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by kees99 3mo ago
Claude has surprisingly good knowledge of X11 protocol. The other day, colleague showed me a (pretty basic) terminal emulator written in one-shot by Opus. Kicker is - that was compiled to a 30 KB static binary. That's right. No libX1
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by kees99 3mo ago
> same prompt 4 or 5 times LM Arena permanently flagged / sent to the captcha hell my account after trying the same prompt twice. So, YMMV.
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by kees99 3mo ago
I agree. This addresses one of two main failure modes of solar roadways (grippy coating disintegrating from being driven over), but keeps another one (contamination). Note that this particular trail was right next to a terminus of very ligh
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by kees99 3mo ago
> All it needs to do is be sent a new message. Receiving a message in a timely manner, is far more energy-intensive, for two reasons: - modern Internet, with nearly universal deployment of NAT, is such that any app (or phone OS, for th
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by kees99 4mo ago
Uh... is this supposed to be valid standalone C? GCC says there are a bunch of undefined symbols, first one being "R" right in the beginning: typedef unsigned char u; u w,X,T,D[1<<16],t[]=R,U=255;
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by kees99 4mo ago
> Always annoyed me that it clearly has 2 wires (power/signal + ground). Same with "TWI" (Two-Wire Interface) , a name that Atmel (now Microchip) uses for I2C bus. There are 3 wires there (SDA, SCL, ground). Or 4, if you c
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by kees99 5mo ago
Nah, go straight for qmail. Give it your best try.
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by kees99 5mo ago
You are absolutely right. Maybe I shouldn't. But then I have to deep-dive into yet another flagrant cheap hallucination. You see, when a molecule oxidize , it becomes a different molecule. It is impossible for a benzoquinone to oxid
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by kees99 5mo ago
"colorless molecules called benzoquinones" ...and then dozen of words further on: "blue benzoquinone has the capacity to act against the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, while the red one is effective against Staphylococcus
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by kees99 5mo ago
> The cost to run these for me is less than the cost of the cheapest vps (my total requests per month stay under the free tier limit). I don't think this is a valid argument. Free-tier VPS do exist also. On the other hand, if you do
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by kees99 5mo ago
Solvinity, and Kyndryl, respectively. That story is mentioned in the TFA.
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by kees99 5mo ago
Agree with your point overall, but ammonia in particular is a poor example. Fish lack urea cycle, so they produce and excrete significant amounts of ammonia as part of normal metabolism.
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by kees99 6mo ago
Keeping with the YOLO spirit of the article, one can be even lazier, and do emergency R/O remount using this little thing: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysrq.htm... It's
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by kees99 7mo ago
Fluoroalkyl chemicals are only "inert and unreactive" in a relatively narrow sense of "wouldn't catch fire", "don't react with strong acids and bases", and similar. They are plenty reactive in a sense
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by kees99 7mo ago
Agents excel at using CLI tools with well-written "--help". So maybe consider that instead of TUI.
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by kees99 7mo ago
That helps a bit, true. But not that much, unfortunately. Those same "cYbeRseCUrITy" orgs also ingest SSL transparency logs, resolve A and AAAA for all the names in the cert, then turn around and start scanning those addresses.
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by kees99 7mo ago
Back in the day - port knocking was a perfect fit for this eventuality. Nowadays, wireguard would probably be a better choice. (both of above of course assume one is to do a sensible thing and add "perma-bans" a bit lower in firew
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by kees99 7mo ago
> bunch of organisations that just probe the entire IPv4 range on a regular basis Yep, #1 source of junk traffic, in my experience. I set those prefixes go right into nullroute on every server I set up: https://raw.githubuserc
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by kees99 8mo ago
I my experience Claude gradually stops being opinionated as task at hand becomes more arcane. I frequently add "treat the above as a suggestion, and don't hesitate to push back" to change requests, and it seems to help quite
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by kees99 8mo ago
I ended up running codex with all the "danger" flags, but in a throw-away VM with copy-on-write access to code folders. Built-in approval thing sounds like a good idea, but in practice it's unusable. Typical session for me wa
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by kees99 9mo ago
Mount-points were key to early history of the split. Nowadays it's more about not breaking shebangs. Nearly every shell script starts with "#!/bin/sh", so you can't drop /bin. Similarly, nearly every pytho
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by kees99 9mo ago
> initrd seems like an enormous kludge that was thrown together temporarily and became the permanent solution. Eh, kinda. That's where "essential" .ko modules are packed into - those that system would fail to boot without.
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by kees99 9mo ago
Do you see "What's your use-case" too? Claude spits that very regularly at the end of the answer, when it's clearly out of it's depth, and wants to steer discussion away from that blind-spot.
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by kees99 9mo ago
Very clever, I like it. When deployed on a popular server, one bit of "IP intelligence" this detector itself can gather is keep database of lowest-seen RTT per given source IP, maybe with some filtering - to cut out "faster-t
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by kees99 9mo ago
Exactly. It's not like backup certificate have validity starting at a future date.
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by kees99 10mo ago
> heat pumps themselves are much more efficient. For electricity-to-heat conversion, heap pumps are indeed much more efficient relative to resistive heating, yes. About 4 times more efficient. In absolute terms, though - that is still on
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by kees99 10mo ago
Larger storage structures are easier to (thermally) insulate. Because geometry. But going with larger structures probably means aggregation (fewer of them are built, and further apart). Assuming homes to be heated are staying where they are
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by kees99 10mo ago
> bloated, buggy JavaScript framework Isn't that the unfortunate status quo? At least hard requirement for JS, that is. Google's homepage started requiring this recently. Linux kernel's git, openwrt, esp32.com, and many ma
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by kees99 10mo ago
> So now I am wondering what will be available once the AI investment implodes. Memory/RAM. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934619
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by kees99 10mo ago
Also, didn't early Arduino heavily borrow from another open-source project, "Processing"? Processing was/is graphics-centered, so that's where Arduino's term "sketch" come from, if you ever wondered.

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