"Properly" is doing a lot of work here (Claude would say it's load-bearing ;) If one's needs are modest, then no, the 4-5 basic operations don't need a 400-page book to understand, and are quite proper for…
"Let's go get sushi and not pay." -- Repo Man, 1984. That's into the absurdist territory, but it reflects the real pattern of behavior. People do go around committing petty crimes for various reasons.
> Oliver Heaviside [...] even claimed Germans would get short sighted by reading Fraktur Well Heaviside was a bit of a kook, especially in his later years, and that claim seems entirely in character :) My contacts with…
If the pill has a score line, it's designed for halving (or quartering, if it has two.) Otherwise, no guarantees.
> It’s been established that LLM-generated code is not copyrighted If that's a reference to Thaler v. Perlmutter, the only thing that's been established is that an LLM can't be considered an author under the Copyright…
One out of two isn't catastrophic, but dear gods, wouldn't it be nice if people consulted the map instead of going off by the vibes. Poor Moldova, it got roped into the Balkans just by being a small impoverished country…
Any party can win if it gets the majority of candidates across all parliamentary constituencies. However, a Prime Minister must be elected as an MP somewhere. If Reform got a majority without Farage being elected, they…
Couldn't help noticing: In other words, it’s not just a tool problem, any more than it’s a human resources problem or a leadership problem. Instead it is a systemic problem [...] Shades of an LLMism, a bit padded, a…
> are there people that use the caps lock key? I for one do. Old habit when typing in longish C constants (ECONNRESET) or shell environment variables. I'm used to typing capitals by holding the Shift with the pinky of…
Domino theory as applied to business, plus one should never underestimate the lengths to which a company will go to wring the last ounce of profit from a market.
> This is what they don't tell you about continuous/transition/progressive bifocals: optically they don't work. I'll defer to your judgement re optical properties, but I want to offer a counter-anecdote about…
> But the 15c 'Collector's Edition' had some issues, and I wonder about the build quality and reliability of this new one, too. Build quality deteriorated (from impressive heights) more than 25 years ago, when HP's…
> I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude) Who, then, understands the code? If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. Otherwise, you need to read the code,…
> Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that people always been predominantly right…
> You just have to use a secure device. Secure as defined by a duo of monopolists. It's a contractual concept and doesn't have a firm relation to security-related characteristics. I'd trust GrapheneOS to be as secure as…
The plus I haven't encountered before, but "996" is a Google away. In short, working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days per week.
> You must belong to the club of folks who use hashmaps to store 100 objects. Apparently I belong to the same club -- when I'm writing AWK scripts. (Arrays are hashmaps in a trenchcoat there.) Using hashmaps is not…
https://archive.ph/yvUA3
> Why can't the cyclists slow down when they see that there's a human obstacle in front of them? They usually do. (The considerate and/or non-confrontational ones. There are always idiots, and people have the tendency…
> That is spectacularly useless Depends. If one is aware of the meaning of section numbers, that "(5)" is very obviously suggesting that there is a file format named "crontab" which is documented. It's also pretty…
Hehe "Balkonkraftwerk", available from Lidl for €250 (see TFA). This makes me unreasonably happy for some reason.
> Just having something like "Have a bonded 3rd party security team review the source code and running router software" would solve around 95% of the stupid things they do. It would certainly help, but no economically…
Not on account of its control software, which is what I was talking about.
> So, we don't need an electrical code to enforce correct wiring. For an analogy to work, its underlying elements should have a relation to the target. Your analogy is not in the same universe. For electrical work,…
> With network protocols, you make one layer (Ethernet), you add another layer (IP), then another (TCP), then another (HTTP). Each one fits inside the last, but is independent, and you can deal with them separately or…
"Properly" is doing a lot of work here (Claude would say it's load-bearing ;) If one's needs are modest, then no, the 4-5 basic operations don't need a 400-page book to understand, and are quite proper for…
"Let's go get sushi and not pay." -- Repo Man, 1984. That's into the absurdist territory, but it reflects the real pattern of behavior. People do go around committing petty crimes for various reasons.
> Oliver Heaviside [...] even claimed Germans would get short sighted by reading Fraktur Well Heaviside was a bit of a kook, especially in his later years, and that claim seems entirely in character :) My contacts with…
If the pill has a score line, it's designed for halving (or quartering, if it has two.) Otherwise, no guarantees.
> It’s been established that LLM-generated code is not copyrighted If that's a reference to Thaler v. Perlmutter, the only thing that's been established is that an LLM can't be considered an author under the Copyright…
One out of two isn't catastrophic, but dear gods, wouldn't it be nice if people consulted the map instead of going off by the vibes. Poor Moldova, it got roped into the Balkans just by being a small impoverished country…
Any party can win if it gets the majority of candidates across all parliamentary constituencies. However, a Prime Minister must be elected as an MP somewhere. If Reform got a majority without Farage being elected, they…
Couldn't help noticing: In other words, it’s not just a tool problem, any more than it’s a human resources problem or a leadership problem. Instead it is a systemic problem [...] Shades of an LLMism, a bit padded, a…
> are there people that use the caps lock key? I for one do. Old habit when typing in longish C constants (ECONNRESET) or shell environment variables. I'm used to typing capitals by holding the Shift with the pinky of…
Domino theory as applied to business, plus one should never underestimate the lengths to which a company will go to wring the last ounce of profit from a market.
> This is what they don't tell you about continuous/transition/progressive bifocals: optically they don't work. I'll defer to your judgement re optical properties, but I want to offer a counter-anecdote about…
> But the 15c 'Collector's Edition' had some issues, and I wonder about the build quality and reliability of this new one, too. Build quality deteriorated (from impressive heights) more than 25 years ago, when HP's…
> I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude) Who, then, understands the code? If the answer is "no one really", entropy will overwhelm your codebase sooner or later. Otherwise, you need to read the code,…
> Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that people always been predominantly right…
> You just have to use a secure device. Secure as defined by a duo of monopolists. It's a contractual concept and doesn't have a firm relation to security-related characteristics. I'd trust GrapheneOS to be as secure as…
The plus I haven't encountered before, but "996" is a Google away. In short, working 9 AM to 9 PM, six days per week.
> You must belong to the club of folks who use hashmaps to store 100 objects. Apparently I belong to the same club -- when I'm writing AWK scripts. (Arrays are hashmaps in a trenchcoat there.) Using hashmaps is not…
https://archive.ph/yvUA3
> Why can't the cyclists slow down when they see that there's a human obstacle in front of them? They usually do. (The considerate and/or non-confrontational ones. There are always idiots, and people have the tendency…
> That is spectacularly useless Depends. If one is aware of the meaning of section numbers, that "(5)" is very obviously suggesting that there is a file format named "crontab" which is documented. It's also pretty…
Hehe "Balkonkraftwerk", available from Lidl for €250 (see TFA). This makes me unreasonably happy for some reason.
> Just having something like "Have a bonded 3rd party security team review the source code and running router software" would solve around 95% of the stupid things they do. It would certainly help, but no economically…
Not on account of its control software, which is what I was talking about.
> So, we don't need an electrical code to enforce correct wiring. For an analogy to work, its underlying elements should have a relation to the target. Your analogy is not in the same universe. For electrical work,…
> With network protocols, you make one layer (Ethernet), you add another layer (IP), then another (TCP), then another (HTTP). Each one fits inside the last, but is independent, and you can deal with them separately or…