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nsvd2··on The real cost of owning a home
Where I live (major city) because of zoning there are few apartment buildings and basically 100% are only for rent, not individually owned units. So if you want to own where you live it must be a townhome or detached house.
nsvd2··on The worst job interview I ever had
In fact, being able to "play the game" so to speak is probably part of what the interviewer is looking for.
nsvd2··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
I've always been interested in Fossil, especially how they handle all the things in a project that aren't strictly code but still need to be tracked.
nsvd2··on Claude for Legal
It's pretty clear to me that these systems have a massive potential for intelligence agencies as people move more and more of their internal thought process to an external tool.

And, of course, intelligence agencies are good at realizing potential.

nsvd2··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
I think Arch is a great general purpose distribution because it doesn't try to hide anything from the user - all the details are right out in the open. That and excellent community documentation.
nsvd2··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
I usually find the exact opposite, where for Windows I can sometimes find a few SEO optimized pages with vague instructions, but for Linux I'm much more likely to hit a wiki or forum with in-depth technical information to solve my problem.
nsvd2··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
Strongly agree, and this makes Linux head and shoulders above Windows for everyday computing now. Because it's more text-native than Windows and in-depth technical documentation is more easily available, AI agents are simply more capable on Linux.
nsvd2··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Spyware wouldn't help at all because you could just put the AI between the computer and the monitor, for example, or use a VM.
nsvd2··on Claude for Small Business
The short answer is that presumably people are willing to pay for it
nsvd2··on US sells 30-year bonds at 5% yield for first time since 2007
Well, yes, but that's another way of saying the same thing. If the US can't pay and is forced to devalue their currency, thus tanking the value of your investment, you lose money. Therefore, the likelihood of this drives interest rates up.
nsvd2··on CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
There are bleeding edge and rolling release distributions. Debian is simply not that and has no desire to be.
nsvd2··on My graduation cap runs Rust
FWIW I'm in the US and I bought mine. Renting does seem to make more sense here as the gown has no utility outside of this one event.
nsvd2··on A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous
This is an old joke, but as AI becomes more and more capable it becomes increasingly likely that the government will have some kind of intelligence sifting though every post you make and message you send.
nsvd2··on Local AI needs to be the norm
Assuming you're talking about Taalas, they have a live demo for inference on their HC1 chip.
nsvd2··on Local AI needs to be the norm
I run Gemma locally on a 3090, it's amazing how useful it is to be able to call out to ollama in a bash script or cron job.
nsvd2··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
I think it obviously will, what would be the benefit to spinning up more than one copy?
nsvd2··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
If they do that, they lose market share to their competitors, which kills their ability to raise investor capital, which kills the company, because they are almost entirely funded by investor capital.
nsvd2··on Laws of UX
Seems like this is not a connection of laws but a glossary of terms.
nsvd2··on Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today
They're saying that SPY is up 12% over the past month despite the Iran war. The stock market is not the economy.
nsvd2··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Why so? It seems both things are true.
nsvd2··on Wife Acceptance Factor
I prefer his comment to yours, does that mean new accounts should be weighted higher for me and lower for you?
nsvd2··on Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft
For maybe people, even one would be too many.
nsvd2··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
They probably make interest off it themselves, so to give you any interest would cut into their margins.
nsvd2··on Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
In my experience Rust and Go are both opinionated languages with strong types which makes them work well with agentic coding.
nsvd2··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
That is indeed a very annoying part of many AI models. I wish I could turn it off.
nsvd2··on When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
Already is in Nevada.
nsvd2··on When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
While I'm certainly no supporter of casinos, I think that online gambling is a difference in kind.
nsvd2··on Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model
Given the extent to which the copyright system has benefited corporations and publishing companies to the detriment of individual authors and the general public, I'm constantly surprised that it still has many apologists.
nsvd2··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
I usually relegate the agent to code, I do the git part/put the patch together. Git is an excellent tool to review the changes granularly and find potential weaknesses.
nsvd2··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
I've come to the point where, if the agent makes a wrong assumption about the code base with fresh context, I consider that the code is not obvious enough about it's intent.
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