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spongebue ,

So? If your invention depends on illegal plagiarism to exist, maybe it shouldn't. It's not the law's fault that LLMs depend on other people's work to function, nor was that its specific target when it was written

spongebue ,

Java was giving a no such method exception at runtime, but it compiled fine. Granted, that method was recently added to the class, but it was pretty simple and again, you'd expect the compiler to detect things like that.

Turns out the code I inherited from a not-great team had that class in two different places. Maven replaced the one I worked on with the untouched copy, which went into the build.

spongebue ,

Nintendo.

spongebue ,

Honestly, this shit should have been class action lawsuits under "Constructive Dismissal."

Constructive dismissal is not illegal or anything. All it means is that "yeah, you didn't officially get dismissed but with the other things they did you may as well have been. Here's your $200 unemployment check for the month"

spongebue ,

and can't even get you halfway across the state on a single charge

This is the part that needs to be rethought. Depending on speed and stuff, I can go about 200 miles on a charge. Want to go farther? Fine! DC fast charging is, in fact, fast. Plug in, take a pee break, stretch for a minute, and get a bite to eat. In 20 minutes, you can get a lot of charge in most cars (granted, my Chevy Bolt needs a little more time but that battery technology is relatively obsolete)

We already stop on the road for other reasons. It's not hard to combine stops, and it will only get easier as chargers get built up. Stop pretending we need to drive 500 miles without stopping, that's dangerous anyway.

spongebue ,

What kind of electric mileage do you get? My Bolt gets about 3.5 miles per kilowatt hour, and my electricity costs $0.12 per kWh. I figure a car like that would get about 30MPG if it were an ICE vehicle. To go 30 miles would take about 8.5 kWh, which would cost about a dollar. Yes, your electricity is 4x the price (ouch!) but 8x the gas equivalent?

spongebue ,

A friend was telling me he pays that much in Hawaii, but you'd probably expect as much on an island like that

spongebue ,

So should it not have been done at all because it wasn't enough for you?

spongebue ,

This has been discussed way longer than 10/7/2023.

spongebue ,

"Hello, we are ClickClock, a totally different (😉😉😉) social media company hoping to fill the void of that one social media company that recently went under. As a matter of fact, with their recent layoffs we were even able to hire much of their talent and stuff. But totally different!"

That's about how trivial it would be to get around this if the legislation was too specific

spongebue ,

Ah yeah. I deserve that but to be fair the OP story (not the comment I replied to) is about what's happening in the US!

spongebue ,

Zero arguments there!

spongebue ,

I have a ton of east-facing windows on the back of my house. It's a blessing or a curse depending on weather and time of day. I always dreamed about them running automatically, and eventually ordered a bunch of Z-wave controlled motorized shades. Then a Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant to control it all.

While I was waiting for those shades to arrive, I got a bunch of Kasa light switches so I didn't have to sweep across the entire house to turn off all the lights every night. Turning the hallway light off after 9:45PM triggers the automation.

The rabbit hole only got bigger from there.

spongebue ,

I also got Z-wave shades from Bali when Home Depot had a 50% off custom window treatments sale. They've been wonderful, and integrate with Home Assistant very nicely overall. Battery lasts a long time (about 6 months of use, with a daily "round trip" and they're still at about 60%) and status gets reported back. One piece on one shade got machined weirdly so I couldn't use the Z-wave, and they were happy to send a replacement.

Bali is manufactured by a company called Springs Window Fashions. Might be worth looking into them and their other brands too!

Oh, and Home Depot has sample material books you can take home for a night to see what would work best for you.

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

spongebue ,

The most professional content I've seen lately is things like a spaghetti recipe that explains the history of spaghetti, and my kids don't normally like spaghetti but they took seconds of this one because it's so good!

Now, let's talk about your choices in water here. You could go to a nearby spring and collect your own, but I find storebought water is just fine. You want to boil that water, which works best under high heat unless you want to wait forever!

spongebue ,

There's that midway sound setting that only makes noise if you screw up, but not every little turn. That also alerts for those things in my experience. It also welcomes me when I cross a state line which I think is sweet 😊

spongebue ,

I've seen a little 3A fuse of that style on a furnace control board. It actually saved the day when a thermostat/wiring had a short at a neighbor's house, so there's that.

spongebue ,

the vast majority of TikTok users are outside the United States.

Then they can decide that it would be better to not serve the United States users and keep the "vast majority" of their userbase as-is

spongebue ,

Through the WiFi-equipped EVSE. Or heck, give the car WiFi. Pretty much everyone has WiFi these days, and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

spongebue ,

My 2012 Pathfinder was the last year of that generation and had navigation designed before UX was really emphasized. It mainly relies on physical buttons and it's overall terrible. Part of it involves an iPod-like scroll wheel, which is actually kinda nice to control zoom but that display is another kind of terrible.

spongebue ,

"was" getting. Both can be true if LTE went downhill after the 5G deployment.

spongebue ,

I wouldn't classify clickbait as deception so much as a certain intentional vagueness that requires clicking to get what could have been in the title from the beginning.

