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by bjourne 11mo ago
Then who is responsible to fix it?
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by bjourne 11mo ago
What prevents an EC2 instance from going down in exactly the same way? Other hosting providers offer automatic backup too - it's not an AWS exclusive feature.
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by bjourne 11mo ago
> Given how many pictures governments and corporations collect from public places, the GP's concern seems moot. That data is not centralized. If anytime you entered a gas station surveillance footage of you were associated with your
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by bjourne 11mo ago
If you don't understand the difference between ONE photo and DOZENS of photos taken over several years, I can't help you. Go troll someone else.
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by bjourne 11mo ago
The big deal is that you are coerced into giving up extremely detailed and personal information. Your face at a security checkpoint or gate does not look identical to your face on your passport. Happy, sad, frustrated, tired? Last time you
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Ask HN: Opinions on facial recognition at air ports?
6 points by bjourne 11mo ago|31 comments
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by bjourne 11mo ago
"Super common case" is "initial commit", "fix spelling in README.md", or "small refactor". If your "super common case" is "subtle bug causing unexpected values in data" then you ar
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by bjourne 11mo ago
We had Duralex glasses in my schools' canteens. Not because they were high-quality but because they were cheap and (back then, at least) they readily shattered. I can buy basically the same quality glasses for 1/3 or 1/4 the
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by bjourne 11mo ago
Line comments work pretty well for explanation storage. :) Almost every programming language support that feature.
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by bjourne 11mo ago
For 99% of all commits the WHY is fully answered by the diff itself.
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by bjourne 11mo ago
This is not for me. :) I'd much rather spend my time writing good code than having the AI help me write good commit messages. By not spending time writing good commit messages I have time to write self-explanatory code, for which you d
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by bjourne 11mo ago
That description fits Che Guevara too. Who, coincidentally, also was considered to be incredibly handsome.
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by bjourne 11mo ago
An AI that is consciousness is plausibly also sentient and hurting sentient entities is morally wrong.
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by bjourne 11mo ago
That's exactly what I meant. Well explained!
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by bjourne 11mo ago
It is the perfect and correct antidote to any slippery slope argument. If the consequences of the law turns out to be as bad as you say they will be then we adjust the law.
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Ask HN: Is Uber Exploitative?
3 points by bjourne 11mo ago|3 comments
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by bjourne 11mo ago
I recently watched A Fish Called Wanda because some old folks said it is a great movie. It is not. It is shit.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Apple pulled the app after complaints from the Chinese regime. Would not surprise me if this app met a similar fate.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Factor code can be extremely beautiful: y1 y2 [ - sq ] 2map sum n / sqrt It can also be extremely messy.
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by bjourne 1y ago
My weird brain gets really turned on by imaginary internet points.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Sadly, I recently had to switch back from Wayland to xorg because clients are getting so memory hungry. My eight year old gpu only has 2gb of vram, which I constantly run out of. Some part of the gfx stack should handle swapping out vram to
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by bjourne 1y ago
So you're telling me that when I buy stuff for 12.34 that is not the amount I have to pay, but some bigger amount that I have no way to calculate precisely unless I know exactly which sales tax rules are applicable for my purchase? It&
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by bjourne 1y ago
Er... So just adjust prices to whole multiples of 5 cents? Helps math-challenged cashiers too...
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by bjourne 1y ago
Finding the bug is 95% of the effort. The idea that reporting obscure security bugs is worthless is BS.
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Grok believes Trump won the 2020 US Election(twitter.com)
7 points by bjourne 1y ago|7 comments
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by bjourne 1y ago
No! YOU made the claim. YOU prove it.
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by bjourne 1y ago
Good work
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by bjourne 1y ago
Do you need pointer arithmetic? I think that's the one feature a modern C replacement should do away with. The other being support for arithmetic with unsigned types.
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by bjourne 1y ago
JAX seems great but the Google ghost is a lot to stomach. The risk of JAX getting axed or replaced with a JAX 2.0 - completely incompatible with existing JAX code - is not insignificant.
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by bjourne 1y ago
> “We aggressively fight fraud and scams because people on our platforms don’t want this content, legitimate advertisers don’t want it, and we don’t want it either.” I wonder if those who market illegal Israeli settlements counts as &quo

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