ChrisMarshallNY

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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
> And then, in the extreme case, you might get blown away on the street and have your murderer canonized. Ahem That was health insurance. Different beast. Not excusing pharma, but that bit of extreme casting doesn’t really belong in
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
I have been informed that a common HN practice, is to have your sense of humor extracted, when getting your first colonoscopy.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
> We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation. Sick burn.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
You'll notice that this was not a popular discussion. HN users don't like it when billionaires are dissed, as many want to achieve that, for themselves. Very much a reflection on the demographics of this site. Maybe not a bad thin
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
> Did you see how much hatred the business community directed at Lina Khan Lina Khan truly has the interests of consumers at heart. The hatred was not just right-wing. Many lefties hated her, too. The common thread seems to be billiona
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
A classic Yes, Prime Minister : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
I find that hard to believe. My experience with Apple (as a developer), is that they are absolutely brutal about data collection, and being an Apple developer, means toeing a lot of lines, wrt privacy-related stuff. It seems that every ti
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
Eh. I've found a "happy medium." I generally restrict comments to headerdocs at the function and property level. I use descriptive names, and keep the functions relatively small and task-oriented, so they do a fairly decent j
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
One of my first jobs, was as a maintenance engineer, on a 100KLoC+ codebase of 1979s-era FORTRAN IV. No comments. No subroutines (what we now call “functions”). No variable name longer than 4 characters. Fun. The most effective debug tool,
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by ChrisMarshallNY 1mo ago
It also makes you crazy. I have a friend that took it for years . It certainly made him buff, but it also made him divorced, friendless, addicted, and unhealthy.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Interesting. AI may be pretty good at managing the gazillion different things that make up circuit boards. Frankly, I am surprised that it isn't already a solved problem, as we've had silicon compilers, for many years, and I alway
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
You may remember this story, from a month or two ago: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/on-the-run-for-20-yea...
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I think the OS is needed to sign the challenge, but the private key can be taken wherever. And passkeys are multiplatform. Not Apple-only, by a long shot. And I suspect that most geeks, hereabouts, could set up their own signing system.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I use passkeys only, for the backend admin app for my app. They work fairly well. I use a login ID/PW to set up the passkey, then the passkey, for everything else. Passkeys work well, but I feel as if they are still a bit too “fiddly”
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
OK. That's how it got all the upvotes. I am here fairly often, and in my neck of the woods, it was only high up for about three of them. I note that it starts its drop (quickly) at about 9AM, East Coast time. I should note that front p
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
It also dropped off the front page, pretty quickly, despite getting a lot of upvotes and comments. I was surprised by that, as this is exactly the type of story that tends to spend a couple of days on the front page. But it’s also the kind
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
It’s interesting how quickly this story dropped in the rankings. It’s a highly relevant story, that is likely to spawn more notice. Ars already has a story about the same breach: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026&#x
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Not quite a dupe. That's the original Krebs one.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
True, and there’s the notorious story of the Finnish psych data leak[0]. I just don’t hear about it anywhere near as much. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> vendors who collect this sensitive data need to be held to a higher standard. They already do that, in Europe. I assume that it works, as I don’t hear about this level of stuff, over there (though it could be because I am not plugged
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Eh. My wife still watches live TV. I don't. If it were just me, I'd be Internet-only.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I have one. It comes from my cable modem. We still have a landline. It's part of the cable package, but it mostly just gets robocalls.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
You need to have a rotary dial on it. ;) Good show!
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I know that West Virginia has entire Rhododendron forests. They are pretty awesome.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I seem to remember a lot of hype about room-temperature superconductors, that croaked upon [lack of] replication. That wasn't too long ago. Before that, cold fusion. We still have the ion drive that doesn't require fuel. I don&#x2
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Yup. IR images are cool. Snowscapes in the summer. Cheap cameras are best, as they don't have too much precalibrated stuff. I converted a Nikon D70s, and it still works great.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Yes and no. The IR filter is pretty strong. If you have an intense IR source, then it overwhelms the filter, but it would blow out the sensor, without it. The sensor is biased towards IR. I've converted cameras (DSLRs) to IR, and you u
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> Software is shit these days. This is true, and we've trained end-users to pay for it, anyway.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Usually the managers of the people that could be affected.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Sounds like people want those bespoke servers that Apple has been rumored to have developed.

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