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by dboreham 7mo ago
Exactly how is it "illegal" to run code that exercises some aspect of the legitimate browser API surface? Are there functions marked as legal, and others marked as illegal?
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by dboreham 7mo ago
ActiveX
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Here in Montana there wasn't much snow to melt off this year. The snow accumulation at my house is profoundly less than in any of the previous 25 years.
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Rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists(theguardian.com)
6 points by dboreham 7mo ago|1 comments
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by dboreham 7mo ago
fwiw you can dump the actual session in a format suitable to be posted on the web with this tool: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/25/claude-code-transcript...
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by dboreham 7mo ago
I always assumed that if I tried to tell it, that it'd say "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that"
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by dboreham 7mo ago
I think we found the constituency that led to the present sorry situation.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
One wonders if Microsoft/npm.js should allow new packages to be published immediately following an account email address change? I mean changes to email address are already recognized as potential attack vectors, so emails are sent to
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Lest you wanted to know what happens if the right campaign contributions aren't made.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
At some point he who pays the piper was going to call the tune...
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Quick note that "devalued dollar" is inflation, not a cause of inflation.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Ironically tfa is festooned with ads.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Plausible, and likely similar.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
I think you have it backwards. The brain doesn't "know" what's supposed to be sensitive or pleasurable. It boots up with no training data after all. It machine learns what's sensitive due to a combination of nerve d
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by dboreham 7mo ago
But it doesn't.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
I mean: "audiophile" is a word defined as "person who wastes money on audio equipment".
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by dboreham 7mo ago
I mean: the universe is a simulation that began with some dude's side project to build a subatomic-level simulator.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
This was probably how our universe got started...
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by dboreham 7mo ago
That said, SpaceX exists entirely due to early NASA funding.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Not proper bacon, which seems to be illegal in the USA!
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Freedom Treater.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
His book amazed me when it was published because I never heard of anyone writing a non-textbook about our field. I thought how cool it would be to work for a company so interesting that someone would write a book about it. Subsequently I wo
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by dboreham 7mo ago
There's a breed of Dilbert Manager that loves to do this everywhere. Optimizing for "fewer open bugs" I imagine.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
People posting claims about EV charging time should be required to also post the size of cable required. And the grid capacity needed to provide their fast charging at a typical 8-bay charging site.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
It's been known since the 1960s that effective anti ballistic missile defense is impossible.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Note that CRDT isn't "a thing". The CRDT paper provides a way to think about and analyze eventually consistent replication mechanisms. So CRDTs weren't "introduced", only the "CRDT way of discussing replic
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Because before you were born society decided that was a bad idea.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Quick note that at least since WW2 there has been a technique where you know that the enemy is recording the location of something. So you add an offset to the signal they receive. Then they know where the thing is, but actually they do not
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by dboreham 7mo ago
No serious person believes ballistic missile defense works. This isn't a fringe belief. There was a major movie with this theme released last year.
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by dboreham 7mo ago
Generally agree. I live in a location that had (still has?) PSTN service, electricity, and natural gas services, but never got any kind of broadband besides the network I paid for and deployed myself, and subsequently of course StarLink. I

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