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by the_other 5mo ago
This sounds like something I'd enjoy. Do you have a blog post or guide on your approach?
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by the_other 5mo ago
The "right" abstraction seems like quite an art. Sometimes it's not obvious, or it takes multiple rounds of exploration and testing (I'm thinking here of the mental shift moving from HTML + JS, via jQuery, Backbone, Knoc
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by the_other 5mo ago
My inherent pedantry drives me to say "this sounds like compression, not gating". Do lots of people use "gating" to mean "automated volume control"? In 30ish years of hobbyist music production I have only encou
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by the_other 5mo ago
Most of those people wont be checking the provenance of the images. FB have stopped from their fact-checking processes. Only the investigative or journalistically inclined will make use of this, and those people already fact check. Where’s
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by the_other 5mo ago
> Another way in which it's not cheap to lose sight, I guess. True. We can frame it even more strongly: "default societal practices actively discriminate against people with disabilities; they intentionally, consciously choose
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by the_other 5mo ago
TypeScript interfaces just merge. You can aet any property name you like on a plain JS object, at any time. The CSS version is a risk, for sure. The dev tools in all the main browsers will tell you where the extension happens and show yiu t
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by the_other 5mo ago
> With CSS names are global. In your "programmatic" code (your JS/TS, python, C++, whatever..) your classes are global. Even if the language supports flexible namespaces, or module scoping, you still have to take great car
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by the_other 5mo ago
Mix this 3d graphics, with data science notebooks, with local LLMs, and perhaps an integrated coding harness, with visibility over your personal data and you’d have something absurdly good. This might overtake “a haiku+macOS mashup” as my i
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by the_other 5mo ago
My banks provide different colour options for their cards. All my digital cards differ, even from the same bank. The alternate colours helps within the banks/ apps as well as within Wallet, so it's not just an iOS "workaround
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by the_other 5mo ago
Today? Not 23 years ago (approx) when they started scanning emails?
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by the_other 6mo ago
I don't think you're making a useful point about the situation. In the case of the orange in the bag, both Altman and his interlocutor can see the bag and the truth can be exposed by rummaging. In the case of ads in the oAI chat f
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by the_other 6mo ago
It’s easier to consider responses or solutions to specific problems, rather than to solve for a broad, general principle. You can see this in many areas of life. Solving for general principles requires group effort (usually); you can get bu
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by the_other 6mo ago
Using a battery powered electronic device as a “pass” detected by another handheld electronic device, both of which are contacting cell towers, exchanging data with data centres 100s of kms away, filling out detailed profiles of user behavi
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by the_other 6mo ago
You could think about it this way: All AI prices will rise soon - probably shortly after the IPOs. The new prices will be eyewatering compared with today’s. This bulling change is lengthening the time until Anthropic have to raise the subsc
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by the_other 7mo ago
I'm a beginner with agentic coding. I vibe code something most days, from a few lines up to refactors over a few files. I don't knowingly use skills, rarely _choose_ to call out to tools, haven't written any skills and only o
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by the_other 7mo ago
Yes, very likely. Even in the 90s 120min tapes were more fragile and much more likely to warp or get caught than the shorter lengths.
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by the_other 7mo ago
I read the implication too, as well as the fatigue. They offered nothing to counteract the idea that we should just shut up and accept it. Then they closed with "And I actually like the concept of reward cards (although I don't us
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by the_other 7mo ago
As the attack actor now has the data, they're liable for ongoing GDPR failures, on top of the theft. Then anyone they sell the data to becomes liable (on top of handling stolen goods). Could be a money-earner for the EU if they pursue
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by the_other 7mo ago
Any functioning national health service. Any national education system. Transport networks. Nations with unprivatised water systems.
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by the_other 8mo ago
> Any selector with the " " operator on A risk expanding to the inner A even if it was intended only for the outer. Then <a type=b> is potentially a <c>. Consider a small refactor?
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by the_other 8mo ago
SoC is how all maintainable software is built. A function for A, a class for B, DDD-spec'd modules and features, databases on separate machines, API definitions, queuing systems, event systems, load balancing, web servers. You don&#x27
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by the_other 8mo ago
> At what point does the project outgrow the AI in your experience? I have a 70k LOC backend/frontend/database/docker app that Claude still mostly one shots most features/tasks I throw at it. How do you do this? Admit
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by the_other 8mo ago
Your two opening paragraphs seem opposed to one another. > Some brutalist architecture may be preserved, as a warning for future generations about the danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture. > I am the founder of the arc
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by the_other 8mo ago
I've visited a flat/appartment in one of the Barbican towers. It was comfy, pleasant. The lifts and hallways were well maintained, well lit, generous dimensions (compared with many London apartment blocks I've seen). It felt
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by the_other 8mo ago
I agree with your points about the tone. Money Stuff is definitely more "fun". I find the content differs between the two, not just the presentation. Odd Lots goes into the broad scale (national, global) backstory a lot more; Mone
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by the_other 8mo ago
No it wasn't. It was a tool to attempt to keep people on Google's surface area rather than freeing them to browse the web as the web was intended.
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by the_other 8mo ago
I think you have read the "redistrubute the money" people wrong. They definitely, absolutely want to reduce the power the tiny minority hold over the many. That's the whole point. The money is a tool to get the work done.
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by the_other 8mo ago
On the flip side, doesn't this mean that Apple is providing indirect funding (via employment) to any OSS project their employees contribute to during office hours?
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by the_other 9mo ago
In the UK we have a great big yellow zig-zag road marking that extends 2/3rds the width of an average car across the road. It means "this is a school, take your car and fuck off". You find it around school gates, to a distanc
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by the_other 9mo ago
Do you already pay a human to do this work?

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