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by Bratmon 9mo ago
Usually when I read these writeups, I walk away thinking "Wow, $foo was a more complicated problem than I thought". With this one, it was "Wow, $foo was a simpler problem than I thought and Unix (and thus Linux and OSX) just
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
If you think Polymarket wants retail customers to join, you're misunderstanding the point of Polymarket.
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
Really? I thought you could only do that with open source models. Can you teach me how to checkpoint the current version of Claude Code so I can keep it as-is forever?
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
Yeah, but they don't inherit their rules and attitude. Really, if we could apply some RLHF to the Stack Overflow community, it would be doing a lot better.
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
> That's not a reason not to consider it a threat vector when implementing, but no more than when implementing any header (that interacts with another) But the header wouldn't have interacted with another header if we hadn&#x27
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
I just typed the literal phrase "mysql error 1095" into ChatGPT with no context, and it gave an answer that was no worse than SO for the same search. No need to give it anything about my repository, network environment, or even a
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
But surely transmitting information to actual SO is just as forbidden? And if you're making an internal-only site, it doesn't really need to be name-brand SO.
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
Somewhere out there, there's an alternate universe in which the Stackoverflow community was so friendly, welcoming, helpful, and knowledgeable that this seems like a tragedy and motivates people to try to save it. But in this universe,
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by Bratmon 9mo ago
It can be both. Push and pull factors work better together than either does individually.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
If a nonstandard X header becomes widely used and then adopted as the standard, there is a surprisingly lengthy and difficult transition period to the new name. Both clients and servers have to support both the X name and the regular name f
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
That seems like a great strategy if your goal is for your child to be the weird kid that has no friends. There are pros and cons to that goal.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
> And when I finally—finally—tried to test online play, Minecraft told me I would need to loosen the parental controls (it did not say which) and create a Nintendo Switch Online account for my son. I'm a bit confused by this section
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Vinyl was infamous for degrading during use to the point where you could identify whether an album had been played more than a dozen times by the reduction in sound quality.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Same as all socialization: If you're attractive, you'll succeed no matter what you try or how you try it (You do still have to try, but that's the only requirement). If you're unattractive, you'll fail no matter wha
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Because there's no secret group of competent people waiting in the wings. The military-industrial complex we have is the only one we got.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Which part do you think I'm lying about- that China experimented with having no enforced Intellectual Property laws or that they industrialized six times faster than the west? I can provide sources for either claim.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
> China was playing industrial catch up. They didn't have to (for example) reinvent semiconductors from first principles. They will surely support some form of IP law once they have been firmly established at the cutting edge for a
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Exactly! They know perfectly well that applying a 6x slowdown to their competitors but not themselves is a good way to pull ahead.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
They're already 50 years ahead of us on flying cars.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
They sure didn't slow down after they passed us.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
> When correctly applied it can be an effective tool to encourage certain sorts of intellectual endeavors by making them monetarily favorable This has been empirically disproven. China experimented with having no enforced Intellectual P
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Because firing people in Germany is a multi-year process that requires (among many other things) paying for a complete training course in all job-relevant skills under the assumption that any incompetence is caused by insufficient training.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
It's not an assumption- it's a factual statement about how wordle works
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
I can confirm that it took way longer than that on actual contemporary hardware.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
The law tends to be pretty good at caring about you when you don't care about it.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
I think you're 180° backwards on that. How many alternative platforms are there really going to be that can afford to develope and operate the legally-mandated age-detection ML-models? Especially after the bureaucrats see that the law
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
+1 The industry has a solution for the exact problem the urllib is having (semver). Urllib just actively refuses to use it.
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
I think you may not be familiar with how embedded development works. Most teams who write code for embedded devices (especially the weird devices at issue here) don't have the hardware knowledge, time, or contractual ability to write t
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by Bratmon 10mo ago
Why, of all parts on a phone, would you expect the battery to be the one that's already good enough that it should never need to be upgraded? "Battery capacity" is like the one thing phone manufacturers still try to improve.
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by Bratmon 11mo ago
But if % 2 && % 3 is better, then isn't there still a missed optimization in this example?

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