wrycoder

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by wrycoder 2mo ago
Instant, wide-range (mesh) private comms are rather different than a couple of people out in a field at night talking.
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by wrycoder 2mo ago
That was Australia. In China, they welded the doors to their housing units shut.
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by wrycoder 9mo ago
An EV with a degraded battery and miles per charge is still very useful for retired people who are tired of traveling long distance and can plug in at home. There should be a good market for them. I tend to keep my cars over 200,000 miles.
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by wrycoder 9mo ago
By Antonio Gulli, Google Forward by Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs ...explore a diverse range of design patterns, from foundational concepts like structuring sequential operations (Prompt Chaining) and external interaction (Tool Use) to
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Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands on Guide to Building Intelligent Systems [pdf](github.com)
3 points by wrycoder 9mo ago|1 comments
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by wrycoder 11mo ago
The author of Starlark, a language covered by one of these books on software, discovers that the book is full of hallucinations and incorrect information. He remarks that a beginner might not be able to readily determine that. The other b
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HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books(laurent.le-brun.eu)
3 points by wrycoder 11mo ago|1 comments
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by wrycoder 1y ago
It looked like it was going to be a real downer to the end, but.... and then it was.
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Building Accessible Progressive Search(jch.github.io)
1 points by wrycoder 1y ago|0 comments
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by wrycoder 1y ago
Perhaps flag the account and switch out the AI instance for Boring-BobGPT and further monitoring?
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by wrycoder 1y ago
My town votes 50/50 Republican/Democrat, yet our newly rebuilt library is filled with lib/women oriented non-fiction and contemporary women’s pulp fiction. They no longer even have paper sets of encyclopedias. It’s not possib
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by wrycoder 1y ago
LOL, read the one star reviews [0]. The problem with the mechanical ones is they are shoddy these days and can't be depended on. It seems no one knows how to make a high quality mechanical timer any more. [0] https://www.a
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Grok 3: Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis(scienceofclimatechange.org)
1 points by wrycoder 1y ago|2 comments
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by wrycoder 2y ago
Yes. Think of it as a CAPTCHA. There’s a reason.
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I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene"(twitter.com)
4 points by wrycoder 2y ago|0 comments
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by wrycoder 2y ago
He did
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by wrycoder 2y ago
And yet the ranks of proofreaders and editors never blinked.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
IMO, a most useful thing is Lynx in DIRED mode. A great read-only directory browser - just enter a local url when you start it. For example, <lynx .> or <lynx /> .
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by wrycoder 2y ago
Constitution, yes - but following it, not so much. I would really like the Federal government to improve in that regard.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
From TFA, ...the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster t
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Quanta: The Ocean Teems with Networks of Interconnected Bacteria(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by wrycoder 2y ago|0 comments
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by wrycoder 2y ago
Yeah, and who is doing the killing?
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by wrycoder 2y ago
I have one I paid $150 for. But bubble sextants are usually only used on aircraft.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
They didn’t wear lab coats. That’s for chemists and biologists.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
This. The ISPs can go back to prioritizing and pricing traffic based on their own commercial preferences. Thankfully, I have Starlink as my ISP.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
29 mi for me, and I'm in a 10,000 person town in New England. I'm not sure your directory is complete - I thought there was one in Concord NH.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
When I look at the email addresses in the various communities I belong to, it’s at least 80% gmail, and the rest are mostly defunct services are just barely hanging on. Yes, I run my own email server, have for years.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
“He was speeding.” Love English!
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by wrycoder 2y ago
In this context, “savings” includes all liquid assets.
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by wrycoder 2y ago
Look up “bagging” a jacket. Many are constructed with the right sides of the lining and the outer cloth together, then turned inside out. It works if the jacket is fully lined. Go ahead and remove the lining, but look carefully how the cons

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