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by defaultcompany 1mo ago
If Google bans you they at least will not hand out your email address to someone else. If your domain expires and someone else registers it that’s essentially what’s going to happen.
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by defaultcompany 3mo ago
I agree. The analogy is using our intuition of how objects move because of gravity to explain gravity. It has always seemed circular to me. I bet there is a better analogy.
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by defaultcompany 4mo ago
Some random thoughts on this situation which I have been in as well. - bring lantus pens - bring a backup pump. If you've been on a pump for more than 5 years you've probably gotten a new pump because the old one went out of warra
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by defaultcompany 4mo ago
I had the space games and the adventure games book as a kid and I was obsessed with them. I’d type in the whole program to play a game and then because I didn’t have a floppy drive on my C64 I’d have to type them in all over again the next
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by defaultcompany 5mo ago
Interesting! I can picture how the clients could calculate a hash prior to encryption and that would let the server know those files have the same contents once decrypted but how would that let them save on disk space? They still can’t see
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by defaultcompany 5mo ago
They encrypt files on the client before transmission.
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by defaultcompany 7mo ago
“shoulder surfing” is not the problem. It’s people making videos or live streaming who will risk accidentally exposing password length.
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by defaultcompany 7mo ago
This makes me want to use visidata for my databases.
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by defaultcompany 8mo ago
Poshmark also is not dead.
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by defaultcompany 10mo ago
This doesn’t ring true to me. Having processes which rely on communication between humans using natural language can of course be either structured or unstructured. Plenty of highly functioning companies existed well before structured data
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
How about because spent nuclear fuel will be hazardous to humans for the next ~20 thousand years? How do you amortize that cost? You can't just assume someone else will deal with it and call that cost savings. People talk about burying
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
Not from the same guy but here's a quine embedded in the github contribution chart: https://github.com/mame?tab=overview&from=1970-12-01&to=1970...
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
This article was 160 pages long when printed in the New Yorker. Modern nuclear warheads are around 30x more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. For comparison sake the equivalent resulting story would be 4800 pages long.
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
This reminds me of the “drop fix” for the sparc station where people would pick up the box and drop it to reseat the PROMs.
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
One confusing thing to me was the word "server". An "MCP server" is a server to the LLM "client". But the MCP server itself is a client to the thing it's connecting the LLM to. So it's more like an ad
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
According to Italo Calvino [1] the universe was created from the impulse to make a bowl of pasta. [1] All at One Point https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cosmicomics/cWMec8TktW4...
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by defaultcompany 1y ago
// Beware the SI's broken definition // of Hz. You should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental // dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of pure math like /&#
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
“Were you picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!?”
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
I’m dating myself but it reminds me of when e-mail hit the mainstream and Microsoft jammed it into every product with no thought for how it would really be used. Like in Excel … every email address in your spreadsheet would open the email c
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
My parents have saved letters from their parents which are written in cursive but in two perpendicular layers. Meaning the writing goes horizontally in rows and then when they got to the end of the page it was turned 90 degrees and continue
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
This reminded me of that classic Eric and Tim Show episode "Prices" [1]. "Fine European prices! Buy $35.50... for forty dollars." 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ9yBgTp9UQ
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
Fascinating that the Army Battlezone project is what lead them to develop the controller based on a Bradley tank that was later used on Star Wars.
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
On the cassette tape version of The Wall I had if you flipped the cassette over during this phone call sequence it would end up being right in the middle of another song (can't remember which one) which has this recording playing as pa
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
The ultimate (and often overlooked) failure mode for using your own domain name is death. You will die and at that point unless you have set up and funded a process to renew the domain name perpetually after your death then after some perio
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
More like “Dad I’m calling you from prison and I don’t trust that I’m actually talking to you and not a deepfake so can you tell me that password we talked about?” Then dad gives not you the password. There are infinite ways to socially eng
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
I don't know the answer to your question but tangentially, many human concepts related to time definitely do not exist in a purely physical sense. Like being "late" or "early", things "taking too long" or
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
> My goal in most cases now is to optimize code for the limits of the human mind (my own in low-effort mode) I think you would appreciate the philosophy of the Grug Brained Developer: https://grugbrain.dev
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
The crazy thing to me is that the Earth has been around for one third of the time the universe has existed.
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
> It is used by hundreds of people daily, who by all reports absolutely hate it. This made me chuckle because as a software development intern in 1988 (being paid like $8 an hour) I wrote a giant monstrosity of a time tracking program fo
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
I have thought for a long time someone needs to make a system where 200 kids can show up at their local theater and play multiplayer games on the big screen using their phones as input devices. The games would have to be custom made for thi

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