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by vsl 1mo ago
> I just do not understand why people - even when actively denying LLM usage - use the fucking em dash. Because they are literate? Unlike the "em-dash means AI" illiterate crowd? I'm not going to change my writing because
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by vsl 2mo ago
Thing is, you WILL encounter refusals with Sol doing anything remotely adjacent to security work. Which for Codex Security is kinda... problematic. Just a few days back, I was reviewing some small bit of legacy DSA signature verification co
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by vsl 2mo ago
Yes, in EU the Commission proposes legislation: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/planning... > In the article, it talks explicitly about this being driven by the heads of state. Did you miss
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by vsl 5mo ago
It wouldn’t occur to a Czech speaker to use caron standalone - it’s not an alphabet character on its own. It’s a combining Unicode code point.
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by vsl 5mo ago
Sound like it’s not about removal from keyboard but rather ability to enter standalone? It’s a combining accent character. It’s used to alter other characters (e.g. “c” to “č”). It doesn’t make sense to use it standalone. Apple probably fix
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by vsl 5mo ago
Dropped Backblaze over this when I learned about it in December ( https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/19/backblaze-no-longer-backs... ) and went to Arq. Not as polished, especially on Windows, but works and is
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by vsl 6mo ago
The author is an unreliable narrator. The very first thing, the location of the script, can’t possibly be true (the app itself won’t be in per-user support data directory). They conflate things, they definitely don’t know enough about macOS
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by vsl 6mo ago
You improve this skill by not using LLMs more and getting more experienced as a programmer yourself . Spotting problems during review comes from experience, from having learned the lessons, knowing the codebase and libraries used etc.
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by vsl 7mo ago
The LLM would, under that argument, be a transformative derivative work, which has important fair use implications (that don’t exist in the chardet case)…
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by vsl 7mo ago
> IMHO pluralization is a prime example, with an API that only cleanly handles the English case That’s not true at all? Gettext is functionally limited to source code being English (or alike). It handles all translation languages jus
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by vsl 9mo ago
Because GHA was stagnant and expensive and multiple services like https://www.warpbuild.com/ popped up, with better performance and much lower price. Looks like they ate enough of GH’s lunch…
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by vsl 9mo ago
Yeah, the joys of mass ignorance. - Barely literate native English speakers not comprehending even minimally sophisticated grammatical constructs. - Windows-centric people not understanding that you can trivially type em-dash (well, en-da
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by vsl 10mo ago
> Why did they think this was a cyberattack and only after two hours realize it was the config file? They explain that at some length in TFA.
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by vsl 11mo ago
The opposite actually: the market is growing, only Tesla sales are shrinking: https://electrek.co/2025/09/25/tesla-tsla-down-22-europe-whi...
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by vsl 1y ago
> Apple tells you why they rejected the app, and you correct the problem and resubmit. Such as, elsewhere in this thread, app for viewing HealthKit data “unnecessarily using HealthKit”? App Store rejections are arbitrary bullshit most of
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by vsl 1y ago
Polish and decent UI...
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by vsl 1y ago
Beta 3 walked it back and added frosting. Beta 4 went back again. As for being "sure" Apple will find the right balance, they never fixed usability regressions in macOS introduced in the last redesign. And they have ~10 weeks to
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by vsl 1y ago
That’s security though, not mere bugs.
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by vsl 1y ago
...or in 2020 (the year of the article).
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by vsl 1y ago
Give DeepL Writer a try.
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by vsl 1y ago
Same. Large companies keep freeloading and ask for support . They buy a single personal license and share it among employees. And it’s not some small shops from poor countries, where you can understand it, it’s (often German) enterprises…
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by vsl 1y ago
...and Wise support became utterly terrible a few years back. I mean "failing basic reading comprehension" terrible, the level of incompetence shown in this article is par for the course.
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by vsl 1y ago
> Might be an EU thing, though. So is Wise: > All investment services are provided by Wise Assets Europe AS, incorporated in Estonia under registration number 16267372. Wise Assets Europe AS is authorised and regulated as an investm
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by vsl 1y ago
But people treat them as if they could. You can already see them using LLM output as "proof" in discussions...
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by vsl 1y ago
Major ones are enough. Linux and Darwin (that is, macOS and GNU userspace, really) differ sufficiently that you need to pay attention or limit yourself to POSIX. E.g. sed and wc burned me a few times with scripts that need to run on both.
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by vsl 1y ago
> Hard to follow this argument, not sure which companies in Europe "won't have to play by the same rules"... Nobody except Apple is required to make its new features available to competitors, from day one, no? > I hope
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by vsl 1y ago
*nix filenames are series of bytes, not UTF-8 (or anything else) strings. If a find replacement doesn't accept valid (parts of) filenames as input, it's a bit unfortunate.
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by vsl 2y ago
Not only that, they don't grandfather users and the price hike from old plans is enormous. They gutted the basic plan, so any non-trivial use goes from $10/mo to $60/mo...
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by vsl 2y ago
I didn’t even notice the typos when reading it... I did notice how well the text flows, how easy it is to read. I (not a native speaker either) probably don’t make that many grammatical errors, but I envy their ability to just write . I
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by vsl 2y ago
> If you're trying to send from America, it's still the normal way to send a payment to Europe It’s not; SWIFT is, and that requires additional information not shown there (although some of it is encoded in the IBAN if you know

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