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by tmoertel 5mo ago
Okay, but you didn't refute the line of reasoning. You called it "the same old talking point" and then jumped to the conclusion that "the only thing these policies deliver on reliably is the 1st order effect - helping th
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> It's almost as if government corruption is not a byproduct of the system of government, but a byproduct of the fact that it's filled with people, and when people accrue power they will, by and large, abuse it. If only there w
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> The wealthiest people pay a much lower tax rate because their typical form of income (capital gains) is taxed at a much lower rate than other people's (salary)... A different way to think about this would be to say that a lower ta
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Being Officially Classed as a Robot(pcg-random.org)
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Reverse Engineering Mersenne Twister with Linear Algebra(johndcook.com)
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A $440k Breast Reduction: How Drs Cashed in on Legislation and Arbitration(nytimes.com)
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
It's the New York Times article that's linked to in this HN post about “the Interstitium”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095536
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The Interstitium, the Human Body's Hidden Pathways(nytimes.com)
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Lovelace.ai Launches with Context Engine Builder for Mission-Critical AI(lovelace.ai)
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
The Apple II family did indeed use 555 timers, in either 558 or 556 chips, to drive the timing circuit used to read paddle and joystick positions. The following article explains both the circuit and the reading code: https://www.
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Amazon Supply Chain Services – Amazon's supply chain is now yours(supplychain.amazon.com)
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> But how do you kill the cover crop so you can grow wheat again? How do you kill the weeds? Roller crimpers used at the right time can sometimes be effective at killing a cover crop and using it as a mulch to prevent weeds.
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
That's why Keith Richards kept a tape recorder on his bedside table. He credits it with capturing the famous riff for "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," which came to him in a dream. https://www.rollingstone.com
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> But I delegate checks to tools all the time. e.g. I could spend my time checking whether locks are all used correctly in our code, or I could use libraries designed to force correctness[0]. Do you believe that because you can delegat
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
The root of this subthread was this claim that I made and you questioned: > Teams that decide to delegate security responsibilities to AI are more likely to do things fast and loose in general. Note the word delegate . I claimed that te
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> Is that true [that teams that decide to delegate security responsibilities to AI are more likely to do things fast and loose in general]? Yes. See: vibe coding. See also: The shockingly widespread hype for and acceptance of vibe coding
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
Two issues here. First, teams that decide to delegate security responsibilities to AI are more likely to do things fast and loose, in general, and thus be less likely to "ask the robot to patiently explain" problems until they und
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> I guess the value of the tool is that it gives you that same benefit for the cost of a few tokens. But it doesn't give you the same benefit. It gives you the partial benefit of catching these problems before they go to productio
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
Having AI tools do the review against the checklist would probably prevent the problems. However, it would probably be substantially inferior as a teaching tool for your team. The exercise of having reviewers hunt the checklisted vulnerabil
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
Why would you want to prevent your development team from learning about their blind spots?
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> Looks like every single one of the 38 vulnerabilities were either SQL injection, XSS, path traversal or "Insecure Direct Object Reference" aka failing to check the caller was allowed to access the record. Seems like code revi
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
Dutch white clover is easy and cheap to purchase, at least in the United States: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dutch+white+clover+seed+for+... https://www.ernstseed.com/product/white-clover-dutch&#x2F
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
I was surprised they didn't try sprouting the beans before cooking. When a bean germinates, it converts sugars in storage forms to more usable forms. Given that the author seems to understand that gassiness is caused by being unable to
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
What machine did you get? For what it is worth, I realized that superautos could make good espresso when in Italy in 2000 and got consistently good shots from the commercial superautos used in autostrada plazas. But those machines were ser
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
Before you spend many thousands of dollars on a machine better suited to a coffee shop, consider getting a minimalist lever machine. I have (and love) my little Cafelat Robot [1]. It is small, draws no electricity, and relies upon my practi
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
Does your university press still sew signatures? A lot of print-on-demand "hardcovers" are just perfect-bound text blocks glued into a hard cover. So disappointing.
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
> Unless you are the one having to maintain that library. Then it just migrates the complexity to another location. No, it’s a win, even then. Say you are writing an operating system, and one of the fundamental data structures you use al
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
First, few of the laws on that site are actual laws in the physics or mathematics sense. They are more guiding principles. > complexity is not a function of time spent working on something. But the complexity you observe is a function
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
ADDED 2026-04-21: Confirmed that it’s Pandoc doing the typesetting. The end of the author’s typeset version of the blog posts includes this colophon: > This piece, like most all my words and software, was written by hand—mainly in Vim. I
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by tmoertel 6mo ago
One that is missing is Ousterhout’s rule for decomposing complexity: complexity(system) = sum(complexity(component) * time_spent_working_in(component) for component in system). The rule suggests that encapsulati

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