sushiburps

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by sushiburps 1mo ago
> Contra a bunch of idiots at Hacker News and elsewhere, I understand that popular LLMs do not just pick the “best” token (word) at each decision point. A tad defensive, considering he generally doesn't shy away from dressing people
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by sushiburps 2y ago
Just received this email as well. I purchased a lifetime membership during Black Friday a couple years back. They're quoting the following terms as justification: > 14.2 Termination. If you violate any provision of these Terms, then
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by sushiburps 2y ago
https://www.splitwise.com/
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by sushiburps 3y ago
+1 for fzf, never leave home without it
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by sushiburps 3y ago
Apple doesn't have "way fewer CVEs for macOS/iOS". Apple ranks 5th overall, and 4th so far in 2023, by vendor. In 2015 they were #1. CVEs track closely with the number of users a platform has, and the incentives to compr
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by sushiburps 3y ago
The New York Times maintains archives going back over a hundred years, there's no risk of loss of information over time, which is why the article leans into the "stealth edits" problem over the loss of information problem. Th
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by sushiburps 3y ago
Well, he just... did
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by sushiburps 3y ago
At the height of bitcoin I wonder if the value of e-waste magnetic storage should have technically been higher due to the possibility of salvaging a lost wallet. Like ore mining, but for data.
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by sushiburps 4y ago
Asked ChatGPT the following "I have a static HTML file I'd like to host in AWS S3 using a CloudFront distribution. I'd also like to manage the domain's DNS in Route 53. Can you write me the Terraform to do this?" h
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by sushiburps 4y ago
Highly recommend the YouTube channel 'Technology Connections' videos on heat pumps: https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto https://youtu.be/MFEHFsO-XSI https://youtu.be/7zrx-b2sLUs https:&
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by sushiburps 4y ago
This is an amazing tool, but I'd caution it's using IP lists for groups of specific organizations. One of the 2 IP lists provided by the author is just the US military: https://gist.github.com/artfulhacker/a6e
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by sushiburps 4y ago
> The problem with long term support for my Android phones has actually not been the fact that Android devices have incredibly short security update windows. That issue has been somewhat mitigated with the newer Google Pixel phones which
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by sushiburps 4y ago
Post states that Google search is getting worse, "...the quality of search started to deteriorate", and links to this article to justify the claim: https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying Big discussion he
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by sushiburps 4y ago
The irony of an antitrust lawsuit hurting smaller competitors.
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by sushiburps 4y ago
It's fascinating that the explanation of a countersteer is counterintuitive, but most people pick up on it without being taught. Kids learning to ride a bicycle will naturally add the countersteer before a turn.
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by sushiburps 4y ago
Platinum ~10,000 metric tons, or a cube 7.7m on each side. [1,2,3] Silver ~1,740,000 metric tons, or a cube 55m on each side. [3,4] Link 3 has a neat visual of the silver, gold, and platinum cubes side-by-side (a tad bit out of date). [1]:
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by sushiburps 4y ago
No idea what a good score is, got 431160 on my first go. My only rule was attempting to keep inflation at 1%, if it went over I raised, if it went under I lowered.
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by sushiburps 4y ago
"...there'll be people who have bad experience, unfortunately". The bad experience is the frustration of a kafkaesque process that dead ends with an ID submission form without the personnel infrastructure to actually support
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by sushiburps 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220404132312/https://majenko.c...
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by sushiburps 5y ago
Thanks for this. I was following along just fine until that last sentence, which caused me to think "nope, I guess I don't follow at all".
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by sushiburps 5y ago
I worked in the Providence Place Mall as a retail employee when the secret apartment was discovered in the parking garage. The mall has an interesting network of back hallways. The facades of the public area ended when you entered one, repl
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by sushiburps 5y ago
They're modifying the current desktop image, adding a rectangle of black the size of the menu bar along the top. Menu bar transparency takes care of the rest.
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by sushiburps 5y ago
https://www.theverge.com/22611236/epic-v-apple-emails-projec... #71, from the Epic v. Apple anti-trust trial discovery.
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by sushiburps 5y ago
Apple has through side channels leaked iCloud is the largest open host of CSAM among big tech. It's the only large provider that hosts images that doesn't automatically scan. The only difference is Apple wants to do it while leavi
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by sushiburps 5y ago
You're right, Terraform is not "write once, deploy infrastructure anywhere" tool. It does however allow you to reuse many portions of your infrastructure descriptions between cloud providers by using module composition[1]. Te
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by sushiburps 5y ago
Some additional context from the advertising agency behind this: http://www.hunterfine.com/space-jam-recipe-2
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by sushiburps 5y ago
While discussing applications that are advertised by Flatpak's application metadata as sandboxed: "Allowing access to the host file system does not give the application full reign over your system." The Flatpak documentation
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by sushiburps 6y ago
I was with BofA during this time, around 2006. On top of posting highest to lowest, they had a hidden account allowance, called a "Matrix allowance", which was basically a hidden line of credit behind every checking account. It wa
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by sushiburps 6y ago
I'm in the US Monzo beta. The app is super solid, has envelope budgeting features, can automatically divvy up your paycheck like Expenses. Hoping they open up invites before Simple shuts.
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by sushiburps 6y ago
App is amazing. I'm heartbroken I'm losing it.

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