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by conradev 10mo ago
We also subjected a lot of the population to vaccine mandates in order to retain their employment. That makes sense for some workers, sure, but it bred a lot of resentment toward authority.
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by conradev 10mo ago
For how long?
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by conradev 10mo ago
How much does it cost to train a cutting edge LLM? Those costs need to be factored into the margin from inferencing. They don't, though! I can buy hardware off of the shelf, host open source models on it, and then charge for in
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by conradev 10mo ago
Namespace fixed all of the issues I had with GitHub Actions. Ghostty uses them to build their project: https://namespace.so Using Namespace made it clear how much cruft GitHub Actions has accumulated and how much performance the
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by conradev 10mo ago
The Linux support on the X1E today is lacking. I’m much more optimistic for the X2E. The hardware is great, though, I love the 12” Surface with the X1E. WSL2 works great!
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by conradev 10mo ago
Spacecraft require more 9s of reliability than microservices. Their engineering processes are very different, even today. We still build new spacecraft today, even though we don’t launch them into interstellar space.
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by conradev 11mo ago
Artificial wombs – we're on it.
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by conradev 11mo ago
Unlike a TPM and like a YubiKey, you can configure the secure enclave to require presence (via Touch ID) so that a stealer script would be stopped with a prompt.
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by conradev 11mo ago
I use it primarily to categorize spending to know things like “how much money did I spend on electronics doodads in the last year”. The double-entry part is a fanciness for checking that all money in (paychecks) equals all money out (spendi
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by conradev 11mo ago
I manage all of my finances with Beancount ( https://github.com/beancount/beancount ). It has a native document store and I primarily use it to archive all of my statements to share with my accountants via Fava ( https:&
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by conradev 11mo ago
You're not allowed to smoke cigarettes in a Waymo, whereas UberX drivers are allowed to, I believe, off the clock. I do worry in general about what the enshittification of Waymo will look like, though.
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by conradev 11mo ago
This only works if you know multiplication tables which is not a given in America these days.
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by conradev 11mo ago
Should've included a bit more but the title does a good job: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare It's pretty consistent across camera tracking companies. Facial recognition more broadly, like Clearview AI as w
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by conradev 11mo ago
The camera companies always end up having a lot in common: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2123068verkadac...
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by conradev 11mo ago
I met someone once who claimed that he lucid dreams almost every night by default and it is exhausting. He smokes weed at night to avoid dreaming entirely. I didn’t dig in super deep, but it sounded pretty intense!
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by conradev 11mo ago
The first time it happened to me, it was accidental. I dreamed that I was in a college classroom but I realized that I never went to college. I was not trying to and had never lucid dreamed before, and so it was very surprising.
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by conradev 11mo ago
If you've been a developer long enough, you might recall the teletype package for Atom—both built by Zed's founders. I first experienced this in SubEthaEdit in 2013 or so, but it has been around since the early 2000s :
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by conradev 11mo ago
ffmpeg is also megabytes of parsing code, whereas tar is barely a parser. It would be surprising to find memory corruption in tar in 2025, but not in ffmpeg.
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by conradev 11mo ago
Firefox has moved some parsers to Rust: https://github.com/mozilla/mp4parse-rust
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by conradev 11mo ago
At the end of the day: it’s a one way door. That’s what is scary about it. It does change you in an un-reversible way, much like getting a tattoo or getting married or having a child. You will be a different person. Hopefully you like t
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by conradev 11mo ago
The tech we’re talking about is using Thorium for useful work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power#Hi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment
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by conradev 11mo ago
worth noting about AA191: With a total of 273 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest aviation accident to have occurred in the United States.
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by conradev 11mo ago
The botnets will always use the biggest bang for their buck, which at the moment is seemingly IoT devices and residential IP proxies. They do still exist: https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloud... You
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by conradev 11mo ago
Couldn’t an AI write and deploy a botnet much like a human does today? With a small, centralized inference core. It doesn’t need to be fully decentralized, the control plane just needs some redundancy
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by conradev 11mo ago
I’m still waiting for the first runaway autonomous botnet.
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by conradev 11mo ago
I use Syncthing as a Dropbox replacement, and I like it. I have a machine at home running it that is accessible over the net. Not the prettiest, but it works!
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by conradev 11mo ago
I am a member of this niche – thank you for the flake!! https://discourse.nixos.org/t/radically-improving-nix-nixos-...
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by conradev 11mo ago
When we observe a fourth interstellar object, I'll gladly read Avi Loeb's wildest speculations alongside more measured perspectives. This is the third time we're observing an interstellar object?
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by conradev 11mo ago
It's the same for me, in terms of it being dark and fuzzy unless concentrated on. but I really do notice this sort of ability when it comes to memory. When I am looking for something, I can often visualize a scene of where I saw it las
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by conradev 11mo ago
and yet still no one should try to use a car to deliver packages overnight across the country.

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