eric_h

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Yap: A Particular Kind of Slop(mckayla.blog)
2 points by eric_h 19d ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 27d ago
I thought this was interesting - honestly I think I'd buy one without hesitation for $13k (only partially inspired by the fact they're installing electric car charging stations in my apartment building's parking lot right now
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So Many Fisker Ocean in New York, but Why?(thelastdriverlicenseholder.com)
8 points by eric_h 27d ago|3 comments
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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon(404media.co)
6 points by eric_h 2mo ago|1 comments
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China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete(boingboing.net)
6 points by eric_h 2mo ago|3 comments
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Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis(schneier.com)
4 points by eric_h 3mo ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 3mo ago
I have since moved out of NYC but yes I had an apartment number. If the doorman was helping this scalper, the scalper could have varied the address he used enough to avoid exact match dedupes while still ensuring he could claim the packages
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by eric_h 3mo ago
Doorman buildings are quite common in NYC. [edit: to be clear they are not the norm, they are more expensive than buildings without one, but there are still lots of them that are not Trump Tower or other places for the absurdly wealthy]
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by eric_h 3mo ago
I really wanted a PS5 when it was first released, and I refused to pay the scalper tax to get one, so I spent a few minutes a few times a day over a couple of weeks trying to snag one from one of the many retailers selling them. Extraordina
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SC law legalizes pinball for youth, ending decades-old prohibition(scdailygazette.com)
16 points by eric_h 3mo ago|3 comments
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by eric_h 5mo ago
Much like what Anthropic very recently did re: Mythos
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by eric_h 7mo ago
Hah, did not realize it was from 2021 when I posted it as I came across it in my bsky feed. Still - I think the list of examples provided in particular is of interest now as tech companies' attempts to control "the narrative"
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Updating the Verge's Background Policy (2021)(theverge.com)
26 points by eric_h 7mo ago|6 comments
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Swearing can boost performance by lowering inhibitions, study finds(theguardian.com)
5 points by eric_h 9mo ago|1 comments
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by eric_h 9mo ago
Agreed. It really all is an obvious consequence of optimizing only the things that can be measured on a two dimensional graph, at the expense of all the things that can't (even though in the long term those complex, multidimensional th
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by eric_h 10mo ago
I think, ultimately, what is not serious here is the author of TFA. Ruby (and Rails) still work, the ecosystem is still healthy, and their dubious citations of ruby's shortcomings (twitter's fail whale? comparing it to perl?) are
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by eric_h 1y ago
and kind of a counter point to the GGGP's "Unix compliancy isn't what's keeping me on macOS, the Unix tools it has under the hood still is." I certainly replace a large chunk of the "unix tools under the hood&q
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Anthropic to pay $1.5B to authors in landmark AI settlement(theverge.com)
1 points by eric_h 1y ago|1 comments
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by eric_h 1y ago
> I had a driver's license. I used it so little that I let it expire and I'm not in a rush to renew it. Don't wait too long - I did that and had to take the test again! :)
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by eric_h 1y ago
Not to be too, um, dismissive, but one of the things we discussed in my 300 level class called _Artificial Intelligence_ in college 2 decades ago was regular expressions, so, that ship has sailed far over the horizon.
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by eric_h 1y ago
indeed, isn't hallucination one of the purported intended effects of a sensory deprivation tank?
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by eric_h 2y ago
Their Irish tax haven is rather specifically _not_ in the UK.
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The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real(wired.com)
2 points by eric_h 2y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 2y ago
this really makes me regret doing nothing like this when I recently had my passport photos taken.
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by eric_h 2y ago
The tight integration of the Apple Card with their hardware also means it makes their hardware (iPhones) better. They can lose money on the Apple Card and make money if it means some people like the integration enough to buy into the iPhone
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by eric_h 2y ago
I'm curious how you can find rails incredible while simultaneously hating ruby? Rails takes a lot of its inspiration from the language itself (internals relying heavily on metaprogramming, lots of exploitation of ruby's quirks all
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by eric_h 2y ago
It's been a while since that one's crossed my browser. This is the first time I've noticed the moderator's note at the bottom: "Moderator's Note This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content
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by eric_h 2y ago
Significantly less secure at that. I imagine GP has iMessage disabled on their computer because other people use their computer, and they don't want iMessages/SMS going anywhere other than their phone.
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by eric_h 2y ago
I recently switched to cursor, and am in the process of wrangling an inherited codebase that had effectively no tests and cursor has saved me _hours_ it's generally terrible at any actual code refactoring, but it has saved me a great d
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by eric_h 2y ago
Indeed: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national...

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