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by alwa 9mo ago
I can’t speak to the new one, but I wonder if she taps the old Alexa’s human-written bank of corporate-safe dad jokes for inspiration: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/inside-the-writers-...
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by alwa 9mo ago
https://archive.is/mCEHR
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by alwa 9mo ago
I mean Marketing budgets can fund stuff whose authenticity is independent of who’s writing the check, right? Especially when their audience is extra-contrarian and sensitive to authenticity. Xerox can be an evil megacorp and also be sugar
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by alwa 9mo ago
Your comment motivated me to read the way SF frames their regulation: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s... > Graffiti. "Graffiti" means any inscription, word, figure,
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by alwa 9mo ago
I’ve heard such reputations involve not only the caliber of the art, but also the retributive consequences the artist and friends are thought to impose on people who deface their work…
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by alwa 9mo ago
Some, probably; not all (and certainly not the current president, who in his more senile moments muses about how his works have probably earned him hell [0]). But the same observation applies to lots of other attitudes, too—like “might make
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by alwa 9mo ago
If one happens to be in New York City on a Friday morning, one might even purchase the fish in question straight from the source, as fresh as it gets: https://acmesmokedfish.com/pages/what-is-fish-friday#:~:text...
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by alwa 9mo ago
I mean -- we're talking about it, aren't we? Maybe I'm giving more credit than is due, but my mind went to an inverted kind of echo of Cloaca ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_(art_installation)
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by alwa 9mo ago
This issue seems to involve Gemini-cli[bot] squabbling with itself, adding and removing the label from the issue (leaving contradictory explanation comments to itself each time) for a good 4,600 rounds
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by alwa 9mo ago
Indeed: that would help reconcile the presumed secrecy with the fact that, also per the article, there are upwards of 2000 of these tunnel-structures that fall into this category. All across Central Europe. Aggressor knows THAT there&#x27
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by alwa 9mo ago
I’d argue that its primary functions are core government functions in a way that passenger rail and postal services are not. Amtrak and USPS sell services at retail (and compete; see i.e. SunRail and UPS). The public aspect of their preroga
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by alwa 9mo ago
It’s certainly government. The US Congress created it as an agency of the US government, just as it did every other government agency; and the Congress can destroy it. The Congress did not provide for direct political control—elections (a
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by alwa 9mo ago
Are you in the US? Most Home Depot locations will rent you one of several sizes of work truck for as low as $20 for a quick there-and-back of 75 minutes, or ~$100-200 for a day. I understand Lowe’s to do something similar. U-Haul does truck
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by alwa 9mo ago
Final Cut Pro X has been available for purchase (at the same price, IIRC) for well over a decade now. Pro feathers were ruffled at the time they leapt from FCP7 to FCPX: the $299 price point was something like 1/4 of the going rate for
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by alwa 10mo ago
I deal with trespassing flies this way. They spend some time in fly jail (butterfly net, twisted closed and propped against the door frame through which they entered) pour encourager les autres , then they go free outside at dusk. Pheromon
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by alwa 10mo ago
I agree with you on pretty much all that you’ve said here. Thank you especially for the recommended viewing! I wonder what happens, though, as the economics shift? It’ll be great, creatively speaking, for people who have a project inside th
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by alwa 10mo ago
Previously (2023; 222 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38793206
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by alwa 10mo ago
> We can publish exactly how the exam works—the structure, the skills being tested, the types of questions. No surprises. The LLM will pick the specific questions live, and the student will have to handle them. I wonder: with a structu
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by alwa 10mo ago
I mean—they can . They don’t need to give more than they’re already giving we anonymous strangers for free. For all we know, this person wrote this for people they encounter personally or professionally, and we’re just incidentally benef
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by alwa 10mo ago
Apparently this refers to making a web server able to serve 10,000 clients simultaneously.
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by alwa 10mo ago
I find it to be more reliably useful than the other non-Google alternatives I’ve tried. I find its “PDFs Only” filter to be awfully handy too. Proudly not a bot, but I freely admit that, because I pay for it and our incentives seem aligned,
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by alwa 10mo ago
That guy was denigrating somebody who did nothing more than share a list of stuff they thought was cool this year. He came at @fogus (the author) with, essentially, “I’d come across all that cool stuff too if I didn’t have my much better li
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by alwa 10mo ago
It strikes me as a little disappointing the way commenters seem to think they know you, and seem to respond to your thoughtful work by picking at you personally. From the root comment that speculates about your existential happiness (he cho
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by alwa 10mo ago
It also reminds me that systems can’t fix situations like this. The system of “care,” as the story alludes to the autistic person experiencing in their youth, often looks a lot more like warehousing the people on the margins of society, oft
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by alwa 10mo ago
> iOS users seem far more comfortable with subscriptions than Android users, which is the opposite of what I expected. I would offer that, for me at least, this may have a lot to do with the consistent, consumer-friendly subscription t
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by alwa 10mo ago
Not tptacek, but my search yielded this which seems relevant (to the network monitoring tool once named Bro, now Zeek): https://www.icir.org/mallman/pubs/APT07/APT07.pdf > The “SH” state indicates that th
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by alwa 10mo ago
https://archive.is/sr0sd
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by alwa 10mo ago
Who is “we” here?
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by alwa 10mo ago
I agree, that’s what makes it so insidious: it’s murky how you get flagged as risky, and you normally don’t even see the evidence (if any!), much less have a means to appeal. Which would be one thing if financial institutions’ risk decision
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by alwa 10mo ago
Nothing at all, unless you’re someone who doesn’t have family in a different country. In which case it may not have occurred to you that it’s even a thing, with its own rules and hazards and ways things are done. Even if you’re such a perso

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