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by xbar 10d ago
Thank you for the Wayback Machine. It is immensely powerful for good.
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by xbar 11d ago
Security-yolo-clowns play with dangerous toys and hurt people. Many used to get sent to jail.
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by xbar 11d ago
Their solution is to drive demand for domestically-produced oil at ever increasing volumes and prices.
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by xbar 12d ago
I agree that the idea that some number of teleporting ships scales past the ability to bring enough chaotic asteroids to bear on them seems like a design problem. For me, that was six ships on wave 14. The field is rapidly emptied of threat
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by xbar 16d ago
How can OpenAI figure out how to be trustworthy?
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by xbar 16d ago
Um. Apple?
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by xbar 17d ago
I am grateful that the devs and their commitment to continuously improving the game have long left those people behind. The gameplay is completely engaging and this update looks like it fills in even more spaces than were hoped for.
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by xbar 17d ago
I disagree. Ready-made UI components and templates have been million-dollar businesses for a lot of companies for a long, long time. Finding space in a development ecosystem to provide a set of purpose-built tools is a common and healthy so
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Engineer and Nam A2 and AI = Perfect and Free Valen Halen Plug-In [video](youtube.com)
1 points by xbar 21d ago|0 comments
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by xbar 23d ago
I can only assume ICANN was co-opted by Verisign some decades ago.
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by xbar 23d ago
I liked the post because it tells a true story about one of the remaining problems that are hard to solve well without a 3rd party.
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by xbar 24d ago
How did German solar panels end up adapting?
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by xbar 25d ago
Firefox still works fine for me. Sometimes it gets greedy with some activities. I smack it around and it seems to respond. I worry that Mozilla is starving it compared to other activities.
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by xbar 29d ago
Time to break up Big Food.
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by xbar 29d ago
Yup. Samsung & Sonys too. Dumb mode, no internet, Apple TV. Doesn't solve the malware on Windows PCs installed by LG monitors problem. My only solution to that remains to not buy Lucky Goldstar ever since their 14" 640x480 VG
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by xbar 29d ago
Well said. Now I just need a universal way to maintain consistency of my F-keys across all applications, including various browsers.
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by xbar 29d ago
What a fun post! My vector calculus is rusty so it was a pleasant little derivation. I liked getting to the end an find A.R. as the author. It made me appreciate this part of the journey that eventually got us some Asahi Linux graphics.
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by xbar 29d ago
Hm. I wonder if you can force an exploit into existence with a false rumor of a bug?
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by xbar 1mo ago
Time to break up Big Food.
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by xbar 1mo ago
Every time I engage with Claude I am reminded how bad it is at communicating to its human.
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by xbar 1mo ago
The author clearly understood this part of the topic and agrees. There are multiple reasons that software is slow. As you imply, some of them are not because spending time on optimization seems relatively expensive compared to value. But so
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by xbar 2mo ago
The Banksy cost-benefit and clean-protect loops are part of my favorite modern civic dialogs. I like it when the BBC takes the obvious side of the establishment because it is honest.
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by xbar 2mo ago
No, that is not the new trust model.
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by xbar 2mo ago
Hypocrisy-rich.
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by xbar 2mo ago
Thank you for the library. I was about to ask after 2 of these design spaces.
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by xbar 2mo ago
He was a thoughtful and insightful writer. I eagerly awaited his PC Magazine article every single week.
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by xbar 2mo ago
Thanks. I needed that reminder to sometimes NOT just solve a matrix of 3000 * 3000 equations and merely make an assumption and take an integral, metaphorically.
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by xbar 2mo ago
No Wash & Dry samples?
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by xbar 2mo ago
What's the best cookies notice?
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by xbar 2mo ago
Rife.

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