vulcan01

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by vulcan01 7d ago
Words are often pronounced differently in English depending on whether they are being used in a noun or verb context. e.g. attribute, increase, conduct
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by vulcan01 12d ago
His thesis is only slightly longer than typical PhD theses, I think.
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by vulcan01 13d ago
Kumail Nanjiani learning what Automattic is: https://youtu.be/5Y64UeNeiOM?t=74
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by vulcan01 17d ago
Note the wording on dollar bills: > This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private. See also USC §5103: > United States coins and currency [...] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Thus a priv
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by vulcan01 1mo ago
Counterpoint: cars. It takes sustained effort to prevent civilization from being modified to accommodate new technology, e.g. Stop Kindermoord .
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by vulcan01 2mo ago
The LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit is highly relevant: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
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by vulcan01 2mo ago
This poem is in the short story.
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by vulcan01 3mo ago
> And I would ensure that Y was a poor solution. How do you ensure people don't think you're not good at your job, if you continually propose poor solutions? Since you're emailing other teams here, they probably(?) don&#x2
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
I think it's just to hype Anthropic. Check it out, we have products so dangerous the government banned them, we must be so advanced . (Their competitors cannot make such a claim.)
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
wrt. the end of the story, it will be interesting to see if people start noticing their Dunning-Kruger bias as a result of LLMs. Specifically: LLMs make it really easy to misunderestimate the complexity of fields other than your own. (You c
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
your parent: > the code in question had already been reviewed by human counsel
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
This is an ARM device, so presumably compatibility with third-party software.
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
Might be interesting to try emailing dang to see if they keep track of this.
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
Last comment in that issue links to https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-an...
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
This talk – "Programming without pointers" – by Andrew Kelley may be interesting to you. https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...
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by vulcan01 4mo ago
First transaction would be outside the channel. e.g., scalper may require high-value Venmo or Zelle transaction, then enter buyer ID / name on ticket website at listed limit.
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by vulcan01 5mo ago
You are falling victim to frequency bias. Popular books are popular – and especially before mass printing technologies, really popular. A lot of people may have tried to write books doesn't mean they're writing books good enough
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by vulcan01 6mo ago
Intended usage is to use Edge Copilot to search the page for you.
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by vulcan01 6mo ago
Since LLMs are trained on "random people online", why are they not of equal rank?
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by vulcan01 6mo ago
By your criterion, Google, Apple, and Amazon are terrible names as well.
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by vulcan01 7mo ago
This is not what Liquid Glass actually looks like on first-party macOS applications. This needs way more blur and opacity to match even the control center widgets.
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by vulcan01 7mo ago
I think parent means reflective. In the videos it looks like just a slightly different color. On the other MacBooks it is polished metal.
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
Libraries get rid of books in poor condition and loan books to other libraries, and patrons regularly fail to return books.
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
I see this as roughly equivalent to amortized big O complexity. If I push to a vector repeatedly, sometimes I will incur a significant cost O(n) of reallocation, but most of the time it's still O(1). Similarly, if Meta violates the l
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
Meta made $60B in Q4 2025. A one-time $1.4B fine, 20 years after enactment, is not "getting hammered".
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
> harder to hit press x to doubt > on 21 February 2008, the US Navy destroyed USA-193 in Operation Burnt Frost, using a ship-fired RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 about 247 km (153 mi) above the Pacific Ocean. https://en.wikiped
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
I'm not sure people treat this as a Very Secret Number. Certainly using SSNs publically has gone away, but people are willing to provide their SSNs to basically anyone that asks for it. Heck, some job applications ask for your SSN.
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by vulcan01 8mo ago
> the flood of obviously not qualified at all applicants we got was insane From speaking to folks looking for jobs in tech over the past few years, this is a natural result. 1. Companies write requirements on the job posting that are a l

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