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by codingdave 3mo ago
Do you think routers perform their work using the human-readable addresses? If so, that is incorrect. They use the binary values. The actual difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is that IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, not 32. So you can devise wha
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by codingdave 3mo ago
wat. Making people doubt themselves is not a goal of good communication.
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by codingdave 3mo ago
You can get this answer for any user by looking at their profile - there is a 'favorite' link at the bottom, and then a 'comments' link at the top of the favorites page. And if you don't have specific user you want
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by codingdave 3mo ago
> once they are built-in to all devices and performant enough in future years That is a hefty set of assumptions you are making there. There is no guarantee such a reality will ever exist, and decent odds against it. At the same time, if
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by codingdave 3mo ago
Wander the shelves at book stores and the library.
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by codingdave 3mo ago
I'm not entirely clear what your complaint is. The internet has evolved constantly since its inception. Trends come and go. Big players come and go. So do small ones. Tools and the sites you use changes over time. All the while, life c
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by codingdave 3mo ago
omg, we get it. You discovered a new URL trick on HN. Cool, congrats. Now stahp.
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by codingdave 3mo ago
I've been slowly working for years on letting clover take over my lawn. I have amazing flows of white flowers in the spring, with the red clover now starting to come in as well. I mow it once the flowers pop up to force the growth back
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by codingdave 3mo ago
Because it has moved way beyond protests. Everyone agrees that school shootings are bad. Legislation has been passed. Policies have changed. Schools have changed their security tactics. There have been years and years of meetings across the
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by codingdave 3mo ago
That is the only way it is legal. This was an export directive from the Commerce department, using authority granted by Congress to control exports of tech. If they just told Anthropic to shut down a model without invoking an emergency orde
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by codingdave 3mo ago
Don't use Stripe? I know that sounds dismissive, but if you have so much billing going on that you are out-scaling Stripe's limits, surely you could afford to research other options?
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by codingdave 3mo ago
This is silly, to be honest. QR codes are nothing more or less than a way to represent a chunk of data. They already are exactly what this site advertises. Sounds like they must have had a friend who got burned by a QR code that pointed to
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by codingdave 3mo ago
AI does not do it better. It just does it faster. Sometimes that is useful. Sometimes that is harmful. You would want to learn to code to be able to tell the difference.
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by codingdave 3mo ago
I've made a number of ceramic molds for slumping fused glass into bowls. As well as wooden templates for ceramic mugs. I've devised a few carrying tools to move glass frit paintings from my studio down to my barn where the kilns s
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by codingdave 3mo ago
> It is frequently asserted that users prefer chatbots Who is asserting that? Is there data to back it up? And which audiences are we talking about? Which products? Which industries? As far as how I'd decide, I'd ask people. Da
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by codingdave 3mo ago
"token" is a word with many meanings. There is no "default", it simply is a versatile word. The author may have their own personal default understanding of the word, but that doesn't mean that everyone who speaks th
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by codingdave 4mo ago
I mean, it never drops anything where you are. Is that the joke? As long as you never do anything, the game lasts forever?
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by codingdave 4mo ago
If you ride a car, you can arrive fast. Maybe. If you don't wreck the car. Or get hit by a bus. Or have your tire go flat. And your engine doesn't blow. And you don't get pulled over by the cops. And there is no construction
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by codingdave 4mo ago
> but not many will want to work at a tech company today that doesn’t provide top tier AI tooling, wat. No. There are plenty of devs who hate how AI is changing the work, and would be thrilled to go back to the old ways. I am seeing so m
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by codingdave 4mo ago
Your insurance will not necessarily pay the full cost of ER visits. Some plans have co-pays in the range of hundreds of dollars. High deductible plans might make you eat the full cost if you have not already had a lot of medical expenses th
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by codingdave 4mo ago
> The woman on the other end of the line asked me, "Do you have a plan to continue your insulin pump therapy?" I said, "I guess. I will have to call my doctor and get my prescription for long-acting insulin moved to a phar
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by codingdave 4mo ago
I hope you realize that what you just wrote could easily be read as: "They are legitimate businesses sending spam, spam, spam, spam, transactional messages, etc" Just because you have one valid use case to send an email does not m
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by codingdave 4mo ago
So you are trying to make more spam hit people's inboxes? Yeah, no. Solving that makes you part of the problem.
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by codingdave 4mo ago
No thanks. I gave up as soon as I saw it was going to spend a long time just generating rows before even trying to show anything. Pagination is a thing, for a reason. What problem is solved by loading everything into the browser at once?
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by codingdave 4mo ago
There is no way I'd use a web site for this, partially because there is no guarantee the site will still be here in 2 years, much less 20+ years. But more importantly, I can store that info in any document online. I don't need a n
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by codingdave 4mo ago
As a reminder, it was far more difficult to "ship an update" for games in 1995. The web was just getting started. Games showed up on CDs, often bought off shelves, in actual stores.
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by codingdave 4mo ago
If a discussion about GenAI adds something new to the discussion, I think it is great. But most of them do not. Most of them are either generic posts about whether or not someone likes it, stories of someone's experiences as they learn
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by codingdave 4mo ago
He was pro NFTs, too. That was not correct. So has he been right often enough to do well for himself? Clearly, yes. But that does not mean he has an infallible sense of where the world is headed.
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by codingdave 4mo ago
Outside of the coding world, AI adoption seems to be functionally complete. When it came out, literally years ago now, people explored it, defined where it would be useful, implemented it, and moved on with their lives. They have what they
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by codingdave 4mo ago
I wish they had said more about the technical architecture because I am not understanding what it is about their architecture that requires that much power for a dev instance. For production, sure, absolutely, gotta have resources to scale.

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