charles_f

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by charles_f 6mo ago
If you had enough motivation, you could learn to decode the picture by squinting, and understand the audio by enough exposure. That came very handy to many a teenager on late Saturday evenings.
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by charles_f 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure the sun is on the equator
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by charles_f 6mo ago
git history makes me think of git revise^1, which gives you a bunch of handy tools to changes your history, move commits around, remove some of them, cut them (which git history now does). I found it very handy in the past 1: https:/&
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by charles_f 6mo ago
I guess it makes more sense than shoe brands pivoting to GPU provider. Spacex already owns Twitter and xai, trying to post-rationalize with justification like they have servers doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's all accountin
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by charles_f 6mo ago
> That was it. The agent had invented a mental state for me and then used that invented state to justify ignoring the rules. Or: the agent did shit because the context was getting long, instructions lost in compaction, and it defaulted b
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by charles_f 6mo ago
I've been using the same version of Jekyll, using the same outdated, discontinued version of ruby, for more than 10y. I refuse to learn anything about ruby, or spend any time upgrading Jekyll or any of the 2 plug-ins I use, and I tak
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by charles_f 6mo ago
I love aerospace, but you can definitely feel that it's a hack on top of the macos window manager. If a window starts misbehaving (like, app is frozen or sometimes even just has a top dialog) then aerospace can't move it and you l
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by charles_f 6mo ago
That's an interesting takes. I found it quite suspicious at first, especially because it doesn't present well the myths that it's trying to debunk: are we talking abouy caffeine half life or its effects; and is that 5h half l
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by charles_f 6mo ago
"A moral obligation from my side, but I prefer if others don't come to an appointment with me"
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by charles_f 6mo ago
Fair, that template resolves to a box but it's missing stuff like tabs to make the bottom properly stick ; and it's probably not optimal in its use of cardboard. Also it was design in a minute in draw.io to make a stranger on the
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by charles_f 6mo ago
There, designed especially for you. Don't thank me, I'm a cardboard security expert, can do that all day long. https://fev.al/assets/2026/Carboard-bank-secure-box-template...
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by charles_f 6mo ago
I used to be excited by these kind of tools, I love to self-host stuff. When I clicked on the link, I had this hesitation, suspecting "maybe it's LLM generated". And sure enough, coming back to HN, description says it is. Fil
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by charles_f 6mo ago
Stop paying for banks, AI built this cardboard box that you can store in your toolshed instead!
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by charles_f 6mo ago
I cared about the author's opinion so it's not literal, I like the article. I didn't care about your opinion though.
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by charles_f 6mo ago
You need a job to sustain a family. From the post it seems like author accepted the sacrifice for the amount he was supposed to be paid.
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by charles_f 6mo ago
4 weeks is one moon, not many moons.
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by charles_f 6mo ago
It will sound like finessing on details, but details are important in these kind of claims, and this seems incorrect > Microsoft has 33,000 employees and a $15 billion legal budget Microsoft has more than 220k employees (it's hard t
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by charles_f 7mo ago
My camera started malfunctioning lately (because tropicalized doesn't mean you can use it in tropical weather). It worked, but when I switched batteries I had to wait a minute for whatever capacitor was blown to discharge before it wou
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by charles_f 7mo ago
The irony of bragging about how dangerous to cybersecurity it is with all the holes punches by the current generations
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by charles_f 7mo ago
While I do agree generally, there are a couple things to note 1. Author was made to pay for the bureaucracy and a rigid rule, and found a way to revert that. Now Karen pays the price for the bureaucracy. In the end Author made it a 0 sum ga
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by charles_f 7mo ago
It's an interesting state that you can force someone to unlock their phone with biometrics, but you can't force them to reveal a pin. Anecdotally, I have been to the US a few times in the past year, and seen no change myself - whe
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by charles_f 7mo ago
I'm directly quoting the portion of the abstract related to anxiety and depression, tell me how that's misrepresenting? > There was an absence of RCT evidence for the treatment of depression. > Meta-analysis revealed higher
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by charles_f 7mo ago
Beyond the semantics, this is what the meta analysis(1) actually says in the abstract > There were insufficient data to meta-analyse studies of ADHD, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and tobacco use disorder. There was an
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What's More to Do?(fev.al)
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by charles_f 7mo ago
The guard itself ends up pushing the button
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by charles_f 7mo ago
> airtruk You got to love that even its name is utilitarian. This is such a cool story. Airplanes seem such a complex, standardized, full of red tape and elitist thing that such stories of hackers starting to pull random beams together a
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by charles_f 7mo ago
In which one expert called the documentation provided "a pile of shit", which propublica took the liberty of extending to Azure itself
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by charles_f 7mo ago
> The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. > &g
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by charles_f 7mo ago
Can't wait to see the equivalent of captcha but for LLMs, to keep those humans away
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by charles_f 7mo ago
> he'd been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role Funny how this lateral move to another function is seen as a promotion. I've done both for significant amounts of time, and rather than a blanket, utilitarian &quo

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