cpcallen

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by cpcallen 1mo ago
For anyone who, like me, wasn't sure what's going on in the linked, archived PR: this is Mythos attempting to socially engineer a malicious PR during a test run by the UK AI Safety Institute. AISI has published a report about the
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by cpcallen 3mo ago
I was SO excited when I first read this article, as I was at the time implementing shared-global multithreading in a fork of JS Interpreter [1][2] and it was thrilling to think that we might one day have true parallelism in a real JS engine
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by cpcallen 3mo ago
On the one hand, if you grew up in the baazzar, moving to the cathedral might feel like the "death of open source" even if it is really just a return to an earlier way of working. On the other hand, while not accepting external co
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by cpcallen 4mo ago
> Yes, I use a lot of emdashes. If only you used them properly—like this.
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by cpcallen 5mo ago
I am completely confused about the orbital mechanics in this game. They seem completely broken; at any rate they do not work remotely like any other simulation I've played with (e.g. Gravitation or Kerbal Space Program). The bodies o
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by cpcallen 5mo ago
> when it became impossible to ask on SO Can you explain what you mean by that?
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by cpcallen 8mo ago
I have various ill-informed hypotheses, mostly connected to the cult of shareholder value and the decades of short-termism that have resulted. As the author notes: MBAs are not inclined to take big creative risks—but, equally, are would-be
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by cpcallen 11mo ago
This reminds me of an interesting security incident that occurred on the undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca unix cluster while I was an undergrad, circa 1996. When I'd started, the cluster had three SunOS servers, named cayley, descartes, and
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by cpcallen 1y ago
Seems interesting but for some reason on Chrome on my iPhone 13 mini the page is too big for the screen: I have to pinch zoom out to see the X that dismisses the instructions, and can't scroll the about page. Did you make some assumpti
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by cpcallen 1y ago
You know what else is infuriating? Pages that won't load (at all—just show a blank page, or in this case a too many redirects error—if you do not have cookies and local storage enabled.
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by cpcallen 1y ago
Did you mean to post this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819917 ?
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by cpcallen 1y ago
"I just use the stock wired earphones that come with the phone" If only that were still a thing.
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by cpcallen 1y ago
Well, their "About" page explains that it's a journal "dedicated to two big ideas…: equality under the law and global federalism." But more relevantly, also that they publish "short stories and memoirs, becaus
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by cpcallen 1y ago
Not to disparage Stijn's efforts, but he's about a quarter century late to the AR ad-blocking game: when Steve Mann came give a talk at the University of Waterloo whilst I was an undergrad there (circa 1997–2000), one of the appli
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by cpcallen 2y ago
I am obviously not the target audience for this, because it seems to be the opposite of what I want: I'd much rather just have a text-only homepage than anything with thumbnails. I'd really love an iOS app for Reddit that made the
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by cpcallen 2y ago
Technology (e.g. highly addictive short-form video apps) seems like a likely explanation; fear of fentanyl is less plausible (it would not deter drinking or vaping). Surely the biggest factor, however, is just the interruption of social co
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by cpcallen 2y ago
Well, given that it's in _The Guardian_, there's a pretty good chance that she is indeed now aware of it. Minor quibble: the current Magic Circle is not "different from the last one" because it is the same organisation—t
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by cpcallen 2y ago
Folks in the UK are likely to: it is the professional guild for magicians.
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by cpcallen 2y ago
Indeed, the headline is… technically accurate but seems clearly designed to mislead. The article body is a bit more clear: > The Manchester Evening News reported that passengers accessing the wifi at Piccadilly station were directed to
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by cpcallen 2y ago
Doing open source releases takes engineering time, and the internal tooling teams are amongst those that have been hit by layoffs[1], so keeping GitHub up to date is probably not a big priority for them. [1]: https://techcrunch.c
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by cpcallen 2y ago
As I understand it: - The base movement turns the date wheel every day at (or, typically, just before) midnight via the 31 teeth on that wheel. - The single tooth on the date wheel drives the five-pointed cog. I gather that this must turn
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by cpcallen 2y ago
Since reading this I've gone looking for the setting in Maps (on iOS) but not been able to find it. Can you tell me where it is?
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by cpcallen 2y ago
In the UK it seems that almost all online banking transactions are now verified by SMS. As far as I can tell this is required by law, and replaced the previous, bank card + card reader + pin verification system, which was not only more sec
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by cpcallen 2y ago
I would. The new building is huge and tickets are $30 for kids and $40 for adults (though I suspect that many of the visitors get discounted or free admission because their employers are corporate sponsors). It's still one of the mos
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by cpcallen 3y ago
Similarly: I remember spending quite a lot of time exploring [National Capital Feenet]( https://www.ncf.ca/en/)'s Gopher pages in an attempt to find a link-to-a-link-to-a-page that would let me make arbitrary telne
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by cpcallen 3y ago
Similar for me. Page loads but nothing works.
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by cpcallen 3y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I wonder if this view is a little simplistic. Where a competitive marketplace exists I don't see ads (especially ads purchased by big incumbent vendors) adding any value: it would be better overall if compe
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by cpcallen 3y ago
Indeed. For example, the video "Bruckner 8 trombone training" by Kevin Hertlein was uploaded to YouTube in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0m2cLH1m8 Back in 2021 it bore a note saying "Music in this
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by cpcallen 3y ago
Exactly.
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by cpcallen 3y ago
Sigh. Yet another site that completely fails if cookies are disabled: just an otherwise blank page with the message "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)", with

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