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@ r00ty @kbin.life

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I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

  • Public transport cost pushes Britons to fly abroad for day trips

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  • I seriously think we need to ask serious questions if we're able to shift people point to point further, faster by first going 4 miles towards space for a fraction of the price of moving more people at once on an electrified railway stopping at multiple destinations, picking up and dropping off along the way.

    Something cannot be right. How can they not compete and be profitable? What am I missing?

    Outside of major cities in the UK trains tickets are ludicrously priced.

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    Microsoft fires 2 employees after they broke into president's office

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  • Will Trump pardon them and force Microsoft to rehire?

  • See MongoDB

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  • I do use postgres but only as an rdb provider. I thought while it supports json data as a type, does it provide for all of the other advantages of nosql databases for their use case?

    Ultimately I feel like the best solution is to have a single database provider that could do both fully. I'm not sure it's really there yet. But halpt to be told I'm wrong. I've not really needed that myself for my projects.

  • See MongoDB

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  • I never understood why people compare nosql to rdbms. They are entirely different systems with different use cases.

    Where you neee data consistency and need to always get the same results to a query go with a structured rdbms. Where you need speed over all of that (and there are real use cases for this) then nosql is for you. Using both is of course a likely result too.

    There's of course a lot of other considerations. But they're different tools for different situations.

  • Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs?

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  • I'm sure I've said all this before. But still. LLMS are very useful tools I don't doubt that. The problem that no organisation that is "embracing" AI is really considering is how they work.

    They essentially rewrite code or art or content they have seen before. If they replace developers, artists and authors/article writers wholesale the only source of new content will be, other AI.

    It's been known from the start that AI feeding on AI very quickly degenerates today garbage in garbage out.

    They are also (currently) unable to innovate. So use of AI is going to stifle innovation or even completely kill it.

    These are the medium to longer term problems that might only be really realised when the developers, artists and authors have moved onto other work and a lot might just not want to come back.

    That's my main problem with the wholesale use of AI. Used as a tool to complement people doing their job, makes sense and is possible to maintain going forward.

  • Intel faces investor backlash for selling 10% stake to Trump admin at discount

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  • I got a new work laptop recently. First one I've ever had that didn't have an Intel cpu. Company is a decent sized multinational.

    I think it's already turning. But at the same time I don't think the US can afford to let Intel fail entirely.

  • Tech Support

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  • Just do it really quickly!

  • Natural selection in IT

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  • Wait, that's my key. Ohhh QIDBA not QADBX.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • They could lock out any other os but windows if they wanted. Mobo makers just need to limit to secure boot only, not allow legacy boot. Only allow the Microsoft key and Microsoft to stop signing the Linux shim. Then it'd not be possible to install Linux or anything else really.

    Not going to happen short term. But definitely a possibility.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • They removed that a long time ago. I mean think about it, evil is a pretty strong term, most people don't want to be evil. That they chose to remove it from their motto tells you everything.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • It exists and will exist for a pretty hefty premium. Not because the makers want to. But frankly the interest in owning and controlling your hardware is more rare than we'd like. So like any niche hobby the hardware will be expensive.

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • Didn't the old arm version of windows have this limitation though? It only ran signed exes with a chain of trust?

    I feel like this is probably where things might be heading overall "for our safety". People saying it's only the pixel. It's only the pixel so far. And I think Samsung are locking up bootloaders too. I fully expect both to become the norm.

    Oh you'll be able to get a phone that isn't locked this way. With 4 generations out of date hardware at twice the price of the current flagship because it's a niche product they just can not make at scale to be affordable.

    Also I've said it elsewhere, local/personal compute is something I fully expect to become a rare and expensive hobby too.

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    Who needs a seatbelt anyway...

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  • Yep wildlife. The only crash I've ever had, happened after a fox ran out in front of the car. Your own driving is just one part of the equation.

  • Donald Trump health fears erupt again over strange spot on hand

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  • This story was needed as a filler because it's too early for the annual "worst winter in twenty billion years" headline.

  • China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday

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  • Just testing the big red button is still working. Nothing to see here, no I mean literally nothing to see here!

  • Make America Consoom Again

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  • That image crops out the best caps of all. The "Trump 2028" caps. What a world we live in.

  • Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid.

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  • It's probably from the era when everyone had a Facebook account. In the modern era, I am sure a Tik-tok (is that what all the kids are doing now?) video would suffice.

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  • Oh I am sure there's a backup. I guess I'm interested in whether they're actually using it or not.

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  • Maybe they can check people like me that deleted on their reddit posts and comments.. See if the AI can see all that "removed" content :P

  • New project, new energy

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  • There's also helgrind if you're doing multi-thread. Man that will slow things down a lot.