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10mo ago
I've never hit one. Flipping DNS works for (for example) Anna's Archive. Have you got an example?
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10mo ago
These mushrooms are small, these elves are far away.
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If it was true, couldn't you get the same effect by taking a biopsy, fragmenting the cells, and injecting them back in? Like a vaccination, in fact. Somebody must have studied that approach already.
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I googled my country, the USA, and the two European countries I have most experience of. I didn't cherry pick anything, I just stopped. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible... I don&#x
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-off... https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible... https://www.statista.com/statistics/1
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10mo ago
Hah. I think of it as a slime mold. There's the main body (bodies?), but it's always shooting out little bits of itself that try weird stuff - founding underwater communes, or climbing mountains in Crocs or something. Most of thes
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10mo ago
I like it. I've worked with the occasional programmer artist (at least one has an HN account). Not in the "elegant and austere like a suspension bridge" sense, but in the "what the fuck? no! stop reorienting my brain!&qu
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10mo ago
Just asked sora for an impasto image of a coca cola bottle. But it still came out looking like a coca cola ad/AI art. Super glossy, slick, meaningless. It didn't look like paint. (And the logo wasn't impasto, which I thought
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I'm reminded of the Zero One Infinity rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule ) We're very much trained to solve the most general case of any problem, for sensible reasons. I first learned a
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"Don't write any code yet, we're just having a discussion" - works for me, ymmv etc.
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Can't we be pretty sure it will only get easier, and more common?
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10mo ago
I find that absolutely terrifying, but I wish you luck.
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I get it - thanks.
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But it's "made with ♥" (the footer says so). (He's broken mainstream browsers, too - ctrl+f doesn't work in the page.) GPT 5.2 extracted the correct text, but it definitely struggled - 3m36s, and it had to write a s
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10mo ago
> at what level the constraint should be Hi, can you give an example? Not sure I understand what you're getting at there. (My tuppence: "the map is not the territory", "untruths programmers believe about...", &qu
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10mo ago
That's not my department, says Wernher von Braun. Don't know why that just popped into my head.
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Longer, surely? (Though I don't have any evidence I can point to). It's in-band signalling. Same problem DTMF, SS5, etc. had. I would have expected the issue to be intuitvely obvious to anyone who's heard of a blue box? (LLMs
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10mo ago
Nah, but I very occasionally break out ssh port forwarding. Very occasionally.
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Tried that, ripped it all out. Too much hassle, too inconsistent. Now I just grep -r a pile of markdown.
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10mo ago
:D I was starting with the length of the equator and assuming a spherical cow^Hplanet.
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11mo ago
I admit it, I was applying Cunningham’s Law. Disappointingly(?), you came to the same answer.
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11mo ago
An image of earth at very roughly 4cmx4cm resolution? (If I've knocked the zero's off correctly)
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> share the brand Honestly, it was a long time ago, I don't think it would say anything about the quality today. But I think it was MegaBloks.
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11mo ago
I know we're just pointlessly abusing the analogy here, but... mediaeval cathedrals are a greater work of artifice than pyramids.
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> i highly doubt that. i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo Question: do the legit brick manufacturers equal the quality of Lego? I picked up a Lego-compatible set years ago, and it didn't quite fit wi
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11mo ago
But have you tried any of that, in a team that has had "follow Agile to the letter" imposed upon it? I'm trying to distinguish between the Manifesto and the Industry here.
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Makes sense, fair enough. > as a starting point Even you disagree with the author :) But yeah, a team with the power to change its own processes, rather than have Agile imposed on it, isn't a team that's cargo-culting an Agile
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Uh.... Caught me red handed. Ok, gonna go read it. (Hmm. The author says "Follow Scrum, Lean / Kanban, or eXtreme Programming to the letter, and let your team focus on the product." I disagree - quite vehmently. I guess that&
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Agile. Case in point.
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Free models given away by social media companies (because they want people to generate content) and hardware companies (because they want people to buy GPUs, or whatever replaces them). Can the current subscription models compete with free?
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