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by bayesnet 11d ago
The piracy thing is a bit backwards I think. Piracy is a consequence of subscription price so higher prices induce more piracy. The only way piracy doesn’t exist is if all content is free to begin with
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by bayesnet 27d ago
> … for technical users it's a pretty noticeable step down in terms of how you may use and configure your own system It’s such a frustrating experience on both ends—I use macOS for most of my work because I like the hardware it ship
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by bayesnet 28d ago
Passport sizes are standardized and AFAIK every issuer complies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810
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by bayesnet 28d ago
I don’t understand how this was intended to work (not technically but as a “free” service). They want ISPs that don’t support v6 to pay them. Their free trial (for ISP) says > Your free trial starts when the frontend receives the first c
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by bayesnet 28d ago
It’s a bit of an ominous quote given that Hilbert’s program was dismantled shortly thereafter by Gödel…
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by bayesnet 1mo ago
The “– Whales” part of the HN title (not in the original headline sadly) makes it seem like the whales are the source of the story. Sadly not so.
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by bayesnet 1mo ago
I’ve written a lot of Lean for economic modeling (so take this with the caveat that it’s not frontier-level mathematics research) but I think this problem is overstated. If you follow good engineering standards—keep primitives composable an
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by bayesnet 1mo ago
As someone who doesn’t write Zig, I wish the code examples gave type annotations for the writers so I could see the difference between the old generic API and the new `std.Io` interface.
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by bayesnet 1mo ago
Yes, totally agree—I love the car and for nearly all of my driving it’s great. It’s just that the residual of long drives is more of an issue than some say because of how inconsistent the experience is. For someone my parents age, for whom
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by bayesnet 1mo ago
I’d be happy to get the advertised charge speeds on my Equinox. The number of times I use a charging station that delivers ~120kW at most is maddening. And it’s this kind of thing that stops mass adoption. When you fuel an ICE car, the pump
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
I think that’s uncharitable. The study has a very specific goal of assessing whether blue light can keep seniors with problems staying awake from falling asleep early. It’s neither obvious nor intended by the authors that conclusions about
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
Well, we know that conclusively in the study population of 65+ year olds who suffer from insomnia and suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
I think it’s easier to see if you drop the time indices and just introduce a variable for the elapsed time. So: Mary := 24 = 2(A - Δ) A = Mary - Δ And then it’s just substitution. But of course what appeals to one’s intuition is very person
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
It’s ironic that the README has all the tells of being LLM-written: > 53 numbered rules, 9 sections, written in 1983 by people whose readers die when a sentence is ambiguous. The ones doing the heavy lifting: … Not really a promising te
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
Very nice! But I was struck by this: > The last time I had seriously dabbled with exploits and low-level recovery was when I spent months trying to revive a bricked M1 Max MacBook Pro. Several companies and repair shops had told me that
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
What’s the status of the OpenD fork?[0] I see Adam is still active there but I’m not sure if it’s had any impact beyond losing him as an upstream contributor. [0]: https://opendlang.org/
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
I buy rice from an online store that carries speciality Japanese varieties. The rice is very good. But this year they replaced their previously obviously-English-as-second-language-but-informative descriptions with just total slop that say
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
That auditors are responsible for catching the lies of an audited company on penalty of being suspended is a position that the big audit firms would not agree with. They might agree that they are responsible for ensuring the material accura
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
Right now the HR is showing 48 bpm, so this has the fun side effect of demonstrating that the author is in pretty good shape.
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
The page appears to be dark themed even without dark mode enabled; if I use Noir to force-add dark mode, then the diagrams indeed become difficult to read but this seems like a Noir issue more than a site issue
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by bayesnet 2mo ago
Especially interesting because (as one of the compiler team members noted on Zulip) this is a miscompilation relatively easy to stumble into in safe code (yikes). Looks like the cause was a late pass in MIR optimization pipeline — I would t
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by bayesnet 3mo ago
Atkinson Hyperlegible is an incredible font family! I read much faster and strain much less when I use it. The Braille Institute licenses it under SIL and includes the Glyphs 3 source files used to build it with the download too which is ve
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by bayesnet 3mo ago
I do not think that it is as well-reasoned as that. Far more likely IMO that teams are being evaluated on upsell uptake and so push these requirements to make the number on the dashboard go up. Anyway, I’d be more sympathetic to this way of
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by bayesnet 3mo ago
I don’t think I have ever seen ∋ used to mean “such that” so I was very confused until I got to the explanation (as it were; why CONTAINS AS MEMBER is being used to mean “such that” is never explained).
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by bayesnet 4mo ago
To be fair I think the success of JS is in spite of it not working super well
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by bayesnet 4mo ago
I have a TS3+ that broke about 18 months in. I talked to support, set up a repair, and before I could send it the dock unbroke and had worked since. Truly mysterious and left me with a sense of unease with that thing given the cost.
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by bayesnet 4mo ago
The only surprising thing about the Tom’s Hardware example was that John Gruber evidently does not use an adblocker
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by bayesnet 4mo ago
> Not a product launch. Not a keynote. Not a revenue metric. The thing he was most proud of in four years at one of the biggest companies on … What’s tiresome about this is that people don’t even bother to edit it. I use LLMs to draft lo
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by bayesnet 4mo ago
It’s your last point that keeps me up at night. I opt out of letting my data be used for training (and don’t use tools like Gemini that make this very difficult or impossible). But I have very little reason to trust that they actually don’t
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by bayesnet 4mo ago
Really love this article. Opens with the problem statement and jumps straight into the investigation. Thanks for a very enjoyable read (and an rss feed!)

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