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ra120271··on Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
When approving actions "for this project" I actively monitor .claude\settings.local.json

as

"Bash(az resource:)",

is much more permissive than

"Bash(az resource show:)",

It mostly gets it right but I instantly fix the file with the "readonly" version when it gets it too open.

ra120271··on High-quality OLED displays now enabling integrated thin and multichannel audio
It would be interesting to learn in time what this means for the durability of the display. Do the vibrations induce stresses that increase component failure?

Also how differing parts of the screen can generate different sound sources to create a sound scape tailored for the person in front of the screen (eg laptop user)?

Interesting tech to watch!

ra120271··on Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems
OT: Is there an accessible ground up presentations on Quantum so that I can self up skill?

I’m thinking of something like the equivalent Zero to Hero by Andrej Karpathy for AI.

ra120271··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
is that a purchasable product? link? Thank you in advance!
ra120271··on AT&T follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office
Discussing this with some friends last night there was some consensus that sometimes this may be to force a significant cut in the workforce that is cheaper to do by firing due for cause, as compared to making roles redundant and dealing with redundancy packages. Probably not true in all cases, but maybe in some.
ra120271··on Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface
Here is the link to the full directory contents of uploaded images; including hi-res ~99MB versions.

https://eopro.esa.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/

ra120271··on Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W
For my education, would you be able to expand on what it doesn't work for and why? Thank you!
ra120271··on Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)
It's one bad thing to sync all one's email to the their cloud. It's another bad thing to give the cloud the credentials to sync one's email directly. So in theory even if you stop using the client they can still get your email without your knowledge and explicit permission (ie you are not using the client and would reasonably expect they don't have access to new emails).

Also the cloud service now have the capability to save then retrieve the credentials in plain text making them a rich target for being compromised.

ra120271··on How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)
I agree there is a development path to learning to read. My son is learning and during the phase of learning the phonics he would use the pictures a lot to help get context. You could tell because he would pause on each new page as he observed the graphics.

But as he became more proficient he started using the graphics as a crutch to guess the words rather than sound them out and blend them. So I started covering the pictures with my hand as I turned the pages and his progress jumped ahead in the following weeks.

He is still learning and falls into guessing patterns too easily. However through accompanied parent reading every night he is progressing well (IMO).

ra120271··on Ring LLC home security company ransomed by ALPHV ransomware
I only trigger video on my property boundary to avoid the street and protect the public's reasonable right to privacy. There will always be the risk of coincidental videoing when someone is on my property - but I try my best to respect my neighbours.
ra120271··on Ring LLC home security company ransomed by ALPHV ransomware
I agree with the sentiment. Technically I only trigger video on my property boundary to avoid the street and protect the public's reasonable right to privacy.
ra120271··on Ring LLC home security company ransomed by ALPHV ransomware
My personal trust of devices like this is low - and since it is capturing public side recordings (outside my front door) I'm less worried about the vidoes. I just prefer to treat them as untrusted devices and put them on my guest network isolated from the rest of my network.
ra120271··on Facebook and Twitter have portals for the government to request takedowns
I think I agree with your intent - the comparison of Big tech is government didn't gel with my perception.

What I agree with is that Big Tech is forming digital Public Spaces (rather than being a government) and as such there should be parity in rights and protections of being in a digital Public Space.

The distinction for me is that ones rights in a Public Space are different to those in a Commercial Communal Space (such as communal space in a Shopping Mall). I'd like to see a trend to open digital environments being treated as Public Spaces and away from Commercial Communal Space.

Edit: for correcting typos

ra120271··on YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
I used to love that about Google News in the early days. A search would give you results from all over the world, with different outlooks and perspectives. I found it enlightening to read against my own selection bias.

Then they removed that value point and aligned what they presented with my existing bias - at which point I stopped using it.

ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
Nice pointer. Thank you. I grabbed the pdf book.
ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
I like the point of making sure it closes off the story and always feeling safe. I’m going to play with this thinking some more. Thank you.
ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
That’s so coincidentally funny. The most recent story we’ve made up is a cat sleeping in the living room gets woken up by a toy sized steam train chuffing towards a mouse hole tunnel. The cat leaps after the train, hits the hole and is transported to a humanoid cat land where he’s lying on the tracks in front of a full sized train tunnel. Below lies a new world to explore.
ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
I like the idea of making it more toy like and guided by the path to fun. Thank you.
ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
We’ve kind of started a start a story daddy, the he continues and then I do. I think your ideas will fit well with that. Taking turns on the narrative and with elements he loves. Cats as characters and trains of vehicles for fantasy. Thank you.
ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
Some nice tidbits. Thank you. Follows the general theme here of allow them to shape a narrative and character with less focus on the rules.
ra120271··on How to Get into Tabletop RPGs
Any thoughts and recommendations on how best to introduce my 5 year old boy to ttrpg? Recommendations on playing tips, games, narratives that engage and how to progress as he gets older?
ra120271··on $5.6B cloud company Fivetran acquired its way to survival
I agree - and doing this is not the same as doing everything they ask, on the bet it will come off. In my opinion having that view for the managers to boast about means you are aligned with where they will invest - it is where they see value.
ra120271··on $5.6B cloud company Fivetran acquired its way to survival
I agree. For many BigCos this is not an active intent of malice. Often the 2 people do hope their vision will change the company. However, the company is often filled with these groups of "2 people" all trying to move the needle also, leading to a single vision not being effective.

My advice is have an honest and frank conversation with BigCo. Let them know it is in no one's interests for your start up to go out of business, and when they are doing at things at scale you (startup owner) can discuss passing on those economies of scale in terms of dedicated work, discounts, etc.

ra120271··on What is the cost of a cashless society?
In the UK when you set up bank transfer the legal entity names are verified and displayed back tot he user and asked to be matched. This helps reduce wrong account detail transfers. Not full proof but does help.
ra120271··on The Importance of Elders
I don’t think alignment of interest degenerates linearly with generations. I would suggest that people in their 50s today are much more aligned in interests (not talking hobbies - more generic interests) to someone in their 20s than someone in their 70s.

This is not due to the age rather than the timing of the current technological age and its impact of social evolution of values.

That said to align generations around epochs of time is disingenuous to the diversity and value anyone brings no matter how old they are. We need to tread carefully that we don’t perpetuate ageism.

ra120271··on Why don’t we have a strategy?
I do a lot of vision and strategy work whether implicitly or explicitly. Why do we need to get somewhere and how do we get from here to there?

I believe it's really hard to get where you you want to go if everyone is looking down at the next step or two and not to the horizon. That said, a strategy that does not deal with the journey and the challenges of the journey is just a vision without an ability to realise it.

My experiences is that strategies that are not part of a delivery enablement capability are planned journeys without anyone to make it.

I find it's one of the hardest things I do in my work life and it is one of the hardest things to do right with any level of consistency.

Fortunately I do love a challenge.

ra120271··on I put my whole life into a single database
When reading above the experience I have is that I rapidly correlated with apple watch heart data that my heart rate stays high when I drink alcohol in the evening, resulting in poor sleep.

Conversely I can see when I have been likely to have been drinking from my heart rate.

I think the key here is the passive data collection with intuitive data presentation to drive low barrier to entry analytics.

ra120271··on Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018)
My experience is that not having binding release on the snowboards was effective at turning my horizontal momentum into angular momentum when the edge caught; anchoring and slammed me into the ground [head and all). In skiing it was more "gentle" slide across the surface (of coarse until you hit something like a tree).
ra120271··on Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues
I would, with no real foundation, posit that it was somehow related to human eye movements when recalling memories

https://neurosciencenews.com/eye-movement-memory-15857/

ra120271··on [dead]
TLDR; dust clogging the fans causes overheating of processors.

I went through this pain for months especially when video codecs were in use for conferences. It just kept getting worse.

Turned out that the machine was been throttled due to overheating. The root cause was dust in the fans.

A jet air cleaning of the fans fixed the issue. It was like night and day difference.

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