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by raddan 5mo ago
I just use Postfix. I originally ran on NetBSD. I have an alternative approach for spam, so I have no anti-spam tools.
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by raddan 5mo ago
Also I love the dithered B&W images. The entire aesthetic of the site is great.
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by raddan 5mo ago
I hosted my personal email domain on a Zero for almost 10 years. It had about the same capability as the very expensive (and large) Win NT4 machine we used for our 80-person organization when I started my career in tech. I eventually replac
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by raddan 5mo ago
> The fact is they are currently working with the government on a return to the US markets. engaging in a government process such as they are seems to not resemble anything akin to "operating illegally in full view of everybody&quot
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by raddan 5mo ago
The Midwest also has tart cherries which are quite wonderful! Except the tree in my own yard, I rarely encounter these outside the Midwest. If you want a great cherry pie, tart cherries are the way.
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by raddan 5mo ago
There’s dodging and then there’s _dodging_. If you are operating in a legal gray area, that’s an unsavory business practice that is, as you say, widespread. Then there’s operating illegally in full view of everybody. I do not personally asc
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by raddan 5mo ago
I don’t know why you were modded down because this is mostly true. They are still prohibited from operating in the US but it appears that regulators have no appetite to enforce the law.
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by raddan 5mo ago
On the other hand, most of the companies registered in Delaware are not trying to dodge US federal regulations. Polymarket is prohibited from operating in the US market. Nevertheless they have a substantial customer base in the US, and the
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by raddan 5mo ago
There are also huge regional differences. When I interned one summer in the Bay Area I was stunned by the quality of the fruit available in California. I realized that, coming from Massachusetts, I had literally never experienced ripe versi
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by raddan 5mo ago
It’s not exactly superficial. It’s defense in depth: make sure that root inside a container is not root outside a container. There is also some good discussion about how the elevated user has access to page caches which can be dangerous whe
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by raddan 5mo ago
I am amused when people fret about not using Chrome. I get it but… I have literally NEVER used Chrome. Perhaps I just don’t know what I am missing but the web seems to work just fine for me without it?
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by raddan 5mo ago
The problem I have encountered is that some of the physics explanations are of dubious quality. A good example is the debate between Veratasium, Steve Mould, and ElectroBOOM about “whether electricity travels at the speed of light.” The Ver
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by raddan 5mo ago
It's worth mentioning that one reason LLMs can clean up on coding tasks is because of the volumes of available data. Not only has the world produced copious volumes of code, they continue to produce copious volumes of code, and some c
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by raddan 5mo ago
It's funny that you mention EE. When I went back to school for CS in the early 2000s (I was a philosophy major... dumb), I was taking night classes with EEs who were fleeing to software. This was in the Boston area. A large continge
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by raddan 5mo ago
The thing about flow state is that it is about being deeply focused on one thing. I’m not sure that orchestrating hundreds of agents will help—it’s not really about “CPU load”, at least, not for me. I HAVE found another way to achieve flow
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by raddan 5mo ago
Not lager, lager, lager? ;)
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by raddan 5mo ago
Ditto. I programmed for 30 years with Underworld on. Listening to the beginning of Juanita/Kiteless instantly drops me into flow state. And it no longer fits if I am using an agent. I appear to be almost the same age as the writer of t
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by raddan 6mo ago
I am a computer scientist, not a programmer. So the short answer is that the language I choose mostly does not matter.
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by raddan 6mo ago
The advice I’ve gotten is that you want to move computation to data that is already distributed. The cost of moving large amounts of data usually dwarfs compute costs (usually, not always), and so the performance win comes from distributing
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by raddan 6mo ago
Even if you use AI, there's a certain point where it's not clear that an AI would make you faster. F# is my favorite language, and I've been programming in it so long (since 2012) that I feel like I think in F#. Asking an A
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by raddan 6mo ago
Funny, I have also converged on shell scripts for simple scripting or configuration, but I use /bin/sh for portability. Many of the machines I use do not even have bash installed.
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by raddan 6mo ago
Why jump now? If your worry is that you won’t be able to “keep up” and you’ll be laid off, or fired, just wait for that to happen. Keep making a paycheck until then. Then you can start your barista job. If the problem is that you hate the w
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by raddan 6mo ago
I’m not so sure. Douglas Adams was an avid technologist who worked on two interactive fiction games: the famously-cruel Infocom Hitchhiker’s Guide and Starship Titanic. I don’t remember whether there was anything free-form about the dialogu
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by raddan 6mo ago
SATIRE DOES NOT COMPUTE
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by raddan 6mo ago
Good reply; factual. But in case you are not aware, “Democrat party” is a bit of a slur [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
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by raddan 6mo ago
That’s amusing because I am the converse: my boundary is bluer than 98% of the population. To a first approximation, blue is a very specific thing and all the other colors appear strongly non-blue to me. I do wonder where this preference ca
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by raddan 6mo ago
I also worked (briefly, as an intern) at IBM and IBM’s management also sometimes undermined the R&D that happened at the company. I started at the tail of one research group’s mass exodus. It was like a bomb had gone off; the people lef
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by raddan 6mo ago
More anecdata here. For various health reasons, about six months ago I started eating beans every day for lunch. At first it was… intense. But within a few weeks, the gas entirely disappeared. I now have no issues whatsoever. FWIW, some bea
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by raddan 6mo ago
When I was a teenager in the 90's I managed to score tickets to what was probably one of Pink Floyd's last tours. If I recall correctly, a ticket cost $40, which was pretty steep for a kid with only a paper route. Still, I was v
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by raddan 6mo ago
I wonder if it would help thinking through what makes you feel satisfied. I think many of us feel a bit crushed and demotivated when the reason to get up every day is extrinsic: taking care of somebody else, solving problems for somebody el

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