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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
Exactly. You can prove that f(a,b) always returns a+b. And then you overflow the int on that machine. Oops.
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
> Non trailing whitespace means the string doesn't end with a space No. And this is a great example of the problems with specifications. You still have to write a spec. And this, too, is subject to bugs. What's wrong with the s
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
No sound on an iPhone. They keyboard visually responds. Tried safari and Firefox focus
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
I'd fund "clone fablepool" for $5. Should be plenty.
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
Reminds of the four college kids that were going to clone Facebook. Turns out it's hard than it looks, if you have never tried it.
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
Neither is Motorola. And yet ... The company doesn't have to go away, the app just has to have issues. At least with web apps, you aren't depending on the manufacturer investing in nearly continuous upgrades to work in the rapidly
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
Really. Because it looks less useful than its source. If I search for Apple on food central, I get offered different types of Apple, like Fuji, honeycrisp, etc. with nutripedia I just get raw and cooked, which are within each type on food c
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
Web page is first found in Archive.org in 2011
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
So, do I just disable updates? How do I do that?
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
I wonder what the performance loss is for each level?
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by ____tom____ 4mo ago
But can it run Endive?
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
Sounds like the second system effect. (The Mythical Man Month) First one is simple and focused, the second one tries to be & do everything. And frequently never ships.
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
You can't rely on commercial offerings anymore. They vanish with increasing frequency. Yet another reason to use open source.
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
"When exposed to a trigger -- such as a small amount of heat or a catalyst -- the molecule snaps back into its original form, releasing the stored energy as heat." That's a bit concerning. Runaway waiting to happen.
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
One important difference is that costs are bounded on your own machine. Like with cloud providers, I'm always worried that cost may accidentally explode if I launch an agent swarm wrong. Now, it looks like the providers I use have good
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
Modern OCR is amazing. That image is full of noise and ChatGPT did it without any errors that a I can see. I compared it to another OCR of the same image, using http://ocr.space , and ChatGPT was correct in all the small number
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
The oldest reference I know of to "Halt and Catch Fire" is shown here : https://www.facebook.com/larry.langerholc/photos/d41d8cd9/74... 1960s era. Humorous instructions for the IBM 360/69. If
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
I feel this is about as accurate and relevant as if I were to write an article on senior copywriters.
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
> recall a few times everyone promised, if this gets promoted then we will rewrite it from zero. Never happened. Old quote: "There is nothing so permanents as a temporary hack."
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
I didn't see a key section of a COE: "What are we doing to make sure this can't happen again?" Apologies if I missed it. There's some discussion of things under what could have gone better, but prevention is key, an
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
Fauxreilly!
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
I doubt the fonts on my iPhone identify me. As far as I know, they would be the fonts it came with. Or can apps install fonts?
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
Not by town, please. There are about 100 in the Bay Area. That's just useless. Lat long of the town center would work. I don't need precise, but not seeing something 100 meters from me because it's in the next municipal uni
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
>Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? It's going to be more like corresponding with someone from the past. We don't have much in the way of recorded speech from that area, so this will be built from
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by ____tom____ 5mo ago
That's really cool.
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
No mention of modifying existing images, which is more important than anything they mentioned. I think we all know the feeling of getting an image that is ok, but needs a few modifications, and being absolutely unable to get the changes mad
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
How can you sue someone without knowing who they are? How can you sue someone without serving them?
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
You'll get thousand of attacks a day (and it's been years since I have done this, so probably worse). They try the list of 1000 or so most common passwords across the whole internet. It works often enough to be cost effective.
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
The story needs a progress indicator. I didn't know if I was almost done, or had another hour to go. So I quit. Also, there should be an option to just get the story as text.
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
Sounds like the tax on recordable CDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy Ridiculous, and it didn't take money from the right people or give it to the right people. I would expect the same from an

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