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Comment · 4 months ago
+1 That, and it works in mountainous areas like the Alps or Pyrenees, where you're lucky to have GPS and most definitely can't rely on 4G for Google Maps
Comment · 4 months ago
48kHz makes alignment between video and audio so much easier. (I.e.: Lip synchronization after edits)
Comment · 5 months ago
But presumably, you only include dependencies that you trust and those dependencies themselves do their trusting more strictly than you. Trust is built on vetting, signatures and reputation.

That is, at least what we do, in theory. In practice, we cross fingers and let the LLM pick dependencies, are satisfied if it just works and we either update our deps frequently or infrequently.

Comment · 5 months ago
Or, as they say in AMD's case: they never miss a chance to miss a chance
Comment · 5 months ago
> Can someone that understands quantum computing please comment?

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Crickets

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Comment · 5 months ago
There is little president for healthy industry being killed by bands of unionized workers. Charitably, one might think of rust belt car industry or Britain's mines and railways. Though of course, there was no way those industries could have realistically competed with foreign economies even if all labour was given away for free.

But consider this: if collectively all drivers would go on strike indefinitely (or at least, stop using platforms and instead hustled their rides old school). Would that mean the end for Uber and Lyft? Off course not. They'd take a few punches financially, but they'd be able to pivot, build something else. They have great engineers and money, and no one is forcing them to take such a huge cut.

Comment · 5 months ago
I suppose this comes down to semantics. It's more grey than black and white. For instance, Russia doesn't send conscripts to fight in Ukraine. But it's hard to argue that soldiers fighting and dying in the front lines made a fair choice, while they weren't forced to sign a contract.

Similarly, there are Uber and Lyft drivers that don't have the economic freedom or level of education to work anywhere else.

Comment · 5 months ago
True, they are not the same. But they probably feel similarly coerced into accepting an unfair deal.

So yeah, the comparisons are hyperboles, but I totally feel why they're upset and hope collective bargaining helps better their situation.

Comment · 5 months ago
You might ask the same about any exploitive relation.

Why is there prostitution?

Why are slaves doing work for their masters?

Why are children going through our garbage in some distant country, if they hardly earn enough to eat?

Comment · 6 months ago
A BLE tracker can't really broadcast very far itself, can it?!

Isn't the problem that someone on board was using a phone with Bluetooth relay, gps and cellular enabled?

Comment · 6 months ago
Last paragraph:

> Big donations like this tend to flow toward well-established foundations, while the countless smaller projects that hold up just as much critical infrastructure quietly struggle for resources.

Comment · 6 months ago
Wait. Wasn't AI supposed to alleviate the burden of legacy code?!
Comment · 6 months ago
The technical term seems to be: entrapment. The war could have ended after the first few "successful" days.

And still every day it continues, it becomes a little bit harder to back out. Like Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan this war cannot be won.

Comment · 7 months ago
Sad, but true.

And if they had it their way, Oracle would have similarly strangled every last customer of Java, MySQL, OpenOffice, Solaris, etc. to squeeze out every last dollar.

And then make it look like they're innovating.

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