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by nightpool 5mo ago
Yes, if you watch the video closely you can see that the "lensing" effect only really covers a circular area—this prompt probably went through multiple iterations where the author was trying to improve it so that the shape of the
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Okay, sorry, that was obvious in retrospect, I definitely feel kinda stupid now that I see it. In fact, I agree with your comment on almost all counts—I just see a lot of misuse of the term "monopoly" online, and I think I was led
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by nightpool 5mo ago
[EDIT: I'm an idiot, sorry, completely misread your comment. I agree on all counts]
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by nightpool 5mo ago
That would be great to lead with since it's not present in any of the blog post communication anywhere.
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Autoformatters are deterministic tools that are tested regularly, with extensive test suites and went through a very long process of production usage and review before the reformat: > We also built a tool to diff ripper trees acros
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Arbitrary demarcations can still be valuable! Just because something is arbitrary doesn't mean that it's not helpful. Working in chunks will let you take more time to review each callsite individually, and increase your confidence
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by nightpool 5mo ago
The history of the Honor Code system might be instructive: https://universityarchives.princeton.edu/2015/01/i-pledge-my... Exames were previously proctored, and it led to a "us vs them" mentality that me
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by nightpool 5mo ago
coppsilgold is the one who made a hard-line, clear-cut dichotomy when they said "it's easy to do harm [but] it's all but impossible to do any good". bglazer referenced several interventions that are known to increase IQ
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by nightpool 5mo ago
> And every other suggestion also doesn't work if the attacker can just replace the shell.
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by nightpool 5mo ago
No, debt isn't "parts of your software that could have been written better". Any part of your software can always be written better. Debt is the cost you have to pay monthly to keep your application working—it's the part
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by nightpool 5mo ago
The article mentions that they use Private Access Tokens on iOS, so I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that they're "not adopting" them from
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Ooh, this looks really good. I use OpenCamera on Android but it's pretty limited... I wonder if there's anything like Lumina there.
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Is the AROUND(n) one real? I've never seen it before, and trying "climate AROUND(3) policy" as mentioned in the article just gives me results where "Around 3" is in the body: European Central Bank Climate, Nature an
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Plenty of devs choose to sell on other platforms or directly and do fine. Steam doesn't have a monopoly on games the way Apple and Google do
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by nightpool 5mo ago
Git adheres to the protocol which would allow you to pull from any upstream (that exists). Tangled does not change that.
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by nightpool 5mo ago
> Sync is pull-based. Applications are responsible for staying in sync with all member PDSes. PDSes assist by sending lightweight write notifications to prompt pulls when new data is written. It looks like this basically just reinvents A
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by nightpool 5mo ago
It would fail the merkle tree validation
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by nightpool 6mo ago
The ability to make information private fundamentally conflicts with how ATProto is designed. All records have to be sent to all Relays and AppView nodes on the network to provide a "global view" of the network. So there's no
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by nightpool 6mo ago
That sounds more like you want better decentralization, like IPFS or BitTorrent, not necessarily federation between different forge instances. I'm not familiar with any existing federated system that would be resilient to government ce
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by nightpool 6mo ago
How does tangled solve that? Repository contents are still hosted by the forges themselves.
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by nightpool 6mo ago
How does that fix "when one node goes offline you may not have any upstream to pull from"? You'd still have your own local copy—just like git—but you wouldn't be able to access any sense of "upstream"
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by nightpool 6mo ago
The OP says that tangled only supports event federation. How does it help with discoverability?
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by nightpool 6mo ago
Not sure I understand, you're talking about mirroring git repo data between multiple different nodes? That seems unrelated to what's proposed in the OP--maybe you're seeing something I'm not?
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by nightpool 6mo ago
In this case the PDS is only storing social data though, right? The forge would still store the repository data itself.
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by nightpool 6mo ago
This is an indexing problem, not a federation problem. Personally, if I want to find software, I use Google, Rubygems, or NPM. Github is a distant third option. But this project is about data interchange between forges. It doesn't so
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by nightpool 6mo ago
I'm a huge supporter of federation, but I've never understood the use-case for a "federation of forges". What data are the forges exchanging? Why should the forge for Blender have any connection to the forge for Ubuntu?
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by nightpool 6mo ago
Every ABET accredited CS course (almost every CS course in the US I think?) requires an Ethics in Computer Science credit. I remember going over a lot of case studies, including Therac 25, but our course also included a lot of general groun
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by nightpool 6mo ago
Site is struggling a bit, so here's the text of the essay if it doesn't load for you: To my students [00FD] April 27, 2026 Brent A. Yorgey There have been times, especially this year, when I wonder despairingly what it i
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by nightpool 6mo ago
"Law enforcement shrugs"? The whole focus of the article is about how the secret service confiscated those devices and charged the SIM farm operators with crimes. Which part of that is shrugging?
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by nightpool 6mo ago
Yes, it should be cheap to throw out any individual PR and rewrite it from scratch. Your first draft of a problem is almost never the one you want to submit anyway. The actual writing of the code should never be the most complicated step

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