Meekro

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by Meekro 1y ago
Most people's understanding of basic math, and ability to precisely follow directions, is terrible. What's to prevent you from ending up with a concentration that's 10x or 100x what you intended?
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by Meekro 1y ago
I'm concerned about what would happen if everyone started trying to do this. How many would put themselves in the emergency room, or worse?
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by Meekro 1y ago
Definitely agree that centralized services have a lot of advantages. Bluesky deserves some criticism for trying to have their cake and eat it too, though. They told a good story about being decentralized, and lots of people repeated it whil
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by Meekro 1y ago
I used (and ran) phpBB-based forums back in 2007, and even then it would tell you which threads have new posts for you to see.
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by Meekro 1y ago
I have a different theory about why people don't read the articles: we miss forums where you could just start a conversation about something because you want to discuss it. Most articles get submitted to reddit and HN because someone i
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by Meekro 1y ago
I'd forgotten how much I miss this. If you disagree with someone, you have to reply and explain why-- you can't just downvote and move on.
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Sophisticated Phishing Attack Exploits Google's Infrastructure(twitter.com)
7 points by Meekro 1y ago|0 comments
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by Meekro 1y ago
Sounds like a simple code change would have solved this: if a post has ever been stickied, it shouldn't be able to hit /r/all.
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by Meekro 2y ago
The problem with the SAT is that too many people can score above 1500. In the 1500-1600 range, you might have only made 1-2 mistakes on the entire test -- it's more luck than skill at that point. You could maybe improve things by havin
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by Meekro 2y ago
There was an HN story some years ago about the guy who created homebrew -- a Mac app used by a plurality of Google employees -- being rejected from a job at Google. This seems to follow that pattern: it's not enough that you achieve gr
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by Meekro 2y ago
If the $30M ARR number is true, it's not hard to understand why he wants to talk about it as much as possible. Maybe if you come from family money, you can hear that kind of figure and yawn -- but as someone who came from poverty, I ca
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by Meekro 2y ago
I think the concern is that, once your population goes into freefall, it will head towards extinction rather than stabilize at some reasonable level. Others in this discussion have pointed out that happy, lazy, and comfortable people in a W
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by Meekro 2y ago
Those 40 hours of black screen probably compress pretty well. If that's not good enough, maybe reducing old/unwatched content to 480p would be a good alternative to just purging it? Also, 4.3PB per day, at today's newegg HDD
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by Meekro 2y ago
When I restarted Chrome, it showed me a warning that uBlock Origin was disabled because of.. something about compatibility. I then went to "manage extensions" and clicked the button to turn it back on. Chrome said something to the
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by Meekro 2y ago
The linked page doesn't say anything about this, but it's true. I just restarted Chrome and it turned off uBlock Origin. However, it was easy to ignore the warning and turn it back on.
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by Meekro 2y ago
Average people are cool. We're trying to opt out of being around the bottom 10%.
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by Meekro 2y ago
Gazillions of dollars have been spent on fuzzing Chrome/Chromium, and they're still finding dozens of serious issues per year. Same with every other major product. The reality seems to be that we, as programmers, can't do any
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by Meekro 2y ago
That might have helped his soul, but it wouldn’t have helped the victims who had their claims wrongly denied.
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by Meekro 2y ago
The ACA mandates that insurers spend 80-85% (depending on the particulars) on healthcare. If they don't meet that target, they have to issue rebates until they do. What, exactly, should this man have done differently? I guess you could
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Detecting ChatGPT in College Essays(old.reddit.com)
3 points by Meekro 2y ago|0 comments
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by Meekro 2y ago
I don’t see any hypocrisy here - it would be hypocritical if he allowed tracking of other people’s jets while protecting his own, but as far as I can tell, this rule protects everyone. If someone made an account that announced the location
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by Meekro 2y ago
The subject of the article is a total non-issue that it's trying to turn into a serious problem, seemingly through anxiety. If you're worried about your games aging out, CD-ROMs did not protect you because the average Windows 98 g
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by Meekro 2y ago
The Biden administration had OSHA make rules to force employers to make their employees get the vax. The Supreme Court stopped them.
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by Meekro 2y ago
Guys, this is (currently) not true. Please check for yourselves.
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by Meekro 2y ago
I'm skeptical because "we fired half our programmers and our new AI does their jobs as well as they did" is a story that would tear through the Silicon Valley rumor mill. To my knowledge, this has not happened (yet).
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by Meekro 2y ago
Pretty interesting! I find these attempts to remake IRC fairly intriguing. I've read your description, and it's really cool how you've re-invented server-to-server routing. Unfortunately, it wasn't clear how services ope
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by Meekro 2y ago
ngIRCd looks good! To be honest, these days I'm surprised that ChanServ/NickServ type stuff isn't integrated directly into the IRCd. I guess it gets complicated if you have multiple servers and they have to decide who control
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by Meekro 2y ago
Unfortunately democratic nations sometimes go there, too. The UK has threatened to weaken encryption in a way that would force signal to leave. Other nations have made noises about it, too. UK: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by Meekro 2y ago
IRC feels more fringe, but it's actually held up surprisingly well. According to the stats, it's currently about half as popular as it was in 2000 when I started[1]. That's better than I would have guessed. [1] https:/&
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by Meekro 2y ago
I feel like this lawsuit has been deeply misunderstood on social media, as legal issues often are. No one is questioning the fact that advertisers can individually make purchasing decisions for any reason. However, collective action by

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