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by chias 2y ago
Call me jaded but > Stay tuned for exciting updates to come. the vast majority of the time the exciting updates end up being: 1. The product you know and love will continue with no difference! We just have free funding! Isn't that g
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by chias 2y ago
This is where we need something like GDPR, which makes it so that they can't auto subscribe you to a new list whenever they feel like resubscribing you.
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by chias 2y ago
The dumb thing is that this "out of scope" thing is 100% a Hacker One failure, and exactly the kind of thing I've grown to expect from these triage teams. "SPF, DKIM, and DMARC issues" is absolutely and positively i
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by chias 2y ago
> technically doesn't need one for texts because it's illegal to send marketing texts It is unfortunately seemingly not illegal to send me political beg-texts multiple times per day, though.
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by chias 2y ago
I have never liked the "20 = critical success = always succeeds", mainly because I can with a 5% chance end a "Destroy Sauron's ring" adventure in 40 seconds with "I attempt to destroy it by hitting it with a h
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by chias 2y ago
While self driving cars are provided by private companies, self driving cars will first work in the profitable cases, and then years later will still only work in the profitable cases.
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by chias 2y ago
A large publicly traded company states expectations that their business model -- which they cannot change -- will still be viable in 25 years.
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by chias 2y ago
> Their latest feedback after appealing suggests I change from a .co.uk to .com to resolve the issue I wonder if what they take issue with is that propertyengine.co.uk and propertyengine.com are different businesses. I mean it doesn&#x27
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by chias 2y ago
In my 30s on EXACTLY ONE occasion I was chopping a bunch of peppers and then went to the bathroom to pee. I have worn gloves each and every time since, when dealing with more than 2 or 3 peppers at habanero heat or above.
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by chias 2y ago
Not to mention: 1. World of Warcraft in 2004 is very different from World of Warcraft in 2024. Do future versions "destroy" previous ones? How do you deal with this? 2. What even is the definition of a "video game"? Is N
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by chias 2y ago
I don't think `robots.txt` works on the basis of the crawlers wanting to do this to be nice, or "socially responsible" or anything. So I don't hold up much hope that anything similar can happen again. Early search engine
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by chias 2y ago
I think this way of looking at it is valid, although I don't personally like it very much because it generates a large amount of e-waste. Regardless, using your model on this device: it costs $725, and if you buy now, won't ship u
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by chias 2y ago
I know the Crowd Supply part isn't live yet but I wish this had some kind of ballpark cost, at least to an order of magnitude. Are we talking $300 or $3000?
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by chias 2y ago
"Oh you're not actually using Linux, that's GNU/Linux"
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by chias 2y ago
"I understand these trainings exist solely for the purposes of ass-covering." This is not really true. They exist for shifting liability -- which is similar, but also quite different -- to where it needs to be. They exist so that
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by chias 3y ago
There's a typo in the headline here on HN: the initialism for Coordinated Lunar Time is LCT, not CLT. (this isn't my opinion on whether we'll end up following suit with UTC and so on, the article itself calls it "LCT&quo
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by chias 3y ago
Oh look we're in the news again! I wonder if it's something good this time! It's never something good.
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by chias 3y ago
How do you simulate attacking someone who is not expecting to fight a war with you? What do you do when the simulated loser refuses to concede?
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by chias 3y ago
All companies allocate some fraction of their resources towards innovation outside of what is currently their core feature-set.
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by chias 3y ago
Is letting someone buy you dinner also consenting?
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by chias 3y ago
Do not put the apps you want to reduce usage of in your favorites. The act of pulling them out of the alphabetized list or searching for them when you want to use them adds just enough (for me) friction that it becomes a necessarily deliber
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by chias 3y ago
I was never in the "heavy smartphone users" category, but one thing I found that nonetheless shrank my usage significantly was switching to the "Niagara" launcher app (Android). If you are somebody that doesn't want
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by chias 3y ago
Yes: using turn-by-turn GPS directions while riding a bicycle or motorcycle. My Pebble Time was perfect for this. I have not found a replacement.
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by chias 3y ago
I think it was also just harder to do at scale. In the aftermath of his death, we discovered that one of my great grandfathers had a whole other family a few villages over, and neither family knew of the other. Being logistically limited to
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by chias 3y ago
> I have been in meetings on $100 million projects where they will seriously argue over the cost of sendgrid. Eventually this will come down to no one having “sendgrid experience” And some developer saying they can do it in Office365. Re
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by chias 3y ago
I think the parent comment's point is: if this were affecting a version of Google-branded Chrome with similar market share, do you think we would still be getting "next update in 12 hours"? I remember an internal mantra in Go
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by chias 3y ago
It's worth noting that there are no known attacks against MD5 HMACs, which look identical to MD5 hashes.
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by chias 3y ago
Save yourself 40% of the video by skipping the informercial intro, use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-XeZ3R98U&t=42s
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by chias 3y ago
> Who cares if websites look the same? A lot of books look the same too, but that works pretty well for me tbh. I do not find books to be homogeneous as a result.
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by chias 3y ago
You can OTA update software buttons though. So arguably a lot of the "testing" can happen for free by customers after it ships.

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