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by gwillen 12d ago
It's not anymore: "in April 2026 the implementation of the agreement was put on an indefinite hold due to opposition from US President Donald Trump." So whatever ICANN was going to do with .io, it's all on hold for now.
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by gwillen 12d ago
There is a list called the Public Suffix List, which is used for most purposes to make determinations about which 2lds do not own/manage the corresponding 3lds. It's maintained by Mozilla as a public service, which isn't exac
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by gwillen 12d ago
It's complicated and political, like always. Officially, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code list is used to decide who gets a ccTLD. (And Taiwan is included there.) But for example ".su" still exists for historical reasons,
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by gwillen 1mo ago
The watermark is contained in the choice of output tokens. If you exert so much editorial control that Claude has no meaningful freedom in choosing tokens, then it's going to fail to watermark the text, unless the text is _very_ long (
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by gwillen 7mo ago
In my experience with winter-storm-related power outages, the core problem is often _wind_ rather than precipitation.
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by gwillen 7mo ago
Such a tool would violate the Discord Terms of Service, so the selection is limited and they don't tend to be very good unfortunately.
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by gwillen 1y ago
I'm sure it varies, but personally I have a very prosaic reason that I would still drive myself in most scenarios: If someone else is driving I tend to get motion sickness.
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by gwillen 1y ago
Confirm or deny my suspicion: your post and your comments in this thread are substantially written by ChatGPT?
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by gwillen 1y ago
I think Google basically _is_ the standards committees, at this point. Not in the sense of having majority control just by themselves, but in the sense of (1) the cartel being argued over here (browsers funded by Google) having that or clos
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by gwillen 2y ago
> Aren’t coding copilots based on tokenizing programming language keywords and syntax? No, they use the same tokenization as everyone else. There was one major change from early to modern LLM tokenization, made (as far as I can tell) for
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by gwillen 2y ago
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Quanta's version of the algorithm is not only confusing, it's also wrong. I think the pseudocode in the paper is very hard to beat.
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by gwillen 2y ago
Merging like that doesn't work -- it will tend to overestimate the number of distinct elements. This is fairly easy to see, if you consider a stream with some N distinct elements, with the same elements in both the first and second hal
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by gwillen 3y ago
Robbery/burglary? SWATing? The possibilities are delightful and endless. The former is a major concern for people who are known to be rich; the latter for people who are infamous online (and has the [dis]advantage that it can be carrie
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by gwillen 3y ago
Thanks for linking the graph, that's kind of wild. I agree with you that the lowest datapoint seems crazy. I can think of a few explanations. - Random bad luck. - As you say, failing to control for something -- although, if you then tr
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by gwillen 3y ago
I'm not a statistician, but I think there's a bit in your excerpt that is actually a concerning display of poor statistical literacy. If you're fitting a function which grows asymptotically (i.e. is monotonically increasing a
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by gwillen 3y ago
As I understand it, Schnorr signatures are the "natural" (and simplest) construction for a digital signature in elliptic curve cryptography. The reason ECDSA exists is simply https://patents.google.com/patent/
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by gwillen 3y ago
Hah, yes, I had the exact same reaction. "Looks like Pittsburgh, but not quite. Also kind of looks like Virginia... let's split the difference."
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by gwillen 3y ago
According to the comments, the author has only just today learned that Substack added this new popup without asking him, after he got them to disable the previous popup. So hopefully you're right that it's possible for him to turn
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by gwillen 3y ago
It is a great question, the answer is nobody really knows for sure.
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by gwillen 4y ago
I got something like that not long ago, and it was diagnosed as acute macular neuroretinopathy. Luckily, in many cases it apparently resolves on its own, and mine did. Was the spot slightly off-center in your vision? That's where it te
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by gwillen 4y ago
Their docs say (somewhat recently updated, I think) that even 0 is not perfectly deterministic in all cases (though it's very close). Some people had previously observed this and speculated that it was some kind of floating point round
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by gwillen 4y ago
Beware -- command -v does not have the same semantics as which, and is not a substitute for it in shell scripts. There is no direct substitute. See: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/1162
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by gwillen 4y ago
"Tinfoil wrapped around complications" is definitely going in my quotes file. Reads like James Mickens! (If that's what you were going for, well done. If not, go read his stuff immediately.)
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by gwillen 4y ago
As far as I'm aware/recall, European privacy laws consider any connection back to a telemetry server to count as "collecting" IP addresses, since the telemetry server learns it (even if they pinky swear not to write it d
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by gwillen 4y ago
As noted by a couple people in this thread, the anti-phishing footer is new. PayPal presumably added it in response to this scam.
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by gwillen 4y ago
I definitely wish you guys had advertised that earlier / better. I feel like I got lucky because I put off migrating until just before the sunset, at which point I discovered eco dynos. I swear they either didn't exist or were har
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by gwillen 4y ago
Moxie has made his decision; now let him enforce it.
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by gwillen 4y ago
x86 at one time had a single-byte instruction that would trap if the overflow bit was set, INTO. It doesn't exist in 64-bit mode, I believe, and it was never widely used as far as I know. The performance implications of adding even a s
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by gwillen 4y ago
Why get rid of the next button? Stop that. Has any actual user ever asked to get rid of the next button?
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by gwillen 4y ago
Shopkeepers have the legal power to detain shoplifters in most US jurisdictions. They've just historically (in the modern era) been too afraid to use it.

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