pushcx

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by pushcx 4d ago
Many years ago, I arrived to my half-height cubicle at a Fortune 100 company to see that my desktop PC case was ajar. I set the CRT aside, opened it, and realized that the RAM had been removed. My neighbor explained what must have happened:
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by pushcx 14d ago
It wasn't obviously wrong in 2001. .pro started with a similar structure around the same time.
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by pushcx 17d ago
Archive.is link for that playlist: https://archive.is/20260827215251/https://www.youtube.com/pl...
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by pushcx 1mo ago
Having an "AI tells" linter to catch "Phrasing that reads as machine-generated rather than my voice" has a real echo of "What does God need with a starship?".
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by pushcx 1mo ago
I run a site about programming that's constantly hit by people writing their first scrapers, etc. I checked the last ~10 million lines of http logs and see no instances of this. Anthropic doesn't really respect robots.txt so it&#x
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by pushcx 2mo ago
The web app typically sees 10 rps and most of those don't write.
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by pushcx 2mo ago
Thanks for highlighting this failure mode. We don't have a supervisor thread in a position to slow readers and writes like you described in your other thread, so I knocked up a job to force a checkpoint if needed. https://gi
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by pushcx 2mo ago
No. In short, in US law, CSAM is a visual depiction of a real-world act of child sexual abuse. Visual depictions like you're describing are covered under a different law, and I'm not aware of it having a short name. There's a
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by pushcx 2mo ago
I timed it a few times.
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by pushcx 2mo ago
This isn't elaborated on in the piece, but it does mention that it's written in the context of the Fermi paradox. Adding 50,000 years of technological development and a 1,000 year rebooting phase at each star system doesn't m
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by pushcx 2mo ago
Or it's a distinction without a difference to the site owner. Ever prod service I've run has seen significantly more abuse from human users using alias services, especially protonmail. I'm not surprised that some owners have
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by pushcx 3mo ago
I had wanted the same thing for a long time and jj + difftastic has satisfied me.
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by pushcx 3mo ago
It's not intentional on this author's part, but this is a great example of how Google rewards people posting slop. The oldest posts on the blog read normally, the new stuff this post says it added to satisfy Google all reads like
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by pushcx 3mo ago
The stock market has liquidity, fungibility, low transaction costs, etc etc. https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terri...
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by pushcx 3mo ago
Thanks, I appreciate you sorting out the timeline on such a heated issue.
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by pushcx 3mo ago
What followed was extraordinary: 329 comments and counting, ranging from thoughtful concern to outright harassment. The thread did not stop at words. One user posted My Little Pony drawings of themselves strangling the "proj
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by pushcx 4mo ago
> when I saw someone complain about what he thought the title should be, I just used his idea instead of my own. This upset the moderator so much when he saw that I was optimizing my writing style based on feedback from his site I was un
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by pushcx 4mo ago
This title and premise are incorrect. It's not a bait-and-switch unless the bait was unavailable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch Vivado really was available free. There's a lot of potential cri
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by pushcx 5mo ago
> "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better" What's the mechanism of action here? What changes if I stay? What changes if I give more or less of a shit? Is there javascript telemetry
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by pushcx 5mo ago
This is a little late for your nice jacket, but a lot of zipper damage comes from dirt getting into the teeth and then the zip grinds everything up. Outdoors shops sell a zipper lubricant to keep the dirt from sticking.
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by pushcx 6mo ago
There's a lobbying group called 5rights that has designed and promoted the UK OSA, AU OSA, California KOSA, Federal KOSA, and more. This isn't some conspiracy. They take proudly take credit for these bills on their website, and in
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by pushcx 6mo ago
Rails's public release was July 2004: https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-rails-0-5-0-the-end-of-vaporware/... Django's was July 2005: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/jul/
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by pushcx 7mo ago
TypeID is similar, though it uses the UUIDv7 directly: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid Maybe the formalization would be interesting to you. It doesn't have a checksum, though, that seems like an improvement t
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by pushcx 8mo ago
I don't know why you think I want a "technical win" from you, but I'm not seeking your approval. I corrected your mistake about the URL and the policy, like I corrected the author's mistake about what I removed. If
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by pushcx 8mo ago
The link was https://effective-haskell.com/
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by pushcx 8mo ago
You got a DM and email with the title and URL when your story was removed. This would've been 2023-08-03 with the subject "Your story has been edited by a moderator", if you want to look back: https://github.com&#x
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by pushcx 8mo ago
You did not share a link to a blog post. The title was "Effective Haskell is a hands-on practical book way to learn Haskell. No math or formal CS needed" and it linked to the site advertising your book for sale. I removed it beca
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by pushcx 8mo ago
Left writes: > The government’s position is that I should have known I couldn’t trade stocks I’d publicly praised—for some unspecified period of time. I didn’t lie, I simply traded too soon. The criminal complaint is here, allegations be
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by pushcx 8mo ago
There's a much higher-ROI way to encode these, write a test that checks the current date. Maybe a very large project would prefer not to fail everyone's build for it, but this is fine for a couple dozen developers. Example: https
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by pushcx 9mo ago
There's a couple dozen at Midewin, too: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/midewin/animals-plants/bison-pro...

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