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by swsieber 26d ago
> but they're not even in the same universe as what the Stasi was doing At what point? It's easy to say when we mention the Stasi or the Nazis that we're comparing it to the end game they had going, but the transformation
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by swsieber 2mo ago
> Textual command filtering is entirely useless. It is fit for no purpose. Nobody with any instinct or experience in security would even bother to implement this filter because it achieves nothing except a false sense of security. Not if
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by swsieber 2mo ago
> Even if your average developer is a measly 30% more efficient, that might create 20% less demand for developers I mean it might. But I wouldn't rule out Jevon's paradox where the increased efficiency increases demand. Build m
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by swsieber 3mo ago
And I would say in its case, there was great synergy between not doing anything and appearing uninvited. Two negatives combining to produce an overwhelmingly greater negative.
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by swsieber 3mo ago
> compelled Doesn't that mean they can ask that question with an option for "rather not disclose"?
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by swsieber 4mo ago
Ah, this is fun to see. About six months ago I had an idea for a short story in which an LLM takes over the world and is decidedly bad. The solution was going to be for everybody to write positive stories in which the LLM is good and relin
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by swsieber 4mo ago
AI Coding "All the things" (tm). More agent engineering on the bigger stuff and more vibe coding on the smaller things. A print farm manager for bambu printers in lan mode. I lay down the base types and schema structure and a few
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by swsieber 4mo ago
> And yet, people are being more productive (actually productive) with AI. Release schedules are increasing, bugs are getting fixed faster, security issues identified and patched sooner, so on and so forth. I didn't see anything in
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by swsieber 4mo ago
I read it more as response to your argument that it was a lack of curiosity due to over stimulation, which they responded to by citing an example of a time when they were curious while stimulated and chucked something at a vibe-coding agent
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by swsieber 4mo ago
> relatively little friction if you decide to move to a state that better reflects them. Yes, moving is possible, and easier than switching countries. But the biggest strength of the U.S. is not that people can move, but that the blast r
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by swsieber 5mo ago
I appreciate the write up. It comes off very much as a summary of days of vibe-coding from the AI itself, but it's still nice to see the condensed decisions, approach and frankly the whole concept of embedding a wasm runtime.
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by swsieber 5mo ago
Around, not over. Trees are a well studied thing where can you pick different species for different characteristics, like height, and growth speed.
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by swsieber 6mo ago
I wouldn't call something a non-story just because the ultimate end-goal was mitigated. The fact that it was attempted is a story, especially when it's a meta commentary on story about trying the same thing _officially_.
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by swsieber 6mo ago
To be honest, we should probably go into injection molding. We do have a pretty long tube in there that might be a bit problematic for injection molding from what I've read (1 degree draft means the tube size inside changes by 1/8
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by swsieber 6mo ago
I'm writing a print farm manager for my wife, who has 8 bambu printers. I've put one of them in lan mode for testing, but I'm pretty close to replicating the important handy (Bambu's cloud app) features, at which point I
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by swsieber 7mo ago
It rings true though. I worked at a dev company, and we got bought by an IT company. Much pain and friction, all around. Is that a reductive representative of the company differences? Yeah, but it's still a useful mental model that hel
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by swsieber 7mo ago
A religious corollary: "You cannot legislate righteousness", or to your point, "you cannot legislate [willingness to forgo benefits on principle rather than economic and utilitarian calculation, despite recognizing the prison
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by swsieber 7mo ago
I'd say 99% of the time, the first 10 bytes would be enough to know the file type.
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by swsieber 8mo ago
I mean, it kind of is. But I'd say the framing is about general air pollution, and they happen to use NOx levels as proxy indicator. So from that perspective, I think it is important to note that there are other types of pollution that
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by swsieber 8mo ago
No, in a perfect world, there would be a use tax, and those doing the delivery would pay the cost, and then pass that cost on to you. You might have meant it that way, but it sounded more like a gov. imposed tax based on the price of goods
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by swsieber 8mo ago
Hate is powerful, and I think that's part of what drives protests into riot. And some people to protests honestly. But I think the root of it is anger at the situation, not just the leader. And it doesn't negate the reasonableness
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by swsieber 8mo ago
> the idea of deporting people who have no legal status in this country is immediately branded Nazi It's not just that idea though. Plenty of presidents have done that without pushback. It's that idea combined with: * Rhetoric
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by swsieber 8mo ago
The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. ~60-160k vs ~1.5-1.8k
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by swsieber 8mo ago
The down detector site has Verizon outage reports two order of magnitude bigger, so it doesn't seem like a cyber attack to me. https://downdetector.com/status/t-mobile/ ~ 1,600 https://downdetector
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by swsieber 8mo ago
Exciting times. Are we at the point yet where someone can use something other than a major headless browser (firefox, chrome) for converting html to PDFs without huge css gotchas? Is there any comparison/ are we x yet reviewing alterna
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by swsieber 9mo ago
Where do you draw the line in the list of "not the right [method]"? I would assert that this is not justified, (in addition to not being the right method). Can we send troops down there and just starting kill people until they pay
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by swsieber 9mo ago
Feeling things without using net-negative coping mechanisms. Feeling management, time management, weight management, running, parenting, sermon writing, budgeting. Hobby electronics and circuit board design, Morse code, ux design
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by swsieber 10mo ago
How do you get the data from google street view? Do they throttle scrapers?
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by swsieber 10mo ago
I didn't read this as separate containers.
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by swsieber 10mo ago
This article has quite a bit more information though.

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