Ntrails

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by Ntrails 11mo ago
> The internet that connects us also connects criminals, the cryptography that protects us also protects criminals. Agreed. If only we could also agree that not everyone who thinks this is not a good trade is evil/malignant/st
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by Ntrails 11mo ago
I occasionally use whatsapp or discord webapps, but won't install the apps. I don't know for sure which sandboxes the processes more effectively, but I kinda assume the browser is my better bet for protecting myself from crap. Ha
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by Ntrails 11mo ago
> fan-recorded festivals (a special case, a true nightmare) I've long enjoyed extracted audio from eg Glastonbury sets. I've only got a few that I particularly enjoyed and where the specific track was on youtube - is it that
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by Ntrails 11mo ago
Agree entirely - more excluding series than authors but both should be options. I also i need a way to describe its recommendations as "meh". For example, if I put Gone Girl in, I get Girl on a Train. Which, personally , I thoug
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by Ntrails 11mo ago
I cannot believe I've never heard of this before... https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/case/us-v-ebay-inc > Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, and six other members of eBay’s sec
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Checking someone elses spreadsheet is a fucking nightmare. If your company has extremely good standards it's less miserable because at least the formatting etc will be consistent... The one thing LLMs should consistently do is ensure
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by Ntrails 1y ago
It is delightful how acronyms close to you embed deeply and can cause little shocks vs the rest of the world.
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by Ntrails 1y ago
>aren't enough to deliver smooth immersive graphics I'm just not sold. Do I really think that BG3 being slightly prettier than, say, Dragon Age / Skyrim / etc made it a more enticing game? Not to me certainly. Was c
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Large amounts of water also ensure the rolling boil is retained (ie the pasta doesn't cool the water much on insertion). I generally consider that rather more important for, say, a ravioli than plain pasta though
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> unless they are conducting business directly in that country Imgur was showing ads (business) and collecting data (business) and operating a message platform (business) in the UK. They have stopped. This seems fine?
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> These days, I think the pendulum has swung too far from thinking about the program, maybe mapping it out a bit on paper before writing code. Sometimes I think about code structure like a sudoku where you have to eliminate two possibili
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> what concrete negative consequences are there It isn't necessarily about consequences . I don't want photos of me on the internet. I don't like the idea that other people get to do that without my consent. I don'
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> I think my goal for 2026 will be not to order anything from Amazon This has been my position for upwards of 5 years. Between the quality / UX / social issues - well frankly I'd rather spend money elsewhere (although not
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> a double-figure-8 (the standard rope<->harness knot) will break at around 14kn My understanding (based on some training aeons ago) is that the figure 8 knots prevalence for tying in is not due to that strength - but instead bec
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Afaict Housebuilding will not improve based on current legislatory changes, not even close. Until you murder land value capture nothing will change.
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> You didn't take the time to write this code, but you expect me to take the time make sure it's correct So, I guess there are a couple parts here right? I might not take the time to write the code, but surely I am on the ho
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I still miss making mix tapes, it was super fun trying to get the timings right and make sure the tracks lined up nicely etc :(
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by Ntrails 1y ago
In my day, links were always goatse... As I am still alive, it is still my day. Need I make myself clearer?
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> This is how some even older people feel about smartphones :p I walked around listening to cassette tapes on my walkman and couldn't imagine why anyone would want an "mp3 player" with all the hassles of loading 100 songs
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> how much voting power so to say is left for.. which guy the party says they'll send to the european commission? Short of a direct (referendum based) democracy how do you resolve that?
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I'm not a mac guy - but I was playing some sts and for some reason my _data_ was embedded inside an Application which is kind of a package of files and I have to "unzip it" from a context menu to see the save games (but every
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Yeah, the crypto is the hook. They don't have to do any trading once you've moved the money (but they do obviously want to show via UI that you're making bank and that you could/should go bigger)
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I locked whatsapp out of my photos and contacts years ago. If I need a pic I copy paste it in. Yes it is friction but I simply do not trust the Zuck
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I thought Edge also did not support true ad blocking?
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> Security theatre where bozos would open your desk drawer if it was unlocked and confiscate your paper notes and books The ultimate shame. Do you care nought for the security of the ip on those pages?!
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Eh, it did flashback humour at me last week and I genuinely laughed. (Paraphrased, "I'll still be stuck here answering questions about basil at 2am").
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> 3. The likelihood of a British constitution is increasing, which would somewhat bind future parliaments. It would be an extraordinary amount of work for a government that can barely keep up with the fires of its own making let alone th
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> Once the police started to record every interaction with the public I don't think this is true? As far as I can tell any time the recording is mentioned in a complaint at the police behaviour the camera was off due to [battery li
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Agree - in one context if your decision is different due to a change in seed -> change in output, then frankly it isn't an input you should be using to decide? On the other hand once you're happy with the error bars wrt see
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> I assume the United Kingdom of Great Britain must be a paradise for the workers, right? As a proud citizen and indeed worker of ol' Blighty I assure you it's a paradise of unequalled benevolence. Every worker a member of t

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