cratermoon

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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   timeanddate's calendar generator is great. One thing I've done is generate my monthly calendar and use it as a background for my desktop. With a large enough monitor I suspect a full yearly calendar would work as well.
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   I'm sure it's fine. There couldn't have been any Einsteins, Hugo Grotrians, Ingrid Francks, Wilhelm Westphals, James Francks, Otto von Bayers, Lise Meitners, Peter Pringsheims, Fritz Habers, Gustav Hertzs, and Otto Hahns, Han
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   It's about to get even worse: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/birth-rate-trump-baby-bonus-1....
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   Hop on the hype train before it crashes!
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   I was expecting an insightful analysis of systems languages versus dynamically typed interpreted languages, but instead I got more sloperator hype.
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   If it moves and it shouldn't: duct tape If it doesn't move and it should: WD-40
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   Gross.
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   Interesting. This appears to be a TUI interface to Firefox running headless, much like selenium uses browser automation to run tests.
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   by cratermoon 9mo ago

   I'd like to counter the narrative that the Mars climate orbiter failure was caused by an engineering error. Yes, there were errors in mixing up units, but the navigators and flight controllers discovered well in advance that the trajec
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    From Hannah Arendt's book The Origins of Totalitarianism , first published 1948. She identified what we now call stochastic terrorism but did not give it a name. Mostly such orders were "intentionally vague, and given in the expe
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    Alternate title: smart watches four times as likely to flag false positives
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    The Value of Things – Journal.stuffwithstuff.com(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

    7 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|0 comments
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    Episode 41 of lava fountaining begins on Kilauea(hawaiinewsnow.com)

    1 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|0 comments
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    The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet(riverseeber.net)

    43 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|27 comments
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    SpaceX's Starlink dodged 300k satellite collisions in 2025(newscientist.com)

    2 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|1 comments
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    Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"(arstechnica.com)

    9 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|1 comments
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    Generative AI is an expensive edging machine(garbageday.email)

    8 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|0 comments
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    France and most of the European imperialists before the first world war.
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    Side note: US Americans still strikes me as a weird Europeanism, even though it's accurate. Only people living in the US think the work American refers only to them and their fellow countrymen.
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    Curb Your Digital Addiction (The Butlerian Handbook, Part One)(davidbilla.net)

    1 points by cratermoon 9mo ago|0 comments
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    "If the problem were primarily mechanical—too much typing, too complex syntax, too many steps—we would have solved it by now" And yet we see management and the AI boosters still talk about productivity in terms of lines of code wr
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    Also this list of Windows bugs, just from this week. - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5709441/... - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    I don't think they underestimate the loss of quality. As for the consequences, "No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people" - H.
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    The paper highlights the problem in two words of the first sentence of the abstract: "shrink QA". Corporations do it to save money, and accept the loss of quality as the cost of doing business. Therein lies part of the reason for
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    Yes but it strokes T's ego like nothing else. Remember this is the guy who puts fake gold junk up around the Oval Office and thinks it's classy.
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    That's a bribe.
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    As a consultant I've been brought in on both good and bad projects. In one example, I figured out pretty soon the project was only kept alive because it was deemed high priority by upper management. I gave the engineering manager and p
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    https://archive.ph/vEs9E
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    This also happens with Mayan script. When the group led by Linda Schele made major leaps in the 70s, to the point where 90% of the glyphs have now been deciphered, scholars mostly considered their meaning settled. That obviously hasn't
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    by cratermoon 9mo ago

    There's an important difference between facts and truth. There was a time when I read a stream of articles and blog posts titled something like "I'm a liberal, but I agree with ... <obviously far right thing>" Afte