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vulcan01

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About vulcan01

if you want to chat, my signal username is vulcan.01.

website: vedthiru.com

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    Comment #49169962

    This poem is in the short story.

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    Comment #48850541

    > And I would ensure that Y was a poor solution. How do you ensure people don't think you're not good at your job, if you continually propose poor solutions? Since you're emailing …

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    Comment #48519412

    I think it's just to hype Anthropic. Check it out, we have products so dangerous the government banned them, we must be so advanced . (Their competitors cannot make such a claim.)

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    Comment #48507678

    wrt. the end of the story, it will be interesting to see if people start noticing their Dunning-Kruger bias as a result of LLMs. Specifically: LLMs make it really easy to misundere…

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    Comment #48484084

    Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).

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    Comment #48435037

    your parent: > the code in question had already been reviewed by human counsel

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    Comment #48360335

    This is an ARM device, so presumably compatibility with third-party software.

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    Comment #48327994

    Might be interesting to try emailing dang to see if they keep track of this.

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    Comment #48325765

    Last comment in that issue links to https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-an...

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    Comment #48286994

    This talk – "Programming without pointers" – by Andrew Kelley may be interesting to you. https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...

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    Comment #48230762

    First transaction would be outside the channel. e.g., scalper may require high-value Venmo or Zelle transaction, then enter buyer ID / name on ticket website at listed limit.

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    Comment #47897722

    You are falling victim to frequency bias. Popular books are popular – and especially before mass printing technologies, really popular. A lot of people may have tried to write book…

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    Comment #47490345

    Intended usage is to use Edge Copilot to search the page for you.

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    Comment #47487434

    Since LLMs are trained on "random people online", why are they not of equal rank?

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    Comment #47457851

    By your criterion, Google, Apple, and Amazon are terrible names as well.

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    Comment #47351175

    This is not what Liquid Glass actually looks like on first-party macOS applications. This needs way more blur and opacity to match even the control center widgets.

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    Comment #47257271

    I think parent means reflective. In the videos it looks like just a slightly different color. On the other MacBooks it is polished metal.

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    Comment #47004055

    Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?

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    Comment #46924199

    Libraries get rid of books in poor condition and loan books to other libraries, and patrons regularly fail to return books.

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    Comment #46924093

    I see this as roughly equivalent to amortized big O complexity. If I push to a vector repeatedly, sometimes I will incur a significant cost O(n) of reallocation, but most of the ti…

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    Comment #46913121

    Meta made $60B in Q4 2025. A one-time $1.4B fine, 20 years after enactment, is not "getting hammered".

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    Comment #46881471

    > harder to hit press x to doubt > on 21 February 2008, the US Navy destroyed USA-193 in Operation Burnt Frost, using a ship-fired RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 about 247 km (153 mi) …

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    Comment #46881053

    I'm not sure people treat this as a Very Secret Number. Certainly using SSNs publically has gone away, but people are willing to provide their SSNs to basically anyone that asks fo…

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    Comment #46819273

    > the flood of obviously not qualified at all applicants we got was insane From speaking to folks looking for jobs in tech over the past few years, this is a natural result. 1. Com…