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  • Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

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  • I'm saying it's happened before. AOL. Palm. Yahoo. Blackberry. A company with an effective monopoly gets complacent and fails to serve their users. They get replaced.

  • Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

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  • But that's also a path for them to no longer be a monopoly, if the right competitor makes the right moves.

  • McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors

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  • You can do that kind of imposed structure if it's an internal tool used by employees. But if the public is using it, it has better be able to parse whatever the consumer is saying. Somebody will say "I want a burger and a coke, but hold the mustard. And add some fries. No make it two of each." And it won't fit your predefined syntax.

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.

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  • Because bits are not expensive anymore, and if we used 64 bits, we might run out faster than the time needed to convert to a new standard. (After all, IPv4 is still around 26 years after IPv6 was drafted.) Also see the other notes about how networks get segmented in non-optimal ways. It's a good thing to not have to worry about address space when designing your network.

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.

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  • SQL

  • McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors

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  • It's more than voice recognition, since it must also parse a wide variety of sentence structure into a discreet order, as well as answer questions.

  • It's literally a trap

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  • Why is the spring backwards? The lever is supposed to hold it down, but had no pressure on it, since the trigger is removed.

  • With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

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  • If someone is paying you to write code, they have some say in the contract about how it is licensed. You could be upfront about only doing GPL, and they could be upfront about saying no. But if you try to do it after the fact, that's a violation of the contract.

  • Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity

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  • True, having the right metric is important. But having no metric might be an overreaction to the crisis caused by bad metrics.

  • Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity

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  • Of course lots of Wells Fargo previous PR disasters resulted from having meaningful metrics from management that just happened to be anti-consumer side effects.

  • YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers

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  • They don't want you if you're not watching ads or paying money. They don't want to give you bandwidth for free.

  • Trump Finally Weighs in on Controversial Shark vs. Electrocution Debate

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  • People do sometimes get electrocuted in fresh water, but only when a boat in a marina has shore power (120V) and a bad connection of the hot side into the water. This can only occur with shore power, because otherwise the circuit can't leave to boat. It also doesn't occur in salt water because salt conducts electricity better than the human body.

    An EV battery might have enough voltage, but the current would prefer to travel directly from - to + on the battery itself. You would have to literally get in the way of that for it to affect your body. Most situations where that could happen, such as touching the electrodes directly, would be almost as dangerous even when you are dry. And again, salt water would conduct it much better than your body, therefore bypassing you, as long as you don't get in the way.

  • Elections

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  • Canines have five digits on their front paws, just like we do. Their "dew claw" is equivalent to our thumb, so the outside digit is still a pinky digit.

  • Linux really has come a long way

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  • Sounds like sleep. Hibernate is when it turns completely off, such that you can leave it unplugged for a weekend and still have battery when it pops you back into your session. It takes longer to save and restore the session than sleep does.

  • L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell

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  • There are websites used by many of the smaller landlords which "suggests" a price for each unit. The landlord stops thinking about a price on their own, takes the website suggestion, and that's a type of price collusion. And there are large investors which own thousands of units in many buildings who apply the same price formula across them all. Both tend to greatly reduce the leverage a renter can have by shopping around multiple offers.

  • Fascinating

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  • I remember seeing somebody back in the 90's, who apparently had extreme visual problems, wearing a contact lens that looked like a tiny telescope sticking out. It looked a lot less comfortable than this image though.

  • Oil industry asks Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits from California, other states

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  • But the CARB rules are specifically grandfathered in by the EPA, since they predated it, which also limits their scope. CA can't just make up its own rules outside of that scope, and no other state can make their own rules, (but are allowed to adopt the CA rules where they are stricter than federal.)

  • Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers

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  • If it's deactivated, then it's just free protein.

  • Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers

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  • That's only in raw milk.