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rawlingon The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble (2024)

> There are 3 limitations:

> ...

> 2) I can place the first 11 edge pieces onto the cube any way I want. The orientation of the last edge piece is determined by the orientation of the first 11.

> 3) I need to track how many swaps I create by placing those pieces. An even number of swaps is solvable, and odd number is not.

Would it be equivalent to say, after placing the first 10 edge pieces, the position of the 11th is mandated, and then the orientation of the 12th is too? Or if (3) is broken might it be harder to fix than swapping the 11th and 12th?

rawlingon .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microso...

The last 5 version have been released a year apart, in Novembers.

rawlingon France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’

Thanks for the context.

(Machine translation also)

> Obstructing or distorting the operation of an automated data processing system is punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of €150,000.

I would be really worried if that got applied to people working on systems they own. Take it down because of an issue? Obstruction. Make a change? Distortion.

rawlingon France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’

Isn't this within the context of hacking a system, rather than making changes to a system you yourself own?

rawlingon France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’

Those all seem to me to be "altering a system against the wishes of the owners", hopefully not "altering a system you own against the wishes of the state".

(auto translation)

> Fraudulently accessing or maintaining access to all or part of an automated data processing system is punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €100,000.

> Where this results in either the deletion or modification of data contained in the system, or an alteration of the functioning of this system, the penalty is five years' imprisonment and a fine of €150,000.

Unless I've missed something more specific lower down.

rawlingon Logical implication is a comparison operator

> Ever notice that the notation for a ⇒ b looks awfully similar to a >= b, just with the symbols switched around? Well, they're the same thing.

...

> This means that only if x>y, then the statement is false. A simpler way to write this is that x ≤ y, which reveals the connection.

So it's the same as <= not >=?

rawlingon Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625119

rawlingon Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and deletes our entire database

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44625119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622725

rawlingon Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270965

rawlingon Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible

But similarly, couldn't you just write harmful stuff straight into the action itself?

rawlingon Android 16 Is Here

Thanks, that helped me find this which does sound like it:

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

rawlingon Android 16 is here

> - First-party defaults for all the platform pieces: Messaging, Payments, Photos, Music, Media, Navigation, etc. Every single one of these lets Apple and Google squeeze another industry and forces us into a pit of no-innovation.

Don't/can't Android manufacturers provide alternative defaults here?

rawlingon I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits

> If LLM generation was like a Makefile step, part of your build process, this concern would make a lot of sense. But nobody, anywhere, does that.

Top level comment of this thread, quoting the article:

> Reading through these commits sparked an idea: what if we treated prompts as the actual source code? Imagine version control systems where you commit the prompts used to generate features rather than the resulting implementation.

rawlingon Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways

> even Quakers

Arrests made _at a Quaker meeting house_, not _of Quakers_ (or at least not for _being_ Quakers).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3x5j6g30ro

> The Metropolitan Police said six people had been arrested on Thursday evening at the Westminster Meeting House on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

> The force said the arrests had come amid concerns about plans to "shut down" London next month using tactics such as road blocks.

I would imagine your example of "anti-hunting activists" would likely also be people planning to do something to break the law - not purely for online comments.

rawlingon Dependency injection frameworks add confusion

Not one that shows up when I hit "go to implementation".

rawlingon Dependency injection frameworks add confusion

So I can mock it out for unit tests.

rawlingon Contacts let you see in the dark with your eyes closed

Several recent posts, think this one has the most discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063051

rawlingon Why old games never die, but new ones do

Even all the offline content?

rawlingon Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly

Not sure if joking, but presumably that then just wouldn't trigger this behaviour:

> If you happen to pronounce the name “Dave and Buster’s” as someone would normally pronounce it, almost like it’s a single word, the transcription engine on iOS will recognize¹ the brand name and correctly write it as “Dave & Buster’s” (with an ampersand).

rawlingon Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC

[2024]?

rawlingon GlobalX, Airline for Trump's Deportations, Hacked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897696

rawlingon DotnetSnes: Library allowing to use C# to create SNES ROMs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43673011

Some discussion 3 weeks ago

rawlingon Doom GPU Flame Graphs

A few comments, 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846283

rawlingon Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

A lot of discussion, a week ago