bastawhiz

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by bastawhiz 3d ago
Who is this for? Who's looking at it? It seems like this is solving an engineering culture/process failure by introducing new engineering process. Like I'm trying to understand the circumstances where a) I don't have CI&
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by bastawhiz 3d ago
Why does a personal blog have or even need a cookie banner?
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by bastawhiz 4d ago
The comment I replied to said this: > As AI bans go, this one doesn't seem too stringent if you disclose AI and actually check what it's doing. I'm not arguing for or against the policy, but the policy as-written reads to
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by bastawhiz 4d ago
That doesn't seem to be the case. > All contributions are expected to be made by humans. AI tools may be used for research and learning, but all content in contributions must originate from and be understood by the contributor. This
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by bastawhiz 4d ago
By "they don't taste good" I wasn't trying to imply that they taste bad, though maybe they do to some folks. At least to me they don't taste like anything (they lack a good flavor). For me and probably many folks, t
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by bastawhiz 4d ago
I'm sure you could prepare almost anything to taste great. You can do whatever you think you'd enjoy. My point isn't to discourage you from doing it. If you want to eat apple stems or orange peels or horse chestnuts, knock yo
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by bastawhiz 4d ago
> Alex rightly points out that apple seeds do contain cyanide. Turns out, it’s not a huge risk for normal apple consumption. You don't have to eat them. There's no benefit to eating them. They don't taste good. They provid
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by bastawhiz 4d ago
I mean, of course we should be concerned about the goals of the companies. But that's a second, separate concern and it's important not to muddy the two together into a single point. We shouldn't take any of these companies a
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by bastawhiz 9d ago
It's great that they're working on this, but I am puzzled at how absolutely awful the forecasts are in the Google weather app for my area. The forecast will show no rain, the radar view shows nothing, meanwhile it's pouring o
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by bastawhiz 9d ago
Treat skills as runbooks, not as a way to turn your agent into an expert.
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by bastawhiz 9d ago
Exactly. Table salt has an LD50 of 0.5-1g/kg, 1.5-3x more toxic. I weigh ~85kg, I'd have to eat about 46 cubic centimeters of potassium ferrocyanide (on the conservative side) to consume an LD50 worth. If you're talking about
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
De Beers was founded by the guy whose colonial governance helped make the region as economically depressed as it was. When Debswana was founded, De Beers was taking something like 85% of the profits from Botswana's natural resources. T
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
> The venture began in 1969 and as difficult as the economic situation there is now, subsaharan africa was an even worse place then. False. The sixties were one of the better decades (economically) in sub Saharan Africa. The region was r
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
I can hardly remember to commit my untracked files. A better solution here would be to somehow disallow `git add .`
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
Botswana's diamond mining industry is exactly one company: Debswana, a 50/50 joint venture between the government of Botswana and De Beers. Which means, when you think about it, that half of one subsidiary of De Beers is effective
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
He didn't foia anything. The article is about discovery in a lawsuit.
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
Abuse can be eliminated. It's called requiring a warrant. What's tolerable doesn't matter: we don't need to litigate how willing we are to bend the fourth amendment.
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
You don't need a special speedy system. A regular warrant is just fine. A warrant in this case would never have been granted because there was no suspicion of wrongdoing. There's already processes for expedited search warrants out
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
I'm glad this guy will get his payout, but infuriated that the perpetrators will likely face no consequences, and the burden will fall on the public.
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by bastawhiz 11d ago
1. It's lack of accountability because nobody involved seems to have been fired or even disciplined. 2. It's lack of public oversight because an attorney filing a complaint about an unlawful arrest noticing a suspicious photograph
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by bastawhiz 12d ago
Since the vulnerability is exploited by a crafted binary file, I think that isn't something that CF's managed ruleset is able to protect against. They have the ability to scan incoming files with antivirus, but if the exploit is s
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by bastawhiz 13d ago
ArrayBuffer is copied by default unless you pass it as a special transferable object. But only the current owner of the buffer can use it. If you need to read and write from both threads at once, you need to look at SharedArrayBuffer.
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
VRML was incredible. It's a "hypertext" markup language but instead of documents it produces 3D environments. It's a shame it never really caught on.
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by bastawhiz 14d ago
I don't have an oai subscription to try, but I'd be interested to know if Codex picks Claude's code over a human's and vice versa.
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by bastawhiz 15d ago
A neat idea with no content
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by bastawhiz 15d ago
If the goal is browser diversity, is the answer really Firefox? Or is it one of the active in development projects from people who are motivated to do something new? What exactly is Firefox going to do differently to grow its market share?
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by bastawhiz 15d ago
> Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. This isn't really true, and hasn't been for some time. It's just the only other browser engine with meaningful production users. Servo and Ladyb
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by bastawhiz 20d ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this powers 1.1.1.1, it doesn't front an internal dataset. A cache miss hits a nameserver. Which is to say, the dataset is "every DNS record in the world"
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by bastawhiz 20d ago
Didn't this man just go on record saying the public needs to "compromise" on privacy?
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
Why should Starlink get that business? Why shouldn't France run its own fiber that it controls that isn't dependent on a US-based corporation? And you said it yourself: Starlink already exists. They don't need a subsidy. You

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