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engcoach··on Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
TFA is about contaminated lettuce my meatless friend
engcoach··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Please note: A well-funded organization, like a government, can derive the keys from the TPM hardware using an electron microscope.
engcoach··on [dead]
Ro Khanna 2028!
engcoach··on It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
engcoach··on Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies
Try OpenEvidence instead
engcoach··on Making Graphics Like it's 1993
We're getting to the point that building something with AI doesn't really indicate skill. So, for a prestige project, there is great value in avoiding AI use.
engcoach··on The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
Option-hyphen key on macOS. I used to make prolific use of the emdash and LLMs took that from me!
engcoach··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
This development isn’t necessarily incompatible with the idea of the US being a vassal state (e.g. the takeover is a partial compromise as open admission of capture would lead to a mass uprising against the Federal government possibly via a national guard division or the like)
engcoach··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Israel
engcoach··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
That’s going to age as well as weapons of mass destruction in Iraq did. The reality is that only Israel was threatened by Iran and the US is caught up in it simply because we act as their vassal.
engcoach··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Why do they chant that? Is it due to acting against US interests in favor of another state, maybe one in the Levant?
engcoach··on MacBook Neo
The RAM usage you are describing is likely not actual resident memory use. Check RPRVT via top on macOS for a more generally useful metric of actual impact per process.
engcoach··on Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
My response to the horse image: https://i.postimg.cc/hG8nJ4cv/IMG-5289-copy.jpg
engcoach··on Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
It's the year of the horse in their zodiac. The (translated) prompt is wild:

""" A desolate grassland stretches into the distance, its ground dry and cracked. Fine dust is kicked up by vigorous activity, forming a faint grayish-brown mist in the low sky. Mid-ground, eye-level composition: A muscular, robust adult brown horse stands proudly, its forelegs heavily pressing between the shoulder blades and spine of a reclining man. Its hind legs are taut, its neck held high, its mane flying against the wind, its nostrils flared, and its eyes sharp and focused, exuding a primal sense of power. The subdued man is a white male, 30-40 years old, his face covered in dust and sweat, his short, messy dark brown hair plastered to his forehead, his thick beard slightly damp; he wears a badly worn, grey-green medieval-style robe, the fabric torn and stained with mud in several places, a thick hemp rope tied around his waist, and scratched ankle-high leather boots; his body is in a push-up position—his palms are pressed hard against the cracked, dry earth, his knuckles white, the veins in his arms bulging, his legs stretched straight back and taut, his toes digging into the ground, his entire torso trembling slightly from the weight. The background is a range of undulating grey-blue mountains, their outlines stark, their peaks hidden beneath a low-hanging, leaden-grey, cloudy sky. The thick clouds diffuse a soft, diffused light, which pours down naturally from the left front at a 45-degree angle, casting clear and voluminous shadows on the horse's belly, the back of the man's hands, and the cracked ground. The overall color scheme is strictly controlled within the earth tones: the horsehair is warm brown, the robe is a gradient of gray-green-brown, the soil is a mixture of ochre, dry yellow earth, and charcoal gray, the dust is light brownish-gray, and the sky is a transition from matte lead gray to cool gray with a faint glow at the bottom of the clouds. The image has a realistic, high-definition photographic quality, with extremely fine textures—you can see the sweat on the horse's neck, the wear and tear on the robe's warp and weft threads, the skin pores and stubble, the edges of the cracked soil, and the dust particles. The atmosphere is tense, primitive, and full of suffocating tension from a struggle of biological forces. """

engcoach··on Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
The "horse riding man" prompt is wild:

