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CWwdcdk7hon Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message

Last time YouTube wanted to verify my phone number it was easier to find a free service to receive SMS than for Google to deliver it to my actual phone. And Google didn't care I "verified" a number assigned to other side of the world.

CWwdcdk7hon GitHub is sinking

It is so confusing to me. I never worked for company that wouldn't self host its code repository and CI/CD. All the way back to SVN and when Jenkins was stil called Hudson. Most of the time there was also a local proxy for all 3rd party dependencies/artifacts. I understand why open source projects love GitHub but why are software companies depending on it?

CWwdcdk7hon SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites

They are supposed to placed on SSO, to avoid the need for energy storage, and that means LEO.

CWwdcdk7hon Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

His rants were more palpable when he blasted the design of PCB visible on screen, or vendor that didn't want to sell replacement parts, when viewer could see the damage at the same time. Now he is just another guy with mic. And while he fights for good cause I find his videos at least 5 times too long considering the actual content.

CWwdcdk7hon PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs

Isn't it simpler, in general, to just move the development off GitHub, while leaving existing repo in sync, so it can harmlessly drown in PRs from people who didn't bother to even read project contribution guidelines?

CWwdcdk7hon Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

People don't seem medical services because they want to, they do it when they need them. It is the only industry where there price list might as well be replaced with "we will take as much as you can afford". No one can afford to be stingy with money with health and live of their loved ones on stake. It is very asymmetric situation, so it is clear to me why someone would want to ban for profit hospitals.

CWwdcdk7hon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

To be more specific, it is a heuristic for detecting flamewars and/or controversial topics and it is quite good at that.

CWwdcdk7hon Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

Strictly speaking there is that one startup that compiles entire models into huge ASIC. With trade off that entire hardware becomes outdated when new model version is released in 2-3 months.

CWwdcdk7hon Appearing productive in the workplace

So the opposite of quiet quitting is loud slopping?

CWwdcdk7hon 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

No hurricanes there, so I guess they can just slowly rebuild walls to keep up with sea level and increase number of pumps already used to get rid of excess rainwater. Not great but manageable as long they secure enough money.

CWwdcdk7hon Let's Buy Spirit Air

I guess Spirit will have most of assets liquidated before site author even finds a way to actually accept payments, and SEC won't care until that happens, it is too crazy even to waste time on investigating it.

CWwdcdk7hon GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

> $20 billion in debt financing

This debt will carried by company resulting from merge. It might be not classic leveraged buyout but if they have any trouble with repaying it, it will end in asset liquidation all the same.

CWwdcdk7hon GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

I mean he pumped and dumped BBB, and those people (or should we call them apes?) still love this guy.

CWwdcdk7hon GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

They already increased total number of stock by +39% in last 12 months, GME will squeeze the last penny from those people.

CWwdcdk7hon Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

I suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXbj20351o as suplementarny material.

CWwdcdk7hon Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight

Aren't air traffic controllers already overworked and understaffed? How does adding hundreds of tiny helicopters fit in that picture?

CWwdcdk7hon Where the goblins came from

How those prompts even work? Isn't it something like saying "don't think about pink elephant" which is actually harmful to goal?

CWwdcdk7hon We need a federation of forges

Can't we really go back to pre-github model? I mean all it did was to reduce the barrier for contributions. With current flood of AI generated PR it doesn't sound like a big inconvenience to have to register at code hosting service used by project you want to improve/participate in.

CWwdcdk7hon Quirks of Human Anatomy

You can try https://michaelbach.de/ot/cog-blindSpot/ . I remember using other instruction/test image, but the result was quite clear - a dot in middle of image suddenly disappears, deepening on precise eye/head/screen orientation.

CWwdcdk7hon Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

It sounds really similar to Uber pitch about how they are going to have monopoly as soon as they replace those pesky drivers with own fleet of self driving cars. That was supposed to be their competitive edge against other taxi apps. In the end they sold ATG at end of 2020 :D

CWwdcdk7hon An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

I have no idea about the former but yes, it is a valid excuse for latter. Ok, maybe not that specific one but in general backups are going to be excluded, especially those stored on tapes or WORM media - no one expects company to remove offending record here and now, as long it is inaccessible for all practical purposes.

CWwdcdk7hon Hear your agent suffer through your code

https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...

So it is left up to agent to decide.

CWwdcdk7hon SilentGlass actively blocks malicious HDMI and Display Port connections

That sounds like a strait up scam. Do they also make explosives detectors?

CWwdcdk7hon Oracle's Deluge of AI Debt Pushes Wall Street to the Limit

Why? Oracle might as well pull a Broadcom and start charging their existing customers more, much more.

CWwdcdk7hon Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

> some could be tempted to slightly alter the data

We even suspect the G. Mendel of altering his pea data, it is unlikely he got results so close to predicted ratios. So it is not "some", everyone is tempted to "clean up" data, be it by removing outliers or by duplicating "good" rows.

CWwdcdk7hon Cloudflare Email Service

> We raised $6M in Seed Funding

Well that part was impressive. It looks like they focused on receiving emails, that is probably even worse, as I expect OpenAI/Anthropic to add such ability directly to agents, if it really is useful.

CWwdcdk7hon €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs

Google doesn't allow disconnecting credit card from account unless you close it. That includes situation when you are just trying out free tier.