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by raddan 1y ago
When we bought our house about 7 years ago, the lawn was in terrible shape. I’m not a huge fan of lawns—-I’ve been slowly converting it to a garden—-but my wife likes one. Instead of going chemlawn like many of our neighbors, instead we sta
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I was listening to an NPR story yesterday about how fashion designers are now using “AI” to spot fashion trends. Aside from the fact that it is now unclear whether a journalist means “software” when they say “AI”, a recurring thought I had
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I would kill for an e-ink version. For a palmtop I don’t think a high-res color display is necessary.
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Not the least of which is the fact that infrastructure needs to be maintained. The US has a lot of infrastructure and we are in a phase now where we are having to make hard decisions about what to keep. In my neck of the woods, which is mou
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> As are you when you call the Democrats' reality "the real reality." I literally never said that. You also have no idea what my political background is. All I said is that I would never vote for Trump. In fact, I do belie
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It’s worth mentioning that the Amish aside, there are many groups of people who understand that work has to be done, but do it in a way that elevates the idea that humans can seek transcendence through work. The Shaker communities in my par
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You’re chewing through 100GB of RAM on unit tests? What is filling your RAM? Are you sure that you don’t have a memory leak somewhere?
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FWIW, like "conservatives" the stereotypes are not universal. They may not even be typical. Biological sex clearly is not a fiction; we have lots of evidence that it's not something you choose. It's also not necessaril
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Which reality is that? The real reality? Admittedly real reality is a pretty bitter pill at times.
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Publishing a Maven package is also excruciatingly complicated. By contrast, NPM is actually too easy. I suspect that we see fewer supply chain attacks in the Java ecosystem because attackers are like “you know what.. never mind.”
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I live out in the country now where it is nice and quiet but when I was in grad school I worked for a summer in NYC and had an apartment in midtown. One of the many delights was having an apartment whose sole window opened into an interior
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Or the language is too braindead. `is-arrayish` should not even have to be a thing.
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Interesting post. I occasionally encounter signs of violent death while hiking in the woods. Where I live it is usually most obvious and dramatic during the winter, and usually caused by coyotes. Thankfully none of the remains I have discov
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Yes. I run my mail server on a Raspberry Pi 4 on OpenBSD. Aside from having to flash an SD card (and having the install program install the sets to… itself) everythhing works exactly as you expect on any other OpenBSD install. You can’t rea
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I completely agree and I personally consider it ethically wrong to buy an ICE at this point in time. There’s still a premium to pay for an EV, but the excuses are rapidly evaporating. What this tells me is that for all the lip service peopl
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If you scroll down long enough there actually is some discussion of the (unbadged) Macs that appear in Mission Impossible!
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I really feel for people who have never experienced a good trail ride. It’s possibly one of the most exhilarating things I’ve ever experienced. Even an ordinary trail ride puts a smile on my face.
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I hear you. I love to go to very remote places. But I guess I see it more of a personal challenge.
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Why without charging? Are there time constraints? I often find that I want to take a break after a couple hours of driving, and even when I drove a gas vehicle, those breaks would be 30-40 minutes long unless it was an exceptionally long da
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Use it or lose it!
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I was struck this past week to the extent that even a mild physical impairment can cause. I overdid it last week on a run and I spent this week nursing a swollen knee. What kind of exercise to do without involving my knee? I lift weights so
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You can often find memory errors not directly related to string handling with fuzz testing. More generally, if your program embodies any kind of state machine, you may find that a good fuzzer drives it into states that you did not think sh
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JFGI was a thing people actually said where I worked at the time. I wouldn’t be caught dead saying that now.
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I just tried the Kagi smallweb link someone posted above and it immediately brought me to a Jon Skeet article about the quirks of C# records. Holy cow! I haven’t read a Jon Skeet blurb since like 2013 when I was writing a lot of weird (ie,
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I started doing most of this in 2017. Perhaps I am just unusually sensitive to social media, but I discovered that whenever I used Facebook I just ended up angry or depressed. I deleted my accounts and expected about a week of FOMO. There w
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I rented a car recently for a trip to Arizona that had lane keeping on by default. The highway I was traveling on was undergoing extensive repair. Not only did the car sound audible alarms with some frequency, since the highway had been re
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We can sometimes correct ourselves. With training, in specific circumstances. The same insight (given enough time, a coding agent will make a mistake) is true for even the best human programmers, and I don’t see any mechanism that would mak
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> How do you separate propaganda from perspective, facts from feelings? This point seems under appreciated by the AGI proponents. If one of our models suddenly has a brainwave and becomes generally intelligent, it would realize that it i
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Also, since none of us will have any expertise at all anymore, everything our AI makes will look great. No more “experts” pooping our parties. It’s gonna be awesome!
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I don’t know if a blanket answer is possible. I had the experience yesterday of asking for a simplification of a working (a computational geometry problem, to a first approximation) algorithm that I wrote. ChatGPT responded with what looked

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