philsnow

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by philsnow 11mo ago
There's a reason the Zurich airport has a vending machine that sells slips of gold, platinum, and palladium
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by philsnow 1y ago
*SIGILL
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by philsnow 1y ago
> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid Yes.. a rat.. (The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a
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by philsnow 1y ago
Recently doing a re-read with my eight year olds and still laughing, though at a different layer of meaning/funny than when I was eight.
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by philsnow 1y ago
> But I’ve certainly never struggled with getting WiFi to work on a Mac I want to be able to set different networking options (manual DNS, etc) for different wifi networks, but as far as I can tell, I can only set them per network interf
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by philsnow 1y ago
We shouldn't be surprised because the writer works with both sqlite and AI but > Here’s a polished section you can insert into your article (it fits naturally after the Sync Phase section):
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by philsnow 1y ago
They also historically have extremely deep access to networks, and even if a given corp doesn't allow them to put a box inside the corp's own network, they control / have access to many or all of the links between most corps&
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by philsnow 1y ago
Or just treat the SD cards as write-once and keep buying new ones
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by philsnow 1y ago
That just seems like a rhetorical technique, which shows up in LLMspeak because people use it
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by philsnow 1y ago
It's simple enough, and I moved from Longhorn to NFS for my homelab as well, but I bristle at needing to have the same unix UIDs everywhere that wants to mount or serve an NFS volume. It seems like a huge layering violation. I "j
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by philsnow 1y ago
That helps with reaching up, but my thumb also doesn't reach the far bottom corner either. I don't have a super-octave handspan but I don't have small hands either.
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by philsnow 1y ago
Even Star Trek has self-sealing stem bolts, they don't just 3d print their ships
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by philsnow 1y ago
I'm reminded of Nethack, which keeps track of your score as a 32-bit* signed int, and so some people have perfected making sure that they have MAX_INT when they win.. and then it becomes a game of trying to do as much as you can in the
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by philsnow 1y ago
You'd get rate limited pretty hard by Let's Encrypt, but if you're rolling your own acme servers you could do it this way. If you wanted to use LE though, you could use a more "traditional" cert renewal process some
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by philsnow 1y ago
As an outsider to the whole notebook ecosystem, I am absolutely gobsmacked that the representation of the notebook makes it possible to have out-of-date intermediate results. Haven't they been around for like 10+ years? This is one
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by philsnow 1y ago
> This seems not necessarily very hard to me? All you have to do is keep yourself honest by actually trying to reproduce the results of the notebook when you're done It's one thing when I'm relying on my own attention to d
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by philsnow 1y ago
> Maybe there should be an option to... move conversation threads across channels? I believe Zulip can do this, but Zulip is not really favored in these parts
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by philsnow 1y ago
The USS Hornet is the ship that picked them up, it's permanently docked in Alameda, CA and has been transformed into a museum. They have footprints painted on the floor to show the astronauts' path walking (across the deck) into
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by philsnow 1y ago
A time before HIGs.. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/03/03/macromedia-fla...
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by philsnow 1y ago
Ah, well said on all points and i couldn't agree more.
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by philsnow 1y ago
> Gmail's threading: Enhanced email organization Gmail's threading is an abomination. "If you want to fork a thread, just change the subject!" This idea is so brain-dead and antithetical to deep mailing list conversa
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by philsnow 1y ago
What's poor about it, the numbers in the example? Think of them as inner/outer instead of "1" and "2". Without this kind of break statement, what do you do when you want to exit the outer loop, something like
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by philsnow 1y ago
"Last is first" very much reminds me of the custos/custodes seen often in Gregorian chant notation, which come at the end of a line and are a hint of the first note in the next line (so while your eye is finding the start of
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by philsnow 1y ago
It's this right here. They can charge $450 to 20 different people fix that one wheel before fixing it one time for $300. Them asking you to pay $450 to have it repaired but not documenting that your $450 actually went to repairing it
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by philsnow 1y ago
The distinction between what people typically imagine a translator's job is and the reality reminds me of pixar movies being "localized" instead of just translated (green beans on a plate in the Japan release instead of brocc
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by philsnow 1y ago
I don't see anything like that on the github link in your profile, but I would be interested in taking a look if you have anything public? As to whether I know any lawyers interested in that kind of thing -- I think your thing would fa
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by philsnow 1y ago
.... I think it means that you can make self-luminous products without needing a license, as long as you got them from somebody who does have a license.
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by philsnow 1y ago
I pine for a DSL for legal documents, both because it’s tedious and tiresome to parse prose like this: > Except for persons who manufacture, process, produce, or initially transfer for sale or distribution self-luminous products containi
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by philsnow 1y ago
The purpose of the append-only feature of borgbackup is to prevent an attacker from being able to overwrite your existing backups if they compromise the device being backed up. Are you talking about using ZFS snapshots on the remote backup
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by philsnow 1y ago
My experience is nearly identical to this, except that I’m not aphantasic. I’m not trying to minimize the effects of aphantasia, but I also don’t think the thrust of the article is about aphantasia nearly as much as it is about SDAM. The

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