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this as well as pickle files will likely be unavailable

pickle files are usually the limiter here. I would be surprised if it can handle pickle files since it relies so much on runtime LUTs of the objects and arbitrary object definition…

To assess where a event betting platform has placed their lines is in no way useful here. Perhaps you are only fishing for people to pile onto the other side of a bet you made or h…

Open weights are only valuable to people who have access to expensive hardware to run them on. Treating Anthropic as a service that lets you rent such hardware (there are multiple …

This is a personality difference. People who notice their surroundings and seek to improve them. People who are content with the way they are. People who are more type-A, DIY, etc.…

This is something that is hard for people to factor in when decision making. Optimism will blind us from considering such a tragedy since not only was there buy-in on the home, the…

A gist I (claude) threw together that maps this color scheme on hexl-mode. https://gist.github.com/zacharyasmith/bcfd91c9685c6cec30385a...

A gist I (claude) threw together that maps this color scheme on hexl-mode. https://gist.github.com/zacharyasmith/bcfd91c9685c6cec30385a...

I read the book but don't recall any correlation to the topic of solar system alignment. Spoiler: Era 3 in the novel does speak of space exploration but this is all before the laun…

LVDS implies differential signals and are designed to minimize EMI and can be hard to splice while still maintaining signal integrity. They can support high data rates (ethernet ca…

Please read through this incredible book review (book is All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart). It is the kind of philosophy that everyone is looking past. Syntactic v…

Go thee to the land of government contracting and see thou how well thine ideas hold up.

consider how the xz supply-chain attack occurred 2 years ago [0]. the malware isn't auditable with a `git clone` as easily as you might want. [0] https://research.swtch.com/xz-time…

key word "encourages" when someone uses `npm install/add/whatever-verb` does it default to only using trusted publishing sources? and the dependency graph? either 100% enforcement …

The DIY tuning fork clock is very cool. I am hard pressed to understand why accutron doesn't still make and sell tuning-fork watches. I really admire the creative use of resonance …

I would be very careful of transmitting on the same frequency as WWVB. It is very likely illegal.

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is the book that comes to mind with this article link. 2 years ago my wife and I took the TV off the wall. My kids don't have Bluey or th…

I tried to do this recently but discovered that the DRM algorithm changed and I couldn't use the standard de-DRM tools.

It is a Linux variant. Has been rootable in the past.

USB ethernet tether might be the “how” here. Or some sort of VPN (tailscale) to the home LAN that the phone is hooked up to. Not quite “off-grid”.

What is the functional difference? unzip is installed as a default on linux distros just as tar is...

The more pedantic compiler flags you introduce, the more strongly typed it becomes.

I have been using grist [0] for a number of months. Self-hosted. Uses Python and has defined all common Excel functions as Python functions. Has a web-api so it can be used as a ki…

On iOS install ReadKit which can interact with a very nice interface to FreshRSS. I self-host FreshRSS and it works perfectly, syncing with the server so when I go to the computer,…