jpalawaga

I come from a family of farmers, and some of my family does actively farm.

None of them are wealthy enough or operate large enough farms for expensive self-driving tractors. And I share in their concern about the meta-game here: the consolidation of capital, land, and power over the food supply.

Consumers already have a hard time having any lever against rising grocery costs. Consolidation earlier on in the supply chain is not helping.

Which is to say, automation in this space isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but it can enable strange market dynamics (/imbalanced power dynamics) over food, which is objectively a bad thing.

I think it's because "you're right!" somehow presupposes it knew the answer and was just testing you.

an intern never says that. they say "oh, I see."

doesn't tsmc have a 4nm plant in arizona that is cranking out chips today?

in general, backend life becomes way, way easier if you just store everything in zulu time, transmit in zulu, and localize it on the frontend (which is what javascript does by default anyhow, iirc).

maybe there are some cases where you want to store the timezone (e.g. you've displayed a datepicker and the user has expressly entered a timezone)--but normally you'll save headache by storing everything in zulu time.

if storing the timezone is important for those transactions, then I could potentially see that as warranting storage with a timezone as well.

basically, ask 'if the timezone matters' with respect to the information being encoded. if it's just for display purposes and can be ignored, then KISS.

i mean, he didn't say that the iphone camera was bad, just that it doesn't stand up to dedicated gear (which it doesn't, but a lot of people will tell you, especially apple's "shot on iphone" marketing campaign, that it will).

Overhead bin space is a big one. Even as am someone who travels with a duffle at almost always fits. I’ve had to check it before being in the last group, waiting til the end.

One other one I ran into with the “dead last” strategy was I ended up waiting in line anyhow… on the jet bridge, which was worse than waiting in a queue in a nice airport terminal. So my purely practical brain says to go at the beginning of my group, get it over with, and then I can be settled with no worries rather than having to pay attention to the boarding sequence at all.

The duty cycle on hdmi connector is like 10k. I imagine probably some of your cables in a lab would actually plausibly hit that without too much issue (then apply standard deviation: some will have broken much earlier, and some won’t quit)

One thing my colleagues and I do is expressly offer up a starting point when reviewing changes: "the meat of the change is in xxx.go; the rest is ancillary/supporting". This allows the reader to contextualize themselves more quickly in the change, and understand the rest of the changes with greater ease.

You could take an adversarial view of it: maybe it's better if people get dropped into the changes so they're left to workout if the changes in each file stand alone rather, decontextualized from their original change.

mature markets end up 3-5 competitors because further mergers end up blocked. capitalism would otherwise allow them to contract to a single player. So I'm sure that's one government control that you'd agree is worthwhile.

You mean one group that is ignorant costcutters and another group that are subject matter experts? Hmm who to listen to.

Google also has AI models optimized to run on phones, they're just in a lot better of a position to actually build purpose-built LLMs for phones.

It's not clear to me why certain classes of things still end up farmed out to the cloud (such as this, or is it?). Maybe their LLM hasn't been built in a very pluggable fashion.

If you assume only way people are obtaining the media is by unlicensed reproduction, then it doesn’t matter.

Big if. Practically, the movie studios aren’t poor because their product has instances of infringement.

You're saying that a copy of a digital thing is the same as the "only" of a physical thing. But that's not true. You can't sell grain twice, but you can sell a movie many times (especially when you account for format changes, remasterings, platform locks, licensing for special usecases like remixing, broadcasts, etc).

You'd have to steal the author's ownership of the intellectual property in order for the comparison to be valid, just as you stole ownership of his crop.

Separately, there is a reason why theft and copyright infringement are two distinct concepts in law.

you've created a very obvious category mistake in your final summary by confusing intellectual property--which can be copied at no penalty to an owner (except nebulous 'alternate universe' theories)--with actual property, and a farmer and his land, with a crop that cannot be enjoyed twice.

you're saying copying a book is worse than robbing a farmer of his food and/or livelihood, which cannot be replaced to duplicated. Meanwhile, someone who copies a book does not deprive the author of selling the book again (or a tasty proceedings from harvest).

I can't say I agree, for obvious reasons.

I don't think that's new. google set precedent for that more than a decade ago. you're allowed to transform a book to digital.

Postgres backups are tricky for sure. Even if you have a DR plan you should assume your incremental backups are no good and you need to restore the whole thing from scratch. That’s your real DR SLA.

If things go truly south, just hope you have a read replica you can use as your new master. Most SLAs are not written with 72h+ of downtime. Have you tried the nuclear recovery plan, from scratch? Does it work?

It’s a small bag. 7kg is hardly anything. Like a purse or a laptop. Definitely would fit under the seat in front of you. Since that space is reserved for the ticketed passenger, billing for that really feels like double dipping anyhow.

Good for the EU.

I feel like I might be the only one who thinks Windows 11 is a good OS. The only tweak I needed to make was to turn of bing searches from the start menu.

I wish user accounts were still local only and did not back up to OneDrive, but I can understand that this is actually probably a valuable feature for 99% of windows users.

Has anyone made a plugin that forces your browser to resize slightly to help avoid fingerprinting? I feel like this is an annoyance I could tolerate, even if over the course of a day or two it causes me to resize it manually to something larger.

they also never required many of their users to pay. whatsapp allegedly cost $1 a year, and I never paid a dime despite using it for years.

(The VPN service is Proton VPN, for those coming directly to the comments.)

A source that what? That says Right wing/small government parties generally tend to make the government smaller by privatizing services?

There’s no conspiracy theory, it’s literally their MO.

Analog bikes

tbf, mature tastes are often different. it's not good or bad, it's just different. for example, people who drink a lot of old red wines have developed a taste for it.

yes, it drags people away from the mean, but that doesn't stop large segments of the population from acquiring certain tastes (e.g. coffee).

as a long-time user of tech devices, your tastes too have been dragged in certain ways, even if you couch yourself as an average user.

fwiw. i love android, but I do not really care for their current design direction.

(by the way, you might want to look up skeumorphism. material isn't skeumorphic, almost by intention.

Except you’ve already swapped terminal for iterm, and orbstack already exists in part because docker left so much room for improvement, especially on the perf front.

That's not really born out by... anything. Well, born out by people who have something to gain by privatizing the public good.

Whiskey Media was top tier back in the day. A group of folks producing really fun content, and having a great time doing it. The community was top notch too. I have no idea where the diaspora ended up, since the forums and wiki are comparatively dead these days.

Molly addiction risk: low. Once your brains serotonin is depleted, the drug stops working, and the hangover isn’t really something to be avoided.

Cocaine addiction risk: moderate. Similar to alcohol. Most people won’t end up otherwise a bonafide addiction but some will. Its use is inherently addictive, most people do not have just “one” bump and then go home.

Molly therapeutic use: still under research, but extremely promising in helping to resolve ptsd and other similar issues. Potentially other uses, too.

Cocaine: used as an anesthetic. It can also be used to reverse the effects of some other drugs in emergency situations (I.e. canceling out a downer, or other situations where you need a burst of energy)

can you come up with any other reasons why an out of the box mac might be faster than something involving vdi engineering?

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