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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
Back in January, I was debating whether to buy an M3 Ultra Mac Studio or waiting for the M5 version, which many believed would be announced two months later. The 192GB M3 Ultra was on sale at the local Microcenter for $200 below what Apple&
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
Temporal employee here. I'm very surprised by your comment. It's true that we recently had a Series D and that VC firms recognize the value of what we do. The Temporal Server software is 100% open source (MIT license: https:&#x2F
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
Bots are now clearly joining the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp... ) to hasten the demise of civil liberty.
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by tomwheeler 5mo ago
> Wouldn't Baltimore be the first Waymo market that actually gets snow? No, we have them in St. Louis and it snows a few times per year here.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> All of these tools ... will inevitably be subject to manipulation. I have often wondered about the legality of such manipulation. As AI becomes used for increasingly important things, it becomes increasingly valuable to make a system s
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> When I was a kid, I would often sit on my bed and stare at the wall. My Dad would walk by my room and ask if everything was ok. I would always say "yeah", since I was literally just thinking. Me too. And all I wanted was a Pe
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> I recently encountered `is_as BOOL` in an important table. Sounds like a table designed by Forrest Gump.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
Same here. Two decades ago, I was excited to install updates to commercial software I used because they fixed bugs and brought useful new features. These days I fear updates because they introduce new bugs, remove features I care about, and
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
Thank you, EU, for having the courage to pass the pro-consumer regulations that my own government lacks. Often, as happened when the iPhone got rid of the proprietary Lightning connector, the benefits extend well beyond your borders.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
In other news, world's most popular browser was developed by a massive company known for advertising and tracking users across the web.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> I think many Americans do not realize how much is spent on debt interest payments, which are a tidy source of income for rich people. Not to mention insurance companies and pension funds, plus local, state, and foreign governments
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
Sounds about right. The attorneys take $1.52 and leave the victim with $0.20. And then nothing actually happens that would restore a competitive marketplace.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
The standard of proving someone's guilt in a crime or civil infraction is higher than the one for inferring that someone could plausibly be the person you want. This is the basis of parallel construction, wherein a government agency pl
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> Even if a failed agent activity retries correctly at the infrastructure layer, the LLM re-invocation produces a different output. In Temporal, an Activity won't be executed again provided that Activity completion is recorded to th
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
Take it from someone who lives in the St. Louis area, Festus is by no means a snooty suburb. It's a small town that has become a distant suburb of St. Louis due to sprawl spreading south into the adjacent county over the past 20 years.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
As I understand it, this only applies to the three states in that district, all of which also have statewide bans against it. My state (Missouri) has the most lax home distilling state laws in the nation, which allow residents to produce up
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
I totally get this. At work, my OS is largely dictated by my employer. At home, the choice is mine, but largely influenced by the use case and application availability. Thus, I do not use any one OS exclusively and and likely never will. I
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> as long as it includes the key factor - time spent practicing. And at least for me, frequency beats duration. I make more progress when I play consistently for even 10 minutes every day than when I play for 90 minutes on Sunday afterno
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
And as I have just explained in that other comment, they did not ask for a verification code when I bought the ticket. They also did not ask for one when I tested that I could pull up the ticket after I installed their app. They only did so
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> Why would you sign into Ticketmaster with an email address you don't have access to and use it to buy tickets? Because in the context of signing in, its role is that of a user ID. Ticketmaster spams that address constantly. It&#x2
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
And that's when you find out the app considers this usage pattern as a signal of fraud, so then you can't get into the event and have no recourse. Their app, their rules, your loss.
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> I feel like phone tickets are anti-convenience because they rely on terrible apps like TicketMaster. Case in point: I traveled from St. Louis to Houston for a concert a few years ago. Before I left home to catch my flight, I installed
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
> If this guy has the money for a season pass (!) he has the money for a smartphone. Maybe it's not about the money. Maybe he does not want the negative consequences that come along with having a smartphone. Maybe he has dexterity i
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by tomwheeler 6mo ago
It's possible to write a headline that directs blames at both parties: "Major Browsers Fail to Block Websites that Invade Your Privacy" The fact that the website is doing this is a bigger problem than the browser not preventi
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
> developers don't control what platforms an enterprise would use They might not control it directly, but they absolutely influence it. Linux was on the losing end of this for many years, as common end-user enterprise software was n
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
And even if you read the banner on the site, the email they sent, and the announcement itself, you would not see instructions that mention the specific thing(s) you must change in order to opt out. Sure, you can poke around in the settings
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
And I'd imagine that this decline accelerates as _developers_ begin migrating to other platforms, since the applications they created are what made that platform appealing to non-developers. That's why Steve Ballmer was jumping up
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
I'd say the two most important are the date of birth and document ID (e.g., driver's license number). Both are required by the AAMVA 2D barcode standard used for driver's license in the US and both are extremely valuable for
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
I never thought I'd say something nice about Google Chrome, but this feature was the only reason that I sometimes used that browser instead of Firefox. The split view is incredibly handy when you're looking at a web application an
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
At least where I live, the only information they log when looking at my ID is my name and address. Scanning my ID gives them additional information, which increases the vulnerability. I don't trust them to store it securely nor to avoi

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