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by sandbags 2mo ago
As a datapoint: I have routinely been using Claude Code through a VPN for 9 months and am in the UK. I think it has to be more than this. I sometimes shift endpoint mid session and worry I might get flagged. It hasn’t happened yet at least.
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by sandbags 3mo ago
The AI labs have somewhat the same problem that publishers have. Essentially their asset is a static piece of IP: a huge file full of numbers. They’re like a publisher only letting you read their book through some scuzzy Flash reader UI bec
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by sandbags 4mo ago
I've never really used spaces, I remember them being introduced but they didn't really take for me. Anyway to see what all the fuss is about I've installed Gridlion but… how can I move an app to another space? I was expecting
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by sandbags 4mo ago
What would be required for you to see it as a policy?
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by sandbags 5mo ago
When you use the word “allowed” it becomes a policy.
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by sandbags 5mo ago
I bow to you 7 times
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by sandbags 5mo ago
In fact now I think about it my claim to fame used to be that Github used one of my Rails plugins. I had written a really simple versioning system (Rails 2 I think) that I used for my blog and they used it, IIRC, for versioning wiki pages.
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by sandbags 5mo ago
Surprised to find I am #79. I think that was down to being in a particular IRC channel when CW & co. were building it.
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by sandbags 5mo ago
No VORP calculations in US tech I see.
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by sandbags 5mo ago
My Dad and I are doing a generative art experiment with his HP-7475A pen plotter. I wrote an application called Axo which is a graph-based programming tool that outputs paths to be converted into HP-GL, SVG, or G-Code (we've used this
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by sandbags 6mo ago
It’s a problem that the models are moving faster than they can be usefully tested. GPT-4.1/4o/o-1 are not SOTA for some time and they don’t even seem to have the Anthropic models as part of their study. Even if their conclusions w
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by sandbags 7mo ago
But we’ve been here before. The agile movement originated as a response to the multifarious problems of big design up front.
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by sandbags 8mo ago
Pretty much. Xcode was quirky but it still is. But the frameworks were well documented and 1 Cocoa book could get you a long way. I loved building Obj-C/Cocoa apps back then.
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by sandbags 10mo ago
My understanding that attempts to defeat fingerprinting are often useless because they can tend to make you more, rather than less, unique. So instead I wonder if we could build an open database of “identities” that our browsers could clone
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by sandbags 10mo ago
After implementing a behaviour tree library and realising the power of select & sequence I found myself wondering why they aren’t used more widely. I’ve never done anything in crypto but watched in horror as people created immutable con
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by sandbags 10mo ago
Okay that makes a kind of sense in the case stated but even there seems open to creative abuse in cases where those lines are not wholly independent. Thanks for the information.
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by sandbags 10mo ago
Modulo I haven’t tried it yet it’s been an irritant that SIP broke tracing so this is a welcome development, thank you.
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by sandbags 10mo ago
I'm not in the US so I've no dog in this race only curiousity. I can understand allowing a governor to change the text of a bill. But I cannot understand allowing them to sign those changes into law. It seems like that would mean
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by sandbags 10mo ago
I'd forgotten all about it but SubEthaEdit was such an amazing tech when we were using to collaborate internationally back in about '04. It went off my radar but I am glad to see its still available as a free app.
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by sandbags 10mo ago
I'd argue that privatising telecomms has been a win. I think because it's quite open to competition (even if there has been a good deal of consolidation). The challenge with so many UK privatisations is that the idea of real alter
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by sandbags 10mo ago
I don't think that's what he's saying precisely. I think what he is saying that native platform apps get delegated to different teams and coordinating among those teams becomes an additional cost. You don't want each tea
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by sandbags 10mo ago
I don’t have a dog in this race but I was also around at that time and one reason is there was far less choice in 1995 about where you would go from C. C++ was also a vastly simpler language back then (no templates, no exceptions, barely a
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by sandbags 10mo ago
and (and as much as I do love Alan Rickman) more properly Stephen Moore.
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by sandbags 11mo ago
You’re right. That aspect of how Brexit was carried through was not acting in bad faith. The anti-European faction has been fighting since we joined to reverse it. Many other aspects of the process were in bad faith but people must be allow
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by sandbags 11mo ago
I would love to replace JS as the scripting language in one of my native macOS apps and I wonder if Wren would be suitable. The two biggest questions I’d have are: 1) how easy it would be to bridge Obj-C objects to Wren-space and vice versa
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by sandbags 1y ago
Likewise. It still works fine for all the things I use it for. Long may it last!
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by sandbags 1y ago
I want to say “prediction is hard, especially about the future” and it is no surprise that the predictions of a model built in the ‘70s might not hold some 50 years later. That they held so well for so long should, perhaps, be the headline.
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by sandbags 1y ago
It's a fair point that nationalised water industries can also be poorly run. But I'm not sure what the argument is that means the amount of money that privatised UK water companies have paid in dividends vs. invested in maintainin
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by sandbags 1y ago
As the article mentions, privatised water companies have built no new reservoir capacity and relied on drawing from rivers and other sources. What the article doesn’t mention is that pre-privatisation a new reservoir was built every year up
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by sandbags 1y ago
I saw someone reference this today and the question I had was whether this counted the trillions of words accrued from books and other sources. i.e. is it 40%? Or 40% of what they can find a direct attribution link for?

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