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New comment by ra120271 in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

ra120271 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:31:46 +0000

When approving actions "for this project" I actively monitor .claude\settings.local.json

"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.

New comment by ra120271 in "High-quality OLED displays now enabling integrated thin and multichannel audio"

ra120271 — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:53:44 +0000

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!

New comment by ra120271 in "Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems"

ra120271 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:42:32 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "A 10-Year Battery for AirTag"

ra120271 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:03:45 +0000

is that a purchasable product? link? Thank you in advance!

New comment by ra120271 in "AT&T follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office"

ra120271 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:00:34 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface"

ra120271 — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:12:53 +0000

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/

New comment by ra120271 in "Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W"

ra120271 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:44:12 +0000

For my education, would you be able to expand on what it doesn't work for and why? Thank you!

New comment by ra120271 in "Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)"

ra120271 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:17:06 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)"

ra120271 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:48:42 +0000

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).

New comment by ra120271 in "Ring LLC home security company ransomed by ALPHV ransomware"

ra120271 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:34:32 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "Ring LLC home security company ransomed by ALPHV ransomware"

ra120271 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:32:20 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "Ring LLC home security company ransomed by ALPHV ransomware"

ra120271 — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:35:07 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "Facebook and Twitter have portals for the government to request takedowns"

ra120271 — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:56:46 +0000

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

New comment by ra120271 in "YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations"

ra120271 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:56 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "How to Get into Tabletop RPGs"

ra120271 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:32:45 +0000

Nice pointer. Thank you. I grabbed the pdf book.

New comment by ra120271 in "How to Get into Tabletop RPGs"

ra120271 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:09:25 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "How to Get into Tabletop RPGs"

ra120271 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:07:45 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "How to Get into Tabletop RPGs"

ra120271 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:01:36 +0000

I like the idea of making it more toy like and guided by the path to fun. Thank you.

New comment by ra120271 in "How to Get into Tabletop RPGs"

ra120271 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:59:32 +0000

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.

New comment by ra120271 in "How to Get into Tabletop RPGs"

ra120271 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:57:15 +0000

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.