rkagerer

If anyone is wondering or it's not clear, AI was used. (There's some discussion in a sibling comment).

When I hear people use the generic word "content" it grinds my gears. It lacks any sort of deep meaning, and feels insulting when applied to genuine work that real humans poured their sweat, time, energy and passion into creating and perfecting.

There's slop, and there's masterpiece. In which would you rather invest your time? (Either creating or 'consuming'?)

Indeed, I always turn this down as I don't consent. If you had a thorough read of the major providers' Terms of Service, you wouldn't either.

It's a shame, if they had an AI transcription tool that kept everything in-house I'd be much more comfortable with it. Or perhaps some kind of zero-knowledge cloud-based product where I hold the keys.

This bit is interestingly unintuitive - to go faster, do more iterations:

As far as the number of while loop iterations, I’m instead going to iterate a fixed number of times, log2 of the number of buckets. For some value this might involve a bit more work, if previously the bucket would be found in an iteration or two, but the saving in speed from avoiding branch mispredictions will make it worth it.

Some kind of source IP masking would be prudent. As you pointed out, some of those machines are compromised, and you aren't making their owners' lives any easier.

Bad actors might use the data you're publishing to fingerprint specific exploits to which the machines are vulnerable, multiplying the problem.

If producing an IP blacklist is one of your aims, divorcing it from any specific traffic would be more responsible.

You may also want to consider the risk traffic from compromised machines could leak PII (eg. say a script tried to use you as a relay to exfiltrate data) - and the ethical and legal consequences. A filter for SIN, credit cards, etc. would be a basic table-stakes mitigation step.

I'd be thrilled if this could lead to higher fidelity print and Save-to-PDF functionality in browsers.

This all comes down to humane treatment of your fellow human beings. I grew up in an era where that was a core expectation of our culture.

But I see that tenet degrading in various ways - how we broadcast our views on social media (reduced empathy), how we interact in the real world (less patience and understanding), the polarization of our politics (less compromise and thus less effectiveness), and how organizations treat their customers (even basics like Terms of Service and Privacy Policies that have trended much more user-hostile over the last decade).

Cooperation is the fundamental basis on which civilization is built. I'm not sure what the start of a dark age looks like, but part of me feels like over the course of my lifetime I may be witnessing us entering one.

I fervently believe it's not too late to correct course, and I'm interested in ways individuals can have an impact. Set a personal example. Push back against dark patterns proposed by your corporate colleagues. Instill a deep sense of responsibility and healthy skepticism in your children. This is just a start, and I'm open to more suggestions.

Do you give it access to the internet?

Is there some means to monitor the queries it's sending (or hold and review before transmission) or throttle to avoid triggering abuse thresholds on any single domain?

so many layers of management

Sounds like the source of your problem, right there.

The case later took a turn, when Microsoft attempted to reframe it as a copyright dispute. VL was leaning on the EU's UsedSoft ruling, which established that secondhand software licenses could legally be resold. Microsoft changed tack and countered that Office's icons and help files made it a creative work...

This isn't unique to touchscreen interfaces. I have the same frustration when performing a sequence of keyboard commands and the OS can't keep up (or some other application or unwanted notification pop-up steals the focus).

Screenshots?

I have a real problem with the pretense posed by the article that the club has no blame. They should have understood the risk they were taking on by subcontracting a vendor to collect passports, and better vetted that vendor. Obviously the service provider was completely inept, but that doesn't absolve the fools using them.

I preach to my clients this sort of PII should be treated as a toxic, hazardous substance. Ideally don't touch it with a 10 foot pole, and if you can't help it then limit the scope, protect it with strong access policies that severely limit who can touch it (including encryption keys conservatively custodied), and securely delete it all as soon as possible.

Too many companies these days point you to shoddy third parties for some kind of functionality (e.g. book an appointment, perform KYC on you, host the online learning platform for your course, etc.), inappropriately foisting both a new business relationship on you that you never asked for along with their partner's terms of service that you have no bargaining power in negotiating.

This is a side-effect of the SaaS era, and the model is broken.

Yuck. I'd never buy that, no matter how much I wanted to read the content.

But it may not be the only one!

recordings of a second 52-hertz whale, heard elsewhere at the same time, have been sporadically found since 2010.

In a nutshell, is this basically "stress the part and it wears out faster"?

The control panels that fuse schematics and buttons and indicators feel like a peak of design philosophy.

Intuitive, readily interpretable at a glance, spatially oriented (instead of tucked behind layers of tabs and recursive settings).

What's particularly objectionable about the Futo License?

Is it this part?

you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

The same time every day, around 11pm, I go to the kitchen, select two different treats, say the word “choice”, and present the treats in either hand, allowing Bebop to only take one... By the time the experiment started, Bebop was used to the routine and sniffing both treats before taking one.

Winner was Pur Luv Chicken, closely followed by MON2SUN duck + rawhide. Greenies and Pork Chomps fared poorly.

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You can tell. The photo is of a vintage notebook with aircraft diagrams, totally unrelated to Marie Curie.

This would be a great topic but this specific article isn't worth your time.

With those slower drives, programmers tended to be more careful about not wasting those preciously expensive I/O's - they had to put more care into architecture, often resulting in more optimized, efficient code. And since lags were expected, they handled waits more elegantly - hence the hourglasses and such. This immediate feedback even when there was a delay is what made the experience feel more responsive.

Modern apps that ship with browser engines just to show some UI are hugely bloated by comparison.

You also didn't have dozens of different telemetry, update, crash collection etc. services constantly running in the background eating up resources and I/O's. Go into Event Viewer, Services, and Scheduled Tasks on a pre-Win7 era workstation and you see how much less crowded it is.

This is such a typical pattern of enshittification from Microsoft. Something Windows 3.1/95/2000/XP made easy - adding a File Type Association - became increasingly contorted over time.

If I recall correctly, in Windows 7 they removed the File Types Manager and you had to either edit the registry directly to adjust existing associations, or resort to a third party app.

By Windows 10 even simply creating a new association for an unrecognized extension seems to require more clicks and scrolling down to a hidden option.

I would love to meet the mastermind morons behind this himan-unfriendly UI and give them a piece of my mind.

How effective do you think this test will be?

Is the reactive strip used in the kit an existing, well-proven product?

Ok. I don't need or want this.

Doesn't mean others can't find it useful. e.g. I bet some portion of users would appreciate Dark mode without resorting to CSS tweaks. /rant

You mean AaaS (Astronomy as a Service)

There is a word for this, it's called Racketeering.

Is it ironic the first thing I noticed on their landing page was "Find us on GitHub"?

They need a FAQ entry "Why isn't Lore hosted on Lore?"

Will the $60B be newly minted SPCX shares? Does this effectively dilute investors by about 2-3% (minus some fraction representing the fair value of Cursor)?

Interesting bit at the end for anyone unaware:

Under the terms set out in SpaceX's filing, Musk commands a supermajority of voting shares — more than 80% — and retains the right to sign off even on any board action that could result in his ouster.

Different context but for what it's worth I've been running a mild overclock (3.3GHz to something like 3.6GHz) for about 15 years on a Xeon X5680. Passed days of burnin/stress testing at assembly, and it's been very stable this whole time. It's on nearly 24/7 and is actively used.