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I know vegans who consume dairy/eggs once they become responsible for the husbandry of those sources.

I'm not following. Doesn't the outbox pattern just pass the buck? The motive seems to be a naive process that enqueues a message and then commits to a database - two independent ac…

Or a nihilist, or a fatalist, or a pessimist, or an antinatalist, or a realist. Don't go putting people into boxes. That's the path of persecution. You have the inalienable right t…

I think advertisements are socially acceptable and actually expected to be as blatantly offensive as possible. How would people react if it were "Boeing go boom. Fly Airbus now! Te…

More energy will be required than radiation absorbed by a spherical (ish) data center. You'll have massive solar panels piping energy in, and so the temperature would by higher tha…

I had to implement a subset of postfix because security wouldn't greenlight any MTAs (or third-party software for that matter)...

Yeah, but proprietary baseband blobs don't control power, right? So if I turn the phone off, the radio ought to be dead... fingers crossed.

""" If the battery runs out or device is off For supported devices, which include Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 series, the Find Hub network can locate your phone for several hour…

What about the find-my-phone BLE database, for which I just learned modern phones broadcast even when off? Is that controlled by the OS (Google, Apple) and not the carrier?

How was Amandla even identified? Stingray at the protest? Then how was the phone number linked to Google? Facial recognition at the protest? I guess his details are on file under t…

This is a bit odd, because it was going to start off as an Ask, and now its a hybrid Show/Ask. The ask being, how in the world do I make use of Codex's proxy networking? I wanted C…

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That's interesting. So you want to train language, linguistic reasoning, and tool use, but otherwise strip out all knowledge in lieu of a massive context? Just grade they model on …

Isn't this the idea behind holographic memory? Chopping the image in half gets you the same image at half the resolution? Or so I've heard... What you want is a context mipmap. The…

That's why I don't feel bad pirating textbooks.

For example: Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole. - signed,…

Ehh, I find that the most tedious code is also the most sensitive to errors, stuff that blurs the divide between code and data.

What is it like purchasing consumer goods from the EU under the new 10% section 122 rates? Previously I could have expected 25% tariffs + UPS/govt fees equivalent to another 40%. B…

That's a really good point. I'm not familiar with Unison, but I think that's the idea behind the language? https://www.unison-lang.org/

It's still possible for two commits to conflict only semantically, one obsoleting the other. Merging both would lead to dead code so perhaps stricter (line-base or ast-based) confl…

No, it's 996 for 845 wages.

Do we need a "human in the loop" when targeting autonomous machines?

> By destandardising sizes Oh. I thought there was an outside chance you intended a positive response. Ah well. > Age, health and status I can understand age. But wouldn't everyone…

eBay? Can you elaborate? Do you mean used clothes like on Poshmark? And does eBay really publish decent clothes measurements?

If only, but wouldn't dimensions work just as well as pattern/silhouette visualizations? And finding retail dimensions is the hard part. Hey, how close are we to being able to 3d p…