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LikesPwsh··on When did Google get so weird?
One "fix" is for the caller to correctly classify those fundamentally impossible tasks and pass them to a subprocess.

Some future "AI" could be a billion benchmark-hacks and a way to tell which one is needed.

LikesPwsh··on Transit rewards
No need to give distant examples - the US train boom used the same strategy.
LikesPwsh··on Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?
If one user makes the mistake, it would be fair to blame them.

Because thousands of users make the same mistake, blame needs to be directed at Windows UX.

MS could fix this easily by 1) moving Run to optional features and 2) removing online features from Start to make performance comparable.

The other "run" interfaces (terminal, conhost, Powershell) are sufficiently menacing to scare away non-devs already.

LikesPwsh··on Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
In the infamous words of Spolsky - "It’s harder to read code than to write it."
LikesPwsh··on Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy
Brexit harming the growth of both UK and EU is another perfectly valid interpretation of those numbers.

I'm sure there's a little truth to both, and noise from all kinds of other factors.

LikesPwsh··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Rather than telling the LLM "loop through these files", tell it "write a script to loop through these files", then hard-code that script somewhere.
LikesPwsh··on Arm AGI CPU
The same people who abbreviate "generative" AI in a way that misleadingly conflates it with "general" AI.

Fraud is just the default lifestyle of marketers.

LikesPwsh··on Keep Android Open
YouTube on Firefox is a much better experience than the official YouTube app, so you can drop one from the list.
LikesPwsh··on Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
.net, dynamics, power, 365, azure, fabric, copilot.

There's always some pointless name change going on.

LikesPwsh··on Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
"IBM for i" is up there
LikesPwsh··on Sabotaging Bitcoin
Making up a bigger fraction doesn't mean that transaction fees will increase over time.

For L1 fees to actually increase over time, we need increased L1 throughput. Without that, increased demand for transactions causes more batching of transactions (mostly between exchanges).

Given the failure of BCH for pseudo-religious reasons I don't have much hope.

LikesPwsh··on Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.
LikesPwsh··on I wasted years of my life in crypto
Most token holders use exchanges, where freezing accounts and just keeping the tokens is a daily occurrence.

That's not something solved by cryptocurrency in its current form.

LikesPwsh··on AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
That's infamously known as the "Oracle Problem".

Blockchain can't handle external state.

Smart contracts abstract it a bit by having a trusted third party or an automated pricing mechanism, but both are fragile.

LikesPwsh··on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
The stated purpose of RTO may be more-nimble-whatever.

In practice it makes more sense if you always assume the intended purpose is to thinly veil constructive dismissal.

LikesPwsh··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
The original release came with separate Allied/Soviet discs. You could put one in your buddy's computer.

Keygen was also easily available.

LikesPwsh··on Red Alert 2 in web browser
Forge is a good modern equivalent
LikesPwsh··on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...

This one is a classic for MSSQL, most of it is applicable on postgres.

LikesPwsh··on SQL Anti-Patterns
"Dimension table" is the name for lookup tables in a star or snowflake schema.
LikesPwsh··on SQL Anti-Patterns
Some well known docs on the topic- https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/where-clause/obfuscation
LikesPwsh··on ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Yes
LikesPwsh··on User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
Anyone can generate an NFT, including IP you don't own or existing collections.

Hundreds of wallets might contain a the same monkey picture (or same hash and IPFS link to nitpick).

What matters is that Opensea says you have the "real" one.

Their database is the real list of who owns what, the blockchain is a distraction.

You can see it in their anti-theft systems. NFTs get hidden and blocked from trading after a police report, even if it's still there on the chain.

LikesPwsh··on User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
To clarify, I don't see users ever leaving centralised exchanges.

That means classic claims like "bitcoin is scarce" or "transactions don't require anyone's permission" or "transactions can't be censored" or "nobody can seize your bitcoin" are generally false in practice.

Even if a person only trades via bags of cash in dark alleyways and never touches exchanges, they're affected by all this "paper" bitcoin.

If they need to touch an exchange at any point, even if holding in a cold wallet 99% of the time, that exchange can still take 100% of their tokens.

LikesPwsh··on User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality
The users could reject exchanges and trade entirely on-chain, but that's expensive/complicated/risky.

It is a serious concern for cryptocurrency that most users don't even get the touted benefits because of reliance on exchanges.

LikesPwsh··on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided
This topic is undemocratic because it's part of the constant attempts to rephrase and resubmit the same unpopular proposal.

It's p-hacking democracy. If a proposal has 5% chance of passing just resubmit it twenty times under different names with minor variations.

It wastes time that lawmakers could spend on proposals that the public actually want.

LikesPwsh··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Nuget, Powershell gallery, the marketplaces for VSCode/VS/AZDo and the Microsoft Store too. Probably another twenty.

They collect package managers like funko pops.

I'm not quite sure about the goal. Maybe some more C# dev kit style rug-pulls where the ecosystem is nominally open-source but MS own the development and distribution so nobody would bother to compete.

LikesPwsh··on Kerberoasting
Group Managed Service Account is a better option than keytab if you're assuming Windows Server/Active Directory.
LikesPwsh··on Imgur's community was in revolt
Imgur deleted a huge number of old reddit posts when retroactively banning nudity.

They broke the social contract of being a trusted host, that's the biggest change.

LikesPwsh··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
FLOC/Cohorts API, AMP, Manifest V3, Widevine, WEI.
LikesPwsh··on RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
RTL lets you obfuscate file extensions.

E.g. Annexe.txt (that you might assume would be safely opened by a text editor) could actually be Ann\u202Etxt.exe, a dangerous executable.

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