Bratmon

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by Bratmon 3mo ago
Wait, so it can record for 12-15 hours, then it dies and there's no way to recharge it? That's like, horror game flashlight levels of longevity.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
It's always really funny to me when commenters don't read the article and then phrase the article's point like they invented it.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
HN upvotes
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
If the future labor market is so unpredictable that we literally know nothing about it, then we really shouldn't be giving out student loans.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
I'm genuinely curious why you think that. Like, how specifically has our society gotten better since High School became universal and college became the norm?
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
I actually read a really interesting article from a relatively small blog explaining that they're receiving a massive amount of scraper traffic from residential proxies. The article was called "The one we're commenting on&quo
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
By providing a way for corporate AI scrapers to operate with impunity and force the last few independently-run websites to move to the cloud?
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
Residential Proxies are the most emblematic technology of our era- a group of people looked at something that used to be considered a crime (botnets) and realized that if they just did it openly, no one would ever punish them.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
Many research labs in scientific fields other than CS need a lot of compute power and have an insufficient budget. In the PS3 era, the PS3 had the highest compute power (FLOPS) to cost ratio of any commercially-available computer, due to a
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
The "Anyone can use this to do anything they want in total anonymity and privacy" to "oh no bad people are using this to do bad stuff" pipeline is eternal.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
LinkedIn brain honestly really disturbs me. I didn't believe in souls until I needed a word to describe what people with LinkedIn brain lacked. Fortunately, then LLMs came along and now if I see a worryingly-soulless LinkedIn-brained p
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
You can also just copy the files you want to move in the archive view and paste them where you want them. Or you can click and drag the files from the archive to where you want to move them. Funnily enough, it's really only Linux users
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
They keep popular but unprofitable products that would otherwise be turned down alive. There are Victorian-horror-esque costs to that, but it's still better that those projects be alive but enshittified than completely dead (If you di
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
You're thinking too narrowly. Buying a cow is a short term investment because cows don't live very long. And yet dairy farms can last for centuries.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
> Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information But this project is still moving energy- it's just moving natural gas instead of electricity!
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
This is some "We're in the bad timeline" shit
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
As I said downthread, that is exactly the opposite of why I got into this field, and I fully admit that I'm upset that people with your attitude were the ones vindicated by technological progress.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
(And I admit I'm salty that the "I don't give a shit about why the calculator doesn't work in France, I'm just here because they pay me to fix it" people were the ones vindicated by technological progress)
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
This is legitimately the reason I'm looking to leave programming. I got into programming because the problems of programming were interesting to me. But if the problems go from "figure out why this calculator is off by one in Fra
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
There were two migrations: 1. Minecraft account to Mojang account 2. Mojang account to Microsoft account Both had a 3-year deadline. If you failed to do either before their deadline, then your "lifetime" Minecraft account is compl
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
> It also seemed really accurate. I never remember it beeping at me when I was actually paying attention. This is the exact opposite of my experience! The one time I tried BlueCruise, it went into "panic mode" every time I tur
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
The idea of "Wait, we can just make sporadic random customs inspections" is way older than this law. I suspect it was invented by the first ever customs inspector. (At a minimum, Plutarch at one point described it happening at a
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
The most obvious (to me) example is the San Francisco anti-homelessness program. The city government of San Francisco understood that 1. Homelessness is a massive problem, far larger here than most cities 2. For political reasons, the obv
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
Ironically, that's exactly the argument the X experts make to keep themselves around
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
It's weird that this article doesn't even attempt to grapple with the reason why governments can't run big policies as experiments and cancel them if they fail: Every time the government hires a group of people to do X, that
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
I'm genuinely curious how you imagine this system working without a government bureaucracy keeping track of the values of all cargos and regularly inspecting ships to verify the accuracy of their manifests. What stops ships from report
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
The best I've seen is ESRB ratings on video games.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
That's literally the opposite of self-regulation.
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
Honestly, I'm about 10% of the way towards "Meta's social media people wrote this comment and astroturfed it to the top so that the case against Meta looks crazy."
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by Bratmon 3mo ago
To provide a competing point of anecdata: A Gemini diagnosis saved me $3,000 in unnecessary repairs on my Civic.

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