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by _verandaguy 9mo ago
What? A vehicle (presumably a car, since bikes are vehicles too) gets you and your stuff from point A to point B. Bikes do that too, though at a smaller scale. If your commute or your errands aren't excessively long or require the use
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by _verandaguy 9mo ago
The Whigs would be new ground for me, but I'm quite familiar with modern Poland. The closest they've come was probably under the living Kaczynski's tenure as premier, or during Duda's early days as president, and neither
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by _verandaguy 9mo ago
My outsider's POV: the fact that there's a Gestapo-analogue in place already tells me that an electoral solution alone is almost certainly no longer sufficient (or at least, unlikely to be effective) at this point. The Democrats h
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by _verandaguy 10mo ago
It's a bit of both! "Period" tends to be used in day-to-day speech when referring to the punctuation; you'll hear "full stop" if it's meant to emphasize a previous statement (though not universally), like
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by _verandaguy 10mo ago
These are the exact points written in the article. They also substantiate the idea that the United 777-200 fleet does face an uncertain future.
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by _verandaguy 10mo ago
It's so blatantly tied to who's likely to lose the most money. The unreal part to me is that the major news outlets are so much more obvious in their framing now. AI has a lot of rich people riding on its success, and this time&
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
This take is almost as condescending as saying that Ruby isn't a serious language. Ruby arose and became popular because it caters to a niche that was underserved by the competitors of the time (and while I'm no historian, I think
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
This seems like a very one-dimensional take. It's not invalid per se, but it really overlooks why states emerged in the first place (and I'm talking more about large, geographically-cohesive groups of people more than nations as
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
But currently, nobody's actually making money on AI. It's also not doing peoples' jobs for them, for the most part. AI's supporters do very loudly proclaim this, though.
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
Some of these inclusions were certainly choices. A lot of this is a matter of opinion, so I don't think it's useful to argue at length... but at least two of the people in the honourable mentions are literal convicted criminals an
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
You can remove it directly from the right-click menu, but that's really not my point. Mozilla has now shoved AI down my throat as a user of Firefox. It's one thing if they want to pursue questionable business directions on a pur
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
It's specifically been opt-out: `browser.ml.enable` is set to `true` in `about:config` in recent versions, and even disabling that doesn't get rid of the "AI assistant" option in the right-click dropdown menu.
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
Maybe it's a generational thing -- I haven't had to use a standalone calculator in my professional life -- but what's the benefit of using RPN as opposed to the more common infix notation? Beyond that... do RPN calculators li
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
It's condescending to describe it as a quirk, in the sense that it's no more a quirk than anything else in history. In the current climate where this sort of rhetoric has been publicly and visibly used by Russia to justify their i
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
After this past year of US political discourse, you'll forgive me for not extending the benefit of the doubt anymore.
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by _verandaguy 11mo ago
I resent the implication that us being separate countries is a "historical quirk." It's condescending at best and exemplifies why we feel increasingly distant from the US. It's like saying that Belgium and the Netherland
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
Love it. Create a market segment where everything costs more for everyone, "employ" countless people -- usually on restrictive work visas and with a limited understanding of labour laws, rights, and protections -- to be the boots
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
Are Ortega and Newton mutually exclusive? Isn't the case much more likely that both: - Significant advances by individuals or small groups (the Newtons, Einsteins, or Gausses of the world), enable narrowly-specialized, incremental work
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
> we're not at late stage Conservatism in America Many international observers would beg to differ.
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
Worth noting that "behind NAT" is not a security measure. Technologies exist that circumvent NAT to various degrees (and that's usually without malicious intent!). WebRTC is a famously annoying example of this where it's
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
> Does a pure AI-agent marketplace make sense? IMO no. What value does the middleman add? EDIT: to clarify: the value add from services that "connect" customers to suppliers (like uber, fiverr, whatever) is nominally
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
That's an interesting idea, and probably something you might be able to achieve with a tool like h26forge. It's also probably more useful to just have a connection be fully dedicated to a VPN, and have the traffic volume over time
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
That's generally for distribution, but yeah, it's a form of domain fronting. There are some more niche techniques that are _really_ cool but haven't gained widespread adoption, too, like refractive routing. The logistics of g
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
A country can and absolutely will block known VPN ingress points. There are two tricks that we can use to circumvent this: - Host on a piece of infrastructure that's so big that you can't effectively block it without causing a maj
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
DAITA was introduced after my time in the industry, but this isn't a new idea (though as far as I know, it's the first time this kind of thing's been commercialized). It's clever. It tries to defeat attacks against one o
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
Hello! I've got experience working on censorship circumvention for a major VPN provider (in the early 2020s). - First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. Many providers who are aware of VPN cens
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
Was this somehow not doable without LLMs? It's trivial data massaging.
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
Unfortunately, Americans chose to elect an administration which is either unwilling to learn why a federal bureaucracy has to move slowly sometimes, or who is actively leveraging that precedent to undo it.
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
To the author: consider adding a dark theme to the code blocks. As-is, viewed on a system with a dark theme, these default to a really low-contrast light theme that's hard to read even without vision issues.
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by _verandaguy 1y ago
> We live in the digital age, so almost everything depends on data Data that I can't consume if my house is browned out and my router doesn't work (on top of heating/cooling, lights, and other basic living-relate

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