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by sowbug 5mo ago
God forbid anyone avoid a merchant because of anger, or choose a merchant because of idealism.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
They are following the /key/value/key/value pattern, but the first two pairs in a GitHub URL are fixed to user and project, which lets them omit the key names. I could see them not being willing to hardcode the third pai
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by sowbug 5mo ago
This is probably (ha) a troll thread, but in case anyone here is among today's lucky (ha) 10,000, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_(probability_theo...
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by sowbug 5mo ago
If half my local plumber's profits go to private equity, it's capitalism. If half go to taxes, it's socialism.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Vacations aren't about net profitability. You can visit Japan and enjoy reasonable prices when you're there. Or you can go to many other popular destinations and be repeatedly insulted by $600 hotel rooms, $30 burgers, and $15 bot
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Spotify CLI(github.com)
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by sowbug 5mo ago
That's where I spend all my Chromebook work time. I run VSCode, Claude Code, and Opencode in the VM. The Tailscale package is wonky, so I use the Android app instead. Except for that wrinkle, it all just works. It's not my main ma
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by sowbug 5mo ago
A full-circle system prompt would be to "find every opportunity to put yourself out of your job by automating it away. When you are given a question that code can answer, answer the question by writing code and running it to obtain the
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by sowbug 5mo ago
I can't do anything about Apple's culture, but it's been long enough that I doubt anyone would mind if I shared a story. It was 1992. I was a summer intern on the System Software team. One of my projects was to improve a Disk
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by sowbug 5mo ago
You seem to be earnestly and repeatedly attacking this strawman of "complete individual freedom" as antithetical to society, but I'd prefer that you not conflate it with the position I've taken in this discussion. Happy
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Respectfully, I disagree that anyone has to make the case for it. That's exactly what freedom is: if society fails to "make the case" for prohibiting something, it defaults to legal. There's no general law requiring peo
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Some people think communication mechanisms shouldn't enforce policy. They don't want their phones automatically disconnecting if they talk to a friend about illegal or immoral things. They don't want their TVs shutting off if
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by sowbug 5mo ago
https://www.welikela.com/richard-ankrom-guerilla-public-serv...
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Since this is a tech audience... the Supreme Court uses a bounded priority queue. An unbounded queue would risk growing impractically large. There are some kinds of cases where the Court has "original jurisdiction," meaning they m
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by sowbug 5mo ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling-off_period_(consumer_r... . It's an old solution to an old problem: give the potential victim a chance to think clearly while the damage can still be undone.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
I have Gitea and Gitea Runner apps running on TrueNAS on an extra mini PC in a closet. Works better than GitHub for me.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
My brain broke a little when I read this. Today I learned the C stands for Core, and the S stands for Speed, or Strength, or maybe Superior. My working assumption that C meant RISC-V and S meant Xtensa was incorrect.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
You actually can get a ticket for driving 13 in a 25, at least in the US, so you're not entirely incorrect.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Why don't they ask their premier model to generate a bench for them? It's not a crazy idea. Have the older model interview the newer one and then ask both (or maybe a third referee model) which one they think is smarter. Repeat
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by sowbug 6mo ago
A similar dynamic is playing out with Anthropic, whose founders left OpenAI in part over a philosophical split that could be described, if you'll grant a little literary license appropriate to this thread, as Anthropic choosing the &qu
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by sowbug 6mo ago
The original expression came out of an internal company discussion that someone summarized (paraphrased) as "when there's a tough choice to make, one is usually less evil. Make that choice." In the early days of Google in the
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Were/Are human-generated side projects better in this respect?
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by sowbug 6mo ago
I used to own a truck whose fair market value would double, temporarily, whenever I filled the tank.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Are these kinds of libraries a temporary phenomenon? It strikes me as weird that providers haven't settled on a single API by now. Of course they aren't interested in making it easier for customers to switch away from them, but if
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by sowbug 6mo ago
An older Stratechery article discusses the black-box point: https://stratechery.com/2018/techs-two-philosophies/ Apple and Microsoft want to be your robot exoskeleton, helping you do whatever you were going to do,
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by sowbug 6mo ago
Did it happen suddenly? Or did you go for a long time without using a sauna, and noticed the change only when you resumed? Did anything else about your body change, such as weight loss (perhaps from a GLP-1)? It's possible that Covid h
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by sowbug 6mo ago
I wonder how many engineers are using their unlimited token budgets to moonlight new startups.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
You're excluding the overwhelming majority of websites that were personal sites. Of those, the overwhelming majority are now gone. None ran with a goal of profit or even revenue. They cost so little that their owners were happy to keep
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by sowbug 6mo ago
It would be borderline insanity for the Asimov estate to enforce rights in a case like this. You couldn't buy better publicity than this thread.
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by sowbug 6mo ago
No, you don't understand. The people at my company are auto-opt-in premium-communication value-add customer-relationship-establishment specialists. But otherwise, I agree with you: everyone else is a spammer.

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