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by Cpoll 6mo ago
The implication is that if you spent 30yrs as an ambulance driver, followed by 10 years working retail, the death certificate will say "ambulance driver."
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by Cpoll 6mo ago
> the cracker would then have fun cracking it. I wonder if you could've won by making the cracking boring. No new techniques, bare minimum changes to require compiling a new crack, and just enough to make it difficult to automate. I
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Facebook invented Cassandra, so I don't get your point. And Twitter wasn't exactly a WordPress site doing a needless vanity migration. I don't think "use MySQL" really means the same thing at that scale.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
> Then you see the likes of Twitter a decade or more ago who dedicated possibly hundreds of engineers to make Cassandra work. That's doing Google shit. But they aren't Google. And eventually those chickens come home to roost. I
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
> US makes ~50k artillery shells a month at a cost of about 10k per shell. 50000 * 10000 * 12 is 6B/year. I was surprised, but I suppose that passes the smell test for a ~1T/year defense budget.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Sure, but you're just choosing hobbies for people. TVs are just one example here. If your hobby is 3D printing, you might've gotten screwed by Autodesk's subscription changes.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Oh, yeah, I see it now. Excuse me for being extremely dense. Upvote for you.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
John Draper and his fellow hackers were EXPLOITING coin-operated payphones and switchboards in the 60s, so I'm not sure how far back you have to go to reach the noble vocation you describe.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
I don't miss it. I also found Satisfactory's old fluid system (with concepts like sloshing) wildly unintuitive. I'll go so far as to say that accurate fluid dynamics is detrimental to any game that's not about beavers an
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
> “Given the cost the company will incur to install the capacity for dynamic pricing in its stores, it would be corporate malfeasance if they did not believe doing so would not only recoup the cost, but add profit as well,” Am I misreadi
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Having been near the epicenter, I recall that Vin Diesel jokes (same format) pre-dated Chuck Norris ones. I always found it a shame that the Chuck Norris ones caught on; Vin Diesel is, imo, a better role model. I bet Vin wouldn't have
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Moltbook meets GitHub? Sounds like a billion dollar valuation (sarcasm tag deliberately omitted).
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Ackshually the Palantir were made by the Elves of Valinor, and weren't made as a tool for evil. In fact, there's a very interesting theme there: The Palantir are only as useful as their users are wise. The power to see is disastro
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
The recontextualisation of "parental" is very amusing.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
I wonder how much the infinite scroll amplifies the effect. Not showing page numbers is reminiscent of casinos eliminating indications of what time it is (i.e. ways to intuit that you've been sitting at a slot machine for 4hrs).
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
I expect that won't be the case for long. LLMs don't make spelling errors.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
I think there's a short-term rate limit applied to everyone, e.g. you get a message if you try to post three replies in the same minute. I've seen it once, and I don't think I'm active enough to have earned a manual flag
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
> When confronted by Goran, Umart went to the trouble of quoting the Australian Consumer Law but made a seemingly byzantine and twisted interpretation of it, reiterating that a refund at the original price was the proper remedy. Have I b
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Whoops, not sure how I made that mistake. Thanks for the correction.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
> A third of them were made redundant If I'm reading this correctly, the interpretation should be that a third of them were transferred to new branches. 0.66 (two thirds retention) * 1.4 (40% more branches) = 0.84, so we only expec
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
> The spec is the source of truth This feels wrong, as the spec doesn't consistently generate the same output. But upon reflection, "source of truth" already refers to knowledge and intent, not machine code.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Your landing page and Gumroad have some markers that are consistent with LLM use. Can you comment on the extent of LLM use when writing your book?
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Would you bet your company on that happening soon? :)
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Plant patents predate GMOs. If you cross-pollinate or graft into a new cultivar, you can patent it. Here's a climbing rose patent from 1930: https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP1P/en
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
They bury the "Reject" button behind two clicks too.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
Agreed. Generics are in most modern typed languages, and traits are essentially interfaces. Maybe templates means C++ templates, which are essentially generics?
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
It's interesting to read other people speak highly of Feynman; he was such a prolific self-promoter that one starts to wonder if he was half as good as he says.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
You don't always have the option. AngularJS, for example, EOLed in 2021.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
I first used the Obsidian git-sync plugin. That worked fine, but but when I couldn't get it operable with my phone I caved and paid for sync.
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by Cpoll 7mo ago
I think Google Trends controls for that, it's not just straight search count? But you might still be correct, that home-sellers are a larger ratio than in 2008.

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