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by ajb 1y ago
It's a meme that's supposed to get people to think in >4-digit timescales, apparently. Always makes me think of octal TBH
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by ajb 1y ago
"all that money" here refers to the money they lost due to the mistake. The sunk cost fallacy refers to money you intended to spend...
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by ajb 1y ago
Ehh. I don't think Kent is an arsehole. The problem with terms like "arsehole" that is that they conflate a bunch of different issues. It doesn't really have much explanatory power. Someone who is difficult to work with
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by ajb 1y ago
I'm not saying he made a PR just saying "Fixes" like a rookie. What I'm saying is that in there should have been something along the lines of "heads up - I know this doesn't comply with the usual process for t
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by ajb 1y ago
Yeah.. the thing is, suppose Kent was 100% right that this needed to be merged in a bugfix phase, even though it's not a bug fix. It's still a massive trust issue that he didn't flag up that the contents of his PR was well
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by ajb 1y ago
Twenty years ago there was a company trying to commercialise thermoelectric cooling based on a vacuum gap: https://web.archive.org/web/20031213235132/http://www.coolch... They claimed 55% Carnot efficien
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by ajb 1y ago
Probably the homesteading era. Although only if you don't count Native Americans...
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by ajb 1y ago
Makes sense. Perhaps you were thinking of juice.
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by ajb 1y ago
Dried mangoes don't have fibre? How does drying them remove it?
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by ajb 1y ago
"It is intended to eventually replace the classic X.org server in Alpine, thus reducing maintenance burden of X applications in Alpine, but a lot of work needs to be done first." OT but what's the use case for running gui app
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by ajb 1y ago
You may be missing a legal wrinkle: the crime of incitement usually does not require the underlying primary crime to actually occur. (Admittedly I'm not sure if that is the definition in Israel, but they inherited a lot of British law
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by ajb 1y ago
Fair enough, but I don't think that makes the incentive much different. If you are convicted of a crime punishable by death, your actual punishment is not likely to be trivial.
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by ajb 1y ago
Even ignoring primary crimes, under Israeli law, even incitement to genocide is punishable by death. But so many members of the political and media elite have made inciting statements, that the rubicon is crossed; the political class cann
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by ajb 1y ago
Mainly, that all the data (constraints etc) are discoverable in one place instead of hidden behind various gui features. Also being able to use a battle tested version control system like git instead of whatever ball of duct tape comes with
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by ajb 1y ago
Yeah definitely. Also a problem when buying by weight or length. Length will be especially challenging for an LLM, as it needs to pick the right dimension.
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by ajb 1y ago
That's interesting; I didn't know that to realize it was missing.
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by ajb 1y ago
The OP is low on details. There is more in this article (in french): https://www.lindependant.fr/2025/06/21/il-ny-a-quelle-qui-es... Apparently the ISBT have added this to their list: https://www.
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by ajb 1y ago
I think there is big value in something that is on the side of the user, in particular in processing user-hostile material. Here are some concrete use cases: * Buying a sofa. You want to filter for sofas of a specific size, with certain fea
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by ajb 1y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268547
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by ajb 1y ago
I wonder if some of the problem may be "beating": the PWM frequency of two lights may be too high to affect anyone, but if they are different, then where they overlap you will see a pulse at the difference between the frequencies.
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by ajb 1y ago
I would be absolutely elated if the end result of all this crap is a judicial president that eviscerates the many parallel systems that the feds/state/local governments run in all sorts of specialty areas of law. The mechanism t
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by ajb 1y ago
It's fairly common to see old techniques demonstrated, as those are the ones practical on an artisanal scale. I would guess the modern techniques are practiced in fewer locations, although obviously they account for the vast majority o
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by ajb 1y ago
U.S.S.R. military had far more complete maps of many parts of the U.K. than Ordnance Survey published. Although amusing, note that its than the Ordnance Survey published . I.E. they had the data, it was just classified. Also, it's
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by ajb 1y ago
Yeah,it shouldn't happen - but I've seen it happen. What's worse, the first batch we got from that place weren't flashed with an EDID at all - and were shipped directly to customers (who mostly didn't notice, beca
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by ajb 1y ago
The flash chip usually has a write enable/disable pin and most monitors and TVs will wire it to prevent writes to the EDID. I would guess only cheap ones don't bother. It's risky as without protection, a voltage glitch during
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by ajb 1y ago
Yes, I don't say that a quote from 1864 is the last word on work culture. Nevetheless, it does capture something of human nature: what is now known as "normalisation of deviance".
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by ajb 1y ago
...the constant familiarity with even the most dangerous instruments soon makes men loose their first caution in handling them; they readily, therefore, come to think that the rules laid down for their guidance are unnecessarily strict -
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by ajb 1y ago
It's amazing that the conclusion it's that sandboxing would have had to use NFS, which is the approach that the vesta build system took 20 years earlier.
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It seems likely that the reason they've accepted these titles is because they believe that they will be given roles in which they have direct command authority, not just the role of advisor. However, it also places them in Trump's
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by ajb 1y ago
Not disagreeing about the risks of AI here. But the thing is, there are correct ways to do things in court . But this guy's strategy was to improve his negotiating position, pre-court. That sounds like it's a lot more to do with

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