he would not want professionally shipped code to carry an invisible marker that could raise questions about authorship, compliance, or client policies.

Gee, if only there were some way to create code that doesn’t raise questions about authorship. Some sort of skill that people could learn that allowed them to deliver code to their clients that complied with their policies…

Who is this “they” that killed Google Keep? In what way did they do so? The only thing I’ve found is that the Chrome app was discontinued in 2021 as part of the general push to get rid of Chrome apps, but that has no real effect on anyone’s ability to use the service.

Paying to run it on someone else’s computer. WPEngine charge $130/month for the level of their Essential plan that’s supposed to handle 100,000 visits/month. That’s $1560/year, which is near enough to his claim that it’s probably what he was on.

I’m very suspect of the arithmetic here. Given the economic climate I’m not at all convinced that an 8% increase in revenue will result in an 18% increase in profit…especially since to get 2025 to only a $150K shortfall it looks like you have to ignore $250K in property taxes, on the assumption that their application to become tax exempt will be granted.

Unfortunately DuckDuckGo sucks ass at search, even compared to how much the Google search results have degraded over time. I use the no-AI version as my primary search engine, but I have to resort to using Google to find the thing I’m looking for about 1 in 5 times.

For future reference: “throwing hands” means initiating a fight, it’s a piece of slang that is very distinct from throwing your hands (up/in the air.)

Your behaviour is indistinguishable from that of someone who is defending them, since you’re arguing their side of the lawsuit. The magazine is legally required to publish a reply which is “suc­cinct and con­fine[s] it­self to the sub­ject mat­ter of the con­ten­tious rep­res­ent­a­tion,” not any given reply that Palantir wants to make. As quoted at several removes, “Republik’s managing director Katharina Hemmer said Palantir had wanted the magazine to publish a very lengthy counterstatement to each article. Republik believed the proposed statements did not fairly address or rebut the reporting”

Strictly speaking I think they’re being sued for not forcing it on their customers. If it had been genuinely a change in service offerings that everyone was forced to accept I think they would have been in the clear, but resorting to trickery instead of force is a no-no.

And Vaxry’s defense of the community was “actually, we harassed a transphobe a few months later.” Yes, great, you’re shitty to everyone. Yay.

You can’t prevent client-side cheating with a server-side implementation. For instance, making enemies on the other side of a wall visible uses data that the server has to supply to the client in order for the game to work, just in an unintended way. The server also has no way to verify whether the client is accurately conveying the results of user inputs or gently correcting them to move the aim to an enemy’s head instead of a gazebo.

It would still be nice if all game companies supported Linux, but it requires active effort and isn’t something they can get for free by being better programmers.

I would believe that at some point over the course of the past few years 82% of employees had sent at least one slopbot query to an unsanctioned service during work hours. 82% actively doing it on an ongoing basis for work-related reasons? Is to laugh.

McDonald’s has the worst kiosks of the three that I have experienced (the other two being Taco Bell and Burger King.)

They feel slightly laggy, while cramming in as many upsell interstitials (and “log in with your personal data accumulation rewards account” nags) as possible. This makes ordering feel like wading through molasses. The other two could also be slightly streamlined, but the number of clicks to order doesn’t feel as egregious. (I’m now tempted to go count and see if my perceptions are accurate…)

scripts that used to be called x.sh (shebang /bin/sh) suddenly renamed x.bash in main (shebang still /bin/sh).

That’s just…so completely ass-backwards it boggles the mind.

Here’s a vegan gumbo I made for Thanksgiving a couple years back.

Ah, yes, Western Paganism is famed for its uniformity of belief and complete lack of objectionable people saying hateful things. (Pay no attention to the Nazis behind the curtain, they’re not Real Pagans™.)

Okay. Now that you’ve identified four candidates that LW might refer to, which of these do you think it is?

If you selected the obviously correct answer, congratulations. You have learned to apply context clues to understand unfamiliar abbreviations.

If you chose anything else…furrfu. I guess I pity anyone who ever attempts to hold a conversation with you.

Thanks, I hate it.

Many of these threads are made in good faith and out of curiousity, but often times the comments become filled with hatred, ignorance, and trolling.

You don’t say.

My favourite was a junior dev who was like, “when I read from this input file the data is weirdly mangled and unreadable so as the first processing step I’ll just remove all null bytes, which seems to leave me with ASCII text.”

(It was UTF-16.)

“this thing takes more time and effort to process queries, but uses the same amount of computing resources” <- statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

It means that Yudkowsky remains a terrible writer. He really just wanted to say “seizing [control of] the executive branch”, but couldn’t resist adding some ornamentation.