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by briandw 9mo ago
True that Xcode needs yet another rebuild from scratch. If they forked it and abandoned the old project file and went with a swift first approach, could work. However adding support for Claude is still a huge win. Could lead the way to maki
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by briandw 9mo ago
One could argue that the intention of the law is to make it possible to collect revenue from non-EU companies. Since the EU doesn't have any sizable internet companies. Not counting Prosus group as they are a holding company, Spotify i
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by briandw 9mo ago
I used a circular slide rule when I first started flight training. It was used in flight planing to calculate ground speed and a few other things. You can still buy one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
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Catching the Next Telnetd-Class Security Bug(vartia.ai)
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by briandw 9mo ago
Claude code (as shown in the repo) can read the files on disk. Isn’t that already exfiltration? In order to read the file, it has to go to Anthropic. I don’t personally have a problem with that but it’s not secret if it leaves your machine.
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by briandw 9mo ago
https://xkcd.com/538/ User data can only be as safe as the user.
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by briandw 9mo ago
Are you saying that because there is much more stuff to buy, like an internet connection, that the quality of life is lower? I mean sure after you factor out all the inexpensive / free entertainment, unlimited access to information, in
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by briandw 9mo ago
I need to get one :)
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by briandw 9mo ago
Sarcasm? Ca electricity costs 33.60 per kWh vs the US average of 17.98. Personally Ive seen my bill double in the last 10 years.
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by briandw 9mo ago
This is Far-UVC (typically 222 nm). Regular UVC can cause eye damage.
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by briandw 9mo ago
I looked it up and Far-UVC (typically 222 nm) seems safe-ish. But how do you confirm it's not outputting 254 nm or other wavelengths in the UVA/B range? Seems likely to happen with sloppy production of sources. You really have to
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by briandw 9mo ago
Citation needed
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by briandw 9mo ago
I grew up in Elmira NY. Great name :)
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by briandw 9mo ago
https://vartia.ai It's the blog for my burgeoning ML consulting biz. Not sure about the rules on personal. I'm the only one posting for now.
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by briandw 9mo ago
Honestly this doesn't look better. You still have a large touch screen, but now you also have > 20 buttons on the steering wheel. Capacitive (no touch feedback) ones at that.
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by briandw 10mo ago
The big problem with farming spiders for silk is that you can’t have a dense colony of them. This could a solution to that. Breeding these to make super strong silk to harvest would be really cool. Although you have to have a way of separat
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by briandw 10mo ago
I've come to a similar conclusion. One example is how much easier it is to put an interface on top of sqlite. I've been burned badly with the hidden details of ORM s. ORMs are the sirens call of getting rid of all that boiler plat
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by briandw 10mo ago
Boosting NAD has a been the focus of taking NMN supplements. Seems like NMN is a dud for boosting NAD. I wonder if P7C3-A20 can be used instead?
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by briandw 10mo ago
So many disclaimers about bias. I wonder how far back you have to go before the bias isn’t an issue. Not because it unbiased, but because we don’t recognize or care about the biases present.
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by briandw 10mo ago
No kidding. I lived in Finland for a few years and no way are they some of the happiest people.
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by briandw 10mo ago
Come to think of it, why is this in HN and why am I commenting on it? The outrage trap gets me when I let my guard down. It's even come for me here on HN.
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by briandw 10mo ago
Style over substance seems to be the order of the day. It would be refreshing to see people debate of substantive issues, ones that make a difference. It's a symptom of the broader crises in competence. Our leaders are chosen because t
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by briandw 10mo ago
Will Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Valve and another software store have to allow mini stores on their platforms? That's to say software with its own payment system, inside of a free app?
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by briandw 10mo ago
And go where? Seriously I don’t know of another country that isn’t on the same authoritarian track, if not further along. If anyone has done a serious study and come up with a country that still has strong judicial independence, due process
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by briandw 10mo ago
Category error. You want 100% accuracy for an impossible problem. This is a famously unsolved conjecture. The only way to get the answer is to fully calculate it. The task was to make a guess and see how well it could do. 99.7 is surprising
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by briandw 11mo ago
If every government in the world has a say on everything, nothing is permitted.
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by briandw 11mo ago
Twitter created that definition and now the EU has the divine right to not let them change it? Verified can and does mean many things.
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by briandw 11mo ago
They changed the blue check from an exclusive club of the rich and popular, to just Ive got a paying account. How is that misleading? Why does the EU have a say about design choices?
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by briandw 11mo ago
Ok so clearly a satire. However I kinda want this. They make some really good points about how an AI would be better than many CEOs. Honestly some of the companies I've worked for would be better with Gemini at in charge. Yes humanity
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by briandw 11mo ago
I tried it. Maybe I got unlucky, but Gemini performed poorly in my testing. I gave it a task that I was working on with VSCode and GPT codex 5.1. Gemini3 repeatedly failed to finish the task and started to go down a rabbit hole on an unrel

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