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by Thorrez 7mo ago
>The frequently cited "0.002mm tolerance" is misleading without context. LEGO's actual mold precision is 10 microns, but different features have different critical tolerances. The article never mentions what piece has a 0.
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
>Apple buys and uses so much RAM across all its product lines that it’s in a better negotiating position than the likes of Framework or Raspberry Pi, but CEO Tim Cook acknowledged in the company’s last earnings call that memory pricing c
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
That quote doesn't imply that those companies are pushing for it. The lawmakers might be pushing for it, and the companies might be ambivalent to whether it's done or not but said "if you're going to do this, then it sho
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
> In the USA, they want a reason to fine you. In my area of the US, I don't think so. I'll go 9mph over the speed limit when I drive by a police car. I've never been pulled over. In some other areas of the US, you're
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
Are you asking (1) why I think what I think? Or are you asking (2) how we wound up in this situation as a society? (1) I think what I think for several reasons. Basically everyone speeds. Probabilistically that includes he very lawmakers wr
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
Speeding is a special case, because it's unclear what the lawmakers, road designers, and police intend. When the speed limit is 65 mph, do they actually intend for everyone to go no faster? I don't think so. I think the lawmakers,
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
Aragorn isn't in The Hobbit.
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
None of those links are about this "open letter". This open letter is by employees of OpenAI and Google, whereas those links are about what Anthropic.
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Would this "open letter" be covered on TV news?
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
Not the entire Google account. > bans for Antigravity usage also blocked access to Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist. Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
>This suspension affects your access to the Gemini CLI and any other service that uses the Cloud Code Private API. That sounds like the suspension only affects those things. Not e.g. gmail.
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
>But Google are banning entire accounts, with years, even decades, of personal history, photos, even phone accounts and app development projects. Source? It seems to me only the anti-gravity access was blocked. The link says > Our pro
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
I don't think Mozilla requires a LinkedIn page. bachmeier is complaining that Mozilla's CEO doesn't have a personal webpage, and only has a LinkedIn page. By not having a personal webpage, and having a LinkedIn page, it appea
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
10.0 score, and there's literally a mistake in the first word of the text. ("M r." instead of "Mr.")
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by Thorrez 7mo ago
What do you think of Go's nil vs Java's null?
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Small errror: the demo program says some_var[1] = 500; however, seeing the output, what was actually run must have been some_var[1] = 1;
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Hmm, did the monks have no concept of 0? 0 doesn't exist in this font. However, their system can very easily support 0: just a vertical line.
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Switching to Cloudflare DNS solves archive.today problems? That's strange. archive.today is known for having problems with Cloudflare DNS[1]. Switching to Google DNS should solve it. (This isn't because of a bug in Cloudflare DNS,
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
(1999) (The movie is from 1994, the review is from 1999.)
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
That quote is about building security vs not building security. It's about the government potentially ordering Apple to not build security. It's not about proprietary security vs non-proprietary. Nothing in the article is saying t
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
> If you're talking about Pre, those people are individually background-checked before hand, and it costs $19/yr, The lowest amount I see on https://www.tsa.gov/precheck is $58.75.
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
The middle 4 are all fairly common words. "Ode" isn't super common, but I hear it in "An ode to..." phrases. And "err" I've only ever heard in 1 phrase: "To err is human."
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
The proper thing to do is not to zeroize the correct string memory before comparing. The proper thing is to only store the hash in the binary in the first place, not the correct string. (Although having a 2nd layer of hashing before compari
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
I don't understand. That article (written in 2016) says that Apple will build unbreakable phones in the future. Now is the future. So it seems to imply that Apple phones today are unbreakable. Also, where does the article discuss &quot
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Apple originally had a bug in that censorship code. It would crash your phone if you received a text with the Taiwan flag. https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x34.html
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Reminds me a little bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Maybe the person thought "I've given Tylenol to babies in the past and it was fine" without realizing the difference between Tylenol and Tylenol-3. It's possible the person even thought "Tylenol-3, hmm, that must be
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Do you have a source for that? I can't find anything online about a state with a definition that long.
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Is simonw untruthful or unreliable?
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by Thorrez 8mo ago
Why do you think someone intended to kill the baby? >But the forensic-toxicology laboratory’s measurements showed that his acetaminophen concentration was in the range of what you’d expect to find in a baby’s bloodstream soon after he’d

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