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10mo ago
> "Fake" images are images with intent to deceive The ones that make the annual rounds up here in New England are those foliage photos with saturation jacked. “Look at how amazing it was!” They’re easy to spot since doing that
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10mo ago
Put some kind of deadbolt in there that seals the overhead compartments if the pilot declares an evacuation.
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10mo ago
You're free to come up with a better example. The point is that dependencies have behavioral properties that software depends upon. We can write tests for those behaviors. Mocks that are correct and remain so should implement those sam
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10mo ago
> Mocks are static, but reality evolves. I learned “test your mocks” long ago from Sandi Metz, and that advice has paid off well for me. Have some set of behavioral conformance tests for the kind of thing you expect (e.g. any database wo
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10mo ago
Can confirm. It also has a mode to jump through the captive portal. I just set it up with the same SSID and PSK as my home wifi and everything we bring connects automatically. It also routes everything through Tailscale.
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10mo ago
If you’re ever “down the Cape” (Cape Cod, that is), visiting the Gorey house is worth your while! They have a very fun scavenger hunt based on the Gashleycrumb Tinies which was actually quite challenging.
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10mo ago
I wonder if this would be nice for hearing aid users for reducing the background restaurant babble that overwhelms the people you want to hear.
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10mo ago
> So it’s definitely AI. I felt betrayed and a little foolish. But why? Because the prompter is basically gaslighting reviewers into doing work for them. They put their marks of authorship on the AI slop when they've barely looked a
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10mo ago
> In contrast, when overcommit is enabled, the kernel simply allocates a VMA object without guaranteeing that backing memory is available: the mapping succeeds immediately, even though it is not known whether the request can ultimately b
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10mo ago
Because the American way is to put a big ol' parking lot where that square would go.
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10mo ago
> This means "the work" isn't done unless "recording the work" is also done. It also means they can be undone together. That's just another way of saying that the step in question is idempotent.
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10mo ago
> This task is not easily idempotent; it involves writing a ton of intermediate state and queries to determine that a step should not be repeated The problem with durable execution is that your entire workflow still needs to be idempoten
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10mo ago
It really reminds me of old Internet, when things were allowed to be fun. Not this tepid corporate-approved landscape we have now.
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10mo ago
Can we have a land value tax for domains?
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10mo ago
> They are technically posting the job, but in pt 3 for on page 72 of a random newspaper That one is theoretically easy. When you apply, the job you “couldn’t fill” gets auto-posted to a very, very public government-hosted job board (wit
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10mo ago
> "we had an agreement with Samantha, and with her death, that agreement has terminated, and no one can be given access that was not pre-designated." It would be nice if you could use some legal apparatus to ratchet these agree
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10mo ago
How does this compare to just running Hydra yourself?
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10mo ago
> Temperature is a characteristic of matter. There is vanishingly little matter in space. Due to that, one could perhaps say that space, in a way of looking at it, has no temperature. Temperature: NaN °C
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10mo ago
> but then the good company predictably goes bad Don't forget the other fun variant: Bad company sees the rise of Good company, offers the founders F-U money, then puts all of Good Co.'s products into maintenance-mode post-acqu
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10mo ago
Yes, they can take their dollars away from one bad company and bring them to the other bad company instead. That will show them.
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10mo ago
> when people get blocked by network security at work There were also plenty of corp-ware in existence that had Flash as *absolutely mandatory*.
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10mo ago
I wonder if people will start using this as magic security sauce.
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10mo ago
It’s just depressing that the “PC in every home” era is being rapidly pulled out from under our feet by all these supply shocks.
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10mo ago
Especially given the arbitrage opportunity that presents.
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10mo ago
Don’t worry, they’ve cozied up for a nice fat bailout if that happens.
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10mo ago
TV Manufacturers: “oh no!” *proceeds to remove all dumb TVs from the market*
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10mo ago
Here I was thinking this would be IrDA.
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10mo ago
Why does it seem like all this age-restriction and the consequential VPN bans are happening across the west all at once?
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10mo ago
> watching The Good Place … I had a moment that felt like my horizons had been expanded very slightly when I felt this severe dread for maybe half a second. A feeling of being inescapably trapped. Ah, he saw the time-knife
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10mo ago
I wonder if they could develop some legal apparatus to employ individual straw buyers to circumvent such a restriction.
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