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by 0xEF 2y ago
I did an experiment for my blog awhile back that never got written up (lack of time, mostly), but it is was just me ordering about $30US of stuff from Temu to see why they were so aggressively marketing themselves, the app auto-installing o
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Correct. But... We _do know_ that companies are typically driven by greed and profit, so if it is possible for them to replace their human workers with something that does a similar level of work but also does not require a paycheck, we wou
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> If they have a bad day, simply being a straight white dude ain't gonna save anyone. This is the thing to remember as the current regime uses this El Salvadorian prison as a beta-testing gulag. We'll soon see more hints that t
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I've heard it put another way that I enjoyed: "C assumes you know what you're doing, which is only a problem if you don't know what you're doing."
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As someone who regularly has to digest relevant security information and deliver it to teams that generally do not know a lot about or do not enjoy using computers, I can tell you that no, it is not useful.
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Can we stop making new -ishing words for scams? This weird lingo is part of what turns the less savvy users off from paying much attention to their personal security. Just say a [type of] scam such as "a QR code scam" or "tex
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I've had no issues with eBay, despite the fee increase. I list my stuff at reasonable prices, generally under cutting recent sold-for prices and still make a few bucks. It depends a lot on _why_ you are selling your used things. I am n
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I like it, will play again. It felt challenging but not impossible. Will there be consideration for other languages in the future? I agree with the other commentor's suggestions on the UI.
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> more diverse, less cancel culture I love when people use this to mean "more white and conservative." Bluesky users lean toward hating corporate greed. Adobe is greedy as fuck. Simple as. They and companies like them can stay
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That might be part of the game; how resourceful are you? Can you find the information needed to play it without someone handing it to you? That's interesting, if true.
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Not OP, but if you are asking for your own reference or projects, I've found this "prompt flow" to be very effective: https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/ The reason
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This should go over well.
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Yep.
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I tried weight lifting/strength training for about a year and never really noticed an improvement in sleep quality. However, it was still a net positive in the strength/overall daily energy department. I used to bike a lot, stoppe
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[x] Anxiety [x] Sleep apnea [x] Digestive issues [x] Former psychonaut [x] Highly stressed pretty much always due to work I can only hope that whatever brand of dementia I end up with is something akin to Mr Toad's Wild Ride, or whatev
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> Don’t go to Stack Overflow, don’t ask the LLM, don’t guess, just go straight to the source. Oftentimes, it’s surprisingly accessible and well-written This was a problem _before_ LLMs were so widely used, but they have compounded it 100
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by 0xEF 2y ago
It's really nice to finally see a job opening that I almost qualify for. The description points out that they are looking for someone relatively new to development . If any other HN readers are like me and typically gloss over the jo
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Absolutely. A functional civilization hinges on rational, equitable and cooperative solutions. Extremists are not interested in those things, though. They want what they want and they want it now with all the petulance and emotional regulat
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Not really. In both cases, compulsion is the problem. Neither side has the right to compel anyone to do anything, but they operate on the premise that they do, usually characterized by indignant self-rightiousness. The irrational extremists
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"Remember when things were not insanely bloated and we all knew what we were collectively doing?" they all said, a wistful tear developing in each of their eyes, nobody daring to release theirs first. Nah, Happy Anniversary, Micro
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It's a fantastic show, but I am not sure it touches on the commenter's point at all. The show is a take on what might happen if a panacea was actually found to exist. That's a bit different than a mere novel antibiotic. I eve
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Except for that price. Yikes. Heck of a barrier to entry for an unproven product. I do wish them well, but as we call for more modularity in laptop design, we can't forget the core value of keeping it affordable for the masses.
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Yeah, the price is the only thing that holds me back from trying a Framework 13. I have a few Thinkpad X260s which can be got on eBay for $100US. Drop in a fresh SSD and stick of 16gb memory for another $100US and you have a very capable li
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There's an audiobook these days too, but the short clip I listened to was pretty rough because the narrator (Frederick Davidson's) voice is very pinched and nasal, with the audio quality sounding like it was recorded in a tin can.
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Do you have data on how much wood burning contributes to air pollution compared to, say, burning fossil fuels? On the surface, your comment sounds like more rhetoric trying to shift the blame from the companies to the consumer, an unfortuna
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Indeed, it is very easy to forget the struggle when one has sacrificed nothing to achieve it. At least WWII, unlike those preceding it, has a vast well of literature to draw those lessons from. The trouble, however, is not just getting youn
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I'm not the person you asked, but if some security researcher such as yourself needs a million-dollar service to sell, I'll offer that I would pay decent money for a webapp or something where I can list all the things in my stack
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It's always scary, no matter how innocuous. I'm glad it did not escalate into something else for you! Without getting too deep into it, there are some things I know how to do with computers that I probably shouldn't, so my th
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I love the idea of self-hosting, especially since I keep a number of very tiny websites/projects going at any given time, so resources would not really be too much of an issue for me. What stops me is security. I simply do not know eno
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Great film, but bad scene, honestly. The arguments it makes are intended to make Mr Pink look like the pseudo-intellectual a-hole of the group, rather than be the social commentary on capitalism, labor relations and whose responsibility emp

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