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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purge

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dynomight.net 1y ago

A review of early split-brain experiments (2021)

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Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening Americans' homes

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I lost my Google Play dev account

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alexanderpetros.com 1y ago

Triptych Proposals: Putting the "hyper" back in hypertext

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Warning to any smaller Android developers: do not fall behind on your emails

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yosefk.com 2y ago

Managers have no human rights

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softwarefreedom.org 2y ago

The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues (2016)

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OpenTTD 14.0

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factorio.com 2y ago

Factorio Friday Facts #375 – Quality

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Server Side Public License

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R/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation

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thedailywtf.com 3y ago

The Inner JSON Effect (2016)

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

See the minimum needed for a USB device to list in Device Manager

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samnewman.io 3y ago

Pattern: Back Ends for Front Ends

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I Built a JavaScript Framework

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reqexperts.com 4y ago

Writing Good Requirements

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Employment Data Report

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obua.com 4y ago

Cosmopolitan Identifiers

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curl.se 4y ago

Above and Beyond 32 Protocols

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Imputed Rent

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gitlab.com 7y ago

Goldberg Steam Emulator: Emulate Steam Online Features

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thsresearch.files.wordpress.com 9y ago

The Validity of EPA’s CO 2 Endangerment Finding [PDF]

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www.fsf.org 10y ago

Richard Stallman – “A Free Digital Society” (Kent, OH)

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Untitled story 4 months ago

I assume because the discovery is branching. If the an agent using the CLI for for GitHub needs to make an issue, it can check the help message for the issue sub-command and go from there, doesn't need to know anything about pull requests, or pipelines, or account configuration, etc, so it doesn't query those subcommands.

Compare this to an MCP, where my understanding is that the entire API usage is injected into the context.

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Also, as someone who has tried to build tools that automate finding flights, The existing players in the space have made it nearly impossible to do. But now Google is just going to open the door for it?

Can someone explain what the hell is going on here?

Do websites want to prevent automated tooling, as indicated by everyone putting everything behind Cloudfare and CAPTCHAs since forever, or do websites want you to be able to automate things? Because I don't see how you can have both.

If I'm using Selenium it's a problem, but if I'm using Claude it's fine??

Consider that this isn't just a random AI slopped assortment of 9,000 tests, but instead is a robust suite of tests that cover 100% of the HTML5 spec.

Does this guarantee that it functions completely with no errors whatsoever? Certainly not. You need formal verification for that. I don't think that contradicts what Simon was advocating for though in this post.

The equivalency here is not 9 billion versus 90 billion, it's 9 billion versus 90 million, and the question is how does the decline look? Does it look like the standard of living for everyone increasing so high that the replacement rate is in the single digit percentage range, or does it look like some version of Elysium where millions have immense wealth and billions have nothing and die off?

Claude 4 1 year ago

I'm curious what tooling you are using to accomplish this?

Why does this keep happening? Do people not understand the implications choosing an open source license.in the first place? There are a million licenses, in fact you can just make your own one up! But when you choose a class of license the specifically allows commercial exploitation... you don't get to act wronged when it happens.

From where I left 2 years ago

All the conversations about SSPL seem to go the same way:

- Someone complains about the extra restrictions imposed on AWS (lets be real, it's basically just about AWS)

- People point out that SSPL is basically AGPL+, and that for the vast vast majority of people it doesn't make any difference

- People counter that the SSPL is written ambiguously/untested in court, and so while it might seem like it's AGPL+ and doesn't matter for most users, you can't rely on that

- People complain about rug pulling (valid, IMO)

My question is this: Can there be a AGPL+ that is OSI approved? Could there be a "AAGPL" that GNU releases that covers this (very common, and IMO valid) "need" for open source companies to not be cannibalized by cloud providers?

Is this conceptually unacceptable, or is it just that the SSPL is poorly executed?

browsers aren't really a self funding product

Yeah... Because massive companies use them anti-competitively as a moat against other companies, and as a loss leader to enable massive data collection and vendor lock in.

"browsers aren't really a self funding product" is a symptom of dysfunction, not the inevitable conclusion of a fair market.

Seems like this company ships in Arkansas only.

What should I be searching for to find these generally?