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by thwarted 4d ago
What does this mean? This text appears on this page https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links > The real URL is in the Location header on /goto. Request that URL. Do not follow the redirect. And thi
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by thwarted 6d ago
This is a really interesting video that explores this topic, pointing out that at near light speeds, the entire universe becomes accessible in a single human lifetime. The Overview Effekt: Time Dilation Visualized https://youtu.b
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by thwarted 16d ago
> the rational thing for these rational competitors to do would be to agree This is the bit that is tripping you up. The market is composed of more than just the these potentially agreeing parties, so there is no case where all parti
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by thwarted 19d ago
If the TV only plugged into the wall for electricity and showed the video that was fed into it via one of its inputs, does that TV qualify as "yet another extra piece of hardware that needs to be maintained"? The only reason it n
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by thwarted 26d ago
> Sometimes he resented having to leave the deck to use the chemical toilet they’d set up in a corner of the loft. - Neuromancer This is an interesting call out when it comes to the communication/presentation of aesthetics of techno
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by thwarted 26d ago
Heh, and cool hunting is the setting in Pattern Recognition. That they are cool is the only thing that needs to be said. The reader fills that in with their own perception, which is how we're ending up with the Torment Nexus, because
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by thwarted 26d ago
Agreed. My point is that there's the perception of the characters and corporations as having some meaningful/cool aesthetics in these stories and in the genre, but you'd be hard-pressed to identify what they are or how they
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by thwarted 26d ago
Except this is being critical of the popularity and fans, not the band.
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by thwarted 26d ago
I never thought about this before, but you made me realize that Sense/Net sure had a lot of employees considering the in-story world had true AGI, enough employees that the Panther Moderns exploited to cause chaos during the Dixie Flat
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by thwarted 1mo ago
Aren't these effectively the same thing? In order to get the benefits of living/working as a group/in a society, there needs to be common elements; aggregating by location/space and by time go hand in hand. If the farme
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by thwarted 1mo ago
I can't think of a better example of intrusiveness than "as soon as I pull out my phone [the kids] are grabbing for it", which I'm reading as "the kids want to use it even tho it isn't theirs". We've
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by thwarted 2mo ago
> made the bread cheap enough The circus is distracting from the price of bread, apparently.
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by thwarted 2mo ago
You don't have an on-call rotation but do have people dedicated to vendor relationships, and that guy works on the weekend? I'm not sure how you completely avoid getting alerts on the weekend for third-party payment processor iss
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by thwarted 2mo ago
> Open-source projects often have this problem where you can have dozens of thousands of man-hours poured into a project without a single end-user opinion taken into account. How is this "a problem"? The reason there are doze
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by thwarted 2mo ago
The industry couldn't decide what it wanted for a long time (and maybe still hasn't settled). Pages needed to be consistent visually no matter which platform and browser the page was displayed on (which is odd, few people used the
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by thwarted 2mo ago
> tricking people into believing that a ML model can have experiences, feelings… … or that sentences like "You're secrets are safe with me" is at all legitimate, meaningful, or legally binding.
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by thwarted 2mo ago
The bank is trying to authenticate you, while you're trying to authenticate the bank. The bank calls and tries to authenticate themselves to the callee by saying "is your birthday such and such?", they're risking sharing
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by thwarted 2mo ago
Containers are often used with user namespaces, which is literally another (set of) user account(s).
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by thwarted 2mo ago
Leap days, February 29th, are not at the level of time zones. Different time zones do not disagree as to when March 1st will occurs immediately after February 28th.
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by thwarted 2mo ago
> "What's your favorite sarcopterygian?" Am I reading your post correctly, this question is the prompt given to an LLM? What is anyone expecting by asking an LLM what its favorite anything is? This is a conversationa
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by thwarted 2mo ago
> extra capabilities you get from an ActiveRecord framework such as full-stack admin pages The naive "here's a row-level view of the database records" that things like ActiveRecord/ActiveAdmin give you by default ar
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by thwarted 3mo ago
"We have this thing that's awesome that we can convince people to buy" eventually becomes "We can convince people to buy". It's unfortunate that "convince people to buy" can be successfully used indep
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by thwarted 3mo ago
> younger folks don't fully adjust for important factors: plane hijackings used to be much more common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings (I can not say how comprehensive that wikipedia
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by thwarted 3mo ago
It's rich that the cohort that sees identity verification and real names policies as necessary and meaningful also doesn't seem to understand the first thing about identity and names.
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by thwarted 3mo ago
It's safer in the same sense as if you're paranoid about your date being a serial killer, you meet them in a public venue. It doesn't mean your date isn't a serial killer, but the risk profile is different because other
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by thwarted 3mo ago
"I need you to turn your key and enable the missile silo's MCP server, sir". ~ the opening scene from a reboot of War Games, probably. A few years ago there was consternation over the US's missile launch system using 8&q
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by thwarted 3mo ago
Reducing buffer size puts back pressure on the whole system, which can be valuable to manage load (but often throttles faster stages and that throttling makes people uncomfortable). A meaningful metric is how much of the buffer is used at a
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by thwarted 3mo ago
I remember a book I read as a pre-teen, 40 or so years ago, about a kid who wanted to be "perfect". A wear a tree of broccoli on a string around your neck to learn how to overcome embarrassment. A perfect person never makes mistak
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by thwarted 3mo ago
Having a key isn't a distinguishing aspect, it's the position in the "web of trust" network that is important.
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by thwarted 3mo ago
Interesting, TIL. That makes the conversion to @2001 even stranger.

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