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by strbean 5d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit... The 2001 AUMF hasn't been repealed. It was used as recently as 2025 to justify attacks on Venezuelan ships.
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by strbean 5d ago
> but the truth is the worst thing would be slowing down the spread of this through the economy creating large minorities of disenfranchised. It would be far better to get to the end asap, whatever it proves to be. I have mixed feelings
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by strbean 7d ago
Suppose human drivers were killing 1 person every 100 miles driven, and software was killing 1 person every 10 billion miles driven. We should just accept that the human population will be decimated each day for accountability reasons?
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by strbean 7d ago
I play the "who is staring at their phone" game as passenger sometimes. From my sampling, the number is pretty damn close to 100%.
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by strbean 13d ago
Maybe AWS us-east-1 issues, or maybe CloudFlare?
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by strbean 18d ago
Checks notes Okay, so the chamber of commerce is a radical organisation, got it.
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by strbean 18d ago
Much more eloquently than a drunk buccatinist, that's for sure!
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by strbean 20d ago
I got Italian last night and their drunk linguinist made me spaghetti instead of linguini.
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by strbean 20d ago
Counterpoint: OSX has the only sane copy paste shortcuts. The linux standard of "sometimes ctrl-c/v, sometimes shift-ctrl-c/v, and if you mess up you might kill your task" is preposterous.
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by strbean 21d ago
We incentivize creating the conditions of the former, and increased incarceration, by making the latter profitable.
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by strbean 21d ago
Both Tim Curry and that video seem to misinterpret the "popular idea", at least as it is stated in this thread. It doesn't say anything about how Tim Curry viewed the Muppets, but rather about how Tim Curry treated himself. I
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by strbean 23d ago
Gotta solve the Snowdrift Dilemma[0] [0]: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/snowdrift-dilemma
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by strbean 23d ago
https://www.canyonroad.ai/ does some of this in a way tailored to agents.
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by strbean 23d ago
This was a year ago in Nice for reference.
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by strbean 23d ago
Cool tool, but the language is painfully characteristic of AI. Maybe we are collectively getting over caring about that, but if not, it's worth a pass of "make this sound a little less like AI." E.g., the guide page ends with
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by strbean 23d ago
I was in France recently and used a public restroom. It had an attendant, and a fee of €0.50. Charging for the restroom is unfortunate, but this setup is certainly better than eliminating public restrooms entirely.
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by strbean 26d ago
> Keyword "supposedly" :) > I've had it in my settings forever, and still... Checks out! I've never used it my self, so it I figured it likely didn't work at all.
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by strbean 26d ago
For a second I thought this was going to be a benchmark where the only solution was to hack their servers to get the answer key.
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by strbean 26d ago
Just think of all the crime against children that is made harder to investigate because we aren't all required to have state monitoring devices in our homes and on all our electronic devices! What a hilariously bad argument.
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by strbean 26d ago
Claude Code supposedly supports a "post-compaction" hook, so you could have it automatically run the prompt "We just compacted the context, quickly refresh yourself on the rules in CLAUDE.md etc..". Depending on what you
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by strbean 28d ago
I'm curious about the GDP vs. GNP of the internet :)
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by strbean 1mo ago
I've seen it used as a newer evolution of trolling on Reddit. A user hops in to a somewhat nuanced discussion and gives a very curt and rude contradiction, and then just uses an LLM to generate walls of argumentative text after you res
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by strbean 1mo ago
Sounds like that's roughly the average usable lifetime for the battery, so you will break even on average.
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by strbean 1mo ago
Seems like the only real issue here is that rustdesk uses SHA256 instead of argon2.
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by strbean 1mo ago
The user in question might have their own personal format that doesn't meet the RustDesk constraints. E.g. they may not use capitals, but use `word1$word2&word3@word4`. Tayloring your format to the requirements of each site is a st
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by strbean 1mo ago
And then you encounter packages with `setup.py` that generates a random list of dependencies on each run. You can't know the dependencies without running code.
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by strbean 1mo ago
> That applies to some skeptics, though Totally! Arguments like yours often get lost in the noise of the less interesting / nuanced arguments unfortunately :(
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by strbean 1mo ago
> Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective) banks can’t/don’t coordinate on identified money mules or know launderers, so criminals just move on to other banks and repeat. Or criminals just get a bank like HSBC to
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by strbean 1mo ago
A bit confusing that `<something> Pi` developed two meanings: - `<brand/line> Pi` as a brand/line of SBCs, with Raspberry Pi being the original - `<anything> Pi` as a software package targeting Raspberry Pis or S
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by strbean 1mo ago
I read it as "After finishing the course, I DM'd the hiring manager with a list of the stuff I did for the course."

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