radlad

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by radlad 2y ago
I think he's comparing the C-suite to a particular popular British word beginning with the letter a C.
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by radlad 2y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with USAnian, just hadn't seen it before. :)
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by radlad 2y ago
I agree that Democratic reps don't have a ton of power right now, though some have voted to approve some poor Trump cabinet picks. I think it's still important to call both them, and your Republican reps. They keep track of how ma
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by radlad 2y ago
I grew up in the US and sometimes refer to us as USian, especially if I want to be clear I'm not referring to Mexico/Canada. I've never seen USAnian.
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by radlad 2y ago
You're giving them the benefit of the doubt because they made a vague promise to give you a bigger tax refund?
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by radlad 2y ago
It takes 125,000 4MB requests to use up 0.5 TB bandwidth, which is the lowest offered by Vultr. I could see this being an issue for personal sites that include photos.
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by radlad 2y ago
Maybe not the best testimonial. From what I've heard, Mastodon is a bit of a beast to scale. While some of this is probably due to ActivityPub (a la https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon&#x
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by radlad 2y ago
Seems like we'll need to coalesce on a term for these. A microapp[0]? Or a tiny app[1][2]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microapp [1] https://tinyprojects.dev/projects [2] https://t
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by radlad 2y ago
I would've said the same thing a few weeks ago.
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by radlad 2y ago
Well, I think we both agree that Democrats lost the most recent election because they got less votes than Republicans, and because some/many people who voted Democrat in 2020 voted Republican in 2024 (including in Washtenaw.) I think w
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by radlad 2y ago
I just want to point out that 51.3% - 48.3% = 3%, which is twice the difference that appeared in Washtenaw County (1.5%.) I wouldn't consider that to be equivalent myself, though I'm not sure what it tells us exactly.
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by radlad 2y ago
So, having grown up in Ann Arbor, it's pretty clear that's the city you're talking about. Ann Arbor has had a big issue with NIMBY-ism preventing new developments for decades, and that's nothing new. Additionally, the en
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by radlad 2y ago
Claude isn't Copilot, and I wasn't using it as autocomplete. I was using it to do things such as: - Creating a migration from the old DB to the new DB, no modifications of the generated code necessary - Refactoring state in a comp
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by radlad 2y ago
> Anyone who has a form on the internet knows that without any sort of captcha, you get lots of stupid bots just typing in jumbo. I recall a form of "CAPTCHA" that involved a text input which was hidden via CSS, but which bots
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by radlad 2y ago
PoW isn't meant to make something impossible, it's meant to attach a cost to it. Now you need to extract a value higher than the cost.
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by radlad 2y ago
> The only really good use case for LLMs is spam, because it's the only use case for generating a lot of human-like speech without meaning. As someone who's been writing code for nearly 20 years now, and who spent a few weeks r
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by radlad 2y ago
Are there any good Epistemology resources online? Seems like we could all benefit from this these days.
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by radlad 2y ago
I bought a 2017 Ford Fusion new, and it's one of the quietest, most refined interiors I've ever experienced, even 8 years later in 2025. Unfortunately, the engine blew up at 80k, the brakes failed on the highway at 100k, and the t
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by radlad 2y ago
I understand it increases the total lifetime of the battery, and certainly I do know a few people who are still using their iPhone 8, but most people seem to replace devices every 4 years at least. I just don't find the tradeoff worth
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by radlad 2y ago
Unrelated, but I continue to be confused by "ClaudeMind" a JetBrains Plugin by "73signals": https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/25082-claudemind Their website doesn't even mention 73signals:
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by radlad 2y ago
I struggle a bit with this concept. It feels silly to me to only use 80% of my laptop's battery capacity in order to... avoid my usage bringing my battery's capacity down to 80%. OK, so it can go below 80%, but if it takes 3-4+ ye
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by radlad 2y ago
I find it interesting that my 2021 MBP's "health" was down to about 85% after the first year, but has only decreased to 82% after two additional years. I have 653 cycles now. Assuming that's accurate, and batteries spend
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by radlad 2y ago
> Critical infrastructure is critical so it belongs in the hands of a few. Well that's a non-sequitur.
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by radlad 2y ago
Cloudflare's CDN capabilities are separate from DDOS protection and indeed many requests cannot be cached due to the resources being sensitive (i.e. authenticated requests.) Again, there are many forms of proxies and DDOS protection th
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by radlad 2y ago
I understand your sentiment, as I reacted similarly the first time someone brought this to my attention. However, after logging into my Cloudflare account, viewing the DNS record page, and attempting to find any mention of SSL decryption, a
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by radlad 2y ago
I hoped it was apparent from my comment that "this is of course by design, to inspect the traffic" meant I understood they are doing it to detect DDoS traffic and separate it from legitimate traffic. But many Cloudflare users are
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by radlad 2y ago
As a counterpoint, I asked Claude to write a script to fetch Claude usage and expose it as a Prometheus metric. As no public API exists, Claude suggested I grab the request from the Network tab. I copied it as cURL, and attempted to run it,
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by radlad 2y ago
> It's hard to say no to a free service that provides feature you need. Very true! Though you still see people who are surprised to learn that CF DDOS protection acts as a MITM proxy and can read your traffic plaintext. This is of c
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by radlad 2y ago
I think he was probably making a comment about Python in regards to PyTorch and AI's energy usage. i.e. Whether a language exists "at the expense of society" probably depends less on who makes the language, and more on what y
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by radlad 2y ago
> If 10% of people just click based on how fast the response was Couldn't this be considered a form of preference? Whether it's the type of preference OpenAI was testing for, or the type of preference you care about, is another

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