benregenspan

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by benregenspan 11mo ago
> they'll continue holding pennies from previous years? I think most of the ones from previous years are all in people's junk drawers, couches, etc., and only go back into circulation when someone decides to dump them into a Co
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by benregenspan 11mo ago
But in this context, is it so important to distinguish between whether something is physiologically addictive vs. just seriously habit-forming? Except for substances where withdrawal is genuinely life-threatening, the practical difference s
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by benregenspan 1y ago
It's expensive in the US because one company has exclusive sales here (patent protection?), but you could try calcefidiol, weekly dose and is supposed to get levels up rapidly. Apparently it's the common form to take in Spain, and
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by benregenspan 1y ago
At least that involves good deeds. This article actually seems to pervert it into a hustle culture thing. His beliefs and values don't matter, it doesn't matter that he became a devoted abolitionist in his later life, what matters
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by benregenspan 1y ago
With the executive branch now picking "national champion" companies (as in Intel deal), I feel like there's a big new short risk to consider. Would the current administration allow Oracle to go to zero?
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by benregenspan 1y ago
At the end of the day it's an affiliate marketing setup, I think all fulfillment is through Ingram, not local bookstores. But it's a B Corp mandated to give 80% or more of profits to independent booksellers.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
Bookshop.org is supposed to implement Kobo support sometime this year, getting a Kobo if that happens.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
There's no private right of action under the law, so even CA residents can't sue.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
One thing I like for this type of refactoring scenario is asking it to write a codemod (which you can of course do yourself but there's a learning curve). Faster result that takes advantage of a deterministic tool.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
I've seen worse, there's at least not much layout shift there. People will complain about paywalls and they will complain about ads. The money needs to come from somewhere. For ad-supported sites, increased ad blocker use means hi
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by benregenspan 1y ago
I think he covered these by his mention of "spreadsheets". A good spreadsheet for rent-vs-buy would include the values in the sliders seen on https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-
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by benregenspan 1y ago
> Further, a potential causal relationship is consistent with temporal trends—as acetaminophen has become the recommended pain reliever for pregnant mothers, the rates of ADHD and ASD have increased > 20-fold over the past decades I d
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by benregenspan 1y ago
It's at a state level in the US, so it's necessary to look up your state's privacy laws (California was the first to adopt comprehensive privacy legislation but others have followed). TBH I had never thought about its applica
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by benregenspan 1y ago
It's the Coen Brothers quoting rabbinical commentary on the verse, not interpreting the verse themselves.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
Short walk to a connected room and someone held my hand. That said, was definitely a surprise to me.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
The place I had it done cuts the flap in one room, then has you walk (suddenly legally blind) to another room for the actual correction. A very interesting experience that cannot be adequately captured on video.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
It goes without saying that they are profit-oriented. The point is that they historically offered a clear trade: let us crawl you, and we will refer traffic to you. An AI crawler does not provide clear value back. An AI user request agent m
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by benregenspan 1y ago
I believe that AI crawlers are the main thing that is currently blocked by default when you enroll a new site. No traditional crawlers are blocked, it's not that the big incumbents are allow-listed. And I think that clearly marked &quo
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by benregenspan 1y ago
> The bots of Big Tech, namely Google, Meta and Apple are of course exempt from this by pretty much every website and by cloudflare. But try being anyone other than them , no luck. Cloudflare is the biggest enabler of this monopolistic b
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by benregenspan 1y ago
But why is that? Is there any chance it's at least partly to protect yourself from everyone else in giant cars?
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by benregenspan 1y ago
One other thing that might feed into skepticism is that, for the average person who does not actively choose to use LLMs, the most regular LLM interaction is likely to be with AI Overviews in Google search, which are generally a pretty unfo
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by benregenspan 1y ago
> The logical conclusion of this entire arms race is that bots will eventually have no choice but to run actual browsers I think this is almost already the case now. Services like Cloudflare do a pretty good job of classifying primitive
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by benregenspan 1y ago
At a media company, our web performance monitoring tool started flagging long-running clientside XHR requests, which I couldn't reproduce in a real browser. It turned out that an analytics vendor was injecting a script which checked if
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by benregenspan 1y ago
"It can be argued that deriving a conclusive understanding from our preliminary findings is challenging without controlling for confounders (e.g., shared diet, stress exposure, and frequency of intimacy)." Seems like "stress
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by benregenspan 1y ago
In doing so, you might be effectively asking it to play-act as an authoritarian leader, which will not give you a good view of whatever its default bias is either.
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by benregenspan 1y ago
It should be thought of as defense-in-depth only. The backend had better be immune to SQL injection, but what if someone (whether in-house or vendor) messes that up? I do wish it were possible to write the rules in a more context-sensitive
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by benregenspan 1y ago
I don't think that getting rid of most of the people who perform careful cost-benefit analysis and inspect for waste, and switching to a model of just cancelling everything and waiting to see what goes on fire, is "making the coun
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by benregenspan 2y ago
It's funny that reel is at IKEA, given IKEA's sketchily engineered tax structure, and that it's also the same company that paid off Romanian secret police under Ceaușescu.
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by benregenspan 2y ago
This is very cool. Also, it seems like Romanian is the only language where the word for turtle translates literally to "shelled frog".
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by benregenspan 2y ago
> But maybe it's misconfiguration on side of cloudflare user because I can remember they at least had a WAF product in the past They still have a WAF product, though I don't think anything in the standard managed ruleset will f

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