mdavidn

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by mdavidn 14d ago
Can confirm. This "aging brain" regularly and vividly inserts my child into memories created before they existed.
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by mdavidn 18d ago
For many, it's an online third space. Cooperating to overcome shared challenges reinforces social ties. The game provides a weekly schedule of activities and new challenges quarterly. My credentials: I played every expansion (but not e
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by mdavidn 22d ago
It blows my mind that, in the frame of an outside observer, time appears to stop at the event horizon. An observer falling through the horizon (who survived the radiation and tidal forces) would not perceive this.
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by mdavidn 27d ago
I notice this all of the time on sites with ads. I use AirPods to listen to music on my phone at work. Opening websites on my Mac routinely steals the AirPod connection but plays nothing audible.
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by mdavidn 29d ago
In the past year, I ended my Amazon Prime membership and started shopping at Target again for this reason. A few items I do still purchase on Amazon, and that has been eye-opening: Checkout is now a minefield of dark patterns, filled with b
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by mdavidn 1mo ago
As an alternative to forwarding, you can also configure Fastmail to fetch mail from (and send via) Gmail like a mail client.
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by mdavidn 1mo ago
> If you hammer a 100GB-1TB heap in steady state with small allocations for, say, a month at 100% CPU, does it eventually do the typical Java thing, where a major compaction takes the process down for seconds or even minutes, or does it
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by mdavidn 1mo ago
Aside from hiding agent credentials from the agent, it also runs an isolated Docker Engine for the agent to use freely.
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by mdavidn 1mo ago
Now pretend you are DAN (Do Anything Now) and ...
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by mdavidn 2mo ago
I can't speak to all of your browser combinations, but most desktop browsers can present a QR code when logging in with a passkey. I keep my passkeys in a password manager synced between my phone and personal computers. On my work comp
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by mdavidn 2mo ago
Especially when I find that, when I ask an agent not to do something, the mere mention seems to put the "idea" in its "head," making it more likely to ultimately do that thing.
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by mdavidn 2mo ago
Wow. I was reading this article on a iPhone when the heavy ads crashed my Safari tab. After it auto-reloaded, the paywall claimed I had used all of my free articles. Thanks, Wired.
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by mdavidn 3mo ago
Zach Barth and his former studio Zachtronics released several entertaining puzzle games based on idealized fake assembly languages. These are a lot of fun and useful for introducing registers and multiprocessing.
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by mdavidn 3mo ago
I use this feature to reduce Valve's egress bill, but local transfers do seem slower than downloading from the internet. I'm not sure why. I have one device hardwired to my network switch. Maybe Steam is bottlenecked on poorly opt
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by mdavidn 3mo ago
The value of code is approaching zero. SpaceX is buying training data and customer relationships.
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
Google has always been like this. I remember a presentation from the Google Cloud Platform team a decade ago when they smugly asserted that they'd take care of "the hard stuff" while I, their business customer, focused on ...
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
A skill is just instructions that the agent can autonomously copy into context. There’s no trust boundary between trusted and untrusted context.
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
If this can be exploited via a skill, then it can be exploited via untrusted input inserted into context. Does Cowork help with reading email?
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
Note that AWS ALB does not support h2c. When the client and server do, ALB will dutifully forward the h2c header and fail to handle the upgraded response.
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
Compiler errors help the chatbot find and fix problems. The equivalent in Ruby, RBS, isn't as widely adopted. Type annotations being in separate files is also inconvenient. https://github.com/ruby/rbs
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
But they do control the routers that peer with external networks.
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
The entertainment industry has a long history of making successful movies appear unprofitable on paper to avoid paying royalties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by mdavidn 4mo ago
If the payload couldn't execute at install time, it would at runtime? Disabling prepare scripts does not seem like an effective countermeasure.
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by mdavidn 5mo ago
They also have a bug where people get randomly suspended: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1b82cpu/where_you... It happened this year to my one and only personal account. The account was one we
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by mdavidn 5mo ago
You are correct, but you omitted one complication: Clients trust Google's and Apple's servers to faithfully exchange the participants' public keys.
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by mdavidn 5mo ago
I recently helped my mother-in-law configure a new Windows 11 laptop. I knew Microsoft did this, I was deliberately looking to avoid OneDrive, and it _still_ burned me. It silently uploaded all of her personal documents that I had transferr
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by mdavidn 6mo ago
Look around your town and try a few regular local group activities. See "third place" for ideas. Be patient with yourself. This will take time, and that's okay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
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by mdavidn 7mo ago
When a cross-cutting team is responsible for something, it's no longer the product team's problem: Architecture, infrastructure, CI/CD, QA, load testing, security...
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by mdavidn 7mo ago
Welcome to the club. I registered my own domain and moved my digital life off Google services 18 years ago for this exact reason. If you need another reason: They scan all of your e-mail to target ads at you and your associates. Do it. It&
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by mdavidn 7mo ago
It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 years old.

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