"""A desolate grassland stretches into the distance, its ground dry and cracked. Fine dust is kicked up by vigorous activity, forming a faint grayish-brown mist in the low sky. Mid-ground, eye-level composition: A muscular, robust adult brown horse stands proudly, its forelegs heavily pressing between the shoulder blades and spine of a reclining man. Its hind legs are taut, its neck held high, its mane flying against the wind, its nostrils flared, and its eyes sharp and focused, exuding a primal sense of power. The subdued man is a white male, 30-40 years old, his face covered in dust and sweat, his short, messy dark brown hair plastered to his forehead, his thick beard slightly damp; he wears a badly worn, grey-green medieval-style robe, the fabric torn and stained with mud in several places, a thick hemp rope tied around his waist, and scratched ankle-high leather boots; his body is in a push-up position—his palms are pressed hard against the cracked, dry earth, his knuckles white, the veins in his arms bulging, his legs stretched straight back and taut, his toes digging into the ground, his entire torso trembling slightly from the weight. The background is a range of undulating grey-blue mountains, their outlines stark, their peaks hidden beneath a low-hanging, leaden-grey, cloudy sky. The thick clouds diffuse a soft, diffused light, which pours down naturally from the left front at a 45-degree angle, casting clear and voluminous shadows on the horse's belly, the back of the man's hands, and the cracked ground. The overall color scheme is strictly controlled within the earth tones: the horsehair is warm brown, the robe is a gradient of gray-green-brown, the soil is a mixture of ochre, dry yellow earth, and charcoal gray, the dust is light brownish-gray, and the sky is a transition from matte lead gray to cool gray with a faint glow at the bottom of the clouds. The image has a realistic, high-definition photographic quality, with extremely fine textures—you can see the sweat on the horse's neck, the wear and tear on the robe's warp and weft threads, the skin pores and stubble, the edges of the cracked soil, and the dust particles. The atmosphere is tense, primitive, and full of suffocating tension from a struggle of biological forces."""

engcoach··on Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach
Fuck the government
engcoach··on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
What about people who have eaten extensive quantities (and variations) of vegetarian Indian food but still crave meat? It's not a matter of exposure, it's also a matter of taste.
engcoach··on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
Old Apple wasn't run by ex-Microsoft and ex-consultancy MBAs... a serious cultural rot has set in and the much of the "bottom up" component powering much of the innovation is nothing but smoldering coals.

The golden goose is dead.

engcoach··on Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA
Allies shouldn't align with their block's primary geopolitical enemies...
engcoach··on Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA
Honestly, the US doesn't need Türkiye. Europe does.
engcoach··on Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA
Rare earths are vital for military equipment. This action is coming from a country that NATO has trusted with its best technology and they continue to flirt with both Russia and China, NATO's primary threats.
engcoach··on Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA
While it has its challenges, it is not dead.
engcoach··on Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA
Correct, and this is the latest in a serious of decisions made by Türkiye which imperil NATO's collective defense.

Rare earths are vital for military equipment. This action is coming from a country that NATO has trusted with its best technology and they continue to flirt with both Russia and China, NATO's primary threats.

Do you see how my comment is about the impact on NATO's ability to wage war? What if Türkiye begins sharing military secrets with China? They are working with China on the mine referenced in the article. They are not trustworthy.

engcoach··on Ghrc.io appears to be malicious
Is the danger here token replay? It's using Bearer tokens, so it's not sending a password over:

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Aut...>

Threats section for Bearer tokens: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6750#section-5.2>

Does OAuth reuse tokens across domains? If not, doesn't this just mean it is requesting an auth token for ghrc (the "fake" domain) but it can't access any auth tokens for ghcr (the real domain)?

engcoach··on My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
Without a fee, people would make new accounts and circumvent distribution restrictions.
engcoach··on Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?
Quit
engcoach··on Leaving Google
It only takes a spouse with a personality disorder and a divorce to change the calculus.
engcoach··on Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence
This is true, and all downstream from ex-MS narcs and assholes taking over. They don't know or care what makes a good product, and are only skilled at looking good to other midwits.
engcoach··on Is software abstraction killing civilization? (2021)
If recursion is confusing to people then files are a great weeding out function for folks studying computer science. We have too many clueless people in the industry, why add more?

Bundles are just folders with a bunch of files in them. How does that invalidate the concept of files?

engcoach··on Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
You can't gauge the airspeed of an airplane from the ground. What you are observing is the ground speed, which is affected by winds. So a small Cessna flying into a heavy headwind can appear to move very, very slowly relative to the ground.
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