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by neilv 10mo ago
I also do that and a couple other things. I used mostly '94 HTML for the comment, to try to make a point.
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> Van Riper was informed by the white cell, or “control,” overseeing the game [...] > When Van Riper went to Kernan to complain, he was told: “You are playing out of character. The OPFOR would never have done what you did.” That&#
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One way to get to this is to start with almost-'94 HTML: <!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>Some Topic</title> </head> <body> <h1>S
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by neilv 10mo ago
> So teach your kids to kiss ass and play poltiics. Teach your kids to kick ass, and to distrust politicians.
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by neilv 10mo ago
I think this post is about enthusiasm for using an LLM. One of the problems is that, if you use an LLM like this, and then post the output, you've probably just laundered at least one other person's copyrighted work (about how to
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by neilv 10mo ago
Never ascribe to stupidity, that which has been proven to be malice.
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by neilv 10mo ago
What about Google killing XSLT? https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-x...
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by neilv 10mo ago
For a personal site, I'd probably just do that. (My friends are generally savvy and principled enough not to do most social media, so no need for me to endorse it by syndicating there.) But for a commercial marketing site that must be
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by neilv 10mo ago
Now that browser developers did their best to kill RSS/Atom... Does a Web site practically need to do anything to advertise their feed to the diehard RSS/Atom users, other than use the `link` element? Is there a worthwhile convent
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by neilv 10mo ago
Instead of funneling more business/hype to the AI bro industry, to police the AI bro industry that fully expected this effect from their cheating-on-your-homework/plagiarism services (oh, I see this is a business school)... First,
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by neilv 10mo ago
All the time, I'm reading about companies brazenly doing illegal things. We often see reports of state AGs taking actions against companies. My guess is that bribes of state AG offices would be unusual. (Do you have better information
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If the allegations are true, then I think the writer needs to call up a good state Attorney General's office, and ask who to talk to. Though I'd guess that the alleged scummy company has seen this, and is already preparing their r
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by neilv 10mo ago
This is a great idea. I have done this manually, and it was a lot of work. Even with a tool, people will still have to understand the output, enough that they can spot situations like "this part doesn't make sense at all", &q
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by neilv 10mo ago
That's a tricky one for public writing discretion. The Sun and Broadcom connections add to the point. Something a person with that background said was surprising. And the exact wording in one of the quotes was relevant. I don't
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> Shouldn't I be allowed to repurpose it for other uses than just a console when it becomes EOL? Yes, once hardware becomes some kind of end-of-use, end-of-support, or end-of-life (exactly what, to-be-determined), the brand should
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> Why can't I turn an old PS4 in to a Linux router? I simply sell my game consoles when I'm done with them. They would make terrible Linux routers, even if they were unlocked.
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by neilv 10mo ago
George Lucas's other influences: "George Lucas in Love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ49Smi2SLQ
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by neilv 10mo ago
I hope this doesn't lead to further cracks, and PS5 multiplayer games being overrun with cheaters. Once PS3 was cracked enough to run game mods, every PS3 GTA freeroam session was overrun with obnoxious cheaters, ruining it for everyon
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by neilv 10mo ago
Good move. We all have second thoughts on occasion. You might want to include an "Edit:" when substantially changing or replacing a comment.
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by neilv 10mo ago
For the marketing that has significant costs (e.g., paying for ads, paying for show appearances, paying other influencers to plug, making quality videos for social media, travel for events). But it costs almost nothing to do ARC readers for
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by neilv 10mo ago
> Cons of a publisher: [...] they actually do little to no marketing of your book. Unless the publisher has already written off a book, don't they have incentive to market it? There are some low-cost things you can do to market a
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by neilv 10mo ago
You know how Facebook became a popular employer among new CS grads, by paying more than anyone else? You know that book/movie, "The Firm", in which the new law school graduate gets a surprisingly lucrative job offer? (spoile
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by neilv 10mo ago
I know a lot of people who won't work for some companies for ethical reasons. Though, sometimes the exact reason is muddied, since companies that are perceived as unethical in how they behave externally are often also perceived as unet
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by neilv 10mo ago
I don't think that's diagnosis (as a clinical term); closer to defamation. Is it necessary to a point you want to make? You can just point to behavior of a given entity, such as to conclude it's untrustworthy, without the pro
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by neilv 10mo ago
In addition to Cloudflare's usual nonsense (e.g., give us all the cleartext because reasons, and also unblock our bad-UX code that doubles as an additional tracker), it looks like Cloudflare here might also be blocking Tor exit nodes
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I noticed that they didn't ban "walkie talkies" or "radio transceivers", and I wonder... Some of the more niche/hobby transceivers could be used by a group of bad actors at an event, for comms that are less-mon
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by neilv 10mo ago
What's also hacker-unfriendly is giving all your hacker-friendly article's traffic to Cloudflare, and then letting Cloudflare block Tor exit nodes from reading your article.
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by neilv 10mo ago
Interesting. That sounds like the trade for a very credentialed AI person. For random hackers, it's a little different... There's the job ($250K+ in a VHCOLA, and probably worthless stock options), or their own startup. I'd
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by neilv 10mo ago
When I used the Abit BP6 in a Linux box build, I did it as a one-Celeron budget PC with expandability, and put some notes on the Web at the time: https://www.neilvandyke.org/cheap-pc-2000/ That page includes pricing in
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by neilv 10mo ago
True, but I think there's kitchen table opportunity in applications that don't need to do a big training, and that have tractable inferencing requirements. The challenges I see are: (1) there's a lot of competition in the g

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