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earleybird

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    Comment #49233684

    Merry Christmas

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    Comment #49216797

    These agents are acting on behalf of a person. Charge that person with a crime.

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    Comment #49131207

    You get a Saucerfull of Secrets :-)

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    Comment #48649263

    I can't take the argument seriously when they ask "Pop quiz: You’re going to get hit by something coming at you at 50 miles per hour; given equal mass, would you rather that be a s…

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    Comment #48407102

    Well, Chekov is not Scotty

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    Comment #48229083

    And both Charles Keating (actor) and Charles Keating (Lincoln Savings & Loan) passed away in 2014 :-)

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    Comment #48130391

    It's possible that Adams was expanding on an Alan Kay quote "Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born"

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    Comment #47958827

    Depth of use over the lifetime of an app is a quality all its own that often not appreciated. A recurring pattern at $dayjob is that a new manager or director will join a business …

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    Comment #47894994

    Now add a retention policy of 30 days. Business memory lived in those emails and now it's 50 First Dates

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    Comment #47338335

    someone vibed a production push

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    Comment #47228418

    In a similar vein: https://www.youtube.com/@christopherhelmke

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    Comment #47132620

    It's running his Signal chats. You didn't get the invite???

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    Comment #46714087

    A question we all have to ask ourselves. What would I trade for efficiency?

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    Comment #46399010

    Is that you Molesworth???

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    Comment #45816954

    And still fatal https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/pedestrian-dead-aft... In this case it was a bicycle and not an ebike. That said, anecdotally, many ebikes I see regularly …

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    Comment #45077259

    The Amanda solution is the intuitively obvious to even the casual reader. The Einstein solution is quite succinct but takes years to understand all the nuance in the one liner. :-)…

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    Comment #45058004

    Pretty much bang on. I do have to remind myself that discipline in commit messages helps future me.

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    Comment #44698554

    Admittedly only gave a quick skim but essentially looks like Deutsch-Schorr-Waite.

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    Comment #44546396

    Thanks for the chuckle - you know there's more than one marketing guy out there who will say in all seriousness "I can do that for you" :-)

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    Comment #44544326

    I checked in with Scribble as he did the typesetting. He apologizes for the error but says working without opposable thumbs makes the work more challenging.

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    Comment #44381312

    Not to be confused with the protocol :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Data_Link_Control

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    Comment #44353101

    LRP? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

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    Comment #44352959

    Say it aint so. I learned all about lasers from Britney. https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

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    Comment #44074875

    Let's not forget the Salmon Arm salute :-)

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    Comment #43990430

    The authors concoct a Rube Goldberg legal framework on the assumption that an AI agent is acting as an independent legal entity. A straightforward way would be to say that any AI a…