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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
or they left the /s off and it's a remark about how the fine article sounds more like hype-machine emesis than legitimate, substantive research
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
I'm weary of the broader internet having spofs like AWS and Cloudflare. Can't change routing or DNS horizons to get around it. Things are just broken in ways that are not only opaque, but destructive due to so much relying on
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
The country is welcome to send me the 300 billion pennies. My bank will happily "dispose" of them with their "deposit to my account" service.
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
Concerns about financial confidentiality. The new AI features are a form of third-party disclosure that would have to be permanently and irrevocably disabled. I couldn't guarantee those features would never activate (as indicated by
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
It doesn't. Intuit does kludgy IPC things related to report generation and accessing the internal database server. It's fragile even on Windows. Fortunately I can easily run a herd of Windows VMs on a single server without much
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
I currently support an accounting business. We're eternally vendor locked on Windows desktop because Intuit products are it for accounting outside of the ERP space. I'm presently in planning meetings with them to move the desktop
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
OnlyOffice is pretty darn good IME. I use it with some function-heavy accounting workbooks, and a gf uses it for her interactice rail network time tables fed via python from RTT et al. It even has a complete dark mode.
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
I like Deepseek v3.1's idea of radially-aligning each hour number's y-axis ("1" is rotated 30° from vertical, "2" at 60°, etc.). It would be even better if the numbers were rotated anticlockwise. I'm not
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
I'm reminded of efforts in the 1990s to ban strong encryption in email and websites because governments tried to tell us it was used by drug dealers and pedos to do their nefarious activities. Yes, governments really did want to force
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
My phone screen is a bit over 500 ppi. I tried it full screen across the entire range that it's in focus (I'm mildly nearsighted), and I could just see the things spinning across the whole field if the pinwheels were big enough t
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
At the default scale of 90, I can't see anything spinning at all even with the video full screen. If I set the scale to 250 or larger I can see the stars spinning, but I just see the whole field spinning. Even if I get so close to th
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
I've spent the last 32 years pushing every employer I've had to contribute back to open source. Because of the sector I work in, more often than not I'm constrained by incredibly tight NDAs. I can usually stop short of provi
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
This touches on what I ended up telling them: maintaining a local patchset is expensive and fragile. Running customized versions of things is a self-inflicted compliance problem. I still had to upstream anonymously, though.
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
I've literally had my employer's attorneys tell me I can't upstream patches because it would put my employer's name on the project, and they don't want the liability. No, it didn't help giving them copies of li
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
that's really the problem. regulatory rules are so impotent violating them is nothing more than an operating expense for large corporations. We need forfeiture of all revenue earned by violating activities, and C-suite criminal liabili
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by cornonthecobra 11mo ago
This is mine as well, with the addition of books. If someone wanted to train a bot to sound more human, they would select data that is verifiably human-made. The approachable tone of popular print media also preselects for the casual, high
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by cornonthecobra 1y ago
One of my favourite bits (and a fine example of Randall's sublime humour), comes right at the end: But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to
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by cornonthecobra 1y ago
I couldn't get past level 3? It never shows any text in the box