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by jxf 3y ago
A great example of why I'll always read a post over watching a video.
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by jxf 3y ago
> Having all these easily accessible on the outside of the building (instead of having to open up walls or floors) sounds like it should make maintenance easier, not harder. Accessibility is improved, but lifespan is sacrificed. When the
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by jxf 3y ago
I think it's kind of cool that Don Knuth and Stephen Wolfram are corresponding between about each other about stuff.
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We have very different beliefs, priorities, and values, but we get along and love each other.
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How did it get detected?
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"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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In other words, this will have absolutely no deterrence effect.
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by jxf 3y ago
I'm embarrassed to admit that I read "stars" in the title and spent far too long trying to figure out how these were arranged into constellations.
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by jxf 3y ago
Not saying they should go to jail, but OP is saying they're bricking potentially millions of printers, not one $80 printer.
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by jxf 3y ago
> why do you assume they haven't spoken to an attorney? what is your expertise in this area? serious question. Because an attorney who knew anything about securities law would have put a stop to this immediately.
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by jxf 3y ago
This is an interesting view, but I reached a different conclusion than the author. If GPT-4 (and successors, presumably), are so empowering, then leveraging them as a collective could potentially be even more powerful. We shouldn't und
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by jxf 3y ago
This was beautiful. Two things stood out to me: * There's more stuff than I expected which exists only for backwards compatibility. That's a lot of bytes when you add it all up over the whole Internet. * There's a lot of &quo
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by jxf 3y ago
You could say the same in reverse. Humans can't lift fifty times their own weight. Humans can't communicate in real-time with pheromones alone. Most humans do not know how to build their own home. An ant might well consider us bac
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by jxf 3y ago
I'll repost a comment via Reddit that I think makes this case [0]: Ants have developed architecture, with plumbing, ventilation, nurseries for rearing the young, and paved thoroughfares. Ants practice agriculture, including animal husb
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by jxf 3y ago
The presents don't always come assembled.
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by jxf 3y ago
Asking a CEO for their opinion on remote work is like asking a feudal lord their opinion on democracy.
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As a dad, I'm assuming it was because mom and dad were up late building the treehouse, assembling the bike, etc.
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by jxf 3y ago
For example, Facebook has been sued multiple times for breaking terms in which they promised not to provide data to third parties without your consent.
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by jxf 3y ago
> let attrition take its course for the existing ones The reasoning breaks down here. There's not likely to be a lot of attrition for a free product compared to a paid one. It costs nothing to continue and costs time to cancel.
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by jxf 3y ago
Consideration doesn't have to be money. Facebook doesn't charge you money and nevertheless has enforceable contracts.
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> Not sure I totally agree. Capitalizing on a competitors mistake is kind of slimy; calling out their poor business practices is not. Which part of what I wrote didn't you agree with?
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by jxf 3y ago
This blog post is from the "never let a competitor's mistake go unnoticed" school of thought.
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Yes, but that's _state_, not _history_.
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It sounds like the English analogy might be "out of the frying pan and into the fire".
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There shouldn't need to be any board history, just like you don't need to know the board history to know the next move in checkers.
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> I really wish there were investors who could better invest in the indie game market and at least take more risks and burn more cash, even if it's socially questionable. The challenge is that many games are labors of love that are
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by jxf 3y ago
GPT-4 has a later cutoff.
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by jxf 3y ago
Sounds like it's time to get familiar with the wine-staging options to hide wine-specific exports: https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/blob/b46dd63e024a16...
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by jxf 3y ago
You can ask tmux to update the window status — for instance to show red or green based on the exit code of the last command. Example here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/597367/63035
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by jxf 4y ago
Completely impractical and completely wonderful fun. Thank you for your work, OP! I love seeing projects full of joy, mischief, and wonder for the power of computing.

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