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by tclancy 5mo ago
I've been regularly thinking about Apartheid-era South Africa. It was a massive Thing for me as a Catholic school kid in the '80s because it seemed (to me) so clearly wrong yet accepted. There were clearly "lefties" maki
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
The saddest part is that I didn’t even blanche at that. At least here in New England, that kind of OT seems to be baked into the system, at least for senior officers. Just pulling regular construction duty can make a massive difference in i
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by tclancy 5mo ago
If that’s what you got from James Burke’s body of work, may be worth a revisit.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
We have the technology to do that. What we do not have is circus tents big enough to cover the area.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Is that to be the end result of the pursuit of knowledge, creating something? There is the true dumbing down, insisting on a vague kind of productivity as the point of life.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
As a coder who just hit 50, trust me, it does.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Don't be fair. I finally signed up for an Apple Developer Account and it took weeks and I think it took weeks because I finally decided the system wasn't accepting my Driver's License uploads on my (Apple) phone because the c
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by tclancy 5mo ago
There's a great piece in the current New Yorker about that very thing: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inco... "I have a CD player in my home, a VCR in a closet. But I’m also in
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by tclancy 5mo ago
That is not how I remember it (for a data point of one shop in New England during the time): we embraced it because of the binary validation under multiple theories. There was a strong suggestion valid html did better from an SEO perspectiv
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Perhaps if we fork the site …
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by tclancy 5mo ago
My thought (as someone interested in formal verification but unable to grok the math) is it exists as a canary in any sufficiently-complex codebase I let AI create. Even if it's wrong, knowing that something "we" changed brea
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Ha, my next-door neighbor spent COVID rebuilding his CTS-V engine and the next time he went to a track day they told him he had to wear a flame-retardant suit from now on because he broke 10 seconds over whatever the standard time/dist
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by tclancy 5mo ago
>What we are seeing so far come out of the AI agent era is reduced not increased code quality. I am not disagreeing in the main, but I wonder about the net effect. Again, this is total speculation on my part. If I vibe-slop a half dozen
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by tclancy 5mo ago
It's ok, I don't read that fast.
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Good to know. I had been teetering on picking this stuff up for a month or so. Now that I know it is yet another tech nerd thing that has an Us vs Them zealotry (or Pepsi Taste Loyalty Test), I'm sold. If I profile as iPhone, Playstati
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by tclancy 5mo ago
While agreeing, it also changes the mathematics of it: if a bad actor wants to hack me specifically now they have to write custom code that targets my software after figuring out what it _is_. This swaps the asymmetry around: instead of one
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by tclancy 5mo ago
Apologies, "OS". I am not a native speaker of whatever place that considers these fightin' words.
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by tclancy 6mo ago
There’s always a guy. It’s great that your favorite distro is definitely safer. An order of magnitude fewer exploits will mean only a few thousand or so, I suppose. Ozymandis used Gentoo.
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by tclancy 6mo ago
So, to play Pandora, what if the net effect of uncovering all these unknown attack vectors is it actually empties the holsters of every national intelligence service around the world? Just an idea I have been playing with. Say it basically
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by tclancy 6mo ago
No. I double-checked because I was going to be stunned if something could be heavier without having gravitational pull and they're pretty close. - GT-R (R35, 2009–2025) generally ranges between 3,700 lbs and 3,950 lbs (approx. 1,680–1,
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by tclancy 6mo ago
Just to be clear, you really stomped on my Back to the Future joke, weak as it was.
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by tclancy 6mo ago
> Edit: Not calling you a stupid fanboy, just saying you've been mislead by them. No worries at all and I should have been clearer that I wasn't saying it was just as good, more that it wasn't "Oh well, 200hp" li
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by tclancy 6mo ago
Where is your sense of adventure? If you do it to a DeLorean, you might wind up with infinite time. Plus, pretty much every local car show I've been to has a handful of DeLoreans that I'd assume the owners are probably over mainta
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by tclancy 6mo ago
I didn’t have any context, so I went shopping and it looks like you’re right https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/category/ENG.html Which is a bit wild to me because I looked into adding a supercharger to my 2010 Camaro
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by tclancy 6mo ago
First thought was this should make for some fun resto-mods.
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by tclancy 6mo ago
Electric motors don’t have torque curves. It’s all available right away. As a kid I remember reading in Wired about an electric car scene in California where they had to learn things the hard way and one guy’s maiden voyage ended still in h
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by tclancy 6mo ago
Oh he has those too. According to the article, his are comically oversized, even for the genre. Because of course they are. The poor dude just screams I WANT TO BELONG in a way the other children find repellent. Other than bullies who know
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by tclancy 6mo ago
A. it shows you what deep thinkers the whole place is regardless of the person in charge right now (who is incredibly odious) B. Of course _you_ would say that.

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