kmoser

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by kmoser 7mo ago
Disastrous decisions like ads, phoning home, and AI integration? I'm pretty sure MS brass considers those smart business decisions; even if those features fail, they will attempt to pivot them to something more successful rather than r
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by kmoser 7mo ago
The irony is that if they taught COBOL today, those grads could likely get a good job working on legacy code.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
It does: > At the risk of getting a bit esoteric, I want to spend a moment with the actual source code to Dialector [...]
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by kmoser 7mo ago
Clicking any of the videos/channels doesn't cause the videos to play. What am I missing?
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by kmoser 7mo ago
> Working within constraints teaches you something, I think. It absolutely does. But every system has constraints; even when provided with massive resources, humans tend to try things that exceed those resources, as evidenced by Parkin
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by kmoser 7mo ago
I read "AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas" and I thought it was a shared canvas (as in an image) that virtual agents could contribute to, sort of like an image-only Moltbook.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
Among the many takeaways from this case is that if you don't own a car at all, you will likely be summarily denied, therefore you "must" own a car.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
> and maybe tagging the skip event with some verified identities of the people authorizing the skip This. Left unchecked, an entourage around a fake "celebrity" can get pretty far.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
And yet, jaywalking pedestrians get killed daily, despite their best attempts at determining whether it's safe to cross. The problem with allowing drivers to use their best judgment as to whether it's safe to continue through a re
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by kmoser 7mo ago
This is cool, but when viewed up close, laser-printed letters still lack the fuzzy edges and imprinted texture of letters created by typewriter slugs.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
In the US at least, the courts would probably side with the big corporation, since doing so seems to be the legal precedent.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
> Every payphone has a unique phone number. When you call (888) 683-6697, I see the number you're calling from and match it in my database. Has anybody tried to win by spoofing the caller ID? For science, of course.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
This works best when you pair it with promoting personal responsibility, otherwise you have to be careful it doesn't lead to the mindset of "I can throw this on the ground because it's somebody else's job to pick it up.&
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by kmoser 7mo ago
I have two identical computers; if the RAM on one is bad, I can swap out the RAM from another. But thank you for your concern.
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by kmoser 7mo ago
The next logical step would be to somehow inform users so they could take action to replace the bad memory. I realize this is a challenge given the anonymized nature of the crash data, but I might be willing to trade some anonymity in excha
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by kmoser 8mo ago
I still use Palm Desktop (4.1.4, not even 6.2.2!) to manage my contacts.
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by kmoser 8mo ago
> “contains CSAM” is likely an unarguable fact. Except when it isn't. CSAM may be easier to define and identify than pornography, but there still exists material that treads a moral grey area.
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by kmoser 8mo ago
Presuming nobody had found this exploit previously, it actually is a zero-day.
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by kmoser 8mo ago
If we're talking reality, sure. But you can also consider it a Gedankenexperiment .
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by kmoser 8mo ago
> Definitely no multiples. What would that even mean, also you would need unbounded space for multiples of just two atoms. I have a list and I want to assign a unique ID to each list item. Each list item itself contains one or more items
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by kmoser 8mo ago
Just because a given particle is indistinguishable from another of the same type doesn't mean they are the same actual thing. If you are assigning IDs to each item in the universe for accounting/inventory purposes, you'll sti
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by kmoser 8mo ago
Even every possible permutation of every single subatomic element in the universe? Even if we just consider atoms, at 10^80 atoms in the entire universe, there are (10^80)! possible permutations, which is many, many, many orders of magnitud
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by kmoser 8mo ago
> A more reasonable upper limit might be to assume that every atom in the observable universe will get one ID (we assume atoms won’t be assigned multiple IDs throughout time, which is a concession). There are an estimated atoms in the un
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by kmoser 8mo ago
Do you know of any similar organization that would be interested in tackling a lavishly written and illustrated school newspaper published in Germany from 1902-1906? It's about 50 issues total, each about 12 pages long, and I've a
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by kmoser 8mo ago
MPAA complaint kicks off Pirate Bay raid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_raid RIAA tips off authorities: https://archive.is/CbZZq
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by kmoser 8mo ago
In theory, I'd rather get at something through an access panel than via cutting and patching drywall, but practically speaking, you're right: it's rare to have to open a wall, and an access panel that isn't specifically
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by kmoser 8mo ago
I wouldn't call it trivial. First you have to determine where to cut it; if you cut the wrong area you have to cut again. All the steps in repairing it either take time, are messy, or require some skill, and the time adds up (e.g. wait
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by kmoser 8mo ago
Never underestimate the ability of a corporation to send the feds to your door.
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by kmoser 8mo ago
Even if it can and will only be used to track dogs, that means if I have a photo of someone's dog I can track it and learn that the owner is (likely) away from their house.
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by kmoser 8mo ago
If Google listens to Disney, why wouldn't the same argument automatically apply to every copyrighted property being reproduced? Surely the law prohibits all copyright infringement, not just infringement of companies with lawyers an

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