jgalt212

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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Irrespective of the language, I love the REPL. For this reason, among others, I just cannot get into Agentic Coding. It seems like a step back to batch processing.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> That's scary. They could fight for censored model for the mass, not for them. Not as scary as the AI Slop underlying Claude Code.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> Fernet's first nine bytes are public: version byte 0x80 plus an 8-byte big-endian Unix timestamp. So the mint time of any of these tokens is recoverable without OpenAI's key: This bit reminded me of efforts to decode Google&#
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
The best thing about getting older / presbyopia is it's harder for me to use my phone as much as I once did. Also, I won't get an unlimited data plan for the same reason.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Your statement implies the ancient Greeks discovered the functionality and named this organ.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> "Thought for 80m 17s" Is there any good rule of thumb for how many kWh of electricity this is?
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> CSS suffers from one of its original design tenants in that it's very easy to throw some shit at the wall and kind of get it working without fully understanding it And dev tools made this feedback loop much faster.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
I hear what you're saying, but irrespective of how one landed on such a list, the unsubscribe mechanism is broken. e.g. It's entirely possible and likely you've subscribed to one or more marketing lists, newsletters, transac
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Yes, same feature, different implementations.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Email scanners don't exactly publish the methods by which you can reliably determine if a page was loaded or a link was clicked by a security scanner. If they did not appear human, then they'd be easy to trick and then not do the
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> I don’t want to be signed up to your useless email marketing list, useless is in the eye of the beholder.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> I have "load remote content" disabled on my e-mail client so that tracking graphics/pixels do not leak such information to the sender. Often times that's meaningless as email scanner software will load and inspect a
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> You could have been notified when the message was read a full 15 years before email had something similar tacked on. Thanks to email security scanners this feature is largely broken. And so are single click to unsubscribe links. So muc
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FreeBSD CVE-2026-4747 Log Suggests Mythos Is a Marketing Trick(flyingpenguin.com)
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> Today complex migrations are much simpler to perform, which, I believe, will increase the mobility across providers a lot. Syntax did a nice episode on this topic recently. They went over where it works well, and where it does not wor
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Hetzner has cheap load balancers and VMs.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Just wait until the DAOs become agentic!
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
My compression algo explorations are like font explorations. I spend a lot of time doing research and testing, but I (almost) always end up coming back to gzip / arial. One notable exception is that for very large files (e.g. 10GB+ mb
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Yes, but without a clean REPL you can't easily be sure that your var definitions are what you think they are.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
Hashcash, or BTC.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> Issue #38335 had 201 upvotes and zero team responses. Labeled “invalid.” They're doing the right thing. The market is resoundingly telling them this. > Anthropic draws VC interest at up to $800 billion valuation, Business Insi
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
I'd rather be free-rider (which I don't buy into the author's thesis), than an unpaid guinea pig.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
S3 with tree-shaking. i.e. specify the features you need, out comes an executable for that subset of S3 features you desire. Or like lodash custom builds. https://lodash.com/custom-builds
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
> I honestly don't mind this, as long as it's not being forced. This is indeed a step forward. With QuickBooks, there is currently no way to disable their extremely intrusive AI. I may just vibe-code a browser extension to bl
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
or run multiple cheap models in parallel: MOE^n, in effect.
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
See also: > The easiest programs to use are those that demand the least new learning from the user — or, to put it another way, the easiest programs to use are those that most effectively connect to the user's pre-existing knowledge
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by jgalt212 6mo ago
I'm not sure about that. Post GFC the ECB printed plenty of cash as well. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ECBASSETSW
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by jgalt212 7mo ago
The real question is how to close to VW and Deiselgate are these offenses? And what exposure do these companies have? I would assume securities fraud, if only because Matt Levine says everything is securities fraud.
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by jgalt212 7mo ago
In the era of AI codegen, I think property-based testing will and should see greater uptake. Unit tests are too brittle for the grind on it till it works methods of agentic written code.
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by jgalt212 7mo ago
You're trying to make words mean what we all think they mean. Stop foisting your Textualism upon us!

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