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by thadt 7mo ago
Browsers
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by thadt 7mo ago
Getting a broad overview of "world history" is useful for having basic context for large events, but, IMHO, history gets so much more interesting and educational when you're deep into individual people's lives and storie
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by thadt 8mo ago
Oh man, have I gotten to read a lot of history recently. And also fiction. Frequently at the same time.
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by thadt 9mo ago
I used to love using em dashes. I still do - but I used to, too.
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by thadt 9mo ago
In the 80's we had a way to deal with that kind of thing [1]. Just gotta practice to get the technique right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1GyHQiuneU
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by thadt 9mo ago
A cursory search doesn't seem to turn up anything solid. But it would be interesting to know. I'll be in the German diary archive in March and made a note to keep an eye out for it.
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by thadt 9mo ago
Zyklon-B wasn’t much of a secret - it was used all over the place as a pesticide. Most soldiers would have been about as familiar with it as we would with Raid spray or bug traps.
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by thadt 10mo ago
Nuclear measurements, where the speed of a gamma ray flying across a room vs a neutron is relevant. But that requires at least nanosecond time resolution, and you’re a long way from thinking about NTP.
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by thadt 10mo ago
What does a "digital education" look like, specifically? Having spent several years teaching kids to code everything from games to lightbulbs on Chromebooks, I can confirm that there are certainly difficulties - but they're
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by thadt 10mo ago
Well, it depends on the granularity of the time scale right? When you're measuring milliseconds, then the cable length probably isn't a thing factoring into your latency calculation. When we're measuring time on the scale of
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by thadt 10mo ago
When I see juries in American courts, for example when I've served on one, it seemed like a group of people who take their job quite seriously. You are correct in that what a jury gets is a very curated set of information. The intent
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by thadt 11mo ago
Well, it's fascinating right? Can we cleanly separate out military, politics and sociology? A whole lot of military capability comes down to not just technology and tactics, but the entire culture and makeup of the people. When we th
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by thadt 11mo ago
Weird right? My wife studied Nazi Germany, and doesn't really like the Nazis either. History is messy - we can and should learn from those that came before, both the good and bad. One can both admire the things the Romans accomplished
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by thadt 11mo ago
Fortnite & Call of Duty If I could travel back in time and prevent my kids and nephews from ever learning about Fortnite, I might do it. Instead I'm out here trying to keep from getting sniped by a Simpson character. Fortunately, i
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by thadt 11mo ago
Pretty much the only reason I boot to Windows anymore is to play games with my kids and family. The direction of this thing is dangerously close to being all I'd care about from a desktop computer. If Valve pivoted into making a well-s
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by thadt 11mo ago
Oh hey, the AEGIS poll looks like it's due today [1]. Committing, better performance, random nonces - let's go. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead
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by thadt 11mo ago
> Random IDs > Latacora, 2018: Use 256-bit random numbers. > Latacora, 2024: You should get 100 lava lamps, point a camera to them and use the frames as seed for a PRNG. Man, is my boss gonna be surprised what's getting requi
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by thadt 11mo ago
Yesterday my wife burst into my office: "You used AI to generate that (podcast) episode summary, we don't sound like that!" In point of fact, I had not. After the security reporting issue, the next problem on the list is &quo
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by thadt 11mo ago
Can you expand on what you find to be 'bad advice'? The author uses an LLM to find bugs and then throw away the fix and instead write the code he would have written anyway. This seems like a rather conservative application of LL
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by thadt 11mo ago
100%. I’m with y’all - this is what I would also call a “no-backend” solution and I’m all in on this type of approach for static data sets - this is the future, and could be served with a very simple web server. I’m just bemused that we a
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by thadt 11mo ago
S3 is doing quite a lot of sophisticated lifting to qualify as no backend at all. But yeah - this is pretty neat. Easily seems like the future of static datasets should wind up in something like this. Just data, with some well chosen indi
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by thadt 11mo ago
Not scared , time limited. The world is a complicated place, and there is a veritable mountain of things a person could learn about nearly any subject. But sometimes I don't need or want to learn all those things - I just want to get
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by thadt 1y ago
It's an interesting risk tradeoff to think about. Is 14k lines of LLM generated code more likely to have an attack in it than 14k lines of transitive library dependencies I get when I add a package to my project? In the library case, t
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by thadt 1y ago
No, we would use something similar to S-Expressions [1]. Parsing and generation would be at most a few hundred lines of code in almost any language, easily testable, and relatively extensible. With the top level encoding solved, we could th
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by thadt 1y ago
* Opens Github repo * Opens Cargo.lock [1] and pnpm-lock.yaml [2] * Closes Cargo.lock and pnpm-lock.yaml * Goes to find a Tylenol At least with open source we can see the sausage getting made... [1] https://github.com/voting
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by thadt 1y ago
It's been a few years since I've slung code with it, but I'm pretty sure IAR had their own compiler (along with it's own special occasional bugs). Of the IDE's I've used, it wasn't that bad. But QT Creator
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by thadt 1y ago
It’s useful for someone to be wrong on the Internet. I’ve learned a lot from watching constructive disagreements between other people. Regardless of whether they’re “right” or not, healthy disagreements sharpen our perspectives.
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by thadt 1y ago
I'll actually argue that you're arguing exactly what I'm arguing :) My comment near the end is that we absolutely need transparency - just that what we need tracked more than all the code ever run under a URL is that one
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by thadt 1y ago
Starts reading: "fantastic, this is what we've been needing! But... where is code signing?" > One problem that WAICT doesn’t solve is that of provenance: where did the code the user is running come from, precisely? > ..
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A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises(words.filippo.io)
11 points by thadt 1y ago|0 comments

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