JohnFen

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by JohnFen 3mo ago
You can replace your SSD without replacing your laptop.
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Almost nobody has ever claimed that everyone is the same. That's not what "all men are equal" means. What it means is that everyone has the same inherent human rights, and that the law and justice should apply to everyone the
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And we shouldn't turn away from the fact that every one of his 14 points are strongly present in the US today.
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If the meeting is boring to me, it's because the topic of the meeting isn't very useful or relevant to my role. I stop paying attention and think about whatever thing is my current priority.
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Tech industry "leaders" actively want to be the authoritarians. They care about amassing wealth and power, they don't care what's good for tech, society, or people. I seriously doubt their stance will change.
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He'd have to stop trying to kill science first.
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> "What is the core of your identity?" I'd be willing to be that most people wouldn't be able to answer this question. I don't think I've ever asked someone what they do for a living as an icebreaker, person
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> The US, for example, is not a democracy, it is a constitutional republic The US is both. Or, to phrase it another way, it is neither a pure democracy nor a pure republic. That's a good thing, it helps to reduce the downsides of bo
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A person's career choice does tell you something about them, but it's far from the most important thing. I don't think it's valuable as a sole indicator of what sort of person they are or how well you'd get along wi
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> Security people don't care about usability. I spent a long time working in the network security field, and you speak truth. The perverse thing about it is that security people should care a lot about usability. If the scheme isn
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"Passkey" refers to a very specific authentication method. TOTP, etc., don't count.
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> Is writing down passwords something people do? Yes, it's pretty common.
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> They are supposed to be mathematically non-exportable, device-bound. Which would make the whole scheme unworkable (at least for me).
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> If you’re not in those categories, you have exactly nothing to worry about. From what I've seen, this just isn't true. Anyone who isn't visibly licking their boots is at risk.
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You don't have to be an illegal alien to want to keep ICE/Border patrol from knowing things about you. They're a threat to everybody.
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> Don't lose it or lend it to anyone. We should have a couple of backup keys too. Honestly, this is one of the two things that make me hate passkeys. The key management is a high-friction pain in the ass.
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> If someone does have a problem, well, reach me by phone call? SMS? ICQ? Does the author warn his friends that he's feeding their communications to genAI before they communicate with him? If not, then this line is just insulting
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> In commercial radio, DJs haven't selected the music in 40 or more years. Yes, I'm painfully aware. That was what got me to stop listening to music radio.
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I consider that expense to be well-spent. The value I get is well worth the price.
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I didn't know that page existed, thanks! I was amused to see that my blocklist already includes most of the sites that appear there.
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FWIW, I can still access old.reddit from the US using Firefox without needing to log in.
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Agreed. That was the beginning of the end of good radio.
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> A good DJ kept you from just turning the radio off when you heard that same hit the fourth time today -- you wanted to keep listening because the DJ made it fun. I'm old enough to remember when radio was king, but if that's w
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It's a war of choice by Trump, for Trump. He can end it at any moment should he choose. The real question is: will Congress have the backbone or concern about the US required in order to follow the Constitution and remove the ability o
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My guess is that this type of display is inherently a niche product. It would be terrible as a general-purpose monitor replacement, for instance.
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Is this a generational thing? I'm gen-X, but have spent most of my career trying to avoid being promoted. Being in a managerial position is awful, and I've only been willing to do it for my own companies.
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With Kagi, anyway, search engines are very relevant to me. For my use cases, LLMs provide far inferior results in exchange for requiring more time and effort from me.
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Most people who are "opposed to advertising" aren't opposed to advertising. They're opposed to the abuse that advertising often engages in. Don't engage in abusive practices (data collection, manipulation, deception
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Trump's contempt for Americans (and everybody else) has no limit.
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Which doesn't get you more wealth. It just makes the currency worth less.

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