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harikb

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    Comment #49023471

    > If the pen’s ink reservoir is partly empty, so that it contains an air bubble, and if it’s positioned nib down, then, when you go up in an airplane, the bubble will expand as the…

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    Comment #48678769

    Got this toast/notification message from your desktop app. > Added ok to your PATH — managed block in ~/.zshrc, ~/.config/fish/conf.d/open-knowledge.fish. Took a while to see that …

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    Comment #48529741

    It is only a problem if you claim it to be an independently developed OS with no attribution to base

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    Comment #48361128

    Why isn't there a middle man service to do IRL verification. Like - account is locked, you must use 2FA backup codes. Else go to western union / 7-eleven / super-market, show ID pr…

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    Comment #48359826

    Laptop without internet access, sure. Pencil and paper? that is brutal :)

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    Comment #48056786

    Well, you don't know how many more would have died if doctors and hospital didn't care about their insurance going higher???

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    Comment #48056777

    > It's interesting that it's the universities being ransomed, while the technical failure was Instructure's. My guess would be they get likelihood of getting paid when blackmailing…

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    Comment #47983576

    The guy who bought friendster.com lurks here

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    Comment #47917901

    Is the last photo on that page, describing the cabling, a screenshot of another photo displayed using flipdiscs? that is a whole lot of discs!!

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    Comment #47867419

    On the credentials point. Here is what I find. Day 1: Carefully handles the creds, gives me a lecture (without asking) about why .env should be in .gitignore and why I should edit …

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    Comment #47852759

    > with secrets possibly baked into source please don't suggest this. The right way is to have the creds fetched from a vault, which is programmed to release the creds auth-free to …

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    Comment #47851700

    The providers themselves can't keep this straight even within their own ecosystem. Plus everyone is running at a million miles/hour. For example `Claude code` used to set 2 specifi…

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    Comment #47837655

    A comment from the PR > Not a serious problem, but the weekdays are wrong. For example, 18-Apr-2127 is a Friday, not Sunday. There is now many magical dates to remember - 2126 ( I …

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    Comment #47685827

    The only people panicking are probably those state level actors who were using these for their own benefit.

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    Comment #47666536

    Somewhat unrelated to the language itself: > The compiler bootstraps through 3+ generations of self-compilation. I guess it applies to any language compiler, but f you are self-hos…

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    Comment #47630473

    Thank you for PartitionMagic!! I remember using it to undo whatever disk partitioning mistake I did when originally setting up a machine :)

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    Comment #47620756

    I struggled with disappearing icons (like our company VPN client - which wasn't tailscale by the way) thinking the app was somehow "stuck". I would go kill the app, restart machine…

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    Comment #47620303

    Somewhat counter quote... "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats." -- Howard Aiken ...to mean that…

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    Comment #47587652

    Not everything done by claude-code is decided by LLM. They need the wrapper to be deterministic (or one-time generated) code?

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    Comment #47570471

    He was told, he had a call from Pope

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    Comment #47550804

    I think the point would be that - some random upcoming revision of claude-code could remove or simply change the config name just as silently as it was introduced. People might gen…

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    Comment #47548563

    The UI options are also shady af. The setting reads Enabled - " You will have access to this feature" as help text. Disabled - " You will not have access to this feature". WTF does…

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    Comment #47446708

    Anthropic is not stoping you from using API (pay per token). They are only saying Pro or Max 'all-you-can-eat' plans have to be used via their tools