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by m3047 9mo ago
There's some rather woo woo stuff out there about an evolutionarily conserved mechanism for intercellular signaling as a danger response which involves the mitochondria shifting their metabolism to help cells repel invaders, but which
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by m3047 9mo ago
Yeah it's bad. That doesn't mean it's necessarily uniformly bad. But if it's bad where you are, yeah it's bad. You can see multiple doctors (among the ones you're allowed to see by your insurance). The doctors
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by m3047 9mo ago
Ahh the Sony Walkman. Yes, still useful. I bought one specifically for the AM radio, I use it in conjunction with a radio frequency generator (so old it uses vacuum tubes) to trace wires. Had to tape gauze over the headphones, the foam is l
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by m3047 9mo ago
That would be a Flag Day initiative. ;-) Honestly, it shouldn't matter. Anybody who's using a stub resolver where this matters, where /anything/ matters really, should be running their own local caching / recursing
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by m3047 9mo ago
DNS is a wire protocol, payload specification, and application protocol. For all of that, I personally wonder whether its enduring success isn't that it's remarkably underspecified when you get to the corner cases. There's al
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by m3047 9mo ago
> industrial uses of phosphorus There seems to be a memory hole about what follows. Probably not the "key limiting factor for life" you had in mind. There have been various incidents where soldiers or people generally in third
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by m3047 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ant
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by m3047 9mo ago
Is that farm hands, or farm operators? What about corps, how do you calibrate that? Is a corp a "person" or does it count for more? My point is that maybe the definition of "farmer" is being pushed to far, as is the noti
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by m3047 9mo ago
Yes: farmers.
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by m3047 9mo ago
For shiggles I searched the entire first page of comments for "testable" (looking for "how to write testable code" as a proxy for devs write testable code if they write tests) and this is the only mention. So +1 to you!
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by m3047 9mo ago
Well, strictly anecdata but there was a time when I worked on code which for $reasons had no dedicated test environment, and externalities were not our problem according to management. So we were reaching out to the big bad world for testin
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by m3047 9mo ago
Come on, really? Do you think April Fools came early? https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...
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by m3047 9mo ago
In exasperation, people truly concerned about security / secops are turning to unikernels and shell-free OS; at the same time agents are all in on curl | bash and other cheap hacks.
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by m3047 9mo ago
I'm over 65 and I'm fabbing a ladder to permanently install on my high-aspect roof at the moment (out of iron. drilling, cutting, bending, welding, threading rods, oh my!). I'll get to install it myself, too. Every few years
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by m3047 10mo ago
Did you let the LLM horde (it and its agents) compile Rust? Is the LLM allowed to flag problems with Rust? Rinse, lather, repeat...
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by m3047 10mo ago
+1 but I didn't see pack / unpack...
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by m3047 10mo ago
Scrapie (a sheep and goat prion) contaminates soil where sheep graze (and shit) and can persist for years in the soil.
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by m3047 10mo ago
> Because insects are part of a natural diet for chickens. It's actually a welfare issue for chickens. They have feathers, and they molt. Just like hair, feathers need methionine. Methionine is very hard to get solely from plant sou
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by m3047 10mo ago
The dead elephant in the freezer in the room is low / no code solutions, which don't require a cloud. Is it really easier for the illiterate masses (can't unsee all of the horrible graphics with fumble mumble legends) to accu
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by m3047 10mo ago
"everything's too dark": it could be temporizing or parallel construction, but my understanding is that "everything's too dark" originates from trying to optimize the color map to show off some detail that we o
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by m3047 10mo ago
I can read that "submission and deference" at the casino as conflict avoidance, the arresting officer says to his peers at the station that he "kind of believes" the suspect. He also states at some point that he can&#x27
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by m3047 10mo ago
Upvoted because I think it's an important topic, but this take causes me to question the motive for the article... which ironically is my big concern with using LLMs to write stuff generally (the unconscious censoring / proctori
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by m3047 10mo ago
Good summary IMO. > You can drop arbitrary logs to stay within ingestion rate. Another way I've heard this framed in a production environments ingesting a firehose is: you can drop individual logging events because there will always
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by m3047 10mo ago
I agree with this statement: "Instead of logging what your code is doing, log what happened to this request." but the impression I can't shake is that this person lacks experience, or more likely has a lot of experience doing
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by m3047 10mo ago
The keys aren't in the backups you still have? IOW: who owns the backups owns the data... until proven otherwise. My default presumption from space is that 1) there are document management policies and 2) document management policies a
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by m3047 10mo ago
Whatever was in those emails wasn't important enough for them to unencrypt them in a durable fashion, or put the keys in a safe with the gold bars. We call this the "scream test" in BOFH land.
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by m3047 10mo ago
I'm sorry for your loss, but this sounds like an antipattern. Hundreds of emails between co-workers and it was all contemporaneously related to work in progress or cat pictures of your own cats, didn't contain PII or proprietary i
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by m3047 10mo ago
As they say in physics: color and charm may change, but up and down are forever.
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by m3047 10mo ago
Ummm... Google, Amazon, eBay, and PayPal... Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, and the offspring of Y Combinator... doesn't look like a particularly virtuous trajectory to me.
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by m3047 10mo ago
One of the more interesting ways of detecting rail damage, and subsidence in general, is optically detecting noise / distortion in fiber optic cables. An applied case of observables which are the basis for an evaluative (the "sign

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