fallingsquirrel

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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
For those not clicking through, DOGE doesn't refer to Dogecoin, it stands for "Department of Government Efficiency."
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
> Always have a glass breaker Isn't this advice becoming dated now that most new cars have side windows with laminated glass? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28422725/car-windows-glas...
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
That's a complete non-sequitur. If you cut off your feet and get shorter, it doesn't mean the human species has physiologically changed. And if you eat more calories and get taller, it doesn't mean the human species has physi
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
That isn't a change of physiology, it's a change of our external environment. AFAIK there's no evidence to show humans living 100 years ago would respond any differently to modern nutrition than we do. If the cause of being t
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Considering: - a century ago a greater percentage of people were "normal" weight - human physiology has not changed much over the past century - our current definitions of overweight/obese correlate with negative health outco
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
They're probably doing the same thing humans on our earth were doing for centuries until ~1600. Surviving. Given how cruel nature is I think we're lucky to have the resources to do more than just survive, to build up all this craz
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Of course there is. If someone hits their spending limit, asynchronously shut off the services (using the same API call that your customers can use, so no need to alter the system). Then apply the hard limit in the billing code. If it took
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
And yet somehow every time they launch a new product they have no problem adding it to their billing code.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
The reason Apple and Google continually patch and change their rules is because they have been playing a cat and mouse game with bad actors who, for decades, have continued to find ways to siphon personal data off devices despite the techni
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
You completely ignored the substantive part of my post, so I'll restate without distractions. 1. Do you believe that with these latest round of updates, our benevolent corporate overloads Google and Apple (both advertising companies to
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
The crackdown was fairly recent, right? Do you think we should trust that both companies have at long last perfectly solved all privacy problems with this latest crackdown and now everything is perfect and we'll never have any privacy
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
We're talking T&Cs here. How would typing in your location invalidate you agreeing to (what a company would like to believe is legally binding) clickwrap T&Cs? Even if you deny individual permissions, apps will still slurp up y
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
It sounds like you're advocating for a world where ordinary people need to choose between: - not knowing the weather this weekend - knowing the weather and signing away their firstborn child in the T&C - becoming an amateur lawyer
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
1. Why would you ever login to youtube in the first place? 2. There's strength in numbers. Between adblockers, foss clients, and youtube-dl/yt-dlp, there are probably tens to hundreds of millions of people watching youtube this wa
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
I don't know where you got the idea that MS doesn't have copies of their own source code. They aren't just blindly shipping binaries from decades ago with unknown provenance. They keep meticulous archives, and even employ ful
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
> That said, linux is in a way like processed foods, and windows is organic. I would have said the opposite. Linux is organic - you get the bare essentials (whatever grew from the ground), and little more. Windows is highly processed - y
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
It's an interesting pattern, but it's a shame there's no way to efficiently use one of those OptionalXIndex with zig's actual null syntax, `?` and `orelse` and etc. It would be smoother if you could constraint the nonexh
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
> The same pattern in Rust would just use variadic templates/generics. Are you sure Rust has variadic generics? Last I checked, the extent of progress was a draft RFC. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issu
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
fwiw you can mix git and jj commands on the same repo and everything will work fine. If you want to stick with 99% git commands, and use jj only as a replacement for git-absorb, you can. For this particular use case, jj will handle merges&#
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Fun fact: three.js has an SVG renderer! https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/SVGRenderer Maybe you could have created the pyramid in 3D and rendered it ahead of time to SVG, so you could end u
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
You might be interested in https://github.com/hudochenkov/stylelint-order
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
In a head-on collision, the space shuttle passengers will fare better than the hatchback. Even so, it wouldn't be my first choice for most destinations.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Supported quantizations: https://ollama.com/library/llama3.2-vision/tags
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
If that's the case, I'm afraid I don't know what you should do. I can tell you, as a random internet commenter, that the companies I mentioned are reputable and operate in many countries around the world. There is a tail risk
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Governments have a terrible track record when it comes to privacy. Everything from the USPS selling your info when you move, to the 2 dozen texts I got yesterday because the government sells[1] your voting records on the cheap. Maybe you do
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Did you read the paper? I'm not going to hold your hand.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
This is the classic time-money tradeoff. Theoretically you only need one wrench and one attacker—but even if she attacks 100 people a day it would take thousands of years to reach everyone. And word of the attacks would spread, so later vic
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Your due diligence should be the same as for a financial advisor handling your USD. Bitcoin is big enough now that they'll have a playbook for it. Don't hire a "crypto" professional.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
> Isn't Binance by far the most widely used exchange? Ostensibly yes. But they're overseas, so what's your recourse if something goes wrong? If you wouldn't trust a random overseas Italian bank to handle your money, d

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