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crummy

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About crummy

me at malcolmcrum dot com

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    Comment #49203014

    Splitgate matched new players with bots for the first few hours. It meant I had fun (then eventually I levelled up enough, matched with players, got stomped, and never picked it up…

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    Comment #49150130

    I remember taking general ed classes in college that I didn't want to do but had to to get required credits.

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    Comment #48977202

    does Astro do WYSWIYG?

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    Comment #48840422

    I am inclined to agree but grok 4.5 seems to be almost SOTA. They could be frontier soon.

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    Comment #48840408

    Out of curiosity, I just asked Grok and learned: * Biden won the 2020 election * vaccines do not cause autism * global warming is not a conspiracy In each case it seemed to do a we…

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    Comment #48838506

    There are plenty of places in the developed world where it just doesn't make financial sense to roll out fibre. In NZ about 90% of the country has fibre access... probably that num…

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    Comment #48605490

    Billionaires also want vaccines, sometimes do they have our best interests in mind. They can’t extract wealth from the poor masses if we’re sick!

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    Comment #48605021

    Would you use a value class if you wanted to represent a fraction?

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    Comment #48483028

    Why can’t gifts have contracts?

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    Comment #48395724

    so... they made a society with a lot of inequality and it fell apart?

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    Comment #48394235

    Are you arguing against the concept of progress taxation entirely?

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    Comment #48393853

    I have not read Piketty. But I could imagine a society where the poor are 10% better off and the rich are 1000% better off to be a less stable society that ends up falling apart.

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    Comment #48342613

    I think your detector is overly sensitive. That sounds like a very common way to phrase a sentence.

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    Comment #48273913

    Doesn't Apple already ask you for your age when you set up a new device? And I think Microsoft requires you to be 18 on your admin account.

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    Comment #48262660

    That sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.

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    Comment #48254399

    This makes it seem like roughly an even split: https://imgur.com/a/4W9Ub2t

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    Comment #48243444

    Some footage: https://youtu.be/CiWX1nsvqBs?si=lE5autC2y2b8ez2X At a minute in you can see the satellites being ejected out one by one.

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    Comment #48242788

    I thought they paid barely anything to artists because they are only getting fifteen bucks a month from each subscriber. And their price is restricted because they’re essentially c…

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    Comment #48204037

    does it have some kind of sandboxing for its extensions?

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    Comment #48056151

    Curious if people think LLMs will lead to more secure or less secure software in five years.

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    Comment #48031458

    this is a hack I have used and am proud of: if you use Caddy as your reverse proxy (instead of nginx for example which does not do this), when requests come in and your service is …

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    Comment #48019300

    I recall chrome used to let you reveal passwords with a simple button press in the UI. I think their conclusion at the time was if an attacker had local access there was no point i…

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    Comment #47809853

    Seems there’s an opening for an ElonJet-like tracker that operates on this data.

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