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by xnorswap 3mo ago
They kept this really quiet, I was expecting to have lost fable access when I got into work, only to discover it's just part of the plan. Excellent news, and thank you to the enterprise customers for subsidising premium teams seats to
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
I probably shouldn't even engage, so hopefully this doesn't come across as too patronising. If you're genuinely confused about the statement in question, let's break it down. > OnePlus has decided to conclude new prod
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
I've been using regex decades, but it never really stuck to do anything too complex, it was the perfect intersection of difficult and infrequent. ( And also variable - PCRE vs others customisations / non-regular parts, etc ). I am
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
If you're going to be pedantic, at least first check you're correct. Conclude - verb - to bring to an end.
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
While this is a great idea that no-doubt does help some people, beware this doesn't clean up all traces in the browser, and private/incognito is better at not keeping a history. For example, there is a favicon cache in firefox. If
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
That's true of some things, but sometimes there are things that exist, but google no longer reliably surfaces in a way that it once did. Search anything and you are bombarded with unoriginal sites, optimised for SEO, filled with genera
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
I cheated and looked at the source: There are 60 quotes. So expect ~280 refreshes to collect 'em all.
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
Frustrating without a way to get to the list of works, because it's not clear when you've seen them all. You start having to guess how many there are, based on how many you have seen and how many have repeated, and the distance be
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
> I also don't seem to be able to use internet search anymore A bit off topic, but you're not the only one. I've grown up with the internet and yet I'm now completely unable to find things on demand. I sometimes resor
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
I'm unreasonably distracted by the fact that the illustrations of the tattoos are on the back of the "Subtraction" page. That is consistent for both pages, but inconsistent with how they seem to be ordered within the text. I
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
HN Title is ( edit: was ) very misleading, it makes it sound like inference is being done directly on ciphertext, which would require homomorphic encryption well advanced of what is known.
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
It's clearly a bug. The UI defaults to "system preference" but then gives you dark mode anyway, even if your system preference is light mode. To get back to actually using system preference, you have to choose light/dark
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
FYI Your docs don't respect system-mode choice until you click into light/dark mode then back to system. They just show up in dark mode if there's no local storage setting set yet.
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
The AGENTS.md is interesting, apparently the primary most important principle is, "Avoid em-dashes like the plague". That's an odd request. I always use my own voice for certain things, such as posting to hacker news, or writ
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
Because people expect: 1. bug fixes and updates 2. Services to work in the "cloud" If you bought a piece of software, received precisely that version and never got updates, and didn't expect your data to magically fo
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
Debugging and diagnosis is very tool call heavy, whether that's grepping / transforming logs, calling out to profilers/tracers, or even just writing up incident reports. Bug diagnostics is about being okay at coding but bette
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
I do think HN should have an obit: category and filter them out the main page. It's one thing to have obits for people who wouldn't be covered by regular news, but "75 year old celebrity dies" is not any kind of new phen
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
Why the 15 year cut-off? Besides, I don't doubt the US spelling has taken over, that has happened a lot in a wide range of fields, but it doesn't invalidate the British spelling, even if it isn't as widely used in recent publ
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
> Preventing crimes before the happen is in general just unquestionably good Is that satire? In a world where as if by magic all crimes are prevented, then there is total power in the hands of those who define what a crime is, including
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
It's cypher in British English.
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by xnorswap 3mo ago
Surely the last place you'd want to use those weaker consistency guarantees is a concurrency limiter?
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by xnorswap 4mo ago
I understand the romantic appeal of discovering "abandoned" books and forgotten ideas. However I suspect my reaction to your anecdote is very different to the one that most people might have, because I think that behaviour is harm
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by xnorswap 4mo ago
It would be better if they were aligned to the delay repay thresholds.
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by xnorswap 4mo ago
To most of us that's worth a ton, whereas he's probably had enough front-page posts that there's less value to him, although still likely more than $12 worth.
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by xnorswap 4mo ago
What strikes me about that is how much "dead air" there is without background music and how much of a long-format that was for broadcast. You just wouldn't get away with that on TV now, the closest thing is some twitch or you
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by xnorswap 4mo ago
I had something similar happen where someone linked a blog article, I thought it sounded like slop, especially since they were posting 2-3 articles a day, but I wasn't sure so I checked their back catalogue. I then saw they've alw
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by xnorswap 4mo ago
It's LLM phraseology. It comes up with a scenario where it could be a problem ( license removal ), and then it generates why a license might get removed ( "cost-saving" ). It's not a person thinking, so there's no r
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by xnorswap 5mo ago
Yeah, lab leak is hard enough to contain with human viruses, but labs have well established protocols to prevent it happening. Computing doesn't have good protocols except for air-gapping, we really just have lots of layers of best-eff
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by xnorswap 5mo ago
Often this kind of thing is put in as a relief valve to stop people demanding legislation. They can push back by pointing to this kind of measure, despite knowing in practice that employees aren't really free to use it.
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by xnorswap 5mo ago
I hate it when companies use this kind of trick to get around legislation or privacy concerns. "Employees are able to turn off tracking". Sure, but there is a power imbalance, and employees will come to understand ( although never

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