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New comment by tener in "Claude's Max Plan"

tener — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:27:41 +0000

It is hardly better though. Aside from MCP support (with rather poor UX, just compare it with anything else out there) it really has nothing to offer.

New comment by tener in "What If We Made Advertising Illegal?"

tener — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:44:22 +0000

Sure, but I meant airtight as a point on a spectrum rather than absolute thing. Meaning: you should prefer laws which are both generic and unambiguous.

New comment by tener in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

tener — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:39:48 +0000

So we end up in a system in which those with money to litigate will do what they want? I'd rather have airtight laws instead.

New comment by tener in "A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells"

tener — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:28:11 +0000

Around midnight LA time, except the code may have a bug (?) with respect to DST changes (uses explicit UTC-8, which won't be correct the whole year). See source code at https://danielchasehooper.com/projects/cracked-sudoku/script...

New comment by tener in "A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells"

tener — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:43:33 +0000

I appreciate the work you've put into this, but if someone gets into this they are likely to be looking for a next puzzle immediately. They are unlikely to become a recurring visitor; not with just a single puzzle a day. 5 or 10 might work better.

New comment by tener in "A New Sudoku Layout with 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells"

tener — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:04:45 +0000

Lol and I wondered why it came back light after reload. It was really fun after you got past the UX hurdles! Pity there aren't more online.

New comment by tener in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

tener — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:53 +0000

> And you tend to remember that.

Haha, nope. Different brains work differently. One day I genuinely prefer one, a week later another.

New comment by tener in "Defusing AGPL-3 with Batch Processing"

tener — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:41:13 +0000

That feels overly broad. Where is the boundary? Is it a network if you receive a USB drive after making a phone call to order something? Send a physical letter via pigeon?

New comment by tener in "HDMI Forum does not allow an open source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 spec"

tener — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:55:21 +0000

Ah, thank you, this is interesting. So in a way the original IP is kind of poison which forever taints their source code, diminishing what they can do with it.

New comment by tener in "HDMI Forum does not allow an open source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 spec"

tener — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 09:32:37 +0000

What is stopping AMD from distributing a closed source binary blob along with selling the access to proprietary source code for $1?

New comment by tener in "So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS (2022)"

tener — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:52:26 +0000

Browsers tag downloaded files using filesystem features.

New comment by tener in "Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay""

tener — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:15:56 +0000

In general case I think it might be hard to sue a company for any fixed amount of money due: it is hard to measure this, and companies are likely to low-ball the figure anyway.

Yet Meta has given a convenient, fixed number here, so perhaps such a lawsuit has a chance to succeed.

New comment by tener in "Noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over "Pay or Okay""

tener — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:13:07 +0000

So... Meta has been fined for illegally using customer data, which they value at hundreds of euro per year. Can the customers sue for back payment?

New comment by tener in "Why the BBC doesn't call Hamas militants "terrorists""

tener — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 07:58:18 +0000

I wish we had a LLM to BBC-ify the otherwise sensationalized reporting elsewhere. There would definitely be a market for this kind of service. For the reverse one as well, unfortunately.

New comment by tener in "Why Git Is Hard"

tener — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:36:06 +0000

I think of branches as variables pointing at immutable points in the commit tree. Git commit creates a new node in the tree and updates the pointer. You can manually move pointer around if needed.

New comment by tener in "Bounties Damage Open Source Projects"

tener — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:48:52 +0000

The contributors are expected to follow code of conduct: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/.github/CODE_OF_C...

At least these lines sounds reasonable:

Examples of behavior that contribute to creating a positive environment include:

- Using welcoming and inclusive language.

- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences.

- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism.

- Helping another person accomplish their own goals.

- Showing empathy towards others.

- Showing appreciation for others' work.

- Validating someone else's experience, skills, insight, and use cases.

A pity the leadership doesn't appear to hold themselves to the same standard.

I didn't have anything but a passing interest in Zig before, but this is a huge red flag about the project.

New comment by tener in "Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program"

tener — Tue, 09 May 2023 22:57:46 +0000

You do have ignore lists, but the UX is extra bad. OTOH resilio ate my files in certain situations, so I had to ditch it.

New comment by tener in "Banks with the highest risk of collapsing according to market data"

tener — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:56:03 +0000

Kinda naive table. Credit Suisse sort of collapsed today and it was barely 9th here. Also no mention of CDS levels which are directly the thing you should be looking at.

New comment by tener in "Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money"

tener — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:00:00 +0000

For the public company: you pretty much can just buy it, barring stuff such as poison pills or regulatory approvals.

New comment by tener in "Google’s fully homomorphic encryption compiler – a primer"

tener — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:44:40 +0000

> Finally, encrypting each bit of a plaintext message comes with major tax on space usage. Each encryption of a single bit corresponds to a list of roughly 700 32-bit integers. If you want to encrypt a 100×100 pixel greyscale image, each pixel of which is an 8-bit integer (0-255), it will cost you 218 MiB to store all the pixels in memory. It’s roughly a 20,000x overhead. For comparison, the music video for Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” at 360p is about 9 MiB (pretty small for a 3 minute video!), but encrypted in FHE would be 188 GiB, which (generously) corresponds to 20 feature-length films at 1080p.

Ouch.