LeifCarrotson

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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
Unfortunately, there are a lot of squad cars and they don't have post-its, they have ALPRs that flag all possible combinations of 1 and I for arrest.
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
If fathers spending more time with their children is better for the children but worse for ~~society~~the economy, is that really even a question worth considering? Screw the economy, love your kid (or kids).
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
I'm an American with a few horses in this race, and I also want to raise taxes to get rid of billionaires and provide more money to the government. I'd prefer to use that money for "progressive" things like schools and l
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
Do meteorologists have a terrible record? I've literally got the NWS hourly forecast and radar open in the next tab over to watch when and where the rain will be clear as I plan my route home...
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
"Favorite" in what sense? "Most critical" is a very different meaning of the word, usually it implies pleasure/happiness. Internalizing that people are frequently less intelligent and less respectful and less kind a
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
"Don't build the Torment Nexus" is apocryphal, but Lena/MMacevedo is a real fictional story: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo I shudder to think that someone's going to try to emulate that.
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
The earnings call is basically an event to announce that they've published their 10-Q report. The report says: > "In April 2026, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire an AI hardware company for up to $2.00 billion i
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
Small, shriveled, drought-stricken, dessicated potatoes.
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
You can't build a test bench to rebuild current OEM's electronic common rail injector systems that rely on expensive proprietary computer equipment, but there's no reason that has to be the case. With a $20 CAN transceiver, d
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
I think prompts like this are where agentic workflows come in to play. If you asked it to do generate the first 64 prime numbers, AI tools could do that. If you asked it to draw a charcoal image of Pokemon 13, it could do that. If you asked
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
In my circle you'd get called out for taking on a $350 car payment much less a mobile game.
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
> why would someone include tech that makes people think twice about using the app, unless it is required if you want to "sell" in a particular venue. Because the overwhelming majority of people don't think twice about thi
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
I, too, almost feel bad for the agent. It's a strange sense of schadenfreude, dealing with anxiety over the much-lauded transformation of the economy and the increasing schism of our society on one hand, and watching the initial attemp
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
> Spam is random email from someone you have not had contact with before firing messages to every address they can find anywhere on the web, the dark web, etc. > Or if you ask not to be added to a mailing list and are added anyway.*
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by LeifCarrotson 6mo ago
Cost is a parameter subject to engineering tradeoffs, just like performance, feature sets, and implementation time. Security and reliability are also parameters that exist on a sliding scale, the industry has simply chosen to slide the &quo
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
Their parent company, Nord Security, is based in the Netherlands.
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
The human developer would just write what the code does, because the commit also contains an email address that identifies who wrote the commit. There's no reason to write: > Commit f9205ab3 by dkenyser on 2026-3-31 at 16:05: > F
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
Android isn't a real-time OS, but System.Nanotime() works just as well with the built-in timer as an external oscillator. I suspect they're grabbing a digital input state change interrupt to get some real time processing, if you c
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
I run 27" 4k and a 34" ultra wide monitors on my desktops, and my main laptop is a P16S with a 16" 3840x2400 OLED typically docked to one of those screens when not on the go, and I almost never use windows that are not snappe
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
That's only for futures that are easy to invent, for others it is way easier to just bribe or threaten a journalist (works on most journalists, YMMV) to say that you've invented it and then run off with the money before anyone can
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
I find it far more effective to make friends with and be kind to that employee, and then describe how I know it isn't their fault but this one aspect of the thing that their company does really sucks, right? They're then able to c
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
That was a Times of Israel reporter Emanuel Fabian [1] but your point stands. Prediction markets create incentives to predict the outcome of an event, which can be done in one of three ways: develop better models to predict the event, affe
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
Those in the industry don't call it a lie, they call it "marketing". It's those out of the industry who call them lies.
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
It probably wouldn't have made sense twenty years ago (or 60 years ago, when IBM engineers first wrote about the Principle of Least Astonishment [1] in 1966). But it does make sense today. I'd argue that modern computers do many a
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
It's true that the expiration doesn't mean the encryption no longer works, but if the user is under a MITM attack and is presented by their browser with a warning that the certificate is invalid, then the encryption will still wor
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
The divider? What divider?
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
I've actually been involved in the commissioning of an FMVSS 202a headrest strength tester. A lot of science and work goes into the construction of those headrests - if it was less firm, you'd get a concussion from the rotational
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
Previously, the confiscation was the teacher's policy. "I dunno Mom, at the start of 4th hour I put my iPhone in the basket Mrs. Wormwood makes everyone drop their phones in, and when I got it back after class the screen had this
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
A few things are lighter, but others are basically the same. Check the graph: https://i.imgur.com/WKcLVDt.png Across their boots, legs, and upper body, they're at 6.578 kg/14.4 lbs for the old gear and 6.373 kg&#x
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by LeifCarrotson 7mo ago
There is no breaking through it because those LLM replies are not tweaked for 5 year olds due to managerial decree, they're tweaked for the average callers to those support departments due to cold hard reality. If 99 out of 100 callers

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