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by bananamogul 3mo ago
Having experienced the SO culture, I like to think the culture caused it - schadenfreude - but it was probably inevitable given AI. Even if SO was the most wonderful friendly place in the galaxy, would you rather post a question and wait ho
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by bananamogul 3mo ago
Another side effect of deleting 10 million rows in some databases (e.g., Oracle) is that the database writes out 10 million rows' worth of undo, which can swamp the disk space set aside for archive logs if you can't back it up and
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by bananamogul 3mo ago
This article states multiple times that spinning up a process is expensive/very expensive. Is that really true? I ask out of ignorance. “Compared to other ways of doing parallelism, processes are very expensive, both in terms of taki
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by bananamogul 3mo ago
Or Perl. Or Python. How many environments have only bash and not awk, perl, or python?
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
"The year 2024 is closer in time to Cleopatra than the Egyptian queen’s life was to the construction of the pyramids." It's truly astonishing how old Egypt is. The sphinx is 4500 years old! I listened to Bob Brier's co
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
Solving the safety problem by making it loud does not seem like a great solution. Fast forward and everyone is driving nearly silent electric vehicles. I wouldn’t want loud Vespas then. Cutting city noise pollution is one of the benefits
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" scheme - ?
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
That quote from Heat (1995) is so deployable in so many different contexts.
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
https://youtu.be/D1GyHQiuneU
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
I remember in the 70s and 80s people on buses and subways reading magazines and newspapers. The idea that electronic devices have ushered in some age where humans want to interact with each other less is a myth I think.
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
I have an unusual name, and have published a book with some minor fame (which is the first google result for my name). Querying ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc. gives a reasonably accurate summary of my public info. OTOH, this tool describes me
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
"If emacs is not installed on a system, I use sed." Bill Joy (creator of vi) once said that if he sits down on a foreign system, he reaches for ed [1]. To be fair, both emacs and vi have "magic exit incantations", though
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
I reported a repo containing obvious nulled software to GitHub in February 2024. The title is "nulled WHMCS" and it's a full copy of that software with copy protection removed. It couldn't be more cut and dried. The rep
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Commodore Computers Is Making a Distraction-Free Cell Phone(ign.com)
3 points by bananamogul 4mo ago|0 comments
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
These types of posts are tediously regular. Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness” in 2024 [1]. Fraudster Matt Schumer’s “Something Big is Happening” in February [2]. Next viral doom post in September-ish? [1] https://situatio
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
“To be continued.” This was published in 2021 but apparently never continued.
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The First 100 Wikipedia Pages(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bananamogul 4mo ago|2 comments
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
Do you ever abbreviate the project name as A. Burr and how many Hamilton jokes[1] result from this? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr%E2%80%93Hamilton_duel
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
Wow, Steam Frame has only B&W passthrough...[1] The Quest 3S has color passthrough and it's hardly an Apple-level device, and it's $349 in comparison. I guess as a gamer, I don't care that much. I put on my headset to gam
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by bananamogul 4mo ago
LGR did a nice video on the history of Eagle: https://youtu.be/0wdunM5XZwo?si=eDINPvrYZl6QQsEo
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Because we have 4 other sports that originated in the Americas: basketball, gridiron football, hockey, and baseball. If you like soccer, perhaps you'd like to try our faster, more kinetic version, called hockey. It's the same spo
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
I'm intensely skeptical about anything Anthropic says, because they are so incented to make their products seem dangerous (i.e., "capable", "science fiction", "ahead of everyone") ahead of their IPO. And t
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
I regret I have but one upvote to give you.
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
This sounds more like 1970s TV drama than reality. Cutting someone’s brake line has to be one of the least reliable ways to injure or kill them. If you cut my brake line, you might bust up my garage door or my neighbor’s yard, but they’re
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Settings->See all settings->General Scroll down to: Grammar suggestions off Spelling suggestions off Writing suggestions off (probably the one you want)
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
In which state is that a class A misdemeanor? In some states it's a crime to record phone calls or other private conversations without all-party consent, but I wasn't aware that it was a crime to record a conversation in public a
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
To be fair, when he was stopped by the police, he was very polite and compliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-8UqcSJDY
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
"In the U.S., the number of civilians whom police have killed annually has only increased each year since the widespread adoption of body camera equipment," That is a near textbook case of abusing statistics. Those things are com
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Would looking at the device's MAC address (which you can get from arp) help? That would give you at least the manufacturer of the network interface. This is assuming you're on the same subnet.
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
You didn't include Perl's CPAN, which I think is older (1995) than all of these. And it allows scripts as well.

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