Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?
self-host your own services. There are a lot of alternatives to GitHub.
Readit Newsriffic commented on GitHub is down again githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/MattIPv4
riffic commented on The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants dri.ie/news/new-collectio... · Posted by u/gnabgib
Not a very user friendly website IMHO. Surprised it doesn't list the Irish language names of many of these plants (as far as I could see).
scientifically the only names that matter are the botanic binomials (ICN or ICNafp)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomencla...
riffic commented on ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools wired.com/story/ice-asks-... · Posted by u/eoskx
resist this.
There's something really interesting about the constraints given by plain text that you would lose with What You See Is What You Get (or, the ever-unfortunate acronym WYSIWYG) controls. I almost think what you get in that case is an unfortunate mindset-shift towards What You See Is All There Is (or, an incredibly dope acronym, WYSIATI).
riffic commented on What Happened to Abit Motherboards dfarq.homeip.net/what-hap... · Posted by u/zdw
> The Abit BP6 was legendary with enthusiasts because it let them make a dual CPU system with cheap Celeron CPUs.
And 2 celerons were cheaper than a CPU with double the performance?
they may have been, yes. back in those days, a CPU with multiple cores were meant for the server or enterprise workstation market and priced accordingly.
Celerons were consumer-grade budget kit.
riffic commented on Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary pubs.usgs.gov/fs/farallon... · Posted by u/greesil
that's cool we also have a few thousand drums of DDT off LA's shores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_ocean_dumps_off_Southern...
This all comes from an era where the prevailing thought was the solution for pollution is dilution.
riffic commented on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/beardyw
Seriously. Kids are going to cheat. It's already easy enough to just throw the test material into the LLM and get a bunch of flash cards on relevant content and memorize that. I Wish I had AI in college.
Adults are learners too.