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Comment · 2 days ago
Dunno. Is there technology to "print" a connectome in the same way as peptide/proteine synthesis does with amino-acid sequence?
Comment · 27 days ago
"Coding is solved" is a very high bar, and current-gen AI/LLM is very far from that.

Where AI did make a lot of impact is triage. I can throw a messy bug report of an intermittent issue at claude, and tell I need issue reproduced and fix developed, and there is a well above 50% chance it'll deliver. Never commit that fix to the codebase as-is, of course.

Comment · 29 days ago
Comment · 29 days ago
Some webshops (e.g. Aliexpress) already soft-block Chromium (at least Chromium-on-Linux). I.e. such users see larger-than-usual share of captchas.

Assuming "more people catching onto" this, expect Cloudflare and most everyone else to follow the suite.

Comment · 29 days ago
Agreed on inevitable collateral blockage of real people using real "headed" browser. I'm getting a ton of that already, personally.

Throttling is poor help though. Mass scrapers are using "residential proxy" loophole + rotating UA and other attributes. You can't throttle somebody without identifying them. Unless you're talking about a global rate-limit.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Primitive iron was (...) malleable

> primitive steel [made] by adding charcoal.

Isn't that backwards? Surely "primitive iron" was closer to what we call pig iron nowadays.

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

That stuff is choke-full of carbon and silica, and is brittle as hell. To get it malleable (which is actually desirable in a weapon, so it wouldn't just snap in use), there is a separate process to decrease carbon content:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrought_iron#Terminology

Comment · 1 month ago

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