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CodeWriter23··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Thanks!
CodeWriter23··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Thanks!
CodeWriter23··on Felony Bench
Are you aware many switches run linux? Ubiquiti for example.
CodeWriter23··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Anyone get this running? I installed and downloaded content but cannot figure out how to get it to appear under Screen Savers in System Settings.
CodeWriter23··on Felony Bench
Worried about what? Someone there thinks VLAN isolation is "air gapped"?
CodeWriter23··on Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery
Putting this out here in case anyone with metabolic disorders may find it useful. Labcorp has a recently added blood screening, the 'Metabolic Vulnerability Index' aka MVX. This looks outside the 'standard of care' cholesterol/glucose/bp triad which typically results in managed decline to identify underlying causes of said triad.

A metabolic specialist who understands how these work is essential to the recovery process.

CodeWriter23··on Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded
So you're saying energy + inert gas is an energy generator? Politely, GTFO.
CodeWriter23··on Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded
I'm a person YIC. And to answer your question, a gas composing 0.04% of our atmosphere does not trump the sun's energy in any way shape or form.
CodeWriter23··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
Thanks for the answer instead of a downvote.
CodeWriter23··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
There was a carport fire in my building back in the 90's. The firefighters got all set up to turn their hoses on it but did not actually start using water to fight the fire until the utility guy from the city arrived to de-energize the supply from a nearby vault.

How does that safety protocol work when the electrical connections and supplies are distributed around the house and may be inaccessible due to fire?

CodeWriter23··on An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
Well at least they're not hiding their objective any longer.
CodeWriter23··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
The NTSB has published their report? Because they don’t lead with speculation. Ever. I do however expect so-called experts to be aware of announced no-fly zones where the military is jamming.
CodeWriter23··on Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Interesting how neither you nor the article affirm or deny if they plane was flying in restricted airspace either before or during the crash.
CodeWriter23··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Fortunately, just about all of those are the result of slow poisoning via industrialized food sources. And can be remedied via diet. It's not fun wanting chili fries and having to eat eggs and home-made yogurt instead. But it's working in my case and I have the labs to prove it.
CodeWriter23··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
My answer: "Whatever it takes"
CodeWriter23··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
You’re viewing it from a freedom not a profit perspective. If a license to use AI is required, that creates artificial scarcity. The price goes up. If gov declares Qwen et.al apostate, lack of competition increases prices.

And Anthropic’s delayed rollout was a direct response to them trying to impose extra-legislative rules on The Pentagon. I kinda doubt OpenAI has such ‘scruples’.

CodeWriter23··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
If by "accidental" you mean "humans deliberately trained the AI to do that", then ok.

IMO, this was a PR stunt to goad the Feds into regulating AI to shore up OpenAI's moat against open source models.

CodeWriter23··on You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
> Last century, a year in jail ended after the year.

Yes I am seriously refuting your prior statement. Not saying things are identical; I am saying a jail term didn’t disappear for part of the last century,

CodeWriter23··on Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
Musk has is it right. Terafab and orbital data center pods.
CodeWriter23··on You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
Ahem, you misspelled completely legal-to-own weapons. Whereas ICE is tracking illegal immigration activity.
CodeWriter23··on You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
Lefties didn't have a problem with this when the intent was tracking ammo purchases.
CodeWriter23··on You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
Nah, we had the "Have you been convicted of a felony in the past 7 years" job application question in the 80's. And background checks were accessible.
CodeWriter23··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
It should be legal. Caveat Emptor applies always. to everything. I'd rather have choices available in a marketplace rather than a nanny state stifling innovation through its own incompetence.
CodeWriter23··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Not to chastise you or your wife, there is an actual "Liver Warning" on Tylenol Product labels. They warn against 4000mg/day or with alcohol consumption. It's not an on/off switch, the damage occurs on a ramp that achieves a critical point after so much consumption.

Saying this to encourage label reading and to refute those who might try to characterize your wife's experience as anecdotal. And for those who stop reading a page like this one, after the first paragraph that touts "no evidence": https://www.tylenolprofessional.com/safety-and-efficacy/safe... when at the bottom it reveals the Liver Warning.

CodeWriter23··on Feds Tracked Down an Anti-ICE Dad in NYC Hotel, but How?
I'm 100% positive there is more evidence in these cases than is covered by the rag known as Gizmodo.
CodeWriter23··on DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
Close to the bottom price over the past 5 years is what it is.
CodeWriter23··on DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
> "The wind-powered boats could be especially appealing when oil prices have shot up because of the Iran war."

Check of oil prices same day article was published:

WTI $73.51/bbl BRENT $77.57/bbl MURBAN: $70.46/bbl

CodeWriter23··on Agentic Coding Is a Trap
I think the primary lesson from my high school computer lab instructor holds: "It's doing exactly what you're telling it to do"
CodeWriter23··on Agentic Coding Is a Trap
To me, this is no different than the c/c++ crowd screaming "But you need to understand types and memory management" to the Type-safe Managed Memory Language crowd.

Problem solving remains the primary skill. You're just working in a different medium. Instead of code, it's design and specification (which you should have been doing in the first place instead of firing it out on demand as fast as your fingers move and insisting your teammates get in the groove).

If you're worried that you won't be able to understand why generated code isn't behaving properly, pro tip: Ask mode > ask the LLM to map possible reasons why the code does this when it should be doing that. Your ability to target the 'right' problem area earlier vs later is a matter of experience, as it always has been.

And you have to spend more time being intentional about setting up context / rules to define your application-specific design patterns.

For the young-uns, they need to learn their own way to leap frog over the paradigms we were trained on. We should be honest with them and ourselves that those paradigms are obsolete. As is winding core memory by hand. As Musk has said, one day there will be no apps, just a model. We're not there yet but this is the future.

CodeWriter23··on A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
I'll pass on the whole robot sprinting at me scenario.
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