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by colinb 23d ago
Your italicised text is /exactly/ wrong. Hen eggs are fertilised inside the hen’s oviduct. I mean, eggs are somewhat porous after laying, but they’re not that porous. (I don’t know about you. I’m just a programmer holding strong o
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by colinb 29d ago
I think I strongly disagree with your first sentence. Strongly. I've worked with enough people with fine coding skills and terrible English to know that the two are not an uncommon combination. Last year, I worked with someone whose f
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by colinb 29d ago
Not accessible in the EU cuz GDPR. “We thought about having a business that wasn’t exploitative and abusive of our users, and decided against it.”
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Are Microsoft's AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?(theguardian.com)
5 points by colinb 1mo ago|0 comments
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by colinb 1mo ago
Can you explain more please? I recognise some Claude-isms when reading text, and I recall image generators that added more fingers than are usual, but I don’t know what the 2-d graphics on the app home page signify in this respect.
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by colinb 2mo ago
ah, my apologies. I read more than you wrote. I think you and I are probably more in agreement than not. I read a book last year, "Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People" by Claire Dederer, on this topic. Good in par
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by colinb 2mo ago
I too thought of Polanski (Roman, not Zac) while reading these threads. I’m not sure the comparison or perhaps, the parallel holds though. PO’b may have been a bad husband. Or he may have been married to a bad wife. Or maybe they were both
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by colinb 2mo ago
I have to say I’m really enjoying the Eternal September of Software comments here. They make me wonder about the vintage of the authors. Was Windows 7 the first stable OS they used? Some crustifarian Debian? I don’t actually recall if the M
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by colinb 2mo ago
Not in any way being negative about what you’ve done, but… Mac only. Is this just because of inbuilt knowledge about file system shape or some more important Apple exclusive tool/environmental quirk?
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by colinb 2mo ago
Can you provide some context for this? I’m aware of SBF’s EA links, and how empty those sentiments appear to have been, but I’m just some guy, and it isn’t clear to me that the whole idea is dishonest, even if I don’t think it’s terribly re
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by colinb 2mo ago
Ooof. €109.70 in paperback
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by colinb 3mo ago
I sort of agree, and sort of not. The decision to cheat on exhaust fumes was taken by senior executives. How many of them are being laid off?
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by colinb 3mo ago
I presume there’s a voting mechanism? Are you complaining because democracy hasn’t yielded your favourite outcome? FWIW I might align with you in not finding all that much that I wanted to read in recent winners. That said this years nomina
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The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized(lareviewofbooks.org)
5 points by colinb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by colinb 3mo ago
Betteridge’s law strikes again. (I came close to finishing that sentence with a question mark. Oh the irony) More seriously, I looked at the article you linked. It talks about lots if complex climate stuff that I don’t understand. I don’t t
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by colinb 3mo ago
There has got to be a pun in here somewhere about room temperature IQs.
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by colinb 3mo ago
Is there a car manufacturer that hasn’t taken advantage of such schemes? Should I pay more for my next car so that Volkswagen executives can get paid despite not facing serious consequences for choosing to poison millions of people?
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by colinb 3mo ago
I think it’s true that declining to hand over a password in a criminal investigation is itself a criminal act in the UK. That said, I don’t know how often this actually occurs. As an outsider, it seems to me (big talk on the Internet! Amaze
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by colinb 4mo ago
I have the bamboo desk with the curved front. I like: - the way the wood looks and feels. - it has been fairly tough. I managed to stain it with an overnight pen leak, but it's mostly easy to clean, and stands up to minor impacts from
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by colinb 4mo ago
The truly excellent weavers will be fine?
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by colinb 4mo ago
Do I remember correctly that one of the major characters in what we would now call an influencer with always-on video glasses? I think his spectacles get slashdotted at one point. I’m not sure which is the greater anachronism got me. That I
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by colinb 4mo ago
[I have lived in the UK. I do not live in the UK. I am not British] well, I guess you can always try moving there. It's my suspicion that more people move from China to the UK than the other way around. Why is that? Maybe they haven&#x
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by colinb 5mo ago
Yes I did/do. He’s a top guy. I think he did some pretty spiffy work on multiprotocol routers in the 90s.
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by colinb 5mo ago
I unexpectedly found myself working for the UK subsidiary of AJ just before the .com bubble pop. Interesting times. Things I remember: I wrote something to do cluster analysis of the previous day’s search queries. It turned out that the
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by colinb 5mo ago
>Remember that 99.9% of people do not consider themselves to be the bad guy, yet more than 0.01% of people are bad guys. Almost no one identifies with evil, yet evil is a string that runs through every beating heart. "estimate the p
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by colinb 6mo ago
Imagine being a news paper/site editor and having this kind of headline potential drop in your lap.
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by colinb 6mo ago
I think I understand why this is true for plain IP forwarding. There isn’t much to break the cache and the lookups are few and fast. What’s the cheapest (new) computer that can drive a 1Gb port with NAT? With a busy encrypted (wireguard?) c
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by colinb 6mo ago
I think you have the wrong end of this stick. See the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior for an example. There have been several iterations of this ship name since the first was bombed by the French secret service in 1985.
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by colinb 6mo ago
Your argument ignores two things. First, the US constitution as it currently stands admits modifications. Amendments are version bumps. My understanding is that they’re harder to come by these days. Second, the constitution may be written b
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by colinb 7mo ago
> code for radiation hardened environments I’m aware of code that detects bit flips via unreasonable value detection (“this counter cannot be this high so quickly”). What else is there?

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