dandelany

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developer at NASA/JPL, formerly Spotify, Seed Scientific, Enigma, Turntable.FM. http://www.cognitiveharmony.net
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Comment · 1 month ago
With a different key, obviously. This lets you keep the MCP server firewalled to your local network only while still allowing home assistant itself to access the internet
Comment · 1 month ago
Claude: “lots of people enjoy lemon in their tea, but there’s a subtlety: putting it in coffee is likely to be an unpleasant experience”.

If I asked “should I try lemon in my tea and coffee?” this would be effective communication. But Claude gives answers like this for “should I try lemon in my tea?” which is just annoying.

Comment · 3 months ago
People used to do a lot of stupid stuff. If you live alone and are conscious of the risk, sure, this is not a terribly dangerous item if you're safe about it. If you live with pets or children, it's entirely sensible to be concerned about the risk. A mercury spill can seep between the floorboards and contaminate your house with volatile mercury vapors for years to come if not properly managed.
Comment · 4 months ago
If you break the game in such a way that no one wants to play with you anymore, then you have in fact lost the metagame
Comment · 7 months ago
Maybe in a pinch, doesn't seem very sustainable. A single decent 400 watt solar panel produces about the same continuous power as a horse, and doesn't consume 20 lbs of hay per day, or pee on your generator.
Comment · 7 months ago
Sure, plenty of people also wear a 14 oz hard hat strapped to their head all day with no negative health impacts. Doesn't mean it's enjoyable or comfortable for everyone.
Comment · 9 months ago
This was once common but is exceedingly rare these days. I'm sure exceptions exist, but nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Like most things, guessing and proving require vastly different efforts. In aviation, a few more orders of magnitude than most.
Comment · 1 year ago
You’re overthinking it. “Country” is simply more ambiguous when used as an adjective. “F5 announces attack from country hackers” sounds silly and confusing.
Comment · 1 year ago
I suspect they also empirically have less price-sensitivity on average, for a variety of reasons
Comment · 1 year ago
As opposed to what we have now?
Comment · 1 year ago
"Simple stochastic blob detection" is an abstraction. You write (or import) a function where the the gnarly logic lives and call `detectBlobs()`. "Use an abstraction" doesn't mean you should use the same abstraction for every task, you should use the right tool for the job.
Comment · 1 year ago
He didn't "do it", he was one voice among many astronomers who have been calling for a reclassification for years, the IAU voted and made the decision. It's a little silly calling him out for "doing it" for ego reasons when you are the one implicitly giving him credit for it... He didn't write the definition, he didn't chair the committee, he wasn't even on the committee. All he did was leave it off the list of planets at the Hayden Planetarium, where he was director.
Comment · 1 year ago
…you realize this happened nine years ago, right?

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