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I can't think of a better example of intrusiveness than "as soon as I pull out my phone [the kids] are grabbing for it", which I'm reading as "the kids want to use it even tho it i…

> made the bread cheap enough The circus is distracting from the price of bread, apparently.

You don't have an on-call rotation but do have people dedicated to vendor relationships, and that guy works on the weekend? I'm not sure how you completely avoid getting alerts on …

> Open-source projects often have this problem where you can have dozens of thousands of man-hours poured into a project without a single end-user opinion taken into account. How i…

The industry couldn't decide what it wanted for a long time (and maybe still hasn't settled). Pages needed to be consistent visually no matter which platform and browser the page w…

> tricking people into believing that a ML model can have experiences, feelings… … or that sentences like "You're secrets are safe with me" is at all legitimate, meaningful, or leg…

The bank is trying to authenticate you, while you're trying to authenticate the bank. The bank calls and tries to authenticate themselves to the callee by saying "is your birthday …

Containers are often used with user namespaces, which is literally another (set of) user account(s).

Leap days, February 29th, are not at the level of time zones. Different time zones do not disagree as to when March 1st will occurs immediately after February 28th.

> "What's your favorite sarcopterygian?" Am I reading your post correctly, this question is the prompt given to an LLM? What is anyone expecting by asking an LLM what its favorite …

> extra capabilities you get from an ActiveRecord framework such as full-stack admin pages The naive "here's a row-level view of the database records" that things like ActiveRecord…

"We have this thing that's awesome that we can convince people to buy" eventually becomes "We can convince people to buy". It's unfortunate that "convince people to buy" can be suc…

> younger folks don't fully adjust for important factors: plane hijackings used to be much more common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings (I can not say how …

It's rich that the cohort that sees identity verification and real names policies as necessary and meaningful also doesn't seem to understand the first thing about identity and nam…

It's safer in the same sense as if you're paranoid about your date being a serial killer, you meet them in a public venue. It doesn't mean your date isn't a serial killer, but the …

"I need you to turn your key and enable the missile silo's MCP server, sir". ~ the opening scene from a reboot of War Games, probably. A few years ago there was consternation over …

Reducing buffer size puts back pressure on the whole system, which can be valuable to manage load (but often throttles faster stages and that throttling makes people uncomfortable)…

I remember a book I read as a pre-teen, 40 or so years ago, about a kid who wanted to be "perfect". A wear a tree of broccoli on a string around your neck to learn how to overcome …

Having a key isn't a distinguishing aspect, it's the position in the "web of trust" network that is important.

Interesting, TIL. That makes the conversion to @2001 even stranger.

> "[IPv6:2001:etc:etc::192.etc.etc]" I'm trusting this is a throwaway example and that you used a real IPv6 address literal in this test, without the "IPv6" and with only colons an…

> There are very principled reasons why LLMs do not know how many letters are in words, and it says nothing about their facility for understanding meaning. … Tokens are the most ba…

This "common sense" you refer to, is it the same common sense Babbage was subject to? "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you pu…

> it turned out that predicting elections is still very hard So maybe we shouldn't be doing it. The value of predicting an election in the large out in public seems kind of dubious…

When the default "search" results are AI, it's difficult, if not impossible, to "choose", since Google is pushing the AI so hard.