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by jrmg 2mo ago
So many stores and (all?) banks require two-factor login now, where an SMS sent to a phone is the second factor. How do you cope with this?
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by jrmg 2mo ago
Can you imagine a what would have happened if the car charging infrastructure would have used your regular 120/230V plugs? This isn’t a great example because, on the ‘other side', car chargers also have different size cables bet
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by jrmg 2mo ago
Will we be able to get pictures of this? I presume that if the answer is ‘yes’ we will do so, and I’d like to see some!
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by jrmg 2mo ago
Weak, dynamic typing. Dynamic method binding at runtime (method calls really are message-sends). 'Traditional' object orientation with inheritance (although delegation and dynamic mixins are also core concepts, and the class hiera
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by jrmg 2mo ago
The article is arguing that your color coding is misleading because the ‘purpose’ of the tokens doesn’t seem to be what a plain English reading of them would suggest. They’re not a representation of ‘why’ the process ends up at a correct an
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by jrmg 2mo ago
The article doesn’t argue that they do reason.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I don’t really have any doubt that these are ‘real’ - but the article author has, to me, a strange amount of confidence in video game ‘grading’, especially since he himself is an expert: From what they could see, there was very little doub
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by jrmg 3mo ago
This magazine only covers stories that are at least three months old.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
You’re in luck! https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/archive/
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by jrmg 3mo ago
The worrying thing is that many supporters, and, I’ve come to believe more and more, many of the leaders and upper echelons of organizations on the right actually believe the exaggerated rhetoric is the truth.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
‘Q’ by the pseudonymous ‘Luther Blissett’ is a great historical fiction book about the period that really gets into what was happening in Europe in the 16th century. The Peasants’ War isn’t even the half of it. European Christian history is
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by jrmg 3mo ago
Plane flights. I hope the ‘free internet all the time’ era that airlines have been threatening us with for a decade now never arrives.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I wish something akin to Japan's strict food packaging laws existed for restaurants. It’s just plain old false advertising, isn’t it? We already have laws about that.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_E
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I don’t see the prejudice or jabs? The article seems pretty factual to me.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
On (A), what I - and I am sure most of the commenters here (epically the ones that did not read the article :-) - am uneasy about is that, intentions of these researchers notwithstanding, if it’s possible to generate videos to optimize for
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by jrmg 3mo ago
Our imagination is a figment of time.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I’ll leave it to other comments to discuss the societal and moral implications of being able to do this (which, I agree, ick…). On a practical level: We train an encoding model, a “digital twin”, that predicts how each visual region respon
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by jrmg 3mo ago
It kinda worries me that one of the big points here is that you can give non-technically-inclined users power by allowing them to build Home Assistant interfaces using Claude. In my experience (and one look at the Home Assistant forums show
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I actually find it hard to read. Something about it is hard to follow, and I have to think very hard to keep the ‘story’ straight in my head. I keep having to re-read sections, which it not normal for me. This doesn’t make much intuitive
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I love that the top two (currently) replies to this claim that the Economist is ‘centric’ are one that’s arguing that it’s obviously too left wing for that label, and another arguing that it’s obviously too right-wing.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I think this is a different problem. The page says that “browsers may split a QR code across lines” - but this isn’t split across lines. Experimenting, if I just type "[Q R]" (very short, so not likely to line-break), the problem
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I’ll admit to being ‘out of gaming’ for that era (I’m a pandemic gaming-returner), but I wasn’t aware of that. Was his reach bigger than his official title? Wikipedia doesn’t show him in an ‘overall leader’ role until 2014, a year into the
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by jrmg 3mo ago
The (an?) incoherency with that is that this was happening at the same time as the ‘everything’s an Xbox’ strategy that saw them produce games for other platforms too.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I never understood the esteem Phil Spencer was held in, seemingly both by fans and industry insiders. I never understood Phil’s strategy. Buy a plethora of studios. Pay an order of magnitude over the odds for the big ones - just to be sure
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by jrmg 3mo ago
they keep raising the price of everything Games are much cheaper in real terms (even in terms of percentage of wages/income, if you don’t believe that’s kept up with inflation generally) than they’ve ever been.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
I think this is a big element. I’ve been feeling this a bit too. I’ve been a physical-game buyer in the past - usually saving money by buying used games. But I’m not going to keep a collection of old consoles in my living room, so at this p
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by jrmg 3mo ago
“The Once and Future King” is an odd book. I read it recently - as an adult - and I’m not sure I ‘enjoyed’ reading it. It has a lot of ‘childishness’, especially in the first 2/3, of a kind I’ve never really liked in it. Perhaps the ki
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by jrmg 3mo ago
Removing an advertised-at-sale feature in an update wouldn’t fly in the US either.
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by jrmg 3mo ago
So, I fully recognize this is dumb, but humans (like me!) are dumb and lazy. The ability to just get in your car and have the phone-powered interface right there without having to take your phone out of your pocket and mount it in the holde

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