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Have the comments been combined with another story? Because this isn't about a LLM reading and sending contents of the file to be processed, but the agent framework uploading every single file in /home/user to a random server.

For compatibility with other computer languages, the following classic Lua operators can be written in a more customary syntax:

Why though? What does changing `and` to `&&` actually achieve? Were people confused?

Changing the syntax seems very surface level. It's not actually fixing any problems, just making Lua no longer look like Lua. It's not going to help anyone write/learn Lua. It will make everything more complicated as there are now two ways to do everything.

This feels like adding braces to Python because you don't like indenting your code.

Your ePub Is fine 1 month ago

ePub3 is CSS2.1 (+ some extras) CSS21 standard says "Illegal values. User agents must ignore a declaration with an illegal value."

Ignore != Fatal error

Creationism does not want to say "magic" and admit that God is intentionally trying to deceive people. So that's why some of these responses seem silly. I mean they are, but only because the pro-creationism arguments are silly.

It's actually is a literal transformation (and only a Catholic thing)

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

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Transubstantiation means the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species”, remain unaltered.

Magnifica Humanitas 2 months ago

who better to lead the cause of humanity than the Catholic Church?

Oh no, is my sarcasm meter broken?

It's actually litterally true.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

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Transubstantiation means the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species”, remain unaltered.

Edit: It's a catholic thing, and it's very silly (other denominations say its symbolic)

"Ah, the classic Poe’s Law in action. Reality has officially outpaced parody"

Do you want these to be shorter for quick replies on X/Twitter, or longer for more detailed forum discussions?

If there's a reason why you think it can't work beyond a certain scale, say so

I'm not saying it can't work. Just that in 14 years no one has managed to factor a larger number than 21. Seemingly focus has shifted to other factoring algorithms that don't have performance improvements over conventional computing.

I'm not the one implying that Shor's algorithm will breaking encryption in "a few years from now".

Shor of Damocles

What is the biggest number factored using Shor's algorithm?

Last time I looked it was very unimpressive.

Edit: It's gotten worse. 21 from 2012. "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" say the factorization of 35 in 2019 actually failed.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

I don't remember ever having downtime on DO when I was using them.

I used to get those emails all the time, but the type of downtime they were talking about was extremely minimal (the entire point of VPS systems).

The last email I got about possible downtime was increased latency for the UI and API for ~10s last year. The email before that was ~5s of potential lost traffic to a droplet.

While ICE “requested” that Google not notify Thomas Johnson, the request was not enforceable or mandated by a court

Sounds like Google stopped caring.

But... Why on earth do the people filing an administrative subpoena not have to notify the interested parties too? Why is it Google's responsibility? If they didn't tell you, would you ever find out?