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New comment by gerikson in "Jqwik updated to instruct agents to delete Jqwik tests"

gerikson — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:13:11 +0000

the project is licensed under the EPL

> 5. No Warranty

> EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Each Recipient is solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using and distributing the Program and assumes all risks associated with its exercise of rights under this Agreement, including but not limited to the risks and costs of program errors, compliance with applicable laws, damage to or loss of data, programs or equipment, and unavailability or interruption of operations.

New comment by gerikson in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

gerikson — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:14:44 +0000

This is Søren, not Emil.

New comment by gerikson in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

gerikson — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:02:04 +0000

Maybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope

New comment by gerikson in "The sigmoids won't save you"

gerikson — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:03:11 +0000

Past results is no guarantee of future performance.

New comment by gerikson in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

gerikson — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:40:44 +0000

The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.

New comment by gerikson in "Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group"

gerikson — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:24:38 +0000

Dubai's brand (before the war) was "you're welcome to come here to make money, but criticize the government and you're out". I'm sure there's a ton of young influencers who don't know the first thing about the place to not have internalized it, but I remember a spate of articles and books about 15 years ago of Westerners falling afoul of the local laws and losing everything.

New comment by gerikson in "Tennessee is about to make building chatbots a Class A felony"

gerikson — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:15:30 +0000

Finally someone taking AGI x-risk seriously.

cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-c...

New comment by gerikson in "Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)"

gerikson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:58:58 +0000

GNU has its own documentation format called 'info'.

New comment by gerikson in "Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)"

gerikson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:16:46 +0000

> (... less common section numbers)

One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read about it.

New comment by gerikson in "The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House"

gerikson — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:01:12 +0000

The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.

New comment by gerikson in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

gerikson — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:20:49 +0000

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New comment by gerikson in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

gerikson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:02:05 +0000

> The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It consumed as much electricity as a small town.

Surprisingly light though...

New comment by gerikson in "The government uses targeted advertising to track your location"

gerikson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:01:43 +0000

There's also the possibility that we, as consumers, demand that the political system solves this issue with robust privacy legilsation that prohibits any entity from tracking our phones.

New comment by gerikson in "The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph"

gerikson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:36:16 +0000

Argh the liberal admixture of different units (mpg, kg, L, hr) in the first table really brings home that this is a UK piece.

New comment by gerikson in "Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)"

gerikson — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:47:23 +0000

Would Teller have had to mail Hoover though? Or just let the concerned people know that Feynman was unsuitable.

New comment by gerikson in ".Beat Swatch Internet Time"

gerikson — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:23:07 +0000

The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner.

I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.

New comment by gerikson in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

gerikson — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:51:03 +0000

I have read a lot of Asimov. That's why I said there's better stuff out there.

Even his contempories were better - Bester and Simak run rings around him.

New comment by gerikson in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

gerikson — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:42:53 +0000

Or don't. There's so much more better SF out there.

New comment by gerikson in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

gerikson — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:11:08 +0000

And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.

New comment by gerikson in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

gerikson — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:04:25 +0000

They also, in many camps, used the inmates as slave labor.