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Huh, I was just watching a YouTube video that claimed the limited ability of China to predict weather in the Taiwan Strait is a factor in what makes it hard to invade.

Knowledge is precious and worth preserving, sure, but a specific copy of a book? Unless they're doodling in the margins of historical documents or rare manuscripts, I personally ca…

Socrates thought similar of reading and writing, if that analogy lands any better.

Depends what the git history is supposed to show. Personally, I prefer people to leave their mistakes and reversions - though I'd require more description messages than "oops" or "…

Socrates thought the same of reading and writing, that it would weaken the memory and isolate people from one another. 1966 saw the peak of calculator protests, where math teachers…

I worked on Half-Life mods with friends I met in IRC in the late 90's - so about 13 onwards. We "released" stuff to forums all the time, though very few updates ever got released. …

I am engaging with why group A wins: they win because the emotional prior is doing most of the work, not because the underlying argument necessarily has merit.

I don't think I agree - "think of the children" is not primarily a rational argument, it's more an emotional and political lever that is used to frame anyone in opposition as being…

Where’s the baseline? Most projects I’ve ever started since I was a teenager have been abandoned within months of release.

Try using it as an agent to perform black box security testing on a live instance of your codebase (assuming it's a hosted service).

Codex is open source: https://github.com/openai/codex

It's a good reason to not tie your company's success to US based hosted AI though. I've started experimenting with GLM 5.2 and other than the tooling needing a lot more setup once …

So where does the necessity to install multiple 15A circuits come from?

That’s a uniquely US issue - in NZ you can get a 100A single phase at 230V nominal without any issue. 23kw, straight to your door. A single circuit using 10mm TPS would technically…

Depends how much you value privacy and running uncensored models. Personally, I’m waiting for hardware to hit the secondary market before I buy something to run unquantized models …

Works on our staging and production environments, but the feedback loop is too long for development. I mean, if it was literally the only way then we’d live with it, but ensuring e…

No, it won’t. The internet is just getting smaller from my perspective because there’s no way I’m handing over my identification and allowing every connection made to a server to b…

And those darned printing presses distributing works that were written prior to their existence.

I’ll take “No true Scotsman” for $800 thank you Alex.

One person upgrading terraform can break the state format for backwards compatibility. We use direnv with asdf to ensure everyone is in the same version now.

I also wonder if being able to prove that an image or video isn’t AI generated would lend credence to it, while in reality there are other methods to produce falsified video.

“A ditch” and “this ditch specifically” are two entirely separate concepts.

I’m waiting to see what they come up with for the Motorola partnership. Hopefully it’s interesting.

I rode my motorcycle into a hole that almost swallowed the front tyre entirely in rural Australia. That hole had just been a slight depression that collected water the last time I …