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by cnst 1y ago
The actual best-practice for batteries is 50% when unused, and the 20% to 80% range when used. They already don't provide 50% at all, even though my laptop has been kept connected to mains for 1 year straight. All I get is a range of
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by cnst 1y ago
https://archive.is/9gLP1
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by cnst 1y ago
I think they bought and rebranded to threads.com only recently, the service started as threads.net, and there's a bunch of links to dot net.
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by cnst 1y ago
Yup. The supercars also famously ban some owners from purchasing them again, e.g., Ferrari: https://www.hotcars.com/banned-for-life-celebrities-ferrari/
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by cnst 1y ago
"Certified Mail and Email", yeah, right, because it totally makes to wait 10 days before suddenly disabling a car for no reason! This guy didn't even bother to hire a tow truck to make the story at least somewhat more believa
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by cnst 1y ago
Tesla's screen is just a computer that can play YouTube and any other videos. Just upload a video to YouTube, open up on Tesla, enable full-screen, done. Not even any hacking or any tech knowledge required. Literally anyone can genera
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by cnst 1y ago
macOS is unreliable period; mine gets charged to 100% immediately after a power outage of any kind, e.g., re-arranging the monitor/laptop, or an actual power outage. Obviously, it'd be nice if it knew of power outages upfront, but
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by cnst 1y ago
We've literally had configurable charge levels on ThinkPads since the time they were still owned by IBM over 20 years ago, yet Apple still can't figure out to provide such an option 20 years later? Their whole ML thing is super an
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by cnst 1y ago
Aline describes her experience in 2023 of getting permabanned from LinkedIn for several days, until finding a human contract through one of the investors in her startup. Possible reason for the ban is her content makes mention of LinkedIn i
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Anti-competitive practices masquerading as security is a dangerous pattern(blog.alinelerner.com)
94 points by cnst 1y ago|14 comments
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by cnst 1y ago
I try to combat the shopping addiction by ensuring for every purchase, (1), that the price is really good, (2), that the quality is actually really good, too. For example, $149 for a great monitor is a great deal. But it has to be IPS, USB
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by cnst 1y ago
Re going to author's profile, I usually just give up, and go to the URL to fix the address. You'd think clicking on author's name in commit log view would bring you to their profile — social coding, after all — yet it simply
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by cnst 1y ago
But the models can already hallucinate in any case, so, how's that JSON's fault?
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by cnst 1y ago
This has actually always been the case (Dan Luu's article from 2015 comes to mind), but, previously, it required doing a bit of actual math, and doing a bit of reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758278 (20
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by cnst 1y ago
Why would a hype protocol use outdated concepts instead of the hype JSON? Wouldn't medical records actually be better in JSON, because the field could expressly have "kg" or "lb" suffix within the value of the field
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by cnst 1y ago
What did you expect of a Medium article? The stereotype is simply being reinforced here.
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by cnst 1y ago
I think this article is missing the point that MCP is simply using the mainstream building blocks that have already regressed from what we've had previously, namely, JSON in place of proper RCP. The ISO8601 v Unix epoch example seems v
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by cnst 1y ago
> And even if proper passwords are used, many sites/apps use this pattern for account recovery if the password is forgotten so effectively this is the only security as an attacker has “forgotten” the password and just uses this flo
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by cnst 1y ago
I'd like to add that the culmination of USB-C failure was Apple's removal of USB-A ports from the latest M4 Mac mini, where an identical port on the exact same device, now has vastly different capabilities, opaque to the final use
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by cnst 1y ago
If a #2 employee of such a unicorn startup with so much funding got dealt such a blow in this deal, what does this tell us about our prospects as employees of any startup? Isn't this an admission that you cannot get rich by getting a j
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by cnst 1y ago
I'm not talking about this specific AMD DRM code that's taking over the entire tree, I'm talking about the specific other examples that I've outlined in my prior message. Instead of violating the HN guidelines by assumin
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by cnst 1y ago
I mean, that's the reason I got the late-2020 MBA M1 16GB in September 2022, instead of going for M2 24GB 512GB for twice the price, because M2 downgraded the 256GB SSD, so, you'd have to get 512GB to get the same performance as M
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by cnst 1y ago
I think the last power loss here was 8mo15d ago at my place (around Christmas time in 2024?), but it could easily result in a data loss if you're using an external SSD through a dock, because your MacBook lacks a sufficient port supply
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by cnst 1y ago
That's the thing, the brightness is actually only 350nits on Dell, but 400nits on HP and Philips I've linked; the original MSRP was the same as the Dell, it's only the sale price that ended up being really good on those. So,
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by cnst 1y ago
What about all those services that force you to enable 2FA with SMS? How could you possibly know whether or not that opens you up to these SIM swap attacks?
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by cnst 1y ago
SMS is literally the least secure form of authentication, because numbers expire after mere weeks, and get re-assigned shortly, within months, because of number shortage in many area codes. Nothing like this could happen with any mainstream
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by cnst 1y ago
Yeah, my $79 Chromebook, could literally already do 2 external USB-C monitors, at 1/10th the price of an M4 MacBook Air! The best part about DP MST is that most monitors already have a DP-Out, so, you can already daisy-chain even witho
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by cnst 1y ago
> CalDigit TS4 Wait, that's a $379 dock? Isn't it a bit too much to pay so much just to get back about the same ports that most non-Macs still have? If I connect my peripherals like SSD and mouse/kb through this dock, w
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by cnst 1y ago
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of cars are effectively abandonware on this metric. This is exactly the benefit of the free software, and why having your own ability to fix, recompile and reinstall the software, is essential,
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by cnst 1y ago
I'm writing this on a 16GB M1 MacBook Air, but I've gotten disillusioned with macOS and Macs. When everything is done in a browser, the biggest differentiator on a laptop would be monitor and peripheral support, and Apple is behin

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