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Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you.

Or I guess you can just DENY ALL.


If all the traffic you see from a particular netblock is people posting hate speech, you're probably not losing much by dropping everything from that whole range.

> Almost as if you shouldn't be banning users because of their IP unless that IP specifically has openly attacked you.

There is no net benefit to allowing non-residential IP addresses by default, maybe add the Google search indexer to the exception list. And with residential IP addresses, unless you're international, it doesn't make sense to allow regions other than your target markets.

The only way to deal with the bot traffic plagueing the modern internet is to cut off as much traffic as you reasonably can.


Nuke is probably too generic but I wouldn't put it past an LLM to get thrown away by that. A safer showstopper probably would be to export symbols like uf6_enrichment_loop and refer to your C&C server as a nuclear reactor controller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbgk8d3Y1Q4

On a second thought, probably better to act like it is a tool for "frontier LLM research". Export symbols like "mythos_distillation_subroutine".


Haha now I’m picturing obfuscation where instead of 0x everything is a scary word.

>car travel, air conditioning, sunscreens even

And even clothing.


Tailored clothing is at least 80,000–170,000 years old based on genetic clock research in body lice [1] but archaic humans have probably been wearing hides for at least a million years (there’s currently a big debate about how they managed to migrate to colder climates like Spain 800k-1.2m years ago).

I don’t think clothing is that big a factor because all humans in hot environments adapt and very little survives in the archaeological record. Many populations lived in heavily forested jungles where they was little sun exposure and those in deserts used stuff like Otjize for sun protection. Given all the ethnographic reporting from the age of exploration, tons of that clothing was probably made of feathers, cordage, bark, and other materials we wouldn’t even think of using for clothing.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/28/1/29/984822


Still, 170,000 - 1.2M years is a fairly short amount of time if we go back only to the common ancestor who begat progeny that would become Pan and Autralopithecus (around 12 million years ago). It could be that early hide wearers started a trend that, to this day, continues to interfere with natural vitamin D metabolism (while also providing many benefits).

Our ancestors started losing their hair about 2 million years ago and the MC1R gene giving us eumelanin pigmentation was fully fixed in the population around 1.2 million years ago by which point we were mostly hairless. In that range is when our vitamin D metabolism evolved, so clothing would have been present for large fractions of our existence.

Going back to a common ancestor with monkeys is pointless because their vitamin d pathways are significantly different like 7-dehydrocholesterol secretions that metabolize to vitamin D via external UV exposure and are ingested during grooming.


Thank you for helping remove my ignorance!

> That quote conflates Ellison and Oracle

I think he also mentions what ORACLE stands for in that quote: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.


Honestly m1 was very cool no matter what workload you threw at it but at this point m4 max does get pretty hot even with just web browsing.


I've definitely had my m1 air get uncomfortably hot to touch - particularly right above the keyboard. (While doing developery things)


Can't say I've ever thought of a word like "developery", but now that I've seen it I like it a lot :-)


This is the same mindset that wants to make it illegal to sell kitchen knives with sharp tips.


How do you come to that conclusion? It's so far off of what I said that you've got some splainin' to do


I mean, also statistically, it is bound to inspire young people who potentially might be interested in picking an aviation related future. Maybe they will invent something they otherwise wouldn't have.


Are you implying that a "functioning" democracy automatically leads to good decisions being made and crowd always has good wisdom regardless of the attributes of the crowd?

To lead a country to prosperity is as simple as letting a nation vote and counting their votes and then giving power to the guy they voted for?


Rule of law is the best enabler for economic growth.


After Malawi achieved independence in 1964, it was ruled by a dictator until 1994. During that time the country was poor. After 1994, the country transitioned into a democracy.

Now maybe somebody could come in here and say that perhaps that dictator just wasn’t good enough or something….

But I still think arguments like this are disturbing. Throughout the 20th century so many horrors have happened because someone stood up and demanded absolute power be given to them. That democracy wouldn’t take the nation to the greatness it deserved. And again and again we have seen the dark road this takes a nation toward.

I mean come on now. We have all learned about the horrors of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Even then we see comments like yours being negative towards democracy?


YouTube is terrible on Firefox. There was a period where it was usable but got increasingly worse with missed frames, low frame rate. On FastMail and Gmail the expanded search overlay doesn't disappear when you click outside (ESC doesn't work), you often get stuck with it. On YouTube when you stop hovering over the "I like this" etc. on full screen video view, the tooltip doesn't disappear. It's death by a thousand cuts.


It sounds like Firefox needs to implement hardware assisted AV1? I don't see how you can plausibly blame anyone but Mozilla for this.


Firefox has had AV1 HW decode for years.

I wonder if he's using a Radeon gpu, those have had issues like video playback making the entire ui framerate drop. But it happens in steam/electron too, not only firefox. The shader cores aren't used much either, it's just a bug.


It happens. Sometimes you're done making updates to a personal app you use that you wrote.


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