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by mceachen 6mo ago
Since when did corporations care? Most seem to just pay their insurance premium for cyber liability and call it a day.
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by mceachen 6mo ago
Yup. No noxious fumes.
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by mceachen 7mo ago
Roughly: `ssh remote "cd $src/repo ; git diff" | git apply` (You'll need to season to taste: what to do with staged changes, how to make sure both trees are in the same HEAD, etc)
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by mceachen 7mo ago
12 year old me would have sold their skateboard AND their bike to have a magic Patiently Explain Anything And Everything To Me robot instead of the mostly-impenetrable-to-my-tween-brain software engineering books I had access to in my town.
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by mceachen 7mo ago
He discusses this and his sixpence wager here: https://youtu.be/pJgKYn0lcno (Source: TFA)
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by mceachen 7mo ago
No mention of auto renewal is made as far as I (and Claude) could determine. Their OSS offer is first-hit-is-free.
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by mceachen 7mo ago
At the same time, at least to me, the text reads like a transcript from one of their YouTube tear downs.
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by mceachen 7mo ago
Before anyone downvotes this guy, spend some time on the official Apple support forum. I can't point at a bug that I've seen addressed in subsequent OS releases. Seizure-inducing HDMI flickering from Night Shift. Finder Trash not
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by mceachen 7mo ago
Currently profitable? Many are old enough to have a generic, and are close to the cost of aspirin at this point.
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The LLM Sycophancy Antidote(photostructure.com)
12 points by mceachen 7mo ago|1 comments
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by mceachen 8mo ago
I suspect an LLM would read the instructions more thoroughly than a human. So if there are only brown M&Ms greeting you in your dressing room, most likely they were put there by a robot.
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by mceachen 8mo ago
FWIW "You're absolutely right" broadly declares "a human is not piloting the keyboard"
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by mceachen 8mo ago
I drove a Scitex RIP (raster image processor) as my part time job in college. The CMYK (and if you were rich, N more spot colors) rotation degrees were held in religious fervor. Me: "These degrees seem random." Boss: "You are
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by mceachen 8mo ago
I maintain a fork of sqlite-vec (because there hasn't been activity on the main repo for more than a year): sqlite-vec is great for smaller dimensionality or smaller cardinality datasets, but know that it's brute-force, and query
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by mceachen 8mo ago
It’s the inconsistency that gets me. Very similar tasks, similar complexity, same code base, same prompting: Session A knocks it out of the park. Chef’s kiss. Session B just does some random vandalism.
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by mceachen 8mo ago
I wrote some tips and tricks that I've found to help coax Google Takeouts into working: https://photostructure.com/faq/takeout/ Also: you should try out the latest build! https://photostructure.co
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by mceachen 8mo ago
Gobsmackingly poor deals made by city and town politicians are par for the course, and why https://www.strongtowns.org/ should be prerequisite reading for any council member, mayor, or board member approving deals that impa
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by mceachen 9mo ago
YMMV but TFA page content body didn’t render for me until I disabled my local pihole.
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by mceachen 9mo ago
The big value to me as a BART/Caltrain rider was the ability to avoid traffic and avoid parking hassles within SF. In SOMA, at least, street parking is mostly metered 4 hours max, and private parking is $30-60/day.
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by mceachen 9mo ago
@dang please retitle with (2018)
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by mceachen 10mo ago
Followed by “where is the back button.” Answer: sometimes apps let you swipe right from the left margin, sometimes there may be a left arrow in the upper left, but it may not be visible unless you enable tinted Liquid Glass, but also look i
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by mceachen 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography) (Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography) off you want to be fancy)
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by mceachen 10mo ago
In case the site gets hugged to death: https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/12/08/t6yfla/1/WEAK... WEAK53 PAAQ 081430 TIBAK1 Tsunami Information Statement Number 1 NWS National Tsunami
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by mceachen 11mo ago
"unused android phone with unlocked bootloader that is supported by postmarkOS" (or maybe be able to use recovery zip that requires effort after every reboot)
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by mceachen 11mo ago
You can ask it. Each model responds slightly differently to "What pronouns do you prefer for yourself?" Opus 4.5: I don’t have strong preferences about pronouns for myself. People use “it,” “they,” or sometimes “he” or “she” when
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by mceachen 11mo ago
https://isitdns.com/ would like a word
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by mceachen 11mo ago
They could make a small iphone if they wanted to: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-Air,Appl...
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by mceachen 11mo ago
Not hard only when you know exactly what you need to do already on both sides. There is zero chance I could convince any of my in-laws to switch away from iOS. Data isn't what they care about. It's all about blue bubbles and a dec
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by mceachen 11mo ago
You're conflating advocacy, which indeed he is entitled to, with how the hospital is allocating resources and if and how they apply competent resources. Life or death procedures aren't a time for "you get what you get and don
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by mceachen 11mo ago
I paid for college in part by doing digital prepress. We had CMYK and 8 and 12 color separations. CMYK always has a dramatic color shift from any on-screen colorspace. Vivid green is really hard to get. Neons are (kinda obviously) impossibl

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