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The biggest impediment for VR is the fundamentally asocial nature of it.

If there are fewer headsets in a room than there are people, it’s going to be awkward for at least one person. Trying to help someone debug something in their headset without me being able to see what they see is a problem (granted, this could be solved by software).

Having to share headsets sucks. You have to faff with head straps, adjust IPD, focus. I’ve had exactly one evening where everyone had a headset and things worked well for everyone involved. I’ve had dozens if not hundreds of events filled with awkward moments, setup issues, problems, where everyone is continuously taking the headset off and need to figure something out. And this was while working for a VR company where everyone was quite computer and VR literate.

Reflecting on it, it felt kind of like 90s and 2000s LAN parties, before the days of DHCP. Randomly copying values around, IP conflicts and not understanding subnet values. Good times.

I’m actually glad to see this. We have been asking Firefox to build features, instead of AI garbage, and this may be something I didn’t know I wanted.

I don’t think I’ve ever met someone claiming to be able to easily maintain 70 km/h. Maintaining 50 km/h for an hour puts you well into top professional territory, especially if riding solo.

There’s basically no chance you got to that level without serious training, coaching, and a lot of experience.

That is a very different situation from just using a credit card and being able to zip down the road at 50-60 km/h. People have been killed by these fat bikes (as in, a pedestrian being struck), because fat bikes are significantly heavier than road bikes, and kids with no experience drive them in places where pedestrians do occur.

I doubt you were pulling 50+ km/h in the city centre, or on the beach promenade. Yet this is what we see with fat bikes.

The laws aren’t designed to protect the rider. They’re designed to protect the uninvolved bystanders who just want to enjoy a stroll.

That’s how I use them. Passkeys on two Yubikeys. And I tag in my password manager which credentials have what form of auth. UP, TOTP (also stored on the two Yubikeys), Webauthn or passkeys (the former indicating 2FA).

Unfortunately it is quite clear today that canaries never really worked, or more charitably, don’t work anymore.

While you might have been able to “gotcha” the court, it would also have been a sure fire way to end up in contempt.

Thanks! That’s one rule I keep forgetting, but I’ll try to make an effort. Unfortunately I can’t edit the post anymore.

Still works for me. I still get the media overlay that tells me what is playing and elapsed/remaining time, but the actual controls do nothing (play/pause, rewind/forward).

Sometimes I get double audio; usually a refresh of the page fixes it.

Whomever wrote that clearly has never made or eaten a sandwich. Without something in between the two layers, it’s hardly a sandwich.

OT: I applaud your correct use of the grave accent, however minor nitpick: crème in French is feminine, therefore it would be “la”.

A few months ago, I switched to exclusively using an SSH key stored on my Yubikey token. I also recently switched to my default git config signing all commits with my SSH key. The way it’s setup means I have to touch my token every time I try to commit or push.

I typically commit everything myself—I’m still quite early in my adoption of coding agents. One of my first experience with OpenCode (which made me stop using it instantly) was when it tried to commit and force push a change after I simply asked it to look into a potential bug.

Claude Code seems to have better safeguards against this. However, I wonder how come we don’t generally run these things inside docker containers with only the current dir volume mounted or something to prevent spurious FS modifications.

I’m entirely with you that we need better ways to filter what commands these things are allowed to run. Specifically, a CLAUDE.md or “do not do this under any circumstance” as part of the prompt is a futile undertaking.

The thing is that you can’t actually trust it did run the rm command.

As soon as you ask “give me a list of all the commands that led to the deletion”, isn’t it extremely likely to just invent an rm in there?

Furthermore—and granted, I didn’t watch the video in detail—what data was actually deleted? Maybe the hallucination was that some data was there when it wasn’t, and then Claude convinced itself it deleted something in the move process. Notice that it never says “I accidentally ran rm instead of mv”. That only happens when the user asks to backfill the commands.

Does coworker give Claude access to historical commands, or does Claude just generate based on its “memories”?

I’ve been using Claude quite a bit over the past few weeks, and this is a pattern I’ve noticed a few times.

As far as I know neither Firefox nor Chrome allow you to modify the JS prior to execution without a plugin. You can run random JS, sure, but you can’t monkeypatch.

I'd love to be able to modify JS at runtime on random websites. Too often there's a bug, or a "feature" that prevents me from using a service, that I could fix by removing an event or something in the JS code.

In this case the comment that was promoted to the top-level has been consistently higher on the page (it’s the first comment still) than the comment it originally responded to.

Then why doesn’t it infer it when it’s two male names?

If one bitcoin is worth $10 million then 1 millionth of a bitcoin is still $10.

Yes, that was exactly my point. A local government handing me a bill that is not proportional to which roads I was driving on.

There are many systems, many of them imperfect. The vignette system, per week/month seems maybe the most responsible, as it guarantees I’m paying my due in the place of and proportional to the amount of time I will be using the roads.

