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by halostatue 2y ago
It's not just online recipes, but cookbooks written for the Better Home & Gardens crowd. The ones who write "curry powder" (and mean the yellow McCormick stuff which is so bland as to have almost no flavour) or call for o
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by halostatue 2y ago
There is a material difference between the older Apple Watch (where the charging puck uses USB A) and the newer Apple Watch and/or the Ultra (where the charging puck uses USB C). Plugged into an appropriate source, the USB C puck gets
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by halostatue 2y ago
The 1brc shell script uses `#!/bin/bash` instead of `#!/usr/bin/env bash`. Using `#!/usr/bin/env bash` is the only safe way to pick up a `bash` that’s in your $PATH before `/usr/bin`. (Y
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by halostatue 2y ago
I had fun over the last day implementing this two ways in Elixir: https://github.com/halostatue/sqltoy_elixir .
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by halostatue 2y ago
In Canada and most of Europe, Joe Biden would be a hair right of centre-right on most things and centre-right on a few other topics. Only in America is he centre-left, which says a lot about America's Overton window shift. Biden soun
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by halostatue 2y ago
Amazon and Apple did not decide such a thing. Apple and the publishers had worked out an agreement to raise the price of ebooks to be closer to that of new releases to counter the monopolistic cheap-to-the-point-of-failing-authors approac
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by halostatue 2y ago
For some advocates, sure. I was there, too — although at the beginning of my career and not deeply involved in most licensing discussions until the founding of Mozilla (where I argued against the GNU GPL and was generally pleased with the
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by halostatue 2y ago
I am sort of surprised that no one has countered with the quote often misattributed to Lord Kelvin. More interesting was the advice given to Max Planck: One of Jolly's students at the University of Munich was Max Planck, whom he advise
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by halostatue 2y ago
Your history is wrong. The French Revolution did not begin until May 1789. The US Constitution had been adopted in March 1789. Even if there had been instantaneous communication (and we’re talking a 2+ month communication lag), the framers
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by halostatue 2y ago
I’m not sure how Google and Meta placing massive AI visibility in their everyday user interfaces isn’t staking reputation.
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by halostatue 2y ago
I live in a fair dealing jurisdiction, and additional uses would need to be negotiated with the rights holders. (I believe that this is part of the justification behind the Canadian law on social media linking to news organizations.) It i
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by halostatue 2y ago
Perplexity's ad hoc requests are still made by a crawler — whether you believe it or not. A web browser presents the content directly to the user . There may be extensions or features (reader mode) which modify the retrieved content
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by halostatue 2y ago
I addressed this in a different response: I do not care if your browser does local ML or if there is an extension which takes content that you have already downloaded and applies ML on it (as long as the results of the ML on my licensed co
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by halostatue 2y ago
You are definitionally incorrect. From Wikipedia: > robots.txt is the filename used for implementing the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a standard used by websites to indicate to visiting web crawlers and other web robots which portions of t
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by halostatue 2y ago
Note that not all jurisdictions have the concept of "fair use" (use of copyrighted material, regardless of transformation applied, is permitted in certain contexts…ish). Canada, the UK, Australia, and other jurisdictions have &quo
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by halostatue 2y ago
If you want summaries from my website, go to my website. I want a way to deny any licence to any third-party user agent that will apply machine learning on my content, whether you initiated the request or not. LLMs — and more importantly th
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by halostatue 2y ago
You are not. Perplexity should always respect robots.txt, even for summarization requests. If I say that I don't want Perplexity crawling my site, I mean at all , and I explicitly would not want them "summarizing" my page. T
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by halostatue 2y ago
Having spent four days in the hospital recently on something and only having a $45 ambulance bill out of it without even having to think about whether going to the hospital would bankrupt me — I’ll take Canada's taxes over those in the
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by halostatue 2y ago
Let's call it what it is: Redpanda took a valuable OSS property, hard renamed it, and applied an arbitrary trademark restriction that did not exist the day before‡ and is not strictly controlled by the open source licence in question
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by halostatue 2y ago
macOS (Darwin) has always written filenames as NFD via the macOS APIs. The underlying POSIX-ish APIs may not do NFD, but Finder and every native macOS GUI program gets files in NFD format.
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by halostatue 2y ago
I tried with my iPhone 12 mini 17.5.1 BNW. It didn't crash , but it looked like it had and then came back with a weird error (sorry, I didn’t capture it). My phone is due for an upgrade soon, so it’s not a big deal at the moment.
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by halostatue 2y ago
23 year Rubyist here (and programming polyglot; I’ve shipped in 35+ languages or language dialects) who uses both Ruby and Elixir regularly. I prefer to avoid Rails (it’s not bad, but it’s overkill for most things I need). The Elixir lan
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by halostatue 2y ago
There are two parts to Rubocop, one of which is good. The good part is the engine. The not so good part is the defaults, many of which are wrong and many more of which are "not even wrong" (which is to say that they are enforcing
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by halostatue 2y ago
Might be worth putting a note to that effect in the blog post so others don't make the same mistake that I did.
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My only complaint about this would be that it’s noisy in your video. I already have my dog bark his damned head off when I turn on the Vitamix for anything. I think that someone's suggestion for rotating it slower and longer might al
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by halostatue 2y ago
Very little (I rarely make peanut butter, but I roast hazelnuts and make homemade "Nutella" with dark chocolate). Out of about 900 g hazelnuts (minus a bit of "shrinkage" because warm roasted hazelnuts are delicious) and
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by halostatue 2y ago
I’ve had one of those. They aren’t nearly as mess-free as they claim to be. The lids don’t quite fit right over the jars I get here in Canada, and I always get a bit of oil spillage. Since we started buying the Farm Boy 500g Organic Peanu
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When we send our notice, we are going to be sending a notice that we want none of our data used for any ML training from Slack or anyone else.
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Better to say that whatever your resulting platform is (probably Go based on what you’ve said), it suits your constraints. We've found that our constraints are better met for our most important project by Elixir. We are building someth
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by halostatue 2y ago
We’ve had Elixir in production since 2017 and have not found any of the items you have mentioned to be issues. - two different string types: You have undercounted (three types in Erlang, and Elixir adds a fourth), and suggested that somethi

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