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1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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we did it fellas -- linux on the desktop
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i always feel like telling an LLM "make no mistakes" gives me the literary voice of hans gruber with his pistol pointed at that banker. (unfortunately, just like in the film it does not seem…
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The OP's link is timing out over Tor for me, but the Wayback[1] version loaded without issue. Also, does anyone know of any researchers in the academic world focusing on this issue? We are aware …
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I was impressed with folks who learned so many games as kids -- I got sucked into Simcity 2000 for quite a spell... then Simcopter and "Streets of Simcity", which I soon found out had almost…
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Now that Protonmail has an ok-ish PGP interface they've been bleeding users, it's a really important piece of the open source infrastructure and I hope folks support it -- back when I was wi…
4mo ago·view thread
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Can't you just... tell it not to make mistakes? :-)
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>If you want to throw money at the problem USB-C is not the answer (how does that even make sense??) I thought maybe it could use a capacitor or something? I'm not an electrical engineer -- al…
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K-Mart? The dream of the 90s lives on in the land down under apparently...
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it's never instant because boiling water takes sooooo longgggg. apparently uk teakettles are faster due to voltage differences? i want to look for a usb-c solution sometime
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Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for a moment and propose that maybe DOGE did loudly what the Solarwinds paired with OPM breach did quietly years prior.
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>his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA medical diagnoses can be incredibly useful in understanding past and future actions >there shouldn't be anythi…
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These kinds of laws worry me since I have forgotten several old passwords. Being disorganized shouldn't be a criminal offense.
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I suspect any cloud service without strong encryption at rest ala Protonmail will have insider threat issues. Hell there's an entire Wikipedia article entitled "Saudi infiltration of Twitter…
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>Chase Mobile What banking tasks are you doing that other apps don't seem to handle -- are you trading stocks or something? I basically never use a banking app except to deposit a check (which…
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I've had good experiences with KeePassXC. In addition to being able to store your passwords, it can ingest TOTP seeds. And finally, it's open source and cross platform. (I originally stumble…
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why should your opinion matter more because you're a parent? in my experience, folks with the economic comfort to create children by choice tend to be extreme machavellian and justify said machin…
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>invocation of free expression as the supreme unbridled right even for teenagers who wouldn’t even understand what you’re talking about i got into policy partly by reading eff's deeplinks in m…
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no music or tv? that sounds fucked... why don't ppl just drink in a park? iirc public drinking is actually legal in the uk? (I know in some countries it's actually not -- Bratislava being on…
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>What makes you think this anonymous 13 year old is going to get good advice from anonymous strangers on the internet? There's a whole section here called "Ask HN". What makes you th…
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And what happens when someone under that age needs to anonymously ask for advice on the internet? Most folks hit puberty at around 13. Imagine your parents have divorced -- your new stepfather is very…
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isn't weatherspoons like getting drunk at applebees basically? comparing that to a "pub" is kinda laughable
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>Presumably the phones are tapped? If you simply list a location and time, it's hard to suss out whether it's a coffee or a protest. And there's a limit on how many people can be sur…
7mo ago·view thread
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>Perhaps him acting aggressively and blocking you was a misunderstood attempt at humor. People who are being hyperbolic for humor tend to follow you back not block you
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Old fashioned phone trees can be really useful IMHO OP. We used them when I worked in a school. If there was winter weather, you'd call say, everyone with a last name from A to G in the staff dir…
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Is an O-1 the "model visa"? Because OF models are models... so I wonder if model management companies are upset about folks selling content directly to consumers without abusive middle man…
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>Then, there’s the dicier issue of whether an experiment like this amounts to human experimentation. It doesn’t, according to the University of Minnesota’s Institutional Review Board. Lu and Wu app…
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>I think they should have gotten permission from IRB ahead of time, but this doesn't sound like they were researching human subjects? I assure you that it falls under IRB's purview -- I c…
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In general, if an "entertainer" has no "offstage" persona, they're batshit and it's not a bit.
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