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by bhouston 5mo ago
> TIL that Microsoft is the least Israel-friendly of the big three clouds This is a good thing. American companies should not be allowing their tech to be used to in the gross ongoing human rights violations in Israel/Gaza/West
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Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy(en.globes.co.il)
198 points by bhouston 5mo ago|164 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
This is an ongoing warning which I first read about in university in 1997. One of the issues with slow moving catastrophes is that we get used to it and then we stop worrying about it. I believe this is because humans are not good generally
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Anthropic will let its managed agents dream(thenewstack.io)
1 points by bhouston 6mo ago|0 comments
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Transferable Pixel-Perfect Material Graphs for Blender and Three.js(ben3d.ca)
3 points by bhouston 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
Sorry, are you saying that USPS cannot handle shipping across the country cost effectively? But somehow GameStop can, which has never done point-to-point shipping before?
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by bhouston 6mo ago
> Hmm, I'm not convinced that is the direction we want to go in. It's not like we have all the context of everything we ever learned present when making decisions. I do not think it is the direction for everything. Generally, w
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by bhouston 6mo ago
> My kneejerk is that most consumers these days expect delivery for items purchased online 100%. > Now, dropping off items you're selling? This is what Staples is offering to Amazon but for returns - quite similar. And they coul
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by bhouston 6mo ago
This is just a leverage buyout and it will likely result in the slow death of both parties while there is value extraction for those in control. Think Sears, Toys R US and similar. The CEO has a very specific deal where he gets paid signif
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by bhouston 6mo ago
> They’ve made an interesting proposal around using 1600 GameStop locations for fulfilment. Is that really an advantage? Fulfilment is always handled by a lot of places for the big e-retailers for returns, which is similar to what eBay n
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by bhouston 6mo ago
I suspect the Internet blackout in Iran is not actually related to its citizens - it isn't about silencing its citizens. It is to prevent hacking and tracking by US and Israel of what is going on over there, it is defensive since it ha
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xAI Has Used OpenAI's Models to Train Its Own(wired.com)
3 points by bhouston 6mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pixel-Perfect MaterialX in Blender and Three.js(ben3d.ca)
2 points by bhouston 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
I tried to contribute back adapter current Wattage display to stats, but I got my PR closed without comment. It is similar to this: https://github.com/exelban/stats/pull/3024
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by bhouston 6mo ago
My 10G experience is documented here, mine was TP-Link-based: https://ben3d.ca/blog/home-network-lessons
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by bhouston 6mo ago
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by bhouston 6mo ago
The US is bailing out the UAE for liquify issues and this is likely a quid pro quo in return??
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HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life(theregister.com)
2 points by bhouston 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
More details here: https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sqhxv4/hp_shutti...
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by bhouston 6mo ago
Yeah it has vibe coding tells all over it. It was also my first thought when reading through this.
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MaterialX Needs a Single-File Container: MTLZ(ben3d.ca)
2 points by bhouston 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
Exactly, that could widen the blast radius of this particular compromise significantly.
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Crypto billionaire [Justin Sun] sues Trump-linked project alleging extortion(msn.com)
4 points by bhouston 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
It was https://threekit.com . It was a while ago now but we had to use MySQL for our primary copy that users used (e.g. prod), and only when they were working on branches did we use dolt. I think the second complication was tha
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by bhouston 6mo ago
I have tried this before: https://www.dolthub.com/ It was a lot of work and had poor performance with a lot of complications. I am not using it in my latest projects as a result.
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by bhouston 6mo ago
Will this affect the water-resistance of current iPhones? I thought that was why the batteries are not easily replaceable by users, because of the seals/gaskets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyL6hMZvWQ
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by bhouston 6mo ago
I don't have a better source, but this is sort of a sign of the times.
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Allbirds (NAQD: BIRD) pivots from shoes to AI data centeres(twitter.com)
2 points by bhouston 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bhouston 6mo ago
What are the gps coordinates? I want to look it up on Google Maps. Generally somewhere around here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy1PNDWcvP7h9d4j7?g_st=ic I notice that this area isn’t fully imaged. Just around the known exist
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by bhouston 6mo ago
They did do one agent per code chunk, yes. But key is that their agent had to identify when there was a vulnerability and when there wasn't. This "small model" test only had to label the known positive cases as positive --

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