owl57

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by owl57 2mo ago
> Many people love to generate text with LLMs, but most of same crowd apparently hates to read LLM output. An interesting phenomenon. Are you sure it's the same people? I feel the opposite: it's the same people who happily read
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by owl57 2mo ago
> just looking at the pics it is impossible to gauge whether it is 400sqft or 900sqft Those are not good pics. Probably* for the same reason, to hide size and maybe something else. *Depends on culture and I don't know about NYC. I&#
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by owl57 3mo ago
If you have a service that shares information between people all over the world, a few big companies and one government is for most cases an improvement over all the involved ISPs and all of their respective governments.
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by owl57 4mo ago
If the malicious-npm-package-of-the-week is reading arbitrary files on your workstation, isn't it usually able to run git clone/push/whatever with your current credentials anyway?
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by owl57 4mo ago
But then why change the renewal process for the people who were already fingerprinted for the original visa?
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by owl57 4mo ago
I often use vim despite knowing only a few basic commands because I'm already running various commands on the remote machine in the terminal and don't want the context switch. And because connection / file path completion in
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by owl57 4mo ago
This idea of everyone producing absurd amounts of git objects is less fantastic now [1]. We're still far from these numbers, but an order of magnitude less far than last year [2]. Also an interesting bit of history here: apparently the
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by owl57 4mo ago
And the U in GNU, while we're at it.
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by owl57 9mo ago
And most of them are pretending to be Chrome. If Google had a good case against someone reusing their user agent, maybe they would already have sued? Or maybe not. Got some random bot from my server logs. Yeah, it's pretending to be Ch
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by owl57 9mo ago
> scrapers can ingest them and say "nope we won't scrape there again in the future" Do all the AI scrapers actually do that?
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by owl57 9mo ago
> Hey I wonder if there is some situation where negative SEO would be a good tactic. Generally though I think if you wanted something to stay hidden it just shouldn’t be on a public web server. At least once upon a time there was a pirat
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by owl57 1y ago
> search still can't a.) rank the alert bot that is just spamming the alerts channel as "not relevant" I find "Exclude automations" toggle to be good enough. But we might have very different workspaces, as I usua
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by owl57 1y ago
But it's not about that. I don't like this decision either, but the other side of the trade-off is not just about some abstract concepts or implementation, it's about complexity of the model you need to keep in your head to k
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by owl57 1y ago
Most people writing any language without a linter are holding it wrong. When a linter warns me about such an expression, it usually means that even if it doesn't blow up, it increases the cognitive load for anyone reviewing or maintain
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by owl57 1y ago
Interestingly, I think this is one of the cases where both the "For context…" comment and yours add important context for the parent comment that some readers may be not familiar with. Although that second one serves this purpose
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by owl57 1y ago
> Legal size folders exist and are widely used by people who use ... legal size paper. Sure. But I didn't know I use legal size paper or even what it is before I asked the apartment complex to print the lease agreement, and it didn&
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by owl57 1y ago
> legal (letter but longer) This one surprised me quite a bit. I think most people have A4/letter-sized folders. Why does anyone think that papers slightly longer than those folders are a good idea?
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by owl57 1y ago
Was it like a temporary assignment to another team? Did the manager at least know what team that was? Or have any idea when the employee is going to return full-time to the tasks of their primary team?
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by owl57 2y ago
By the way, that's a regionally cool name. I read it at first as "shemesh", that means "Sun" in Hebrew.
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by owl57 2y ago
Note this part: > That said, background processes invoked from Eshell can be controlled the same way as any other background process in Emacs I haven't used Eshell much, but this makes a simple "command &" arguably m
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by owl57 2y ago
That's definitely a factor at least some people consider when choosing their job. > Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic. We're also responsible for great good. The question which is greater
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by owl57 2y ago
Loops nested deep enough that you need an ultrawide to avoid truncated lines!?
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by owl57 2y ago
I believe that if most foo's users should just call it with [], the Pythonic way is to make the argument optional.
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by owl57 2y ago
All the numbers in that array are different.
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by owl57 2y ago
IIRC Anton Nosik, a pioneer of Russian web, explicitly said that he chose Livejournal user name "dolboeb" (~"dumbfuck") because he didn't want traditional media to cite him.
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by owl57 2y ago
Is it likely that these particular private keys were wiped ~immediately after creation?
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by owl57 2y ago
Did you notice that the piece of software in question was apparently installed mostly in companies where regulations and inspections already override sysadmins' common sense? Are you sure the answer is simply more of the same?
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by owl57 2y ago
> if your process are invalid, you can also fail in off-line scenario Online amplifies failure at least as well as it amplifies success. Offline maintenance is quite unlikely to bluescreen 8 million devices before anyone has time to fi
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by owl57 2y ago
I wouldn't overestimate FAANG's immunity to crash-the-world config updates. Facebook had everything including engineers' access to the datacenter down for hours in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28
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by owl57 2y ago
The lower estimate divided by the number of refunds is (suspiciously?) close to $2000. Do they sell tickets for this much on average or is there some other major cost? P.S. On the other hand, 176000/7000 ≈ 25 refunds per flight is a bi

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