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by bb88 6mo ago
2026 is the year of Steam Linux.
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by bb88 7mo ago
The vietnam of computer science was written 20 years ago (2006 even), and didn't kill off ORMs then. We've only had 20 years of improvement of ORMs since then. We've long ago accepted Vietnam (the country) as what it is and
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by bb88 7mo ago
Assuming that what you're saying is true -- (not ai) and I'm not sure it is. The big difference could be that kids get computers for school now. I used pen and paper to take notes, and I didn't sit at a computer for 8 hours
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by bb88 7mo ago
I'm so fucking tired of trying to do a super spock pinch with my keyboard. I've always thought composition of typing various keys in sequence is better than trying to press 4 keys at once, particularly if your left handed or righ
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by bb88 7mo ago
What's interesting to me are the countermeasures against such a drone. The US military has used microphone arrays and radar as well to determine the trajectories of local threats, from snipers to field artillery. Probably next would be
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by bb88 7mo ago
I personally like the emdash -- I've been using for years -- I'm not an AI -- And I will continue to use it in the future with the "(not ai)" annotation. I will fight for the freedom -- for me and for others -- to use t
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by bb88 7mo ago
> I had this argument a number of times with cryptobros at the time “if it’s on the chain it’s fair game” I heard quite often. Just, no. Just because some code allows you to get away with something doesn’t make it not illegal[1] But that
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by bb88 7mo ago
What do you want? Regulated or unregulated securities? You can't invest in unregulated FTX and then whine when they went and lost all your money -- (not ai emdash) because it was -- wait for it -- UNREGULATED!
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by bb88 7mo ago
I have the newsletter in email and there wasn't much more than what was posted above, other than quoting from this article: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/jane-street-accused-o... That point was the c
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by bb88 7mo ago
Currently agriculture in western states requires maybe 2-5 times the water that people need. So many people see that as an opportunity to convert farmland that needs heavy irrigation into solar farms. Further, in Nevada, the US governement
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by bb88 7mo ago
If you lost someone, you might feel differently. And the people that lived that day, almost most certainly don't want to die like that. That's the problem with those style of arguments. As logical as you want them to be, it does
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by bb88 7mo ago
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton. It's not really so much one's belief system as it is what happens when one gets power -- and that's hard to predict regardless of the ideology.
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by bb88 8mo ago
It is representative because people died.
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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
1 points by bb88 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bb88 8mo ago
Here's an interesting story about a non-violent felon becoming violent in my city. Not all felons are this way, but this one was. Oh and yeah, people are allowed to open carry guns in the statehouse here. https://www.ktvb.c
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by bb88 8mo ago
This seems like an easy google search. And after 15 seconds of googling, I see this: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-5...
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by bb88 8mo ago
Here's the link: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-5...
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by bb88 8mo ago
Also the posts are still up. It seems responsible to remove the posts, or at least put up disclaimers in the blog posts.
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by bb88 8mo ago
I was wondering what happens if it can generate profit?
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Rathbun's Operator(crabby-rathbun.github.io)
127 points by bb88 8mo ago|136 comments
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by bb88 8mo ago
From MJ Rathbun's blog: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post... The Real Issue Here’s what I think actually happened: Scott Shambaugh saw an AI agent submitting a perfor
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by bb88 8mo ago
This strikes me as cool to see someone build another language with python using lark, it's also possible to override the ">>" or "|" characters in python to achieve the same thing, and also you don't have
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by bb88 8mo ago
> US company spent $x and should be entitled to get such thing approved... It's not entitled for approval. It's entitled to have an unbiased approval process.
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by bb88 8mo ago
These days I really like the kiwiSDR. http://kiwisdr.com/.public/ The WEB SDR interface has grown up quite a bit in the past 15 years.
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by bb88 8mo ago
> At least no one's sitting around pretending it's going to actually do anything useful anymore It enriches certain elected officials (and their friends). That's why the US Government holds a "Strategic Bitcoin Reser
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by bb88 8mo ago
The last time I watched OTA/Cable was over a decade ago. I remember paying $120/month for cable, and getting low quality highly recompressed HD shows, which looked terrible on the 1080p TV I had at the time. Digital artifacts m
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by bb88 8mo ago
It's not directly an RCE unto itself, it requires something else. A compromised DNS on the network, e.g. So no surprise they ignored it. Also, if AMD is getting overwhelmed with security reports (a la curl), it's also not surpri
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by bb88 8mo ago
2014
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by bb88 8mo ago
I once told TSA this: "I lost my Driver's License, and the state won't issue another for a month maybe. I understand there's an extra screening pat-down." Before entering the porno scanners I put everything in my
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by bb88 8mo ago
You may already know this, this is meant for others hitting this issue frankly. In Django, you can count the number of queries in a unit test. You don't need 1M objects in the unit test, but maybe 30 in your case. If the unit code use

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