edwcross

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by edwcross 3mo ago
For anyone trying to solve the examples, the toroidal crosswords example image has a copy-paste error from the post author (not present in the original): the numbers for Down are 1, 3, 5 and 6 (and not 1, 2, 4, 7).
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by edwcross 4mo ago
Yes but for local political points, they left Twitter last year, because "it was trendy". Besides, lots of old people living here, so they can't leave Facebook, otherwise the old people won't get their news! As if they c
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by edwcross 4mo ago
Law forbids my local administrative entities from engaging with porn and gambling. Yet they force me to use Facebook if I want to see events that are happening (and paid with my taxes). So, sorry, but the liberal ideal paradise of "let
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by edwcross 5mo ago
It requires a paid account though, doesn't it?
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by edwcross 5mo ago
Does it affect the photo quality? It used to require letting go of the default photo app and thus a downgrade in photo processing.
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by edwcross 6mo ago
I worked in a building that had that kind of "smart" controls. It was anything but. In practice, it started opening and closing shutters for no reason, when clouds obscured the sun, and then went away. Or even when some sort of re
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by edwcross 6mo ago
Are there modern kits that connect similar to this one? Instead of requiring breadboards and cables?
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by edwcross 6mo ago
Interestingly, the mobile version of the website contains a hamburger menu with an "Equipe" (Team) link that returns a 404 error ( https://soberania.ai/equipe ). This link is absent from the desktop version. Isn&#x2
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by edwcross 6mo ago
OCaml has had labeled arguments for decades, so I assumed other languages would have added something similar by now. In C-style, it would be like: createUser(user, ~isAdmin:true, ~sendWelcomeEmail:false) Even though in OCaml's f
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by edwcross 6mo ago
It must be an issue with the European implementation, but I have a Costco not very far from home, and yet I never stepped inside. Because simply asking to see what it sells requires me to subscribe upfront. It's not like I cannot bu
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by edwcross 6mo ago
> I promise I won't be a dumbass with them That's not very empathic of fellow people who might just have mistakenly forgotten food in the container. It's not like they were intentionally using this for brewing some illegal
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by edwcross 7mo ago
c-testsuite is not made by the author of Kefir.
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by edwcross 7mo ago
Relevant ACOUP (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, Bret Devereaux's military history blog) post: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
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by edwcross 7mo ago
Great! I'll finally be able to buy all commerce spots in Berlin (cheapest city) to avoid any competition, and _then_ open a restaurant. I used to deal only with "ice cream" (illegal weapons) trading, buying in one city and se
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by edwcross 7mo ago
What is the "BioTIER-refuse" thing mentioned in the "Bioweapons Refusal" graph? I Googled it and found absolutely nothing. Well, to be honest, I got 100% of websites containing the French word "boîtier" (box) w
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by edwcross 7mo ago
Fratello. Must be a bro.
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by edwcross 8mo ago
Indeed. If Karen from Compliance cared, she could (and should) inform her superiors of what just happened. Let them know how much their procedure cost, in time and money. Call the IT people and say "I have a fax machine printing 500 pa
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by edwcross 8mo ago
One of the only good things I got from MtG is Card Forge ( https://card-forge.github.io/forge/ ), an open-source unofficial rule engine that also contains a desktop and a mobile app. They allow playing a game similar to
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by edwcross 8mo ago
I had a similar situation with a chatbot: I posted a highly technical question, got a very fast reply with mostly correct data. Asked a follow-up question, got a precise reply. Asked to clarify something, got a human-written message (all lo
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by edwcross 8mo ago
Doing undeclared work. Just had it happen to a friend: needed a plumber, impossible to find anything reliable (no one in town knows of a reliable plumber; it's a rare find). All Google Maps results contained lots of paid 5-star reviews
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by edwcross 8mo ago
Not sure how it works in the US, but in some parts of Europe, blue collar trades are currently much better, for several reasons: - Price of housing and associated maintenance keeps rising, and so do small jobs like fixing plumbing, gardenin
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by edwcross 8mo ago
In those countries, you'll probably have more to fear for your physical security from non-governmental threats than the other way around. But given the increasingly dystopian state of many countries worldwide, you may also encounter di
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by edwcross 8mo ago
Thanks, it helped some, but I'm still having an error: [1] node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1368 [1] throw err; [1] ^ [1] [1] Error: Cannot find module '/home/user/shadow/start-b
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by edwcross 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
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by edwcross 9mo ago
I assume this will allow carmine red (cochineal) to be considered as "natural", since it's just "crushing thousands of bugs". Unfortunately, a few cases of negative reactions to cochineal have been documented, and i
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by edwcross 9mo ago
Nice expression, but the book by the same name is fatally flawed in its science.
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by edwcross 9mo ago
I'm using Firefox and didn't see that message.
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by edwcross 10mo ago
It says "powered by LiveKit": https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet
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by edwcross 10mo ago
The URL you linked to results in a 503 error (Service unavailable) and the Wayback Machine returns "Error code: 403 Forbidden" with "Looks like there’s a problem with this site", for all timestamps I tried, in 2025 or 20
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Ask HN: Are there LLMs that can do UX testing?
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