kefirchik

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[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The point I got from it was that Germans can go basically anywhere with low effort. The similar shades reinforce that, as concepts like “Visa not required” and “Visa on arrival” are pretty closely equal in burden.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you ask ChatGPT to communicate to you in a different writing style it can do a decent job of doing so. It will also respect requests to decrease verbosity and formality. The default writing style is some kind of specific configuration they have made for it, it’s not a fundamental characteristic of it.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

150MB per 10min video, and that means it's 390,000Mb (or 380.86TB) for their collection.

Your overall point is fair, but your math here is off by a factor of 1000 - it would be around 380 GB.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cheap honey is cheap because it's been adulterated with cheap non-honey syrup

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Why would inexpensive cheese manufacturers secretly add expensive ingredients like honey?

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

No I do not underestimate profit incentives. I just realize that these things are not always so nefarious and there’s plenty of money for people to make by bringing things to market.

Regardless - cost effective, portable desal devices will be dramatically more profitable than sitting on a patent for 20 years (if even enforced!). Most people buying imported bottled water due so because they are lazy not because they are without access to potable water.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jeeze you guys are so cynical 😂It’s true that many innovations from academic research fail to be commercialized or scaled. But it’s also true that many many successful technological innovations come out of academic research and impact the lives of millions.

The biggest barrier here will most likely be whether it can scale, not patent litigation.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

It’s a step in the right direction, regardless. Refugees are not all in the same situation and not all of them “only want a permanent solution”. The article cites “refugees from conflict zones”, and many people in such situations are indeed considering returning home if it becomes safe. Many other people may be in a location for several years before choosing a more careful plan to settle somewhere.

Lastly, it’s a lot easier for a country to normalize the long term status of temporary residents when they are already in the work force, speaking the language, not an outsized burden on social services, etc.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Email is a collection of different protocols: SMTP, IMAP, POP are all different protocols that serve different purposes. Oversimplifying a bit, but - SMTP is used to exchange messages between mail servers. IMAP and POP are used to synchronize mail between a mail server and a mail client.

In other words, they absolutely can shut down IMAP and POP but still send/receive for gmail.com addresses. The main reason reason they wouldn't do this is that their larger clients on Google Workspace need that functionality, but it's the type of thing you might imagine them taking away from the unpaid version of Gmail to nudge companies over to Workspace.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Niger is ditching ECOWAS for the security from other states that recently underwent coups. It’s hard to see how this is in the interest of the common person.

Just because France is against the coup doesn’t mean it’s good for Nigeriens.

[–] kefirchik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They are most useful during local development. It’s useful to have project-scoped config that your app interacts with in a manner identical to how it works in prod.

Generally you don’t commit to version control because you want to keep secrets out of there. However, it can be sometimes useful to hold non-sensitive config that you may want to commit but also to customize on prod. For instance like NODE_ENV, so you’re not building multiple mechanisms for configuring your code. But this is less useful and generally solved with a sample config that is copied to the .env file that is never pushed to VC.

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