It'll be hard to implement a "gas tax" for electricity with so many people charging at home. Why not simply tax people relati
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
Personally, while I think this is a worthwhile conversation to have, I do not think that humanity is capable of reaching an actionable consensus. Especially this early on. If history is any guide, regulation and introspection will follow in
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
If you want a laugh, ask stable diffusion to generate a frontpage for your favorite newspaper. It will happily produce endless pages of the Wab Si Jrbl, filled with letter-like hieroglyphs and pictures of traffic or almost-faces. Not surpri
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
There was a reasonably punk book called Cryptonomicon which came out in the 1999. Spoiler alert: it follows a group of people loosely based on real figures who worked on cryptography in WWII, and their fictional descendants' quest to
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
I see the lack of accountability in this spree of layoffs as being similar to the lack of accountability in the recent automotive chip shortage. Tell me if this sounds familiar: When the pandemic hit, car manufacturers saw travel plummet an
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
Oh cool, I didn't realize they made battery packs to fit in there. Have you ever seen a pinout listed anywhere?
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
Anecdata: seems like internal pullups are usually 10s of kΩs, maybe 20-50kΩ. Most sensor boards that I see use 4.7kΩ, and work with 400KHz-1MHz "fast-mode+". So 1kΩ is safe, but might be a bit on the aggressive side. At 3.3V, 1KΩ
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by thinknubpad 4y ago
Are there any guides to repurposing the removable "Serial UltraBay" which houses the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives? I have a T430s, and I've been wanting to stick an SDR in that bay for years. But I'm not sure where to