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by thayne 3mo ago
I suspect that is exactly what cursor did, and the agent (incorrectly) categorized this as chaff.
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by thayne 3mo ago
I had a very similar experience. Except unlike you I wasn't aware of that requirement at the time, and ended up paying all of it. I did complain to the insurance company that the amount I owed didn't seem right, and they told me i
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by thayne 3mo ago
I had an accident where I had a concussion and other injuries that put me in a lot of, and the people I was with called an ambulance for me, and I wasn't really in a state to decline, but if I had been, and knew how much it would cost,
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by thayne 3mo ago
An extension written for a single threaded host system might not work in a multi-threaded context. For example if has global or shared state that isn't protected with locks or similar (which is unfortunately fairly common in c code)
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by thayne 3mo ago
It's worse than that. OpenSSL uses /etc/ssl/certs (or sometimes a different directory, depending on the distro) by default. But Java uses its own store that uses an incompatible java-specific format, and Chromium derivat
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by thayne 3mo ago
I wish that in addition to the CA setting Name Constraints (and client software validating that), that end users could add additional constraints when adding a new trusted CA, so that even if the CA cert doesn't have Name Constraints,
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by thayne 3mo ago
I don't think this is any less right than using split horizon. IMHO, there is no "right" way to do it. Every approach has downsides and tradeoffs.
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by thayne 3mo ago
Another big problem with split-horizon is you can get clients that cache the dns result before connecting to the vpn, then after connecting, can't actually use the service, because it is using the public ip instead of the private one.
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by thayne 3mo ago
> Beside that, for many problems, a garbage collector eliminates a large amount of defects (including the ones stated in the article) Languages with garbage collection are generally considered "memory safe". GP was talking abou
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by thayne 3mo ago
Even when I vacationed in Bayern (Bavaria), a lot of people switched to English when they realized that my German wasn't that good. Which was frustrating, because I wanted to practice speaking with native speakers. Although, there we
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by thayne 3mo ago
It is also often more expensive than Amazon, which is I think is largely due to Anazon's anti-competetive, and possibly illegal "most favored nation" terms, but as a consumer it does discourage avoiding Amazon (which is why A
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by thayne 3mo ago
I agree that acronyms can be overused, especially in marketing. However, a big part of why Tech, software, computer science, etc. have a lot of acronyms is because there are a lot of new, often abstract things to name, and acronyms are an e
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by thayne 3mo ago
That seems worse to me.
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by thayne 3mo ago
There could be an interaction with the diet though. For example, what if the nutrient in eggs that prevents Alzheimer's is something that also occurs in meat? Also, it seems likely that among this population many of those who don'
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by thayne 3mo ago
1. FedEx and UPS are not at all competitive for delivering non-package mail (letters, bills, etc.). Or even small packages. 2. Commercial providers rely on USPS to deliver packages in some situations.
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by thayne 3mo ago
Post is a natural monopoly, at a national scale. It is much more efficient to have a single centralized service doing all mail delivery than several competing services doing the same. It isn't completely non-rivalrous, but the marginal
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by thayne 3mo ago
Sure, it's not perfect, but I'm doubtful privatizing it would make it any better. And on the list of things I want fixed in the US, it is far from the top.
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by thayne 3mo ago
If you use an LTS version of Ubuntu (or Red Hat etc.), you are going to have older versions of software. That's just how it works. And is kind of the point of LTS. If you want more recent versions, use a rolling release or a more recen
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by thayne 3mo ago
The purpose of quadlets is when you want good integration with systemd. The better equivalent of docker compose is podman kube, which does use a single file. And it isn't bespoke, it uses the same format as kunernetes. And if you pre
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by thayne 3mo ago
From the responses I've gotten from my representatives when I've written them, my impression is they care a lot more about their corporate sponsors and the party line than they do about their constituents.
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by thayne 3mo ago
> Red Hat's UX designers heavily contributed to GNOME Well, IMHO Gnome has worse UX than other linux environments like KDE, Niri witn Dank Materials Shell, etc. That is obviously a matter of opinion, but I don't think you neces
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by thayne 3mo ago
Code review doesn't have a single purpose. Finding code that is hard to maintain is one of those, and and an important one, but certainly not the only one, and I'm not sure it is even the most important one. Other purposes include
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by thayne 3mo ago
I think a big difference is the majority of developers knew they could find employment relatively easily elsewhere, so they felt comfortable protesting things they didn't feel comfortable with, and google leadership had some level of a
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by thayne 3mo ago
It is worse now than it was 9 years ago, but it even then it was clearly moving in the wrong direction. And the current google is the result of trends that started long before 2017.
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by thayne 3mo ago
Google is a middle man extracting rents from the merchants. I'm pretty sure merchants that pay for google ads get preferential treatment in google shopping results. Is it any worse than PriceRunner? Probably not, although I haven'
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by thayne 3mo ago
I think the ideal solution is to split up google. And google shouldn't give any special treatment to their own products when ranking search results. That said, a price comparison tool is essentially a specialized search engine, and it
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by thayne 3mo ago
That is even more obviously anti-competitive. Not that we've seen any effective enforcement against it...
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by thayne 3mo ago
> Sure enough, when he exposed volunteers to the equivalent of 30 minutes of summer sunlight without sunscreen, their nitric oxide levels went up and their blood pressure went down. That is a causal connection.
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by thayne 3mo ago
I would expect that to depend on jurisdiction. I don't know for sure, but I would be surprised if it was illegal in my particular US state. You might be able to argue the AI has inherent biases that introduce illegal discrimination in
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by thayne 3mo ago
And if they had ruled the other way, would he not have been a whistleblower?

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