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by advisedwang 2mo ago
My understanding is that it's not actually XML, but special tokens that can be injected into the input stream (and read from output stream). The XML format is just how those tokens are sometimes rendered for human consumption.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> what does it matter how much CO2 I produce Because the author of the piece is worried about the CO2 levels in their home, not about global warming. (well maybe they are worried about global warming too, but that's not what this is
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Apparently it can take 2 months (or sometimes 4) before the initative is registered
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
The page says "when Claude CLI is detected" so I don't think it's forcing anything. The title is misleading, it seems.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Calibre has a feature that will fetch a rss feed or (IIRC) scrape a site and make an epub from it.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
To be fair, this was a comment about commercially produced cows milk.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Perhaps just random variation? They only did one plate, after all.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Relevant Darknet Diaries episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/ The interviewee seems pretty inept yet still managed to uncover something really interesting and nefarious.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Most of them still have remote operators.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Generally because they prioritize ease of operations over helping customers overcome jetlag. In this particular situation I'd guess the ease of operation comes from: * full customers are easier to deal with than hungry customers * Doi
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This is great, so long as you don't get caught. But if you get caught, the consequences could be disastrous. For the person whose phone it is, you could get a lifetime ban from the US or charged with a felony. For the developer of a s
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This article, and possibly the owners of the site, seem to muddle together several problems: 1. bot traffic causing infrastructure cost 2. scraping circumventing paying for licenses 3. the risk of hacking
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Yes, it would be nice to universal access to all content. But the streaming providers must negotiate licensing fees, and having a commitment to provide all content would allow the rights-holders to charge whatever they liked. That drive the
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
That doesn't help for the kind of search happening here. If the traveler refuse to give the agent the access demanded, they would be denied entry. We need courts to protect the privacy so that you have the right to say no.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> The original promise of streaming was simple. Everything would be available whenever you wanted it. You could sit down in the evening and binge an entire season without waiting a week for the next episode. That's not how I remembe
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> “code is data and data is code” is a fact of computing The general purpose computers we have today all follow that principal, yes. However it's not a fundamental fact of computing. Turing machines, cellular automata provide other
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
They geoblock EU users so that the EU doesn't have jurisdiction over them.
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
Can you imagine how annoying it would be for checkout workers to have a giant barcode with a different product on the front of a book!
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This website is a small, local company. They have a newsletter signup page so they do collect user info. Quite likely they are not GDPR compliant (e.g. take longer than 30d to delete records, don't have a process for answering data req
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
I like the kind of output artists make when they work on individual creative projects. I don't really like the kind of output artists make when they feel they need to crank out something every week that has to have roughly equal appeal
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
I believe there is a material difference between "content" and other modes of creative output: content is defined by a pipeline. It is desired for it's recurring revenue. You could make the tackiest, most commercial and deriv
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
This story naturally ends after Claire's departure, but "that the era of sanctioned dissent was over" did not mean that dissent was over. The lesson for many was that "asking nicely" wasn't working. I believe
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
To apply for a visa, even a B1 visa, you have to go to a consulate and show them proof of your bank account, property you own, family details, your job and such things (supposedly to show that you are tied to your home company and not secre
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
> LLM generated code is not copyrightable [citation needed] I've seen cases where it was determined that the LLM itself doesn't hold copyright. But where are you getting the idea that nobody holds copyright?
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by advisedwang 2mo ago
The departures kind of subtract from the "flow state" feeling you get when lining things up. Sure, that's an additional challenge, but it's not that fun.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
OK, but a heatwave isn't going to buy a derailer
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
I hope they are telling teens that their conversations are being surveilled.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
That appears to be saying you cannot make a trademark of something that is well known to be used by someone else, which is very different from needing the new trademark you are trying to register to be well known.
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
Being well known is not part of determining if a trademark is valid
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by advisedwang 3mo ago
We've had speed cameras and red-light cameras for years. Flock cameras are not traffic enforcement cameras.

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