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sobchak

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  • How to manage docker compose apps?

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  • I think compose files are usually pinned to a version, or use a .env file that needs to be changed to update to a new version.

    I personally don't update very often; usually not until I'm forced to for some reason. I find that just checking the documentation for any upgrade/migration guides, and doing it manually is sufficient. I don't expose this kind of stuff publicly; if I did, I'd probably update regularly.

  • 'Enough Words': Colombia's Petro Urges Armed UN Force to End Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams

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  • IDK, depends on how large the force is. Israel has fired on the UN personnel.

  • Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

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  • A lot of the companies and people responsible for having all these datacenters built are heavily invested in SMR. So they'll probably be used anyways.

  • Bong hits, fake names and park cameras: What’s behind the unusual public comment at today’s city council meeting

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  • AFAIK, they're meant to catch car burglars, so will be in the parking lots. They are "AI" cameras, so I assume at least license plate readers. The company said they don't do facial recognition in an interview, but their company's page says their cameras do facial recognition. It's a large expense ($400k - $2 million) to tackle a small problem. There's probably some corruption/bribes going on, IMO. They could put up regular solar powered cameras for peanuts if they wanted. IDK if they plan to install cameras around that Rainey Street area.

  • Which sports need summons?

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  • Played that with my neighbor all the time, awesome game. There was also a cartoon show that came on super early in the morning.

  • Is there something like LinkedIn, but without big tech involvement, no data collection, no ads, open source, and preferably decentralized (maybe Fediverse or even P2P)?

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  • I got my Cisco certification in tech school. Didn't really help.

  • 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

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  • Tidal too. Slows the Earth's rotation a minuscule amount more than usual.

  • Sniper attacks Texas ICE facility amid soaring tensions over US immigration

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  • I'm not really big on "conspiracy theories," BUT are we supposed to believe the shooter was shooting detainees, and "engraved" a single bullet casing with a sharpie with the message "anti-ice"?

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    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • Most of my local ones are registered on https://www.localharvest.org/ (their map seems to be messed up right now, but seems to work if you type in a zipcode, select CSA from the dropdown, and press "GO"). They are more expensive than groceries stores, but don't use heavily exploited labor, and you often get a lot of weird/cool stuff normal grocery stores don't sell.

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    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • Hmm. Yeah, my local farmer's markets are expensive, but the CSA subscriptions are reasonable (i.e. the ones where you pay upfront for the season's produce, reducing the farmer's risk, then get a box of produce every week). Some, you can volunteer on the farm to get "free" food.

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    TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

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  • I like CSAs. All I really need to buy from stores is stuff like protein and grains. There are local CSAs in my area that even offer meat, eggs, and milk.

  • Very much smart people

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  • I remember studying "Probably Approximately Correct" learning and such, and it was a pretty cool way of building axioms, theorems, and proofs to bound and reason about ML models. To my knowledge, there isn't really anything like it for large networks; maybe someday.

  • Anon is exploited

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  • Capitalism is trying as hard as possible to replace people with machines, but there are a lot of jobs that machines simply can’t do.

    This is not absolutely true. I've seen and worked manual jobs that could absolutely be automated by a fairly simple machine. There isn't much reason to automate low-paying jobs away.

    There are also a lot of pointless "bullshit jobs." ~20% of people think their own jobs are pointless.

    I've been around the tech startup scene for a while now, and they often do a lot of pointless work that everyone knows isn't useful, just because they know that's what's "hot" right now with investors.

  • Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

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  • Kinda weird it's RVs and not mobile homes (which are a bit better built and larger). I guess there aren't many places zoned for trailer parks now because of NIMBY, new trailers are expensive, and it's expensive to move a used trailer if it's movable at all. I also guess you have the freedom to move more easily with RVs if you have a truck to pull an RV trailer or have a motorhome.

  • Does anyone know of a way to make a solar (no battery) meshtastic node?

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  • I've heard that RAK boards will get stuck in a deep sleep mode or something if the voltage goes below a certain threshold, and need to be power cycled or reset. Haven't tested myself, just something my local mesh group has said they experienced.

  • $100K fee added to H1B applications

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  • Makes it hard to use h1bs the way they were supposedly meant to be used; to make it easier to hire talent that can't be found domestically. It think this will accelerate offshoring even more. I would have preferred the program was just reformed to make gaming the "prevailing wage" requirement harder, and to give h1b workers more freedom so they're not as easily exploitable.

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • Idk, I've worked with recent grads where their work likely did bring in > $100k in a year. Maybe only took a month to get up to speed. Commits from all devs should be reviewed, and all code should be tested before pushing to prod, so those catastrophic costs should rarely be a problem. We had a good relationship with professors at a local university, and they'd send us their top students. The students would work with us for a while before usually getting picked up by big tech.

    Pretty sure my work right out of college brought the company around $300k the first year (wrote the firmware for an electronic control board mostly by myself, which allowed the company to secure a large contract).

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • I watch leftists who occasionally covered him. He was extremely popular on TikTok with children to college-age people. He was also close to Trump, and I think Trump sent him to Greenland a while back with the VP on that "diplomacy" trip.

  • A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?

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  • Didn't something like 150k employees and contractors get DOGE'd and the admin is targeting 300k by the end of year?

    I was doing contract work related to environmental research that relied on grant money and all that dried up.