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by defen 12d ago
The British attempted “full punishment” against the American colonies and look where that got them. There are no easy solutions.
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by defen 14d ago
If the "Zero Blast-N-Peen" company operating out of "Hooker Circle" with the robot logo showed up in a Fallout game, it would be criticized as too over the top - breaks the immersion too much since it's so absurd.
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by defen 1mo ago
You could do that, but a real human doesn't just type things out in one straight shot (modulo typos that are fixed "in-line"). There's going to be editing, pauses, copy-pasting, moving things around, etc. And at worst it
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by defen 1mo ago
AI watermarks feel like they're approaching the problem from the wrong side - no matter what it will be possible to remove the watermark (Via manual rewriting, local LLLMs, etc). Instead it seems like we need "proof of human creat
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by defen 1mo ago
Very disturbing comment and not something you should joke about, especially number 3.
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by defen 1mo ago
Ewing Theory, but for trillion dollar corporations.
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by defen 1mo ago
I just read this one. The other thing that's going on is that Stephen has a secret mission that requires him to be put on shore in France, so he wants to do that during a new moon. The question is Stephen's adorable way of "e
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by defen 2mo ago
None of his personal failures leak through into his books. It's not like reading someone who injects their abhorrent philosophy or ideology into their book and you're worried it will rub off on you. Imagine if you found out tomorr
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by defen 2mo ago
I think it's a mistake to dismiss them just for that reason. He's been dead for 26 years, and you can get the books second-hand, so it's easy to acquire them while ensuring no money goes to him or his estate if that's wh
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by defen 2mo ago
The issue is that most "hello world" programs are not correct.
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by defen 2mo ago
iOS
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by defen 2mo ago
Not sure about op but if I post here from my phone I get those. Example: “quoted string”
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by defen 2mo ago
That’s a common trope I see in “old” books (most recently for me in _Old Mortality_) that I can’t recall ever seeing in modern ones - deliberately obscured words intended to convey a notion of realism without naming an actual place or perso
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by defen 2mo ago
So what are the good Australian boot/shoe brands now?
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by defen 3mo ago
"US jurisdiction" also includes foreign heads of state residing in, and present in, their own country. I don't think a theoretical definition of jurisdiction is tenable; only a realist one.
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by defen 3mo ago
Is this a very obscure Norm Macdonald reference?
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by defen 3mo ago
How does that work when you don't have enough assets to cover the cost of the thing you broke or stole?
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by defen 3mo ago
I bought my 8 year old daughter the hardcover box set for Christmas. When she opened it her initial reaction was definitely "oh...thanks" (she was clearly not excited about it but wanted to be nice). Within a week it was borderlin
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by defen 3mo ago
There are some absolutely fantastic web comics out there but none of them have had the cultural impact of Calvin and Hobbes. I don't see how any of them could, to be honest. Even though the technical means of distribution are there at
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by defen 3mo ago
IIRC that is how Uber implemented their "Greyball" system, which was designed to prevent government employees from actually hailing rides, without completely locking them out of the system (same idea as "shadowbanning").
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by defen 3mo ago
Martin Amis level prose is neither possible nor desirable for a technical blog post.
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by defen 3mo ago
How much liability coverage are you getting for ~ $100/month? In other words if you injure or kill someone with your vehicle how much of that cost will be covered by your insurance company? With Waymo the answer is "not my problem
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by defen 3mo ago
I've never lived in Los Angeles but the one that gets you in San Francisco if you do street parking is the street cleaning, and the random vandalizations.
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by defen 3mo ago
Vibe coding is the breakthrough. There's always been "no-code" solutions to problems in various business domains, but they were invariably janky, underpowered, and/or overpriced. Now we have a way for domain experts to
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by defen 4mo ago
Pale Fire is one of my favorite books of all time. BTW the crown jewels can be found in the book, if you know where to look :)
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by defen 4mo ago
I used exactly what you posted; should I make an empty hello-world type of file instead?
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by defen 4mo ago
> Just creating a file with dummy test like > if (2 * 2 != 5) { @panic("fail"); } > And running `zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe` takes a couple seconds on my computer. What kind of computer are you on? I just ran that te
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by defen 4mo ago
I love Zig and I am generally very happy with Andrew's benevolent dictatorship and the benefits of having one single smart tasteful person in charge of decisions, but the unused variable one really hurts. My guess is that he's see
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by defen 4mo ago
Multiple people in this thread have mentioned the Seattle real estate market going to shit (for sellers) - is that related to tech layoffs or is something else going on? San Francisco's market is just as crazy as ever.
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by defen 4mo ago
If OP hadn't written his reply to 'dhouston 19 years ago I for sure would have flagged it as LLM-generated.

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