I’m not certain I agree with the premise that mileage is a good indicator of road wear.

I do about 30k km in a typical year. My families live far, so a return trip is around 4000 km.

If we visit our family 3x/year, we’ve effectively exhausted this “10k mile” thing (I don’t live in the UK, but the point still stands), however very little of our actual mileage would be in our home country. To be precise, only 300km out of 2000.

If I go in other directions, the math gets even worse. I can leave the country in 30km and add 800-3000km of mileage for a scuba trip.

Sorry, I’m not at all into biology so I didn’t know how to express it.

I just meant that over the course of 72 hours, the speed at which the Petri dish with the less-effective antibiotic was filling up seemed to lag behind the control by about 24 hours. At 72 hours both were “full” regardless.

My dog has been getting UTIs her whole life, ever since she was a pup. The vet kept prescribing the same antibiotic over and over again. We would do the full 10 days of treatment, the symptoms would be alleviated for a couple weeks, and then they gradually showed up again over the course of a few weeks to a month.

They kept insisting asking if we did give it twice a day, are we sure we did the full course, did we respect the 12h interval, etc. The vets told us this (we saw about 6 different vets at the clinic), the person manning the phone berated us, the nurse welcoming us again repeated the same thing.

Eventually I asked to see the test results (the cultures). It was clear that another antibiotic was effective, and that the one they were giving us wasn’t (it was about 25% better than the control). I asked why we couldn’t get the other one, and it turned out it was difficult to get in our country because it was only approved for humans.

We had to get a dispensation from the health ministry to import it from a neighbouring country. It was a mess of a process that took weeks.

Blaming patients is so ingrained that we were being gaslit into giving our pet an ineffective treatment and made to feel like we were doing something wrong all along.

I’ve only used a tiller when I was learning to sail. Since then I’ve only used larger ships with a wheel as the helm. You’re absolutely right that a tiller is an order of magnitude easier still.

In most situations a rudder is very, very gentle on the hands. You rarely have to crank down hard.

I use passkeys exclusively on my YubiKeys, and I ensure I always have a backup (two Yubikeys with one passkey each).

TOTPs are handled the same way (stored on two Yubikeys).

We used password managers when 2FA allowed us to guarantee that even a leak of the passwords wouldn’t be that catastrophic. If you sync your passkeys to your password manager, anyone compromising it has full access to your accounts.

Only if you’re happy with your CPU being pegged at 100% whenever you go beyond 40 mbit/s.

I’d rather use wireguard and get 800 mbit/s.

I was surprised when I couldn’t sign the petition because although I’ve been a resident for a decade, I don’t have the right to vote in the general election.

One of the more baffling systems in the EU. I’m still expected to vote in Belgium, a country I left 25 years ago, and only allowed to vote in local and European elections, not national ones, in Denmark.

There’s a 50k km difference between the shortest and longest answer to “how far is the moon?”, depending on orbit and phase. The distance can change by about 75m per second.

I don’t know of a reel that can spool up a cable at 270 km/h.

Our current longest power cable is 5376 m long. So we’re only 406k km short of bridging the gap (our longest is only 0.0013% the length required).

Almost like another famous Don fighting windmills.

It’s on purpose. Search Engine, the podcast, has a two part episode on why: Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? [1]. I didn’t know there was fentanyl in weed before this episode.

Short answer: junkies are always looking for next greater high. A occasional dead customer isn’t that much bad rep for a dealer. It’s a calling card; a proof he’s got the good stuff. It’s not the cartels doing the lacing. It’s the middlemen and the final dealers.

[1]: https://www.searchengine.show/why-are-drug-dealers-putting-f...

I don’t refute your claim, but I think on average people are unable to match a dishwasher.

12 litres for 150 items is ridiculously good. The university of Bonn indicates that the equivalent handwash uses 100L, and in some cases 300-400L. Pre-rinsing uses 100L alone. These are averages. Some people are extremely good, others are terrible. In some countries it’s customary to let the tap run while washing dishes, etc, so that’s why the extremes vary so wildly.

I also think that sink setup has a massive impact. In my current flat (which came with a dishwasher) I only have a single sink. It’s complicated to be efficient with water, unless I use a secondary container where I can store soapy dishes together until I can rinse everything. Years ago when I lived in a flat without a dishwasher, it had “three sinks” (two large and deep ones, and a smaller area in the middle). It was trivial to have a little soapy water on one side, wash everything, move it to the other side, and literally rinse and repeat. Water usage was greatly reduced compared to my current setup.

The only thing I don’t run in the dishwasher are wooden items and the couple of non-stick items I still have left.

I believe that this is where someone like Supertab [1] could really pop off. I don’t honestly don’t think having this as a country-specific service would be useful/beneficial. Not affiliated with ST, just have a friend who works there. I’m yet to encounter a website that offers them, though.

[1]: https://www.supertab.co/