bigiain

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by bigiain 10mo ago
If shrug-guy is anything like me, he sat there blurting out half-baked ideas and then shooting them down all in his internal monologue, instead of out loud. For me, I sometimes feel like I'm an old school chess engine, exploring as man
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by bigiain 10mo ago
> I feel like we’ve been hearing this for 4 years now. I feel we were hearing very similar claims 40 years ago, about how the next version of "Fourth Generation Languages" were going to enable business people and managers to wr
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by bigiain 10mo ago
The post discusses that: Security First Because the “PII Map” (the link between ID:1 and John Smith) effectively is the PII, we treat it as sensitive material. The library includes a crypto module that forces AES-256-GCM encryption for the
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Yep - I totally got that from your original comment. I did think to myself "I hope they're using the Richard Feynmann/MIT Model Railroad Club sense of the work "hacking" there, not the "dude in a hoodie in fron
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I've heard of aluminium referred to as "Frozen Electricity". (yes, I know, but that's the .au spelling) Relatively speaking, bauxite is practically worthless. But mix it in with a few gigawatt hours and you get out a fai
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by bigiain 10mo ago
> Nothing will be done until one of the investors of the tech end up embarrassed from weaponization of the tech against themselves. I propose that it become mandatory for all senior managment, board members, and investors in Flock - to h
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by bigiain 10mo ago
And my guess is we only ever find out about some probably very small percentage of the abuses by police, at least in theory having rules and oversight of their use of these systems. What are the chances that nobody at Flock has ever abused
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Looking forward to hearing Tailscale getting forced to do age verification and banning use of this to people under 16 years old in Australia under their new social media rules...
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by bigiain 10mo ago
> Google is Google. So your "free" ssl certs are provided by surveillance capitalism, and paid for with your privacy (and probably your website user's privacy too)?
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I usually get a cert for my public domain (root and usually with www. as a Subject Alternate Name (SAN)) and if I'm going to use subdomains I don't intend to become widely public, I'll add a wildcard SAN of *.example.com so I
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by bigiain 10mo ago
"run a Bitcoin node" <closes tab>
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Do you actually need a waterproof case? Lots of drone and rc people are just spraying boards with conformal coatings, and the seem to do fine with occasional dunkings even when powered up in salt water. I've seen quadcopters still &quo
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Perhaps "Soylent Green"? It's made of people ('s stolen creative work).
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by bigiain 10mo ago
> feedback is very welcome The readme is obviously AI written, and is clearly incomplete. This leaves me wondering how accurate the rest of the readme is, and how much of the code is vibe coded slop. I know some people use AI to write do
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Ha, of course it does. I should have checked. (I should have been using it for years)
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Maybe it's time for a !yandex flag? ;-)
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I see it occasionally. I haven't investigated it properly, but I suspect it's either the outdated version of Safari Technology Preview I use on an old Mac with an old version of macOS, or it might be NordVPN or perhaps a specific
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Here in Australia 3G is totally gone already. 2G went years ago.
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Not legally. Where I'm from they sold off the old 3G spectrum and frequencies, mostly (all?) to established telcos to use in 4G or 5G mobile services. They will not be happy if you start interfering with their customers there (especial
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Yeah, I'd totally expect CS grads, old school Unix sysadmins, and Perl hackers to be fully familiar with Regex. Not so sure I'd expect that from bootcamp front end webdev "grads", self touch game devs, or maybe (I'm
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I think perhaps the articles argument gets less strong then? It's claimed grep is "well named" because even though it's not obvious when you first read it, that it being a contraction for "global reg ex print"
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Same for grep - with, I guess, the proviso/assumption that you know what regular expression means, which might have been a fair assumption for the sort of people who had command line access to Unix systems in the 70s/80s, but may
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by bigiain 10mo ago
LaunchHN: Announcing Twoday, our new YC backed startup coming out of stealth mode. We’re launching a breakthrough platform that leverages frontier scale artificial intelligence to model, predict, and dynamically orchestrate solar luminance
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Thanks, much appreciated.
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I don't suppose you have (or would be interested in writing) a blog post about how you set that up? Or maybe a list of links/resources/prompts you used to learn how to get there?
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by bigiain 10mo ago
"high quality specifications" have _always_ been a thing that matters. In my mind, it's somewhat orthogonal to code quality. Waterfall has always been about "high quality specifications" written by people who never
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I dunno... I have a feeling this will only supercharge the long established industry practice of new devs or engineering leadership getting recruited and immediately criticising the entire existing tech stack, and pushing for (and often suc
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by bigiain 10mo ago
You are right. But there is nothing more permanent that a quickly hacked together prototype or personal productivity hack that works. There are so many Python (or Perl or Visual Basic) scripts or Excel spreadsheets - created by people who h
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by bigiain 10mo ago
My original Pebble purchase decision was made thinking "This will be great, I can use it while commuting to see who's calling or messaging my phone, so I can decide whether to pull over to respond or not!" I had a 35-40 minut
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Cynical thinking ahead. What has been long considered one of the most wealthy markets is a country descending into a billionaire controlled kleptocracy. And they're pissing off every other country in the world with tariff blackmail and

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