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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
And there aren't enough security researchers in the world to review ALL the files from OpenBSD. And if there were, the cost would be more like $20M than 20K. Having all code reviewed for security, by some level of LLM, should be standa
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
And after I typed this comment, I retuned to the site, and it was zoom in to the point where I could see one line of text and i could find no way to zoom back out, and all navigation was off screen. iPhone.
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
The text is too small to read on a phone, and pinch to zoom is disabled. That's pn the first lesson
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by ____tom____ 6mo ago
Don't assume that because you don't connect something to the internet that is doesn't connect to the internet. Things can use cellular modems to phone home. This is already done. Walmart could also easily cut deals with cabl
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by ____tom____ 7mo ago
"N is usually small" might need to be revisited.
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by ____tom____ 7mo ago
Boy is that a terrible website. I tried to find a story and give up.
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by ____tom____ 7mo ago
His initial point is about critics. Critics are incentivized to review many books. So, more than ordinary readers, you would expect them to read summaries, or only parts of books.
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by ____tom____ 8mo ago
How does this compare to https://www.wunderground.com ? Is that the source of the data?
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by ____tom____ 9mo ago
Terrible website. I gave up after a while, as everything was taking ten times as long to convey information as simple text would. Too bad, as the topic is interesting, but not enough to make up for aggressively bad presentation.
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by ____tom____ 9mo ago
Everyone benefits from the idea that killing off the copyright holder is not profitable. If copyrights expired on creator death, there would be unwholesome motivations.
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by ____tom____ 9mo ago
There are tons of proven, tested libraries for this. The dumb, successful approach would be to use one of them.
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
You didn't build a search engine in 160 lines of code. You build a client for a search engine in 160 lines of code. The vector database is providing the search.
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
Developing in a container might mitigate a lot of issues. Harder to compromise your development machine. I guess if you ship it you are still passing along contagion
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
The wiki appears to have been deleted. Maybe you can recover it?
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
Does this really work? I would think the ping time would not be dominated by speed of light, but by number of hops, and connection quality. As a hypothetical example, an IP in a New York City data center is likely to have a shorted ping to
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
while I definitely agree the autocorrect has gotten worse, what I find more of a problem is all the various other pop-ups that occur. For example, they recently added the ability to 'undo' an autocorrect, but this pop up grabs foc
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
Hah! I have exactly the opposite problem, I hit the space bar, instead of N, and the iPhone doesn't understand this a possible typo, so all the suggestions and auto-corrects are wrong.
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
perl died because "Perl is write once, read never"
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
There seems to be a minor bug. When I switch tabs and come back, sometimes the spring is moving. Some times a small amount, and other times it appears to be streched to the max, and extending off the top and bottom of the screen, until it c
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
and then, to make money, they'd have to stop giving the correct answer, just like search engines
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
Yep. People always come up with people-centric definitions. They need to be updated based on what are the fundamental characteristic of something that is alive. The current, more standard definition, seems to be based on metabolism. I disag
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
No, none of those can mutate, that's the point of "and mutate heritably" Crystals can "reproduce", but it's always the same (there can be errors, but they don't inherit), so they don't count. And atom
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
The standard definition of life is too restrictive. I suggest If it can reproduce and mutate heritably, it's alive. Or, in other words, things that can evolve. I find the idea that viruses aren't alive ridiculous.
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by ____tom____ 10mo ago
The calendar system already changed. So this won't get correct dates, meaning the dates actually used, past that date. Well, those dates, as different countries changed at different times.
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by ____tom____ 11mo ago
Ok, I tried convert body to 3d, which is seems to do well, but it just gives me the image, I see no way to export or use this image. I can rotate it, but that's it. Is there some functionality I'm missing? I've tried Safari a
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by ____tom____ 11mo ago
I wish they'd make something for auto-feeding slides. Slide projectors all have auto-feed, but none of the scanners do.
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by ____tom____ 11mo ago
That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping people were working on!
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by ____tom____ 11mo ago
I'm not asserting that bonobos, for example, have as complex a language as humans, just that it would be interesting to understand what language that they do have. "You haven't experienced Shakespeare until you've read h
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by ____tom____ 11mo ago
What I really want to know is how well these could work for non-human languages. No, not aliens, but chimpanzees, dolphins, bonobos. We have hundreds or thousands of hours of recordings. What would it take to start working on them?
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by ____tom____ 11mo ago
I'm not a rust programmer. Can't you just make a local copy of the existing package and use that? Did you need to re-implement?

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