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quadhome

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About quadhome

Scott Robinson, wandering developer.

http://quadhome.com/

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    Earlier this year, Andrew, who works for an Australian company that sells AI products to businesses, began experimenting with OpenClaw, a popular AI agent software that he used Ant…

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    Comment #49108150

    It's especially weird since the author is talking about inspecting and modifying data at runtime; gdb happily attaches to a process running a program written in C. However, if he w…

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    Comment #48928510

    https://lobste.rs/c/kzln1c

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    Comment #48654114

    Big Ad Tech is helping push age verification because Big AI Tech took away human eyeballs. It's not that deep.

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    Comment #48594207

    Taiwan’s bloodless land reform is far more contemporary and relevant: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10511

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    Comment #48543068

    Alzheimer’s is driven by the buildup of toxic proteins called amyloid-beta. In the words of Derek Lowe: Amyloid-directed therapies truly, truly do not appear to be the answer for A…

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    Comment #48542904

    And just decided to relicense those forks with no real regard. Also, it’s a loooong way from the self-contained goal—- there are a lot of third-party crates as dependencies still. …

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    Comment #48411448

    You must be young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_war

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    Comment #48368230

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf03YBxCyGI

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    Comment #48167911

    Bill Gates? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iPe6Iegom4

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    Comment #47061182

    Wherein a very basic KYC system is described. Every bank and money transmitter in the US have either built an identical system or purchased one.

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    Comment #46934409

    IP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?

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    Comment #45789800

    It's desirable to be able to express the idea that we want to continually poll drive one asynchronous operation to completion while periodically checking if some other thing has ha…

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    Comment #45721106

    From scratch? AIUI GTA3 and Vice City were built on RenderWare.

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    Comment #45231621

    > But is there any major technology that post 1960s theoretical physics has given us? I can't think of any example. Insane take. Just GPS, MRIs (high temp. supercondutors), electro…

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    Comment #45101055

    AsyncLocalStorage.enterWith is the wrong method; .enterWith changes the logger for across the *synchronous* execution. This doesn't matter if there's only one request happening at …

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    Comment #45074064

    Humans only retrieve information in a library in that way due to the past limitations on retrieval and processing. The invention of technologies like tables of contents or even the…

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    Comment #45037736

    "Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -- Elizabeth Stone

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    Comment #44887011

    WebSub[1] has been a standard for real-time notification of changes for at least a decade. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub

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    Comment #44813643

    AIUI early transistor research was funded by public (defense) grants. And Bell Labs was definitely government supported , if not outright government funded.

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    Comment #44546256

    Screamers (1995) is one of my favourite sci-fi movies and it's more or less The Secondary Variety in film form. Beware: low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, "frustrating close to being …

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    Comment #44232889

    https://cr.app is the time wasting microsite for the DTC toilet paper company Who Gives A Crap.

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    Comment #44052745

    Galileo’s open service (civil-access) E1 signal incorporates public/private key encryption to digitally sign and authentify data. False Galileo signals from malicious forces are ea…

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    Comment #44008561

    Physical latencies in distributed systems design. Calibration for input devices. Block storage failures and RAID in general. Monitor refresh rates. Almost everything about audio. R…