tantalor

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by tantalor 8mo ago
> it can, of course, be turned sideways to measure an azimuth with respect to an arbitrary meridian Ah, of course :)
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Re: First Amendment claim It goes much further than the "refusal to provide services" speech. By blacklisting them, they are blocked from doing any future business, which is prior restraint. Courts aren't very friendly to tha
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by tantalor 8mo ago
The big problem is this is prior restraint on free speech.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Short answer: yes because it's in the public domain now. Long answer: well it depends on how much human creative input was required.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Unfortunately, WaPo has lost credibility for this type of reporting
396.
by tantalor 8mo ago
Would benefit from seasons i.e. wipe the leaderboard every once in a while
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by tantalor 8mo ago
See also, Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Conservatives haven't had any power in Washington in decades. They are in thrall to MAGA now, which is all about seizing the means of production when its convenient.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Nice to see jQuery still getting used :)
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by tantalor 8mo ago
"Закрываем проект" is Russian for "Closing the project"
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by tantalor 8mo ago
> I do not want a vibe-coded freeway overpass I do. One of the reasons our infrastructure is so expensive is planning & design. For a single freeway overpass, you could be looking at $3M (25% of the total budget) before you have even
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by tantalor 8mo ago
I'd gladly trade you a banana tomorrow for a crystal today.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
> Expected: user enters invalid data > Unexpected: function must be called with a non-empty string, and someone didn't These seem like the same thing, I don't get why they are treated differently.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
It's basically the same as The New York Times Best Seller list
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Internet Explorer doesn't exist anymore!
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Won't somebody think of the window replacers?
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by tantalor 8mo ago
My wife, for example, uses [Netscape Navigator] on a daily basis, but has found no reason to try anything else. There are no network effects for sure, but people have hundreds and thousands on [bookmarks] on these apps that can't be ea
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by tantalor 8mo ago
It's really great!
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by tantalor 8mo ago
> there's no incentive to answer correctly Answering correctly is not in question here. This is essentially opinion polling anyway, there is no single correct answer. The incentive is exactly what you said: to skip ads. How are the
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by tantalor 8mo ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPaZ1qamM Are these casters AI?
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by tantalor 8mo ago
AI models have zero real world experience! They are actors, playing a role of a person making decisions about nuclear escalation.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
The singularity is nigh
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by tantalor 8mo ago
I can't recall exactly but it may have been The Light of Other Days
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by tantalor 8mo ago
I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based cult
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by tantalor 8mo ago
Ah, that's good to hear. I didn't see anything like that in the data dump so I assumed they don't do that. Glad to be corrected.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
The human baseline seems flawed. 1. There is no initial screening that would filter out garbage responses. For example, users who just pick the first answer. 2. They don't ask for reasoning/rationale.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
> all I said was "you should act more professional" lol we are so cooked
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by tantalor 8mo ago
That's not very "America First" Why are my taxes paying for benefits for Europeans? They already killed USAID.
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by tantalor 8mo ago
He's svg-mogging
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by tantalor 8mo ago
I guess I get really frustrated when the rules say you are scored on "how close you are to the secret word, based on your word's meaning" with very little explanation what that means. Then you have cases that drive me crazy,

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