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by hnlmorg 3d ago
I don’t see how they’re any worse than spaces in file names, which is an edge case you need to cater for already anyway.
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by hnlmorg 3d ago
That’s a gross over exaggeration. Most electrical equipment did come with a plug. The white appliances that didn’t was because they were kitchen appliances that either wired into a separate ring, or the wire had to be threaded through small
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
As a Brit I will tell you that not all of us like this processed shit that passes for bread. However the plug is actually a really good piece of engineering. There’s so many subtle design features to it that can be genuinely life saving. Th
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
It wasn’t just marketers he talked about though. There were a few topics he touched on.
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by hnlmorg 6d ago
I was recently rewatching one of Hicks routines for the first time in possibly 20 years and his content is just as relevant now, if not more so, than it was 30+ years ago when he wrote and performed it.
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by hnlmorg 7d ago
> the Speed of Light is pretty slow Professor Farnsworth: That's why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
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by hnlmorg 7d ago
> Isn't that just sidestepping the issue? No. It’s addressing the risks of the issue. > Setting up backups isn't a security task, it's just normal IT which businesses do indeed spend on because there are clear goals and
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by hnlmorg 8d ago
I went through a phase of reporting scams and every single time my report was rejected. I guess I shouldn’t have expected any differently when their income is dependent on displaying those scam ads.
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by hnlmorg 8d ago
You’ve identified that the risks of nuclear weapons are theoretical. ie in theory we could blow up the world even though we haven’t yet done so. Well the worries about AI are equivalent in that those risks are discussed now because discussi
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by hnlmorg 8d ago
You wouldn’t talk about ransomware like that for precisely the reasons you’d described: it’s a poorly defined open ended problem. You should tackle security in the same way you’d tackle any other kind of engineering initiative in IT. You br
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by hnlmorg 8d ago
The only thing Perl and C have in common is the curly-brace.
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by hnlmorg 9d ago
As you started the conversation, companies never face consequences so are never incentivised. I’m not saying I’m in favour of regulation but if I were to answer your question: the reason one might argue for government intervention is precis
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by hnlmorg 9d ago
That’s not been my experience at all when working in DevSecOps. What actually happens in organisations is they define risks and then sign off what risks they’re willing to accept. Any business that looks at security as a binary value is run
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by hnlmorg 9d ago
Like I said, even in actual engineering companies will take shortcuts. And then what happens is the government has to step in. But there’s no appetite for government involvement in the tech sector in the US. And everyone moans when the EU d
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by hnlmorg 9d ago
Exploiting what? There wasn’t any software hierarchy for Teletext to escape from in analogy TVs. If you found a bug in the Teletext chip you couldn’t then go on to do anything to the TV set aside print different data to the screen. And sinc
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by hnlmorg 9d ago
> The reason is simple - nothing really bad has happened that we can point at and say "ah, shit, let's all learn collectively". I know it sounds naive when I say it, but there hasn't been a significantly consequential
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by hnlmorg 9d ago
Yup. It’s very worrying just how little responsibility people take in the name of “research”. Maybe I should create an agent that robs a bank. Or worse yet, pirates a movie.
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by hnlmorg 10d ago
Early Twitter was used loads by tech nerds as a notifications API. There definitely was a community of experimentation back in early days.
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by hnlmorg 11d ago
Ahh sorry. My reading comprehension was obviously failing me then.
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by hnlmorg 11d ago
Smartphones came out in 2008. So your date aligns with the GPs.
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by hnlmorg 12d ago
Unfortunately that will happen irrespective of the law. If you want permissive rules then corporations will just resell your IP (like we see with SaaS). And if you want tighter rules then you just create a higher barrier for entry that bene
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by hnlmorg 12d ago
And here lies the problem with having intelligent conversations with followers of popularist movements: I asked a straightforward question and you ramble on about something else entirely. If you actually cared about your country then you’d
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by hnlmorg 12d ago
Just out of interest, what news sources do you follow? I ask because those claims are made by a very small few yet debunked by every independent investigation.
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
Advantages vs skills: connecting to enterprise systems via OAuth. Yeah you could call CLI tools that support OAuth, but then you have two sets tools (CLI plus a skills file) to manage manually instead of a hosted MCP server.
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
I know you meant this as a joke, but enough people might be using a routing service like openrouter.ai
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by hnlmorg 13d ago
Dumb question this, but how do you load it into Claude? I’ve only seen APIs for text and image uploads. Not random files. Or maybe that’s a limitation of the SDK I’m using?
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by hnlmorg 15d ago
It’s WYO (write your own) not wax. I’m guessing the GP was on their phone and it autocorrected the word. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/afacwa/pages/687/attac... (page 318)
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by hnlmorg 16d ago
Logic, Final Cut, Xcode etc aren’t really the same thing because they’re applications rather than the OS (which we were talking about). But i didn’t realise Apple used to charge for OS upgrades. So thanks for the correction there.
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by hnlmorg 16d ago
Maybe. But Microsoft get the bulk of their licensing from enterprise offerings. And Windows comes preinstalled on consumer machines anyway. So I don’t think there’s any risk of ReactOS becoming a problem for MS. And with Apple, they’ve alwa
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by hnlmorg 16d ago
Your message was ambiguous to me. But I will admit that I was also quite hungover so it’s possible that the error was mine. In answer to your question: I’ve only really used keyup for either one time events (like keyboard shortcuts for UI e

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