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About vulcan01
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…