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by beagle3 1mo ago
They are a (relatively) recent part of the production pipeline. Before introducing horseshoe crab blood, they used to inject rabbits and wait a couple of weeks. Now the wait has been reduced to minutes - which reduces storage costs and incr
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by beagle3 1mo ago
You expect every blog post to find the earliest relevant paper to cite, just so one could look at the year (without reading said paper - which would have made clear that the connection isn’t recent) to assess novelty? I don’t think that’s r
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by beagle3 1mo ago
Same here. (Except, following 1980’s BASIC, I always expected it to be called “chain”)
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by beagle3 1mo ago
At the same time they are strongly promoting the OS age laws. One positive, in the eyes of many people, does not absolve for a large body of evil. For many it doesn’t even absolve a small body of evil deeds. (Zuck/Meta’s evil deeds are
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by beagle3 2mo ago
It’s been years since, but I bought on Amazon a bag of 8 different ends that work everywhere in the world. It wasn’t from Apple, but it’s basically a plastic shape and 2 or 3 (depending on end) metal parts - it’s hard to get wrong, and easy
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by beagle3 2mo ago
It’s been years since captcha was contributing to labeling.
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by beagle3 2mo ago
That’s awesome. But a guide that does not include a howto for alerting (such as the one linked) is incomplete.
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by beagle3 2mo ago
That’s comforting to know; that wasn’t true in the past for ext4 over lvm (is it true now?). But what is that command? And how do you know which disk has gone bad? I am sure I can get an answer from Google / Claude / ChatGPT, but
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by beagle3 2mo ago
Indeed. Didn’t notice and it’s too late to edit now.
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by beagle3 2mo ago
I still pay for snooty, and the reason for that is that when a disk goes bad (not if; when) I pop its tray out, replace the disk, pop the tray with the disk back in, click a couple of widgets, and that’s it. I know it will be rebuilt proper
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by beagle3 3mo ago
What you seem to be saying is “I want no precedence or associativity - I just want explicit parentheses everywhere” which is a fine choice. But not a common one. The reason APL made that choice (and its descendants followed) is that it had
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by beagle3 3mo ago
APL / K / J (and friends) evaluate things "left-of-right" (could be thought of as "right-to-left"), that is 1+2 3-4 is parsed 1+(2 (3-4)) - there is no operator precedence. It is weird at first, but refreshing
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by beagle3 3mo ago
My guess would be because too many users held out with Win10, are not really a potential income stream, and MS would rather keep them MS customers than Linux or Mac (their next machine might be a Neo rather than Win11 these days). The cost
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by beagle3 3mo ago
Modern OSes randomize WiFi MAC addresses unless you ask them not to, and also do some randomization on BT MAC address.
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by beagle3 3mo ago
More like a moment that the guys can’t come because each one was independently struck by a lightning.
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by beagle3 4mo ago
IIRC, this law was a result of Ted Arrison giving up his US citizenship very shortly before death, saving a few billions for his heirs. The law was hastily passed to discourage copycats while working on the exit tax law without haste.
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by beagle3 4mo ago
When and why did Gandi stop being recommendable?
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by beagle3 4mo ago
It is very insecure unless you use dnssec, isn’t it? Just means an attacker also needs to mitm DNS if you MITM the host. Not trivial, but depending on setup might not be harder.
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by beagle3 5mo ago
They do, until a configuration endless loop brings down their production system. This is not really different than C vs Rust, or even Perl regular expressions (unbounded execution time) vs real regular expression. With great powers comes gr
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by beagle3 5mo ago
Many domains are better served by a more limited programming language, so you can analyze a program and/or make guarantees about it. Real regexes (actually regular…) are infinitely better than Python code matching the same string (if t
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Do LLMs Reason, or Do They Just Predict Math Text?(daridor.blog)
4 points by beagle3 5mo ago|2 comments
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by beagle3 5mo ago
A critique of the KisMATH paper. Bottom line: Headline-claim inflation factor: roughly 3x–4x
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by beagle3 5mo ago
Benzion’s son (and Elisha’s nephew) Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli prime minister.
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by beagle3 6mo ago
Ahhm. At previous $DAYJOB, I inherited a WPF app written in 2012; I stumbled upon several WONTFIX bugs through the years - mostly having to do with shared memory bitmaps, having to manually call GC at times, and a host of other things. Stab
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by beagle3 6mo ago
That was a late edition. I have working DVD drives that will happily read anything on a disc, even if they can’t decode it. Newer drives I bought will refuse reading what they won’t decide themselves (e.g. wrong region).
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by beagle3 6mo ago
Good Luck!
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by beagle3 6mo ago
KDB v1 is from sometime in the late 1990’s (I met v2 in 2002; but v1 was internal use only at some investment bank). But that follows A and A+ which were extremely column oriented and date to early 1990s or even late 1980s ; and to various
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by beagle3 6mo ago
The existing laws are rarely well specified enough for precise enforcement, often on purpose. You cannot have precise enforcement with imprecise laws. It’s as simple as that. The HN favorite in this respect is “fair use” under copyright. It
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by beagle3 6mo ago
I mean that it already appears in the Bible, in old Hebrew (which is close to, but isn’t exactly Aramaic), with the meaning “to feed and provide” - and I did not find any documentation about how it formed (or came into) Hebrew. Which means
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by beagle3 6mo ago
Seems to be a coincidence - the Hebrew word comes from the Bible (old testament), and means "the feeding, and generally providing of needs". The English word comes from "calculus", meaning, apparently, pebble, because or

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