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I lived in a high-rise that let you unselect a floor with a double press. Try that next time. Can confirm it's very nice!

This is a cool finding; I did not know it was still an active area of study with all the work on ML and LLMs these days. I have done some amateur exploration of the space and the r…

Same. This is why I switched to Apple Maps. Sometimes the Google detours would end in dangerous situations, like a left turn with no light across a major road. And it would be to s…

But which one - SMS/RCS? iMessage? WhatsApp? Signal? Telegram? Discord?

The Linux kernel had strlcpy over 20 years ago. It was removed in favor of str s cpy because the latter was judged a better interface. Here's a 2022 article: https://lwn.net/Articl…

What is "IR"?

This is true of XFS too; I have run it in production on both RedHat and Debian/Ubuntu based distros for decades and have never had issues after an FS full event. I usually reboot a…

Yeah, just tangentially pointing out that asset depreciation rules in the U.S. changed recently. Could explain some of the crazy magnitude of this year's spending spree.

> depreciate over 10 years I believe the One Big Beautiful Bill Act allows full depreciation in the first year: https://www.bassets.net/blog/obbba-depreciation-2025-2026-gu...

You don't, but it's so much cooler when you do! Not everything needs to be a beige utilitarian module optimized for business consumption. I didn't need to implement an Intel RDRAND…

Coreutils are not only used in interactive contexts. They are the primitives that make up the countless shell scripts which glue systems together. Any edge case will be encountered…

> the tour is rad As others have noted, the guides are full of tall tales. I grew up in San Jose and remember when the property next to the Winchester Mystery House was a drive-in …

> rather than just tearing others’ work down as I’m currently doing. Your criticism looks authentic, based on real study and expertise. I think it is a valuable gift. It is only wh…

I also had old Google backup codes fail a few years ago. Anybody who hasn't regenerated them in a year or two, I recommend you do so.

It's a much saner number, though probably easier to pocket dial as well. I'm not sure how far back it was chosen, but 112 would also dial a lot faster than 911 or 999 on a rotary p…

It is astonishing how one's motor skills degrade when the adrenaline is flowing. I once tried to dial 911 on an iPhone in such circumstances. My hands were shaking so badly I kept …

I disagree about baseball. I played it in school and have always enjoyed it casually, but I attended a game with a friend who was very into MLB. He pointed out many interesting def…

> GPT-4 now considers self modifying AI code to be extremely dangerous and doesn't like talking about it. Claude's safety filters began shutting down similar conversations a few mo…

you should use your own words. i like them a lot more than with the LLM filter.

> After it’s over, they’ll like you a little more or a little less. They’ll be more or less likely to bring you problems. They’ll be more or less likely to recommend you or avoid y…