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> Many people love to generate text with LLMs, but most of same crowd apparently hates to read LLM output. An interesting phenomenon. Are you sure it's the same people? I feel the …

> just looking at the pics it is impossible to gauge whether it is 400sqft or 900sqft Those are not good pics. Probably* for the same reason, to hide size and maybe something else.…

If you have a service that shares information between people all over the world, a few big companies and one government is for most cases an improvement over all the involved ISPs …

If the malicious-npm-package-of-the-week is reading arbitrary files on your workstation, isn't it usually able to run git clone/push/whatever with your current credentials anyway?

But then why change the renewal process for the people who were already fingerprinted for the original visa?

I often use vim despite knowing only a few basic commands because I'm already running various commands on the remote machine in the terminal and don't want the context switch. And …

This idea of everyone producing absurd amounts of git objects is less fantastic now [1]. We're still far from these numbers, but an order of magnitude less far than last year [2]. …

And the U in GNU, while we're at it.

And most of them are pretending to be Chrome. If Google had a good case against someone reusing their user agent, maybe they would already have sued? Or maybe not. Got some random …

> scrapers can ingest them and say "nope we won't scrape there again in the future" Do all the AI scrapers actually do that?

> Hey I wonder if there is some situation where negative SEO would be a good tactic. Generally though I think if you wanted something to stay hidden it just shouldn’t be on a publi…

> search still can't a.) rank the alert bot that is just spamming the alerts channel as "not relevant" I find "Exclude automations" toggle to be good enough. But we might have very…

But it's not about that. I don't like this decision either, but the other side of the trade-off is not just about some abstract concepts or implementation, it's about complexity of…

Most people writing any language without a linter are holding it wrong. When a linter warns me about such an expression, it usually means that even if it doesn't blow up, it increa…

Interestingly, I think this is one of the cases where both the "For context…" comment and yours add important context for the parent comment that some readers may be not familiar w…

> Legal size folders exist and are widely used by people who use ... legal size paper. Sure. But I didn't know I use legal size paper or even what it is before I asked the apartmen…

> legal (letter but longer) This one surprised me quite a bit. I think most people have A4/letter-sized folders. Why does anyone think that papers slightly longer than those folder…

Was it like a temporary assignment to another team? Did the manager at least know what team that was? Or have any idea when the employee is going to return full-time to the tasks o…

By the way, that's a regionally cool name. I read it at first as "shemesh", that means "Sun" in Hebrew.

Note this part: > That said, background processes invoked from Eshell can be controlled the same way as any other background process in Emacs I haven't used Eshell much, but this m…

That's definitely a factor at least some people consider when choosing their job. > Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic. We're also responsible…

Loops nested deep enough that you need an ultrawide to avoid truncated lines!?

I believe that if most foo's users should just call it with [], the Pythonic way is to make the argument optional.

All the numbers in that array are different.