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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Write-ahead logging and concurrency PRAGMAs have been a given for a decade now. All of the listed features except for strict tables and generated columns have been in SQLite for 10+ years, and those two are certainly not new. The JSON
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> To that end, I wrote a python script which isolates npm inside short-lived docker containers. Somewhat ironically, docker is just as subject to this type of attack as npm, the main difference being that it (usually) has a narrower blas
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
Then we have different definitions of PS/2 keyboard. For me PS/2 keyboard means one with the round plugs named for IBM's PS/2 keyboard slots (as distinct from USB slots). In later models the plugs were color-coded light
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
But no devices made in the past 20 years have a PS/2 port, so why should this thing require a PS/2 keyboard? That's just plain odd.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> New games can be created with the addition of a PS/2 keyboard and optionally saved on an SD card. Wasn't the world's last PS/2 keyboard recycled like 12 years ago?
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> supper cool Pun presumably intended?
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Were you able to stop using Adobe software any anytime before they got in trouble for making cancelling so hard? To be fair, "stop using" does not automatically imply "stop paying for a subscription".
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> No button or link to disable the thing. The line i initially quoted: > You may stop using Copilot at any time. Was incomplete. It continues with what initially appears to be a non sequitur: > You may stop using Copilot at any tim
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
It says "through other Microsoft apps and websites," i.e. they reserve the right to include or remove it when and where they like throughout their whole product line (which includes github, of course), as well as: - Conversations
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
The section titled > IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES & WARNINGS Tells us: > You may stop using Copilot at any time. That's an odd thing to include in a ToS.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> To be clear this is only for the standalone Copilot chat or app and website; not for the “Copilot” services integrated into Office 365 etc. The section titled "WHEN & WHERE THESE TERMS APPLY" includes: > Conversations
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> It wasn't that obscure in the US before Linus used it, although perhaps its use was regional? That may well be the case. i'd never heard it in any of my years in Nevada, Arkansas, or Texas, and left the States ten years befor
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> https://docs.dolthub.com/other/faq#why-is-it-called-dolt-are ... Noting that "git" was an obscure term in US English before Linus popularized it. "dolt" is already in most native English speaker
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
When product names aren't properly workshopped: > I’m founder and CEO of a company called DoltHub. We’re a fifteen person startup that spent the last eight years building Dolt... "dolt" is a synonym for "idiot".
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
>"I wonder if that's the C++ s11n guy" That's a name i've not heard in ages. That project was abandoned back in 2012 or so for lack of interest on all sides. The domain and site were sold back in 2014-ish to some
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
There was no implying that it was illegal, only that it was balsy (or perhaps foolish) of him to openly declare it. It's not a great PR move, in that the word tends to have a negative connotation for consumers.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> The price of the black and white set has been fixed at £175 plus VAT. Sinclair says there is no prospect of a reduction. 'Firstly because it is such a complicated product and, secondly, we have a monopoly'. At least he's
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> A 2026 MIT study found that personalisation features significantly increase sycophantic drift over time, so the longer you talk to the model, the more it agrees with you, regardless of whether you’re right. Interestingly: not if you as
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
When typos are inadvertently funny: > Google’s been working hard to relive everyone’s fears...
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
It would be really interesting to see this without the texturing applied.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> "We've always encouraged people to have a break with KitKat," a spokesperson for the brand said, referring to its catchphrase. "But it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more th
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Twelve metric tons of KitKat chocolate bars stolen(lemonde.fr)
2 points by sgbeal 7mo ago|1 comments
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> A physical artifact that replaces passwords. The historical term for these is "dongle" - a widget which either plugs directly in to the computer (they've been around since the 80s (maybe even the 70s)) or which generates
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> So tired of seeing this same comment in every thread. So tired of seeing vendors not eat their own dog food and then try to sell it as tenderloin steaks.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
The ironic thing about outages such as this one and Github's recent spate of outages are that if those vendors' sales pitches are to be believed, the vendors could just ask their LLMs to program reliable replacements overnight (ok
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> nice to see that Apple tried to speak accurately here. The key word being "mercenary", which does not rule out first-party spyware.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard (author of Conan the Barbarian)
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
What an odd format for a news story.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> I'm selling... Right there is the point. Money is exchanging hands. People are funny about their money - they don't want to hand it out to someone they can't trust, and a merchant who goes way, way out of their way to hi
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
i'd argue that you're shooting yourself in the foot with your requirements. A merchant going way out of their way to avoid being found is a huge red flag for any conscientious buyer.

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