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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
The dropshippers are the customers of Amazon’s platform, in a way…
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by DaiPlusPlus 3mo ago
> If you dont believe so, you never listened to what people including executives actually say in practice. Yes. > "I feel liberated," one top banker told the paper. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' w
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by DaiPlusPlus 4mo ago
> but every IPv6 setup that I've seen still gives every device a unique globally-routable IPv6 address, with no NAT at all. Mine all have link-local addresses (I do have a real static IPv6 address block from my ISP, at great expense
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by DaiPlusPlus 4mo ago
(Am British expat, btw fwiw) We had Boris Johnson and Liz Truss; the fact they happened at all demonstrates our system still has vulnerabilities. I’m no fan of venerating a written constitution either, but I have an anxiety about parliame
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by DaiPlusPlus 4mo ago
AI-slop PRs automerged in response to AI slop bug reports.
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by DaiPlusPlus 4mo ago
I challenge you to name an actually useful feature that was added in Windows 11 and not present in any previous release. Difficulty: QoL features added to undo the effects of bad design changes in Win11 don’t count, such as “compact view” i
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by DaiPlusPlus 4mo ago
To me, “keyword arguments” means actual language keywords being used as arguments, like “minute” or “hour” in T-SQL’s DATEDIFF, for example: `SELECT DATEDIFF( hour, NOW(), someDateCol )`. …but I think the author meant “named arguments”, lik
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by DaiPlusPlus 4mo ago
> “Chilling” shouldn’t be the take away here. It is when you consider the personality currently occupying the office of US SecDef.
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IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video](youtube.com)
67 points by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago|31 comments
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
Oh those Decepticons…
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
Colossus was not a panopticon, it was operating on limited intelligence and information about the world. Now, consider a hypothetical secret and clandestine science and engineering team (think: Black Mesa East) could exist completely hidden
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
When I was in middle-school (in the UK about the turn of the millennium) I had asked my school art teacher more-or-less the same question (I asked why, for the 3 years we'd be required to take art classes, we would only ever use physic
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
(No spoilers) I had 2 main fridge-logic issues which made it very difficult for me to suspend disbelief and limited my enjoyment of the film: First: Colossus' is only able to implement its plan because the US, and US-aligned nuclear po
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> You reminded me to the delicious grin my art teacher let out when I brought up digital painting to her. Learned a lot about people that day. Can you elaborate? I’m honestly unsure what you’re suggesting she said, because I can imagine
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
Noe you’re making me self-conscious about when I get into a self-hating mood; unfortunately this gives me yet another new reason to hate myself: it’s not a good look.
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> but what is new about the pointer itself? I'm hoping for a const-reference joke.
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
...and there's clearly huge market-demand for Windows LTSC amongst retail customers, and yet, MS's C-levels already decided for them that no amount of love nor money - excepting a sufficiently large enterprise licensing contract -
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
Hollywood retitles movies based on books all the time[1], for the silliest of reasons ("Sorcerer's Stone" was contemporaneous to LOTR too); so given there's precedent, it follows that those wanting to retain the original
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> So a project should change its nam Potentially... supposing the criminal investigation into this uncovers a hitherto unknown organ harvesting scheme operating within the global music records industry; the subsequent police dragnet impl
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> but don't know exactly what that is or why it's useful. I hate to say it, but the only applications I can think of can be best categorized as illegitimate, likely clandestine, distributed computing tasks.
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw. It's a recurring headline on the rolling news channels on broadcast TV right now - and it's on the front-page of Red
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> Elon has publicly stated that he cares a great deal about safety He doesn't. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/09/grok-u...
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
I don't run Windows 11 so I haven't taken a look, but I speculate it's because it contains a bunch of ML blobs for Windows Photo's image-classification and photo subject/contents keyword search. On Windows 10, the P
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> It can reliably execute direct or vague-ish commands "play X movie in app Y" or "play x show" and can infer X movie is only available in app Z so use that. ...how does that work, exactly? (or rather: what's the
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> I spoke with Yoot about it recently (I said "Wow!" in my head, if that means anything; I'm just used to games-designers of mid-1990s all being virtual recluses by now - or long into retirement). May I ask a few things ab
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> Seems like an agent given 20-30 tool calls like "read_sms" "matter_command", and "send_email" would be able to work out what to do for things like "set the house to 72° and text Laura that I did it.&q
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> that tried it at the start and then gave up because of a bad experience I've had enough bad experiences with products that never got better, or just got worse (Exhibit A: Windows 11). Like most primates, I am capable of learning,
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
"objectively better" is a subjective statement :) My preference, however, is for a voice-control UX just like I get with my Amazon Echo and "classic" Alexa like I have been for the past 10 years I've been using it:
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
TFA says he used Ghidra with a plugin that lets an LLM do all the actually fun parts. It’s like having your golf caddy take all your swings for you.
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-US/status says "There are currently no active events." - and everything's fine with my day-job's Azure sub right now.

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