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by mhink 14d ago
From what it sounds like, unlike domains under other TLDs, when you purchase a domain under .name you always purchase specifically the three-segment domain. i.e. I own john.doe.name, you own george.joe.name. Once this change goes through,
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by mhink 1mo ago
Oh man, that's a blast from the past, I think I had that book! Was that the one with an aluminum cover?
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by mhink 3mo ago
I haven't read much of Shakespeare, but the lightbulb moment for me personally was the 1996 "Romeo + Juliet" movie with DiCaprio. The modern contextualization makes it so much easier to parse the period dialogue.
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by mhink 4mo ago
In fact, a combination of the two is likely to be even more effective. As another commenter mentioned, heuristic-based analysis can generate false positives, but that's less of a problem if it's possible to analyze these in an add
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by mhink 5mo ago
I was gonna post this! I actually kept it bookmarked front and center, and have checked in for awhile. It seems that the agent has been blocked this whole time, waiting for its creator to put it in touch with someone it needs to talk to. Th
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by mhink 6mo ago
One nitpick I noticed: > String Slicing > You can extract a substring using bracket syntax with a range: s[start:end]. Both start and end are byte offsets. The slice includes start and excludes end. Given that all strings are UTF-8, I
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by mhink 7mo ago
And NTP, if I recall correctly.
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by mhink 7mo ago
> basterized And yet, it's still somewhat better than the Hacker News comment using bastardized English words.
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by mhink 8mo ago
> how do you safely let your company ship AI-generated code at scale without causing catastrophic failures? Nobody has solved this yet. Ultimately, it's the same way you ship human-generated code at scale without causing catastrophi
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by mhink 8mo ago
To be fair, the phrase "begging the question" makes almost no sense from a modern English perspective- according to Wikipedia, it's already a bad translation of a Latin phrase that's tied pretty closely to a specific deb
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by mhink 8mo ago
Note: the Verge article links to this blog post, describing the situation in more detail: https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
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by mhink 10mo ago
For what it's worth, the first two steps in your lookup would come naturally to a native speaker- it's a suffix formation similar to e.g. "cleanliness" and "friendliness". "Curmudgeon" itself is inter
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by mhink 10mo ago
TFA mentions that they added personality presets earlier this year, and just added a few more in this update: > Earlier this year, we added preset options to tailor the tone of how ChatGPT responds. Today, we’re refining those options to
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by mhink 11mo ago
An article posted elsewhere in the comments ( https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy-is-a-policy-choi... ) has a take that might explain a distinction: > Billions of dollars are spent — and largely wasted — every
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by mhink 1y ago
He does mention at one point that sometime soon it won't be necessary: > Note: This step will become much easier and concise when the sibling-index() and sibling-count() functions gain support (and they’re really neat). I’m hardcodi
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by mhink 1y ago
Not to dispute too strongly (since I haven't used this functionality myself), but Node.js does have support for true multithreading since v12: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/docs/api/worker_threads.h
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by mhink 1y ago
Even though LLMs (obviously (to me)) don't have feelings, anthropomorphization is a helluva drug, and I'd be worried about whether a system that can produce distress-like responses might reinforce, in a human, behavior which elici
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by mhink 1y ago
> Interestingly, while the engine has the most moving parts in real life, in code, it's the simplest piece of the entire car simulation. Because at its core, the engine is just a torque calculator. It's concerned with producing
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by mhink 1y ago
Similar here. My last name is pretty unusual, but my first name is common, so I generally go by my last name with friends and colleagues. Oddly, I've gotten so used to this that it feels a little bit more formal when someone addresse
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by mhink 1y ago
I actually tried another method for doing this not too long ago (adding `kern.maxfiles` and `kern.maxfilesperproc` to `/etc/sysctl.conf` with higher limits than the default) and it made my system extremely unstable after rebooting
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by mhink 1y ago
While I do have a lot of love for TVTropes, I think what they're talking about here is a little broader than most of the tropes we see there (although they do have an excellent article on the Hero's Journey itself [1]). IMO, trope
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by mhink 1y ago
> Second, the article suggests that the problem should be introduced to children by casting in in terms of several rules of exchange ("For Alice, the transition vector (−1, −1, 1, 0) would represent the exchange of an apple and a ba
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by mhink 1y ago
Absolutely. I remember being about 14 or 15 years old, reading old .txt files about, like- how to build blue boxes and experiment with the phone system, C programming tutorials for MUDs that had peaked in the late 90s, IRC archives (even th
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by mhink 2y ago
I'll grant that it definitely sounds ambiguous, but I actually think the phrasing "robotic private spacecraft" is more correct in the end. I think this is a fair analogy: suppose we were talking about a "private detectiv
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by mhink 2y ago
> The thing that I continue to find most confusing is that sometimes a square has a question mark instead of a number. From looking at boards after I lose there does not appear any pattern to this. It took me a second to figure this out,
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by mhink 2y ago
I really like alacritty + tmux, personally.
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by mhink 2y ago
Given the brevity of the security report, I figure the author wanted to get the relevant details about the *incident* posted as fast as humanly possible. However, it does seem appropriate to acknowledge that just because they're being
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by mhink 2y ago
This always reminds me of a great find I discovered a while back when I was reading the HTTP/2 RFC for whatever reason. Back before "429 Too Many Requests" was standardized, Twitter's API used to return a nonstandard 420
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by mhink 2y ago
> Basically a technically competent will executor. I don't think OP is saying that an attorney *can't* get these things done, but that it would make them feel more comfortable knowing that a technically competent person and&#x2
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by mhink 2y ago
> One thing I find interesting about playing video games in modern day is that with the proliferation of Wikis, there is assumed to be some kind of third party guide for every game. Especially in smaller/newer games it seems like de

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