Also, every damn thumbnail on YouTube seems to look like, well, that. Pointing to a random thing (hard to tell what it is from the thumbnail alone), a vague title with a vague emotion, and a person with a weird expression for some reason.

spongebue ,

What? Every smartphone I can remember owning has gotten a GPS signal if I hold it up to the window. Plenty of planes have GPS on board too. If there is a speed lockout, a 737 isn't enough to break that threshold.

spongebue ,

One thing I saw after the GameStop thing happened that gave me a bit of perspective: when you buy and sell stock, your risk in the worst case scenario is that a company goes down to zero and you lose everything you put into it. That "everything you put into it" is the limit of your losses. When shorting, there is no practical limit to your losses because there is no upper practical limit to the share value.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in the fuck Spez camp as well (hence me being here). But there is virtually unlimited potential risk to being wrong about this, so keep that in mind.

spongebue ,

Thread.sleep(2863);

spongebue ,

I miss the days when people used punctuation

spongebue ,

I hear the same argument about EVs, where many charge to 80%. Sometimes you need that extra juice, and by all means use it. Other times you're only going to the grocery store, or sitting at your desk all day, and you can stay plugged in and you don't really need that 20%. It's no real skin off your nose either way.

Then, years from now when you need as much energy as your battery can give, you haven't lost it to degradation and you really haven't lost much along the way.

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

spongebue ,

Although "so much" would probably be a better fit anyway

spongebue ,

HIPAA does have some exceptions to allow giving relevant information for crimes that occurred on their premises, but I'm not sure there's anything that could be applicable here.

FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)

Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

spongebue ,

I accidentally deleted that voice mail from the public benefits department a couple days ago and they haven't called back yet ☹️

spongebue ,

So, I've never 3D printed anything before but I kind of need this. My library has a 3D printer available for use, but I have no clue what their limits are. Any guesses if this would be a reasonable ask, especially if I'm happy to do it in bits and pieces as the thing is available?

spongebue ,

Oh awesome! God I need to go to my library more (I'm sure I'll be taking my daughter there more before long)

Another question, I see a couple colors going on here, including on what appears to be the same piece. Is this from different color filaments (I barely know that word 😁 ) or did they paint something and I didn't notice? Should I plan on providing the filament or would they actually have that beugecolor?

spongebue ,

If you want a cookie they don't have they may make you pay to order it

They've got a little cafe there too, I'm sure I can make do with whatever cookies they have 😋

spongebue ,

Ahhh, you're right. I didn't realize the front panel has two different layers to it, and what I thought was the back side was actually the back layer of the front. I'll have to stop by in the next day or two!

spongebue ,

Just thought to follow up. Turns out Micro Center has a coupon for a $100 Ender 3 v2 for new customers (or old customers whose friend let them use her phone number 😜 ). So anyway I have a new hobby now and even the wife is intrigued

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4297455d-24fc-42d0-985a-d0359c172758.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3bc1f1ea-5b06-4531-a936-efa391f71f18.jpeg

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spongebue ,

It is! So many of these projects have grand plans and... Lackluster results. But this has gone so well! Definitely some trial and error and frustrations with some brittle subpar filament I got on Amazon... But Inland seems to work well! Even my wife (who enjoys crafting but isn't really nerdy) is intrigued by this. I've already made her a couple boxes to store tea bag packets and may have to try that octopus... They actually had a really big one at Micro Center next to the printers as well so I can imagine it!

Share your favorite automations

I've been running HA for a while, and it's been working well; I haven't had to change much in a few months. That being said, it's fun to tinker with it, and I'm curious to hear what kind of automations the rest of the community is using. What automations are you most proud of? What are your favorite? What kind of interesting...

spongebue ,

I use Kasa switches all over my house and am waiting for them to release their fan controller (it was announced at CES last year, and a thread on the old place says it'll be out at the end of the month)

I'm excited for my fan to shut off if it's too cold in the bedroom. Already have a temperature/humidity sensor in there.

spongebue ,

I'd bet that this is in the US, where at-will employment (either party may terminate) is generally universal and indefinite.

spongebue ,

Most people should learn to live below their means

I'm not saying I've never seen someone get something and wonder how they can afford it, it certainly happens plenty. But wages are not increasing like the prices of housing, student loans, groceries, going to the doctor, having a child, and all kinds of things an employed person should be able to take for granted. "Just live below your means" is not very realistic when the means aren't keeping up.

spongebue ,

To shreds, you say?

spongebue ,

Planes have brakes* so they, for example, don't bump the plane in front of them when moving through the line to take off.

I know this was a joke but it kinda feels flat

spongebue ,

We know it. People like my father-in-law do not.

spongebue ,

As a side note, I really wish folders were implemented for devices and automations and such. Especially since I have a scene controller (and another on the way) with several buttons, each of which can have 6 different triggers (pressing 1-5 times or holding the button down). Oh, and more for the LEDs.

spongebue ,

You can, but not in a closed garage. Granted, if you had that the cabin wouldn't be quite as cold.

spongebue , (edited )

As mentioned, lithium batteries are happiest charged around 20-80%. No shame in going higher if you need it, but typical day to day I drive less than 50 miles in a day. If I'm using 20% of my battery capacity, I don't care if that means I go from 100% down to 80% or 80% down to 60%. I'll plug it in at the end of the day and charge back up to whatever I want by the next morning.

Put another way, how many times have you woken up thinking you need to stop at a gas station because you only have 3/4 of a tank?

spongebue ,

I don't disagree, except it was 4 years ago that they unveiled the abomination.

spongebue ,

Again, it's for battery conditioning to run more aggressively. Absolutely nothing to do with range anxiety. That's the part that heats and cools your battery to keep it in good shape in the long run. You have nothing to gain by leaving it unplugged (of course, that's not to say you should panic if you can't plug in)

spongebue ,

Hmmm, design and everything? That event with the broken windows was a lot last than that, and that's when it really turned it into a meme

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