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by degamad 8mo ago
Because for a long time, on most computers, the telnet client was the closest thing to an "open a tcp socket to this ip/port and connect the i/o from it to stdin/stdout" application you can get without installing so
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by degamad 8mo ago
> if you just followed the simple license But there's the rub. If you found the code on Github, you would have seen the "simple licence" which required you to either give an attribution, release your code under a specific
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by degamad 8mo ago
Aaron Swartz would probably disagree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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by degamad 9mo ago
> originally was intended to prevent owner-operators of mechanical printing presses from printing and selling copies of some author's books without paying them or getting permission. We agree that that was its initial stated intenti
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by degamad 9mo ago
I used to volunteer for a local non-profit a few years ago. From time to time, I would reflect on the fact that Microsoft and other commercial suppliers were getting paid for providing services to us, but I was expected to work for free.
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by degamad 9mo ago
> Funny how these things when done by a human is a positive and when done by an LLM is a negative. > Humans generate perfect code on the first pass every time and it's only LLMs that introduce bad implementations. That's not
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by degamad 9mo ago
> The P≠NP conjecture in CS says checking a solution is easier than finding one... ... for NP-hard problems. It says nothing about the difficulty of finding or checking solutions of polynomial ("P") or exponential ("EXPTIM
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by degamad 9mo ago
> QA has to some how think of all the inane ways that a user will actually try using the thing knowing that not all users are technically savvy at all. The classical joke is: (this variant from Brenan Keller[0]) A QA engineer walks into
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by degamad 9mo ago
How does PBKDF2 prevent an offline decryption attack with unlimited attempts? All it does is slow down the attempts, but for the average person's easy-to-remember password, it's probably increasing the effort from milliseconds to
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by degamad 9mo ago
Never used JuiceSSH or Termux, but I've been using Connectbot for years, and it's pretty good.
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by degamad 9mo ago
No, the booths where you fill out your ballot are on one side of the room, and the ballot boxes are on the other, supervised by an election officer, and near the exit. You: - collect blank ballots (usually 2 pieces of paper, one for the Hou
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by degamad 9mo ago
> but I have yet to hear a serious, non-cooker accusation any political party has tried to stuff the electoral commission. We do get occasional issues with individuals trying stuff, but the AEC is very good at calling it out or prosecuti
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by degamad 9mo ago
The solution in Australia is simpler - you don't submit the vote that you took a photo of. You can get a ballot, fill it out the "right" way, take a photo, erase the markings, write on your preferred vote, and submit that. Ev
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by degamad 9mo ago
> It's easy to assume making a word disappear is always the right choice, but you forget it changes the word it leaves behind as well. Very clever. It's also easy to make the opposite assumption, that the goal is to change the
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by degamad 10mo ago
> > you will rewrite huge chunks of your massive codebase > You're not rewriting Unreal Do you consider the Unreal engine code to be part of "your codebase"?
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by degamad 10mo ago
> That's 1-2% of an annual SE salary for someone with similar skillset. So commensurate for approximately 2 days of work, a little high for two hours of work, and a little low for 8 days of work.
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by degamad 10mo ago
> A better business would be some kind of product review magazine, where they research products and write articles about them. Australia has https://www.choice.com.au/ - a subscription non-profit product review website &
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by degamad 10mo ago
Observational psychometrics over a long enough timeframe (e.g. social media profile lifetimes) probably include periods of challenge or stress, which may help the predictive behaviour.
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by degamad 10mo ago
2024's GPT Store, killed 6 months ago, is back? https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-gpt-store/
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by degamad 10mo ago
With all the talk of how there must be something to new tech because of the VC money that is being funnelled into it, it's worth revisiting the insane misalignment between VC's incentives and what the rest of us are looking at. Es
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Fixing Venture Capital (2003)(joelonsoftware.com)
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by degamad 10mo ago
> 1. First, I use the assistant to come up with the success condition program > 2. Then I use the assistant to solve the original problem by asking it to check with the success condition program This sounds a lot like Test-Driven Deve
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by degamad 10mo ago
Looks interesting - is there a PEP [0] for this? [0] https://peps.python.org/
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by degamad 10mo ago
Those terms of service used to be "you should keep your eyes on the road, we are not responsible if you have a crash while playing with your satnav/entertainment system" and "you're responsible for where you drive,
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by degamad 10mo ago
That's because free markets don't always result in competitive industries.
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by degamad 10mo ago
What you are describing the best-case scenario. They happen. What also happens is, they take operating businesses with reasonable returns, buy up all it's supply chain or it's competitors to reduce costs or enable monopoly pricing
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by degamad 11mo ago
If you want some considered thoughts on consolidation and antitrust implications, Cory Doctorow's writings are interesting. Some relevant examples: "Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)" https://pluralistic.n
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by degamad 11mo ago
Or you need to guess that it exists, or you need to scan for places it exists.
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by degamad 11mo ago
Specifically, reverse math (a subset of metamathematics which looks at swapping axioms and theorems) allows us to show that some hard problems are equivalent to each other. EDIT: I think this line is the most telling: > But he cautioned
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by degamad 11mo ago
> author might be a very good programmer, just not familiar with this particular area Or even, they may be familiar, but challenging their understanding or using simplifying assumptions to reduce complexity.

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