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by Groxx 3mo ago
It has? I've been under the impression that the "solutions" are "trust us, we don't allow that" (relying on an authority with full knowledge, as partial knowledge isn't sufficient) and "use more reso
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by Groxx 3mo ago
I've been trying to figure out how zero-knowledge stuff would work in practice for age verification, where "when issued" (or extremely coarse, like what year), "to whom", and "where it's used" are hid
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by Groxx 3mo ago
The "Early Return" sections describe it more, I don't think it's as bad as it sounds in that first bullet. They're returning after 15 out of 20 complete,and it sounds like even if only those 15 end up succeeding it&
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by Groxx 3mo ago
Quite a few times I've seen permanent light fixtures that don't exist, vents that don't exist, room sizes that are obviously implied to be much larger than reality (e.g. they show a full-size bed, but there's only like 4
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by Groxx 3mo ago
Almost literally every single social media site in the past ~15+ years has had those exact terms in it. Everything you upload, almost everywhere, can be used by the site owners to do whatever they like for their own purposes (reselling is s
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by Groxx 3mo ago
All of Brandon Sanderson's epubs from his website ( https://brandonsanderson.com -> https://dragonsteelbooks.com ) are DRM-free: https://support.dragonsteelbooks.com/support/solutions&#x2
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by Groxx 3mo ago
Any medical-field-position that recommends homeopathic stuff is instantly in my "full of shit and not trustworthy on anything" list, and I'd go elsewhere immediately and file complaints anywhere I could. There's no ex
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Under Microsoft's ownership? She'll get through the goat-farming queue well before then.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Low-skill work that used to be outsourced will go to cheaper LLMs, unless wages are depressed enough / running costs are high enough to keep using humans as cogs in the machine. This will also consume a ton of small-scale things, like
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I don't think anyone (not insane) actually doubted we could reach the moon, they were just unsure how much money it'd take per launch, and if it'd ever be worth it. Because we had already reached orbit, "add more fuel&q
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by Groxx 4mo ago
> Earlier this month, we announced self-managed OAuth, making it easier for customers to create and manage their own OAuth clients for delegated access to the Cloudflare API. They're letting you host an OAuth system to approve&#x
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Perhaps this is related to the "Mythos is too dangerous and cannot be exported" movements? It'd be a fairly effective way to justify extreme actions in combating it. One could even wonder if they requested it, as a tactic to
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by Groxx 4mo ago
(ab)using fresh water in vast quantities is cheaper. currently. and also more energy efficient, because evaporating water away takes a lot of energy with it. you have to raise radiators to a higher temperature to keep up with that, or have
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Finally! Usable! Between this and the excellent dictation, it's finally looking good enough that I can probably recommend it to anyone.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
And then Thiel money. That tends to help too.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
> Social networks didn't really exist before The Facebook. Seriously? Of course they did. An easy counter-example is MySpace, which launched several months before Facebook's very first appearance as a Hot Or Not mimic (which p
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Hm. I can kinda see it replacing self-extracting EXEs, but a lot of why you choose specific file formats is for specific features they offer - any self-describing system can fall into "there are too many competing features and nobody h
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Don't forget mutability! Go throws that on top too.
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Are you hoping to, like, run postgres in nodejs or something? You can get parallelism with web workers and shove sqlite over there if you like, e.g. for running more intensive queries. Beyond that I kinda don't see much of a reason to
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by Groxx 4mo ago
> Required Reading > Read the dictionary from A to Z. It's a gripping tale with a terrible plot. I actually have! I was very bored with the barely-above-"see spot run" books in the classroom at around 8, and we didn&
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by Groxx 4mo ago
Having run into quite a few managers who used to be programmers who can barely do fizzbuzz after a few years of managing: yes, I think it's pretty similar. Much of your brain is "use it or lose it" and that's not using i
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I initially took it for an ad too, and just didn't bother looking at it. Then I noticed it was oddly small, and the more I looked the stranger it got. It adds a fair bit to that "did anyone proof-read this? pretty obviously no?&
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by Groxx 4mo ago
it's somewhat similar, yeah. minus the part where bluesky itself is by far the majority host of people's data. that puts it more in the realm of "Office 365 Online + OneDrive storage" than "Word" - a lot of p
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by Groxx 4mo ago
if mastodon.social goes down, people would rightfully say that mastodon.social went down even though it's open source and anyone could run their own. > "But where are all the Bluesky instances?" I agree that it doesn&#x27
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by Groxx 4mo ago
It's a comparison they are directly inviting, by constantly claiming it's decentralized. And then its defenders get upset when people rightfully point out that there is only a single instance, because that single instance going d
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I'm confused about the 2008 Bloomberg article image in the first slot... right after implying the effort started in 2014. With nothing mentioning anything in there. Is there a way we can request a "flag as AI garbage" downvo
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by Groxx 4mo ago
it helps a lot if you make an effort to keep your dependency tree relatively small
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by Groxx 4mo ago
same - I check the changelog for every major (== minor if v0) and some minor version changes in most of my projects, including at work. I've caught quite a lot of would-have-broken-something changes, and opportunities for fixes&#x2F
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by Groxx 4mo ago
I don't really mind having a touchscreen, it's the requiring use of it that bugs me. And in some situations I much prefer it to be disabled, otherwise it reads phantom touches. (Bangle.js 2 has an option to ignore touches, th
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by Groxx 4mo ago
A bit low when not in a relatively bright area (say a house during the day without lights on), but that's largely solved by the backlight or a small tilt to catch light better. And in direct sunlight it's excellent. The display is

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