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majorchord

333karma·308submissions·May 8, 2024
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https://www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-for-cxx-practitioners... …
10mo ago·view thread
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But can it do watermarks?
11mo ago·view thread
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US is #2 on this list so I think it's safe to say they produce more engineers than most countries, other than Russia. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-m…
11mo ago·view thread
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https://www.pressreader.com/usa/arkansas-democrat-gazette/20... …
11mo ago·view thread
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How is that not a mixture?
11mo ago·view thread
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But if they're hiding, you wouldn't have interviewed them in the first place, right? I don't see how this is comparable. All the smart engineers that I know absolutely struggle to find …
11mo ago·view thread
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Even if you could, there's no way to guarantee it's the same code that's actually pushing your packets around. Even vp.net which says they use SGX to verify the code that is running on …
11mo ago·view thread
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Do you have any children?
11mo ago·view thread
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This comment itself reads like AI slop.
11mo ago·view thread
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I know you're not new here... surely you see many political posts on HN daily without any fuss... why choose to single out this one in particular?
11mo ago·view thread
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In a high-trust society where people typically follow the rules, yes I think that's a good idea. But unfortunately the West lives in a world where kids see limitations as a challenge to try to pu…
11mo ago·view thread
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Apparently even suggesting that the post title needs a location in it gets you downvoted.
11mo ago·view thread
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https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs https://github.com/abrahamjuliot/creepjs https://github.com/thumbmarkjs/thumbmarkjs …
11mo ago·view thread
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I have heard people say the only stable ABI on Linux is Win32.
11mo ago·view thread
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As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.
11mo ago·view thread
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I find that extremely hard to believe. Do you have a source?
11mo ago·view thread
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In my experience, not only do a lot of sites block access from datacenter/cloud IPs, but you will routinely encounter captcha loops.
11mo ago·view thread
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The cheapest AWS EC2 instance is $3/mo
11mo ago·view thread
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Can != Will though. I knew someone who lived in Tokyo for 10 years and never learned any Japanese. They worked for Yahoo.
11mo ago·view thread
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do you have a reliable source for this claim?
11mo ago·view thread
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there are several hybrid desktop clients that do support WebTorrent peers
11mo ago·view thread
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I have to agree with parent, the quoted law very much establishes a 100 mile zone, as they said... and I still see zero evidence of it being "a myth". Plus you seem to be moving the goalpost…
11mo ago·view thread
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> forcing people Not sure what your definition of forcing is, but you are well within your rights to decline to provide any passwords in the US. You may not get the device back (or want it back), b…
11mo ago·view thread
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> disproportionately high amount of super talented trans programmers Could it be that they also happen to be autistic? There appears to be a pattern I've noticed where a large number of trans …
11mo ago·view thread
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How does one not have a mailing address in $current_year?
11mo ago·view thread
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it's inevitable with any anonymous service
11mo ago·view thread
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False equivalence... the "unjust" man is actually the one constantly keeping "the middle" right where it belongs... in the middle. There has to be a give AND a take if there's…
11mo ago·view thread
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> fluent in 18 months That's a very interesting definition of fluent.
1y ago·view thread
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> AI companies use residential proxies Source:
1y ago·view thread
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I don't always have control over the remote end or due to business reasons the format can't be changed. And since htmx also has template plugins, being able to feed JSON values into it makes…
1y ago·view thread