SAI_Peregrinus

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by SAI_Peregrinus 8d ago
No, religion requires faith. Faith is belief without or in direct contradiction of evidence .
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by SAI_Peregrinus 9d ago
The same way you recover any other deleted data for which you didn't make a backup: you don't. You eat the loss & make new accounts. Then you remember to make and test backups for the future. Even if they had customer support,
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by SAI_Peregrinus 9d ago
Tools like Pangram can detect whether text is written by AI or a human with a probability non-negligibly different from 0.5. Therefore, the Turing test in its strictest form (that there must not exist such a distinguisher) has not been pass
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by SAI_Peregrinus 9d ago
Yes, because you don't have to pop in order. "zoxide <subpath>" is "search the history of working directories for a path ending in <subpath> and cd to that".
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by SAI_Peregrinus 9d ago
I remember when the Pause key did that! It's long enough ago that I don't remember which systems did so, and most laptops don't even have a Pause key any more, but it was often very handy for reading fast-moving console outpu
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by SAI_Peregrinus 9d ago
Or you can start typing and press up arrow to search with that. Atuin (or some Zsh extensions, etc.) fix the bad UI of having to remember a different key for "search history by order and text" and "search history by order&quo
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by SAI_Peregrinus 10d ago
Beauty has a function in improving the emotional state of people observing it. Ignoring this function in favor of all other functions can result in getting trapped in a suboptimal local maximum, where a more beautiful design could sacrifice
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by SAI_Peregrinus 10d ago
Aesthetics have a function though, so ignoring them and focusing on all other functions when creating the form can decrease the total functionality.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 10d ago
I didn't say it was a good national ID system, I said it's the closest thing the US has to one.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 13d ago
In the USA they already take passport photos. Being able to receive mail addressed to a name is the closest thing to a national ID the USA has. They're already depended on for identity verification quite a lot.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 14d ago
1000 Colonial Farm Road, Langley, Virginia, United States of America seems likely to me.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 15d ago
I use wire cutters. Non-compliant cables get cut & discarded. I've got a dedicated USB condom with USB-PD support for cases where I want to block data, since those are always charging and I want the negotiation to work for fast cha
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by SAI_Peregrinus 16d ago
AI safety efforts from OpenAI and Anthropic are purely about brand safety.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 17d ago
ECC allows greater security for key exchange (because it is so cheap to generate keys we can have "ephemeral" exchanges and forward-secrecy). It isn't significantly better for signatures in most cases.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 21d ago
I've got one as well, and I'll say it's extremely nice for removing splinters. I do a bit of woodworking, so it ends up being unexpectedly dual-purpose.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 21d ago
I will say it's important that the soldering iron be temperature controlled. It's especially nice if it's one with the temperature sensing integrated into the tip in a cartridge (like the ones you suggested). Also, 63/37
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by SAI_Peregrinus 23d ago
I like to delete all AI comments, and write my own. If I can't write a comment, I don't understand the code well enough to have my name on the commit. I often delete the resulting comment, because AI likes to add many more than ar
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by SAI_Peregrinus 24d ago
If they isolated themselves from all news, social media, and lived as a hermit, yes. They could care less, but it'd be difficult.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 24d ago
IMO JJ allows a simpler "mental model" than git. Git is a DAG of commits, each of which is a node in the DAG. There's also a staging area that isn't a node in the DAG, and a working copy that also isn't a node in th
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by SAI_Peregrinus 24d ago
> a public example of an open source project that you are using that showcases those features? IMO that's almost fundamentally impossible. The whole point is that it makes maintaining a "clean" linear commit history easier
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by SAI_Peregrinus 24d ago
Practical upper bound is closer to 35°C, at 100% relative humidity. Or equivalent wet bulb temperature for lower humidities.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
Even in an infinite universe there's no requirement for all events to have non-zero probability of occurring. A simple analogy: there are infinitely many integers, but even if you could pick between them all uniformly at random infinit
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
JJ workspaces don't have that limitation. They do limit you to not having the same working copy commit opened in more than one location, but that's not particularly restrictive with JJ since you're probably squashing changes
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
Crater is one of the biggest benefits of crates.io being the biggest Rust package registry. Being able to test toolchain changes against all the largest crates before those changes stabilize is an enormous benefit.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
Jittered exponential backoff. You don't want the whole herd to come back at the same time, you have to add timing jitter to the clients.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
Parentheses, commas, em-dashes, footnotes, endnotes, and starting new sentences can all be used for interlocutions. Endnotes maximize disruption, the reader has to turn to the back of the book to find the end note, then return to what they
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by SAI_Peregrinus 1mo ago
Yep, it's Murphy's law of online content. Anything you want to reference later will be gone, with no archive copies. Anything you want deleted will be available forever.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
It certainly can be a good thing! But it can also be considered a bad thing that you have to keep taking them, and have to keep paying for them forever. A one-time fix (a cure) can be more desirable than a lifelong treatment regimen.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
SOC2 requires a company to write policies in a large number of areas, and to demonstrate that they're complying with the policies they wrote. AFAIK SOC2 does not require anything meaningful about the actual contents of the policies, no
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by SAI_Peregrinus 2mo ago
I think they mean they're drugs you have to keep taking forever (for the rest of your life) to keep the effects.

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