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by bastawhiz 20d ago
I can hardly remember to commit my untracked files. A better solution here would be to somehow disallow `git add .`
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by bastawhiz 20d ago
Botswana's diamond mining industry is exactly one company: Debswana, a 50/50 joint venture between the government of Botswana and De Beers. Which means, when you think about it, that half of one subsidiary of De Beers is effective
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
He didn't foia anything. The article is about discovery in a lawsuit.
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
Abuse can be eliminated. It's called requiring a warrant. What's tolerable doesn't matter: we don't need to litigate how willing we are to bend the fourth amendment.
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
You don't need a special speedy system. A regular warrant is just fine. A warrant in this case would never have been granted because there was no suspicion of wrongdoing. There's already processes for expedited search warrants out
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
I'm glad this guy will get his payout, but infuriated that the perpetrators will likely face no consequences, and the burden will fall on the public.
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
1. It's lack of accountability because nobody involved seems to have been fired or even disciplined. 2. It's lack of public oversight because an attorney filing a complaint about an unlawful arrest noticing a suspicious photograph
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by bastawhiz 21d ago
Since the vulnerability is exploited by a crafted binary file, I think that isn't something that CF's managed ruleset is able to protect against. They have the ability to scan incoming files with antivirus, but if the exploit is s
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by bastawhiz 23d ago
ArrayBuffer is copied by default unless you pass it as a special transferable object. But only the current owner of the buffer can use it. If you need to read and write from both threads at once, you need to look at SharedArrayBuffer.
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by bastawhiz 24d ago
VRML was incredible. It's a "hypertext" markup language but instead of documents it produces 3D environments. It's a shame it never really caught on.
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by bastawhiz 24d ago
I don't have an oai subscription to try, but I'd be interested to know if Codex picks Claude's code over a human's and vice versa.
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by bastawhiz 24d ago
A neat idea with no content
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by bastawhiz 24d ago
If the goal is browser diversity, is the answer really Firefox? Or is it one of the active in development projects from people who are motivated to do something new? What exactly is Firefox going to do differently to grow its market share?
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by bastawhiz 24d ago
> Firefox is our last best hope for browser engine diversity and competition. This isn't really true, and hasn't been for some time. It's just the only other browser engine with meaningful production users. Servo and Ladyb
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this powers 1.1.1.1, it doesn't front an internal dataset. A cache miss hits a nameserver. Which is to say, the dataset is "every DNS record in the world"
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
Didn't this man just go on record saying the public needs to "compromise" on privacy?
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
Why should Starlink get that business? Why shouldn't France run its own fiber that it controls that isn't dependent on a US-based corporation? And you said it yourself: Starlink already exists. They don't need a subsidy. You
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
The public doesn't need an immutable history of URLs, they need URLs they can freaking type. When you've got pages people actually care to go to, then you can create your museum of URLs.
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
How is it inefficient? This is the whole point of government: how much economic activity is happening over 56k? Virtually none. You could make the same argument for paving the street and repairing the sidewalk in front of your house . Chan
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
> The other benefit of rust is that the stronger type system makes it easier to iterate and optimise without bugs creeping in. But once optimisations are implemented in rust, there isn’t that much pain to porting them back to c++ The obv
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
I don't think the problem was a lack of effort. The tech was interesting and innovative but the foundation of it had limits that were extremely hard to work past. As a technology it laid a lot of groundwork for better ideas, but I doub
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
This is honestly just the nitpickiest complaint of all. Criticizing people who just found out they're losing their jobs for which solution they use to collect fond memories from their users is an outrageous thing to get upset over. Jus
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
It's buzzword soup. All their projects lead to domains with vague descriptions and pictures of the team and zero substance at all.
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
This is maybe an unpopular take, but I don't think this matters for Anthropic. I don't think their immediate goal is to get users onto their biggest and best models. Sonnet is more than enough for many average users and their use
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
There are none. It doesn't exist. It's AI slop produced without any practical consideration for the production of even a small percent of one person's caloric needs over such a small area.
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
As a meta comment, I can handle code blocks without syntax highlighting, and I can handle code blocks that wrap. But both together with long comments just turn into line noise. There's no longer any useful visual signal for how to read
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
Any LLM generation is just a transform of input to output.
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
What you're saying essentially comes down to "Grok hasn't been trained on long horizon tasks like other frontier models", which...yes. But they've also acquired a company with probably more session data than any oth
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
But then we'd have to admit that it's not the JIT that's a problem, it's the lack of guardrails and analysis features in the machine code interfaces that higher level languages expose!
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by bastawhiz 1mo ago
> anything beyond UI components In fairness, UI components are probably one of the hardest things to do completely correctly, even with just HTML. As soon as you start thinking about i18n, screen reader support, color contrast, keyboard

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