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by big-and-small 9mo ago
These associations do not just exist in vacuum. They have licenses like this because law allow it and it's beneficial to them. Once there are regulation that demand something else they'll just follow the law. Also it's not li
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
People also wanting to believe there was even a need for sophisticated cybersecurity attack in the first place. In a country where average household income is around $230 per month. In much wealthier country like Russia you can literally bu
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
It's not like consumer electronics contain top secret tech like EUV machines. All supply chain for firmware / software of 99.99% devices is very boring, contains absolutely nothing secret and the only reason why it's "di
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
> The alternative would have been "do nothing", skip the reputational hit and have yet another hellhole in the region. This. Your logic could at least make sense with other US president, but not wanna-be dictator one doing lip
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
> How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine? Cynically it's different in that Trump hopefully will not going to kill 220,000+ and leave 500,000+ war invalids of US military personnel in process. Though you never know...
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
And bring oil prices up 2x-3x to never get re-elected.
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
First US need to lose 220,000+ of military personnel dead there and then you can call it that. Otherwise comparison with Russia is kind a dull.
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by big-and-small 9mo ago
Of course Trump is very much against election fraud in other country unless it's his buddy Putin: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595299071/president-trump-con...
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by big-and-small 10mo ago
If you can afford Lambo you can come to place like Dubai and pay for it in AnyUSDcoin, gold nuggets or anime profile picture NFTs. Barrier for using crypto of any kind does not exist in countries without paranoid AML / KYC regulations.
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by big-and-small 10mo ago
I trust Google ad monopoly to keep my data actually secure. They have a great track record of not sharing their datasets with anyone because this gives them an edge pushing ads down people throats. Google is honest about what they doing. Go
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by big-and-small 10mo ago
While "native" is always questionable it was possible long ago without actually ever having source code. E.g back in 2024 there was ARM port of StarCraft 1 for OpenPandora. Just "dumb" x86 decompilation and then building
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by big-and-small 10mo ago
I'd imagine if you're person who make a lot of photos / videos slow sync can be pretty annoying. Unfortunately I'm not one of them to tell, but just had to wait like a week for the first sync of my wife's iPhone to
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by big-and-small 10mo ago
For once iCloud have a terrible sync speed. Even 500GB of photos / videos take forever to sync like a week and I can't imagine what it will take for someone with multi-TB archives.
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by big-and-small 10mo ago
I really like moderation on HN in general, but honestly this inconsistent policy of editorializing titles is bad. There were plenty of times where submitter editorialized titles (e.g GitHub code dumps of some project) were changed back to u
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Also appeal to investors. Nobody would give tons of money to upstart which goal is to generate text porn, generated TikTok slop and make some needy teens suicide just to compete with Google Ads. Selling big AGI dream that will literally mak
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Main problem isn't sheer amount of code. Problem is that X11 have to somewhat stick to protocol so apps written in 1995 keep working on top of it.
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
> I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it? This 12 years old video explains it better than anything I ever seen: https:&#x
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Source of "truth".
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Funny enough I just managed to find this exact post and comment on google 5 minutes ago when I started wondering whatever it's actually possible to use 1/4 of capacity in SLC mode. Though what make me wonder is that some reviews o
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
To be honest you can buy 4TB SSD for $200 now, so I guess market would be larger if people were aware of how easy would it be to make such SSDs work in SLC mode exclusively.
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Then I'm wrong.
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Bot comment? Or wrong tab? Moderators?
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
> The best you can do is use the SE to decrypt the key and then use the clear text key for encryption/decryption. AFAIK this is what "secretive" was doing all the time.
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
And even good / bad is sometimes subjective and brain can adjust to it depend on whatever you like the taste for instance. Tell you this as a big fan of durian. Since there a lot of chemicals responsible for smell brain override reacti
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
I'm honestly clueless about reasoning behind bigtech investment into AI. For me it's all just look like another seasonal fad like we had many of during last two decades. Everyone invests into AI because of FOMO. I know the tech it
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Yes. People do use them and they trust them, unfortunately. Tech nerds know what ChatGPT is, they know llm limits somewhat and they know it's hallucinating. Normal people do not - for them is a magical all knowing oracle.
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Even before recent "AI improvements" for us tech nerds Google search was broken ad invaded something. But for average Joe up until recently it's was still okay because it served purpose of whatever normal people use search fo
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Everything is about context. When you just ask non-concrete task it's still have to parse your input and figure what is tic-tac-toe in this context and what exactly you expect it to do. This is why all "thinking". Ask it to i
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Capitalist system solve this with competition. If there is already market of people paying for more-or-less working symptomatic relief then it's proof these people are actually a good market to sell a cure for x100 price of relief.
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by big-and-small 11mo ago
Another problem is what happens when police stop to search you. You don't want to have "please beat me dead" app installed when it's happens.

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