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by Doches 3y ago
Here’s something I don’t understand: if the UK blocks e.g. Apple from releasing (in the UK) an iOS update with security fixes, won’t that just be a massive canary when that same update goes out to the rest of the world? How is that not a gi
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by Doches 3y ago
Here’s something I don’t understand: if the UK blocks e.g. Apple from releasing (in the UK) an iOS update with security fixes, won’t that just be a massive canary when that same update goes out to the rest of the world? How is that not a gi
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by Doches 3y ago
> how the fuck isn't this comment deleted yet? dang? There's no CSAM in the /comment/, just a lament that masotodon.social and pawoo don't federate with each other. Want to take action against a service you find
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by Doches 3y ago
It's hard to pick up on as an American, but "French Tacos" actually don't have any genealogy in common with Tex-Mex tacos. They're essentially north African shwarma (lamb kebab, fries, cheese sauce, lettuce shoved i
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by Doches 3y ago
This whole essay/concept is essentially just Paul Graham doing a bad job of re-hashing the main character arc from Neal Stephenson's /Cryptonomicon/...
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by Doches 3y ago
In fairness, Meta has said the same thing re: WhatsApp, so while Apple deserves _some_ credit here for sticking to their principles, they're not exactly leading the pack. Which brings home the point that if _Meta_ isn't onboard wi
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Spacewar 1 and the Beginnings of Video Game Aesthetics(masswerk.at)
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What I Learned Building a CLI App in Rust(stratus3d.com)
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by Doches 3y ago
I'll chime in with a lesson learned from my own experience in niche POS systems: it can be amazingly valuable (in certain contexts) to let clerks pause sales and put them off to one side (think "git stash", but for sales). Cu
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by Doches 3y ago
I had a flash of inspiration this morning and realized that a pitch deck at the intersection of adtech, crypto, and LLMs ("We use the OpenAI API to design user-targeted ads for NFTs") could probably raise $X million in roughly the
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A Blessing and a Boogeyman: Advertisers Warily Embrace A.I(nytimes.com)
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by Doches 3y ago
First $1,000 (and first $100, since it was a $1k contract): I made multiple semi-popular icon sets for KDE over 1999-2000, posting them all as FOSS-licensed artwork on kde-look.org. About a year into that I got an email from a random small
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by Doches 3y ago
I’m not a Comcast subscriber, but we first noticed this when a weirdly coordinated wave of our customers — first in Florida, then moving north up all the way through New England — started screaming into our support phones that our site was
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Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage
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Tetris on a Chicken Nugget(arstechnica.com)
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Why DWiki doesn't have web page editing(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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by Doches 4y ago
That's grandstanding and dodging my argument , which is that you shouldn't be giving LLM-suitable tasks to juniors anyway. They should get first pass at the interesting, complex work -- first in digestible bites, then with greate
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by Doches 4y ago
> There exists a plethora of real world coding challenges that are beyond typical boilerplate code that ChatGPT has in my experience been able to produce entirely acceptable working solutions for. I'm delighted to hear that! But tha
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by Doches 4y ago
I'm having a really hard time reconciling these two statements from TFA: > I've set small projects for my newer engineers to get their teeth stuck into, something they will find rewarding, challenging, and fun. > But now I h
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Mylobot: Investigating a Proxy Botnet(bitsight.com)
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A.I.-Based Policing Tools, Many Used in Repressive States, Go Global(nytimes.com)
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by Doches 4y ago
> How do you know your ability to write React apps today isn’t as much of an industry dead-end over the long arc of technological web history as was writing AngularJS apps 10 years ago? Seriously, how do you? There's a long, long li
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by Doches 4y ago
Completely agree -- I just went into the cloud manager to spin up some boxes for a new project, and the instant sinking feeling in my stomach upon seeing the Akamai logo up there has changed how I'm going to respond to Linode's ac
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by Doches 4y ago
Probably not the OP's intent, but the choice of 'heaviosity' (over 'gravity', 'profundity', or whatever) invokes another surprisingly weighty movie from this same period-and-genre: Bill and Ted's Exce
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Palantir and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership(blog.palantir.com)
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Russia's Yandex seeks Putin's approval for restructuring(finance.yahoo.com)
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Will We Soon See an American Law Firm Go Public?(abovethelaw.com)
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Show HN: React Mask Editor(docs.voliere.dev)
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by Doches 4y ago
> Mac-native games (Factorio and Rimworld) Rimworld is actually built in Unity, but without using most of Unity's conveniences; I think it just uses it as a sort of platform-independent shim: launch an empty scene and then do everyt
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by Doches 4y ago
Reading between the lines, this is actually one of the side-goals of the zombie Online Safety Bill. Require all apps with user-created content to use a UK-approved 'identity provider' for age verification, and only issue approval

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