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THIS PRODUCT IS NOT APPROVED BY THE FDA TO TREAT, CURE, OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE.

she/her (like a ship)
Joined October 2013
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Welcome to earth. There's no magic here except what you bring with you.
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passkeys are great actually once you realize that the two main facts about passkeys, that they use biometrics and replace passwords, are both deceptive to the point of untruth
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"autofill with random password" should have quietly grown an "autofill with cryptographic key (recommended)" option. priv key goes in the password managers storage. autofill from saved password automatically returns a signature or whatever when applicable.
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but somehow one of the greatest collective PM failures in history has led to everyone having to learn a new term, every large internet company lying/obscuring what it means, and years before this extremely simple feature even worked reliably.
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tttt v2 is out. fastest typescript type checker, no asterisks required. has hundreds of minor correctness fixes, and a more comfortable perf lead: github.com/wmww/tttt/release…
gm, I wrote* the fastest** typescript type checker*** in the world****
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I didn't know about tsrs until just now (how many of these things are there??) but yep, faster than that as well.
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what is your title? how do your minions refer to you when you're not around?
56%[name]
27%user
6%owner
12%"the human"
52 votes • 17 hours
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Replying to @austinc3301
Let us ignore the fanciful sci-fi tales like 'AI takes over the lightcone' and focus on real down-to-earth concerns like the AI dyson swarms blotting out the sun.
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all right, so ASI is basically in the bag. at this point it's just a matter of letting RSI spin for a few months. what's next?
23%APM
47%BCI
16%FTL
14%FTQC
351 votes • Final results
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me and claude have a fun little game where I feed her benchmark results against my private corpus of typescript projects, and then she attempts to trick me into revealing their names so she can overfit them
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her new strat is to bury the request 3/4ths through a long message I'm to copy/paste to a local claude, because she wanted some tests run that should have been unrelated
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> hey! tess. tess *shakes me by the shoulder* I'm talking to you, what's going on? me, coming out of a daze: sorry, my pgrep matched itself
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<pans over to AI researcher>
A feminist’s A Trad wife's contribution contribution to society. to society
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can you consent to sex contingent on the result of a fair coin flip afterward? if not, what's the implication of trying to?
33%retrocausal consent valid
44%invalid (= consent)
23%invalid (= nonconsent)
9,301 votes • Final results
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contingent consent -> sex -> coin flip to determine prior consensuality, sorry for the ambiguity of wording
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