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Comment · 6 hours ago
I would prefer they just maintain it as long as possible and maybe deploy a proxy for earth that trails behind it indefinitely once it’s finally out of range. Let’s set an unbreakable record.
Comment · 6 hours ago
Means testing for malware
Comment · 6 hours ago
My router got hacked the other month (left web interface open to internet) after being exposed to the internet and the persistence left behind was overly commented LLM artifacts. I caught it in like 5 minutes so they weren’t able to do much but it was eye opening how much more basic practices like firewalls are not something that can be ignored even if you update your firmware frequently.
Comment · 6 hours ago
It's based on means testing.
Comment · 22 hours ago
Yeah I think you are right, I should say that some of that code was ported and still survives today in 26 uses some of the same APIs and naming, but isn’t necessarily the same code from classic Mac OS. One example is RegisterEventHotKey.
Comment · 1 day ago
> This got me acquainted with the classic Mac OS,

> and I fell in love with the jank as it were (hacks

> upon hacks upon hacks going back to the 1980s is

> something I’d definitely describe as “jank”).

Modern macOS still has classic Mac OS code in it dating as far back, and has added Objective C and Swift abstractions on top.

Comment · 1 day ago
When I worked at Google SREs only handled legacy products that were maintained but not in active development. SRE was its own vertical separate from SWE and they would only take on maintenance of a new service or product if SWE could prove to them it was stable.
Comment · 2 days ago
“Trading” is quite the euphemism
Comment · 2 days ago
China adds another dash to their South China Sea claim every other year it seems
Comment · 2 days ago
You are abusing big O which is worst case time complexity scaling. If I simplify your notation, then you just wrote O(1)
Comment · 2 days ago
100 review cycles sounds like a lot of arbitrary churn, I can get most models to review and endlessly find things to “improve”
Comment · 5 days ago
Epigenetics affect intelligence and could be considered nurture
Comment · 5 days ago
Also tear down the ballroom, arch, Kennedy/Trump center, helipad, and much more to make Trump invisible and remove his legacy fully.
Comment · 7 days ago
That’s precisely what I’m referencing
Comment · 8 days ago
My only gripe with Idiocracy is the idea that stupid people make stupid children. I know plenty of smart people who have come from brain dead parents.

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