waltbosz

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by waltbosz 3mo ago
I got 75,150
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
What's the end goal of merging everything into X ?
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
I've always considered magnets to be the closest thing we have in real life to magic.
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
To allow their site, they suggest you add `@@*$redirect-rule` to `My filters` in the uBlock origins settings. Went from 5% to 84% after I made the change.
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
I want to shoot a video and get expert feedback on the knot I invented for tying my shoes. It's fast to tie, is easy to untie, and very secure. It has never come untied on its own in all my years of using it. It's tad unconvention
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
The repo subtitle is `Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling, in real time — an X-ray through the roof.` The demo video starts outside pointing at a cloudy sky with an airplane passing overhead. My mind, seeded with the wor
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
I believe Japanese maple are a popular bonsai plant. I've never seen one as an arch. I have seen Chrysanthemum bonsai made into a small arch.
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by waltbosz 4mo ago
I first read about tree shaping in a Readers Digest magazine in the 1990s. It featured a man who would shapes trees into chairs and other sculptures. Even since then I wanted to do it. I got started on a white cherry tree that started growi
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by waltbosz 5mo ago
I had a similar youthful hacking experience with this game, I was also 9 at the time. The computer players would say a little trash-talk phrase before making their shot. I edited the text file that contained all the phrases and added new on
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by waltbosz 5mo ago
For a more technical write up https://www.dataminr.com/resources/intel-brief/shinyhunters-... I'm a software dev who was affected by the outage. I was working on an app that connects to the Canvas SAML endpoi
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by waltbosz 5mo ago
If you have 3 minutes, here's an apropos BBC audio comedy sketch. https://youtu.be/ub01udUz7ns?si=OBMKdK6RED3aZMEq&t=15
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by waltbosz 5mo ago
The World Co-ordinator in "the evitable conflict" was a positronic robot (not known to the public), but I think you're right that the machines are never identified as either positronic robots or VACs. But iirc, in the Susan C
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by waltbosz 5mo ago
I feel like the software running multivac represents something vastly more advanced than today's LLM. I wonder if Asimov considered multivac to be an ancestor to his positronic robots, or if the two exist in different universes. I don&
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by waltbosz 6mo ago
I was just thinking of this game last night. I was wondering if AI could take the ASM and convert it into a browser game. Playable w/o DOSBOX.
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by waltbosz 6mo ago
"Thank you for your attention in this matter" (eyeroll). That's what tipped me off that it was a joke. Well and the absurdity of it.
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by waltbosz 7mo ago
Feels a bit like Jurassic Park
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by waltbosz 7mo ago
https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker/blob/main/web/im... How old is that icon set? I swear I used that same peppers icon for a Windows app that I published around 2002.
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by waltbosz 7mo ago
Curious, the ghidralite page download button links to the NSA's github releases page. I wonder what is the purpose of ghidralite dot com. SEO spam? Are they building trust and then will swap out the Download button with a poisoned bina
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by waltbosz 8mo ago
> never ever ask for clarifications, would never say they didn't know something, would never say they didn't understand something I experienced this same thing working with offshore Indian contractors 20 years ago. Interesting
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by waltbosz 9mo ago
Last night, I deliberately paid attention to an ad because it had the disclaimer "images generated with AI". I was curious to see what the advertisers did with the technology. The ad featured a bunch of animals of different specie
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by waltbosz 9mo ago
Not an Aeron chair, but I bought a used Steelcase Leap 2 for $500. I've had it for 15 years and all the hardware is still like new. A year ago the reupholstered fabric on the seat started to rip revealing the original fabric which was
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by waltbosz 9mo ago
> One reason developers are developers is the dopamine loop > You write code, it doesn’t work, you fix it, it works, great! Dopamine rush. Several dozens or a hundred times a day. This statement resonates with me. Vibe coding gets the
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by waltbosz 10mo ago
Looks like they've turned the feature on. I just got an ad in the Android app. My account is plus subscription. https://imgur.com/a/jmh8EN5 Context of the conversation, I was asking it to convert a photo into Stud
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by waltbosz 10mo ago
Same for me with religious education class and Saturday morning cartoons.
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by waltbosz 10mo ago
The problem is the Roblox games have exclusive timed events that give the children FOMO. So much that they have breakdowns and refuse to do their normally scheduled activities. And it changes their behavior.
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by waltbosz 10mo ago
The other day over dinner I was speaking with a friend who works at a major international bank in the wire transfer department. They mentioned that before the tariffs deadline, American businesses were rushing to make giant international or
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by waltbosz 11mo ago
Your comment makes me wonder how well SIMA 2 could do at playing Minecraft and discovering how create things like iron farms and villager trading halls. Think of all the steps required for it to learn iron farms. First it would need to obse
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by waltbosz 11mo ago
You know, I always thought it odd when plumbers (etc. tradesmen) working full time for a company have to supply their own tools.
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by waltbosz 11mo ago
> find a way to keep human crew happy on long, slow voyages across the Pacific. Makes me think of Rory Sutherland's ideas for getting passengers to be ok with a long ride duration on the Eurostar https://www.instagram.com
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by waltbosz 11mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. My mom was once assaulted by an anti-protestor and our newspaper published an article about it (slow news day maybe?). The article mentioned that she was a grandmother of 20. I thought it was a sort of strang

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