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by andy81 17d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
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by andy81 3mo ago
More than similar. Another word for the same thing.
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by andy81 4mo ago
It's crazy that license laundering is still the primary use case for LLMs.
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by andy81 5mo ago
Digit is the English word for finger.
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by andy81 5mo ago
Agents will happily automate away intentional friction like a confirm prompt, even if you organise it as multiple API calls. The fix needs to be permissions rather than ergonomics.
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by andy81 5mo ago
Because Polymarket creates an incentive to change the real-world result. If you create a bet on {person} getting assassinated by {date}, you greatly increase the chances of somebody on the "Yes" side thumbing the scales.
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by andy81 5mo ago
Price isn't affected by mining difficulty, only the other direction.
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by andy81 6mo ago
The only thing "clear" about that License agreement is it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot. So either that document is fraudulent or everyone else at Microsoft is committing fraud daily. Examples from the first
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by andy81 6mo ago
The way to do enums in SQL (generally, not just MSSQL) is another table. It's better that they don't offer several ways to do the same thing.
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by andy81 7mo ago
We've all tried to ask the LLM about something outside of its training data by now. In that situation, they give the (wrong) answer that sounds the most plausible.
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by andy81 7mo ago
LA is sparse by European standards, or rural by Asian standards. http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf CTRL+F for "BUILT-UP URBAN AREAS BY URBAN POPULATION DENSITY: 2025" America is the exception for populatio
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by andy81 8mo ago
There are more options - Banning advertising targeted at the user rather than the context Enforcing Do Not Track Enforcing GDPR (especially sites that use cookie banners)
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by andy81 9mo ago
SO also isn't afraid to tell you that your question is stupid and you should do it a better way. Some people take that as a personal attack, but it can be more helpful than a detailed response to the wrong question.
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by andy81 9mo ago
Amazon paid no dividends, that's their big debt financing.
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by andy81 1y ago
There's no reason that contextual ads couldn't be automated at scale. It might even be easier than automating targeted ads, given the incredible level of research and compute that gets wasted on targeting.
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by andy81 1y ago
> That is a philosophical argument completely unrelated to whether or not something is illegal. Most comments saying that cryptocurrency holders should abide by "code is law", are not actually saying that we should abide by &qu
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by andy81 2y ago
F# isn't in the running for third either. Maybe top ten behind MSSQL, Powershell, Excel Formulae, DAX etc.
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by andy81 2y ago
Powershell was 2006, so I suppose the real "peak windows server UX" was 2016 when PS was relatively mature and came out-of-the-box with the latest version.
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by andy81 2y ago
What would it offer that you can't already get from DBATools, LINQ, and ORMs more generally?
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by andy81 2y ago
Exactly the reason that you should always use yyyy-mm-dd.
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by andy81 2y ago
Not in e.g. MSSQL
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by andy81 2y ago
No mention of crash frequency, non-car collisions (roll etc.), or handling either. Despite the title, the entire article seems to have missed the mark and become a marketing piece for SUVs.
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by andy81 2y ago
It's Microsoft's actions which lose them trust, regardless of what they might state in official communications. Actions like the C# dev kit license footgun/rug pull, the closed source remote development extensions, and traini
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by andy81 2y ago
The CLI tools have a great record. curl and invoke-restmethod and hurl etc. It's the GUI tools that keep getting monetised.
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by andy81 2y ago
Being anti-cryptocurrency as an organisation really is an important differentiator. Fidelity knows that investors in their cryptocurrency products will lose money in aggregate, but offers them anyway. It's a black mark against their in
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by andy81 2y ago
Power Query, Powershell, and .net core were revolutionary in their niches.
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by andy81 2y ago
Bit of an understatement, should be "always have access" if state attackers are included in the threat model.
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by andy81 2y ago
The government could apply a fine, and shops selling that butter could put up a sign warning that butter is made from milk. That achieves the same result without the destruction of perfectly good food.
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by andy81 2y ago
Here's an example implementation in MSSQL - https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/1873... No need to filter within the window function if you use subquery or CTE, which is supported eve
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by andy81 2y ago
League of Legends and Minecraft came out ~15 years ago and never left the top 10 most played PC games. It's hard to release new live-service games too. Many people will just be happy to play LoL for the rest of their lives.

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