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_9ptr··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
Seems pretty clear to me, although I'm neither an american nor a lawyer.
_9ptr··on Imagining a language without booleans
Why not only have strings? "zero", "one", "two", ... "threepointonefourone..."
_9ptr··on Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful
Is it only California?
_9ptr··on The American Nations regions across North America
> "El Norte"

> All the way in the south

_9ptr··on They Thought They Were Free (1955)
No it doesn't. They didn't "invest", they took everything that wasn't bolted to the ground, and then they took that too. A third of the country was taken away and millions of Germans displaced.
_9ptr··on They Thought They Were Free (1955)
That's not even remotely what happened
_9ptr··on They Thought They Were Free (1955)
You probably only mean economic growth, otherwise that's hard to imagine
_9ptr··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
The difference in sharpness remains if there's no slicing motion with either knive/setting, right?
_9ptr··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
I don't think so, not at home.
_9ptr··on Vibe coding cleanup as a service
That raises the question if LLM-generated code is going out of fashion in general. The article seems to assume it will always exist and always need clean-up. But what if it's not worth it and instead you should (mainly) return to the world where humans write code? Simply because salary < LLM-credits + cleanup costs.
_9ptr··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
youtube giveth and youtube taketh away
_9ptr··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
I know that feel, I'm Hugh Mongous.
_9ptr··on Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use
I never knew Java was so dangerous
_9ptr··on "Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces
At the risk of driving you up the wall, but please explain
_9ptr··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Yeah, but we're Germans. We don't stop when it's reasonable, not when we want to follow an idea.
_9ptr··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
any democratic candidate?
_9ptr··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
He can pick up his million dollars at the end of eternity
_9ptr··on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody
You can forget about liberties until you come up with a better acronym
_9ptr··on ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
That's why the orange man is protecting the border
_9ptr··on No adblocker detected
A real donkey punch of a metaphore
_9ptr··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Well, we grew up in the Great Pirate Era
_9ptr··on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
Made me chuckle
_9ptr··on Serverless Horrors
You don't get it! He normally isn't like that!
_9ptr··on 996
That's what unions are for.
_9ptr··on I'm absolutely right
I for one welcome our new machine overlords
_9ptr··on Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others
"What are you gonna do, Nepal? Block me?"

(Gets blocked)

_9ptr··on I'm absolutely right
>That's not how it works.

Not with that attitude!

_9ptr··on Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
I very much am
_9ptr··on The day Return became Enter (2023)
Carriage is another word for wagon (german Wagen, swedish vagn)
_9ptr··on Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]
It's caused by his weight. The video is very much worth it though.
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