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by conradev 7mo ago
In Texas and Massachusetts you can actually pick your power provider while paying the natural monopoly for the wires. In time I hope we all can do this.
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by conradev 7mo ago
It is an important distinction. It’s the same with Facebook selling user data. Neither selling your data, like the carriers do, or selling the ability to target you with your data, like Facebook does, are very nice. But legally they are sep
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by conradev 7mo ago
I’ve personally had luck at correcting the complex one-off logic the agents produce with the right prompting. and when I say prompting, I just mean code review feedback. All of this is engineering management. I review code. I’ll point out a
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by conradev 8mo ago
Use OrbStack. It’s faster than Virtualization.framework because it has its own hypervisor.
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by conradev 8mo ago
This is why Tor is centralized, so that they can take action like cutting out malicious nodes if needed. It’s decentralized in the sense that anyone can participate by default.
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by conradev 8mo ago
It is both the USA and California . California doesn't allow most guns that other states allow and there is a lot of friction between CA and the USG.
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by conradev 8mo ago
Apple moved it there in macOS Sequoia, from Utilities, because they were worried it would be confused with the Passwords app. Apple reminds you that you're actually looking for the Passwords app at every turn: Tip: You can find all
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by conradev 8mo ago
Peter has been prolific and talented long before AI tools. I became familiar with his work a decade ago: https://github.com/steipete/PSTCollectionView People seem to think that because we all have the same tools and be
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by conradev 8mo ago
The courts already have algorithmic oracles for specific judgements, like sentencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPAS_(software)
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by conradev 8mo ago
It has apparently gotten easier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/hom... A nice “grab their data” button for the current administration.
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by conradev 8mo ago
For example: To resolve the problem, scammers would deceive the victims into downloading a malicious app, in an Android Package Kit (APK) file format, sent through WhatsApp. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore&#x2F
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by conradev 9mo ago
Re-creating closed source applications as open source would have a clear benefit because people could use those applications in a bunch of new ways. (implied: same quality bar)
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by conradev 9mo ago
Plastic bottles are discarded because they can be replaced at low cost. Disposable vapes are possible because batteries became cheap enough: the chip is a rounding error. The same market forces that gave us affordable electric vehicles ga
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by conradev 9mo ago
Construction costs are not "trivial" if each I-beam you're using has a PhD in materials testing.
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by conradev 9mo ago
Meta's nuclear intention is a perfect example of how tech is willing to pay far more for energy than other customers I believe their plan is to convert that energy into revenue at a rate that exceeds the amortized cost of gener
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by conradev 9mo ago
If anything, the limit of RBAC is ultimately the human attention required to provision, maintain and monitor the systems. Endpoint security monitoring is only as sophisticated as the algorithm that does the monitoring. I'm actually mos
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by conradev 9mo ago
An article making that case: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/messing-with-texas-how-bi... A rebuttal to that article from Derek Thompson: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-anti-abundance-criti
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by conradev 9mo ago
This is so you do not leak the host through TLS . Using DNS to serve an encryption key. It’s not just encrypted server name indication (ESNI), it is the whole hello now (ECH)! So you don’t leak anything .
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by conradev 9mo ago
This is really cool! I wonder if it would be possible to live-migrate apps from one machine running munix to another. You could pause, transfer, and resume the virtual machine.
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by conradev 9mo ago
There is a nice co-working space in the Wanamaker building if you need an excuse to visit: https://www.mindspace.me/philadelphia/wanamaker/
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by conradev 9mo ago
You can likely just take a small open weight language model and use it like a classifier quite easily.
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by conradev 9mo ago
I imagine a coding agent would be great at editing your regex file to maximize coverage. Just like manually editing Sieve/Gmail filters: I want full determinism, but managing all of that determinism can be annoying…
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by conradev 9mo ago
This really hinges on whether you let state accumulate, and where you let it do so. NixOS generally creates a dedicated user and data directory for its services, for example. I make some of my XDG config directories symlinks to the nix stor
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by conradev 9mo ago
He tasked that to his kids: He turned 95 years old on August 30. He was 75 when he began giving away his fortune, announcing plans in June 2006 to give away the bulk of his wealth to five foundations, primarily the Bill and Melinda Gate
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by conradev 9mo ago
Searchable transcripts would be a fun addition! I would love to be able to find mentions of specific software (in addition to a formal segment on it)
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by conradev 9mo ago
After leaving television production, he worked as a consultant for the Internet Archive, helping to preserve and provide public access to cultural and technological media, including Computer Chronicles and other technology programs.
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by conradev 9mo ago
This was a great watch with my family - thank you!
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by conradev 9mo ago
Big pharma has worked like this for a while now
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by conradev 9mo ago
You chose which email to commit with, and GitHub provides you an email you can use if you don’t want to expose your personal email.
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by conradev 10mo ago
The cycle must not be broken https://xkcd.com/2044/

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