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by xkcd-sucks 25d ago
Ideally yes but in practice thermal cameras measure radiance not temperature and different materials are more or less radiant; putting a camera behind a wall blocks the signal or at least diffuses it; the resolution+SnR are not great at con
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by xkcd-sucks 1mo ago
> From the manufacturer's perspective, the life time value (LTV) of us as a customer was basically just one fan + the free marketing of folks like myself writing this kind of post. Given there's zero barrier to substitution + t
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by xkcd-sucks 2mo ago
"AI dementia"? NB psychotic delusions are an optional feature of dementia
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by xkcd-sucks 2mo ago
> One reason why journalists, activists, and residents have been able to learn so much about what police use Flock for is that the company has built auditing tools that the public can access through records requests. ... It is not clear
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by xkcd-sucks 2mo ago
It's absolutely nuts that there's so much volume of low effort cryptocurrency transfers that replacing clipboard contents with a different wallet address on people not blocking ads on a specific ad network nets anything at all
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by xkcd-sucks 2mo ago
Would that require a watershed event to clearly establish the importance/risk of privacy though? For example, right now it seems like most big software companies w/ strong security process are comfortable uploading entire codebase
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by xkcd-sucks 3mo ago
There's a pretty good 2008 Mexican scifi film "sleep dealer" that covers this topic more or less
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by xkcd-sucks 3mo ago
Sure, "authenticity" evaporates under close inspection but it's still a good proxy for quality
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
Brand differentiation, not art
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
> Confidence is flagged: ..... > The big picture > The structural reverse-engineering is comprehensive (every subsystem mapped, both cross-page mechanisms resolved ... > Confidence summary / open items Probably an LLM wrote
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
Ha, I agree most of his books evoke having been written during stimulant binges; rich and detailed world building in the beginnings transition to incoherent plot driven action at the endings
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
Domain expertise combined with a QA mindset could replace SWE, but consistent QA mindset is rare
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
Lower lift to add accessibility tree as a new feature to Linux desktop environments, vs de-enshittifying MS and MacOS desktops?
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
There is some real world value to selecting for people whose learning is more resilient under pressure
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
All of Silksong did this really well - Killing the bosses is the point of the game; each boss fight starts out frustrating and becomes quite fun, but at the point where the fight becomes pure fun you kill them and can never repeat that figh
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by xkcd-sucks 4mo ago
Honest question, what isn't compatible? Where I work we've simply replaced node with bun across a lot of overcomplicated + crappy projects, and on my work+personal computers I alias bun/bunx to node/npx with seemingly no
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by xkcd-sucks 5mo ago
A picture is worth a thousand words; this article about pictures contains no pictures and too many words. Probably AI slop
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by xkcd-sucks 5mo ago
A lot of discussion about self-checkout fraud, but these tags are only for shoppers' convenience and don't control pricing - One tag goes in front of that SKU on display so you can see the price. At checkout, a barcode or plain ol
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by xkcd-sucks 5mo ago
Oh FFS claude code is the only reason I have a pro claude subscription. I don't even use my personal subscription all that much after spending all day with claude/bedrock at work. I will absolutely cancel my pro subscription and c
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by xkcd-sucks 5mo ago
> Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You wou
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by xkcd-sucks 5mo ago
I'm a big fan of soaking in hot water and have noticed that cardiac function seems to have a massive effect on heat tolerance as measured vs body temperature. For example, if I've been totally sedentary for the whole day (and my f
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by xkcd-sucks 6mo ago
I'm familiar with Haxe through the game Dead Cells, which has absolutely exquisite controls/gameplay and graphics
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by xkcd-sucks 6mo ago
Should have hired marketing people instead of app developers
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by xkcd-sucks 6mo ago
I'm sure the article is broadly correct but in 3 separate academic institutions I've worked for in labs the assigned/monogrammed PPE coats were light blue, light red, and dark blue. Likewise my father in law's corporate
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by xkcd-sucks 6mo ago
That being said it's maybe a valid claim under "tortuous interference" theory, i.e. OpenCode damaged Anthropic by interfering with the contractual ToS agreement between Anthropic and its users https://en.wikipedia.
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by xkcd-sucks 8mo ago
Marketing, if you don't know the answer it's always marketing
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by xkcd-sucks 8mo ago
When your OKRs for the past year include "internal adoption of ai tools"
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by xkcd-sucks 10mo ago
> Katie Ledecky didn't put in a huge amount of effort in her training before her world-class swimming performances. Although the training takes lots of energy and time, it needn't be driven by striving towards abstract goals. R
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by xkcd-sucks 10mo ago
> Wait what? I never heard about this in nearly two decades of working. Is this jurisdiction specific or a general case? It was a surprise to me too!!! I heard this from my employment attorney in Massachusetts USA.
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by xkcd-sucks 10mo ago
There is a school of thought that all psychiatric crap can be expressed in terms of disordered synaptic plasticity ... Dementia it falls apart; psychosis it forms and prunes "wrongly", etc. Unfortunately this view is a little ahea

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