inopinatus

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by inopinatus 3mo ago
This generalises to NNTP, in which anyone writes to everyone and is read by no-one.
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by inopinatus 3mo ago
If there’s one thing that surprised me at AWS during my time there - over a decade ago now - that I was not clearly expecting in advance, it was the scale and competence of the units fulfilling the colossal and unceasing growth in capacity
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by inopinatus 3mo ago
That is why I have no sympathy to spare for anyone who chose to work for Zuckerberg's social toilet.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
Good writing doesn’t exclude it.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
Your argument goes as follows: “I’m incapable of it, therefore no-one is capable of it”. Followed by, “You should abandon your preferences because I don’t share them”.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
Just sit there in silence whilst you cogitate.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
“Solved problem”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain It merely remains to build one.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
origin is geoblocking. https://archive.is/DtYSf
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
I don’t understand why the obnoxious popover didn’t automatically manifest when I scrolled its own doco. Needs more IntersectionObserver. Bonus points if the component props thereof are named like “selfArmTrigger”, I suppose.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
We don’t need a special term for interoperable.
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by inopinatus 4mo ago
I’m excited about the upcoming Claude for Surgery, Claude for Autonomous War Robots, Claude for Soufflé, and Claude for Nuclear Waste Reprocessing.
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by inopinatus 5mo ago
The press location is surely double-digit seconds sonically from the launch site. So the simultaneous launch rumble is also an edit.
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by inopinatus 5mo ago
> Is it a client bug? Yes.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
Let's not mince words. Whoever made this call is a lily-livered, paternalistic chickenshit startled by their own shadow. A nasty case of moral cowardice, coupled to poor judgement, to no-one's benefit.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
You are in: Dark You can hear nothing, smell nothing, taste nothing, see nothing, feel nothing, and are not even certain who you are.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
Me too, but not for usenet. The server-to-server protocol is a low ceremony, high observability, standardised and battle-proven gossip-flood protocol with hierarchical channelisation and robust mature tooling, ideal for eventually-consisten
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
I was forced to consider the possibility of this being a collection of late entries in an April Fools contest: A pen that doesn't work properly. A notepad you have to make yourself. Grid paper with lines missing. A device making books
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
Quite so. The old posts (2023 and earlier) have a fresher writing style. Compare to this latest which feels like an entry for Pseuds Corner .
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
If you pay closer attention you can see when they switched to frequent use of em dashes for parenthetical asides, around about January 2024.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
> Unless you install the bare OS from scratch This caveat is doing enough heavy lifting for an Olympic podium.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
"I don't have any experience with that problem, it follows that no-one has that problem".
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
That phrase "just works" speaks more to vertical integration than it does to any more specific claim about UX, alignment to preferences, or immediate productivity, and to demonstrate how foundationally this is encoded, you implici
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
There’s a ton of detail in the report so perhaps I missed it, but yes, the underlying structural/governance flaw of conflating a service, with the IP that runs that service, is a root cause here and seems insufficiently called out. Th
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
The term for this is weaponised incompetence .
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
It was already fine, because it’s a metric defined on a submanifold of relativistic spacetime.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
I feel obliged to repeat my assertion that this evolution of CSS was inevitable and foreseeable and that the HTML Editorial Review Board should’ve chosen DSSSL in the first place.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
“Opt-out” is an egregiously toxic and unethical approach to consent and should be illegal everywhere that it isn’t already. I didn’t think Github had much of a brand left to damage, but here we are.
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
In this timeline I suggest favouring a style semantics and specification language. [given what CSS has incrementally and inevitably become, it's my ever-firmer belief that DSSSL would've been the right choice in the first place]
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
Unsurprisingly, there's a representative XKCD. https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by inopinatus 6mo ago
Given how the situations w.r.t Ukraine & Iran escalated, the US is the only country that has specifically and publicly demonstrated it's inability on both counts. We can't give Ukraine their nukes back because they were de

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