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by ThalesX 3y ago
I followed this comment trail hoping to find out more about Tasha McCauley before I google her, but you ended up doing exactly what you are bashing. Defining her in contrast to her husband's expertise on the topic. After reading the th
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Rent it?
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by ThalesX 3y ago
If I were some sort of criminal and my phone's browser would open up after which I'd see the video / audio / gps icons light up, I'd be very suspicious.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
> [...] The lazy option for a police agency would just be to purchase or develop a couple mobile browser exploits, and then serve warrants to French telcos requiring them to MitM targeted traffic. [...] This seems highly unlikely to not
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Interesting! It's like the difference between security through obscurity and security by design.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Interesting! I'm assuming this should have limited access to what requests it sends to the phone. I'm also assuming this limited access would be implemented by the manufacturer. So my question, based on those assumptions, is: th
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Ask HN: How would French police locate suspects by tapping their devices?
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by ThalesX 3y ago
What makes you so shocked? SVG is a different format than PNG or JPG or BMP or the likes.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
This inspired me to try and get a sprite sheet with the top down animations for a paladin for a potential RPG game. See me fail here: https://imgur.com/a/2uJyUT3 Actual order was top down variants first, and then the l
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Where can I write to this Nortel? I want to let him know I think the Chinese hackers are a very big deal and send him my thoughts and prayers.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
> Microscopic ice crystals and dust, for example, containing bacteria and spores capable of withstanding the conditions in space, can spread into space from areas of a planet’s upper atmosphere. I've given this some thought before.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
I've noticed this myself, no theoretical computer science concepts. To be honest it's very rare nowadays that new hires actually have a computer science background and are not self taught with a totally different background.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
I did a similar thing as part of a "lunch and learn". NodeJS + Express was super fresh and I did a small example app. When returning the user profile, I just queried the database and returned the entry displaying some properties o
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Not really. Last I talked to him he mentioned less than 10 sales. His plan is to optimize based on sales and double down on some areas.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Someone I know (former crypto bro) wrote and published on Amazon, maybe 8 books this last month. GPT for text, Midjourney for some graphics. They range from books about trading to science fiction, erotica and books for children. Each book h
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Mr. Knuth should make the whole website black for an entire day. :(
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by ThalesX 3y ago
What are you even talking about? I'm talking about focusing on innovation and technical solutions, of which 'renewables like wind and solar' are part of, instead of tightening our belts... It's wild that you'd get t
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by ThalesX 3y ago
> We don’t need to deindustrialise. Hell, we don’t even need to make our lives that much worse. Did you know half of all human emissions since 1750% were released in the last 30 years? Even going back to 60s levels would do us well. Ther
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by ThalesX 3y ago
> So yeah, I'm pessimistic about how climate change will unfold. It's probably not even a black and white thing honestly. For the person dealing with unlivable temperatures in India it might feel one way. For the person living
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by ThalesX 3y ago
> you're willing to bet our world on the on the chance of some magic technical solution appearing. I love how you just throw stuff in my bag. I'm not willing to bet our world, nor can I do that. What I am not willing to do is m
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by ThalesX 3y ago
We have people wondering how to get to a 1 on the Kardashev Scale and then there's also people that want to hit the 0 goalpost. It's a sight to behold.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
I bet people would love to live a bit without antibiotics and access to modern healthcare. Stability through making 12 children and having 2+ survive.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
> Eeh. I'm currently experiencing 47 degrees but due to human innovation I'm inside with my air conditioners turned on, and even though * it's adding to the problem * , it's rather comfortable. Yes I am aware. Tragedy
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> Just need to get over our collective irrational fears and get building. Even the baby steps we're making towards this are leaps compared to the degrowth crowd solutions.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
I gave my, rather contrarian perpective and got downvoted pretty fast. So much for conversation on the topic. I guess HN'ers are not immune from "downvote === I don't agree" and from groupthink.
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Heresy! They're good enough burning cow dung while we judge them from our AC cooled homes for not living frugally enough.
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> The hacker news perspective; the people dying of heat exhaustion in India just need to invest in better A/C. This is your interpretation of my perspective. I can do that also; the people dying of heat exhaustion in India should ju
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Eeh. I'm currently experiencing 47 degrees but due to human innovation I'm inside with my air conditioners turned on, and even though it's adding to the problem, it's rather comfortable. > Gareth Redmond-King, at the
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Sorry next developer, I'm on a tight deadline, used to love this craft, now I just do what the product people tell me to get a nice paycheck.
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by ThalesX 3y ago
Startup CTOs after reading the title: we gotta build from the ground up with Protobuf or we won't have any customers!

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