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by coldpie 6mo ago
I'm at a similar level, maybe a little behind that. I don't have any advice for you, but I'll relate the path I am planning to take. Would be happy to hear others' thoughts, too. My feeling is this level is just too ear
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I checked! Copyright 2013. Phew.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
No way in hell I'm trusting AI for something that could lose me a finger.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I do woodworking for a hobby and wanted to find a nice "intro to routers" article. After skimming past the obvious SEO crap on google I clicked the first likely-seeming link and was greeted by an AI slop image of two misshapen rou
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by coldpie 6mo ago
Unless the service you are trying to log in to requires you to only use an approved authenticator, as is explicitly supported by the spec[1]. [1] "To be very honest here, you risk having KeePassXC blocked by relying parties." htt
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by coldpie 6mo ago
There is currently a bill proposed to do that (for stocks, not prediction market betting, but eh it's a start): https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr5106 It currently has 99 Democratic sponsors a
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> But I agree: TooBigTech has TooMuchPower. Passkeys are here to improve your login security! All you have to do is give complete control over your ability to log in to a service to one of three American big tech companies. Yay!
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> What’s wrong with cmd tab and just switching between apps? Open 3 terminal windows. Try to switch back & forth between just two of them with a keyboard shortcut (without mentally tracking whether or not to press Shift). You can&
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by coldpie 6mo ago
Those are actually all pretty good examples of what I'm talking about, yeah. Investment money is not income, it is debt. It has to be paid back some time, or else your business will close. So the users who came to depend on the busi
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I suspect you did actually have a business plan, even if it was informal & just in your head. Something like "based on my experience in this line of work, I can charge about $X for Y service, if I get Z sales at that price, it&#x27
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by coldpie 6mo ago
Yeah, I do. People & brands having a link to an X account is a huge red flag. It's a public statement that you support child pornography and the end of democracy in the US. That's going to tarnish a brand pretty majorly.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I feel like a crazy person for having to write this, but: if you are starting a business (yes, non-profits are businesses), then you need to have a business plan. If you launch a business and you have not done the work to have a business
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I noticed this, too. valeriozen, can you explain what happened here? Context, two nearly identical comments from different users. hackerman70000 at 16:09 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677483 : > Cloudflare push
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the pr
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> Can anybody understand what happens and maybe explain it a little? I spent a lot of time squashing bugs like this. Windows has one window manager. Linux has dozens. Windows apps are written to make assumptions about how the Windows win
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> linux userspace support Note that this is a much less robust form of anti-cheat, which is why many developers do not enable it.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
You really need to work on your reading comprehension, dude.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> I get a feeling from overall anti-AI sentiment online that a lot of people feel they're entitled to 100% of value created by anything even tangentially related to their person Rather, I don't like that the terms I released my
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> I like to write commentary in the margins Oh man, tangent into one of my favorite library book experiences. I checked out a sci-fi book at the library. It was good I was enjoying it. Then a few chapters in, I found a previous librar
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by coldpie 6mo ago
Seems to me like coordinating with an entity outside of the spooks' control, such as the BBC, would give more opportunities for leaks. It would also reveal some information about who is controlling the signal--someone with some kind o
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I do wonder how much of the apparent demand is driven by companies automatically running these things when users didn't actually ask for it. For example every web search I make now has an AI response that I scroll right past. I'm
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by coldpie 6mo ago
> We are not training on the contents of private repos Supremely ethical of you to ignore the license terms of open source code, but respect the license for proprietary code.
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by coldpie 6mo ago
I agree theft isn't a good analogy, but there is something similar going on. I put my words out into the world as a form of sharing. I enjoy reading things others write and share freely, so I write so others might enjoy the things I wr
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> Examining the mathematical methods MC Escher used in one of his recursive drawings This would be an excellent title :)
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Clickbait title could use another pass. What is this about?
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by coldpie 7mo ago
1974: Intel 8080 1978: Intel 8086 1982: Intel 80286 1985: Intel 80386 1990: Intel 8010386 1995: Intel 801040386 2005: Intel 80107045386 2025: Intel 8.010207659386e12
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> What is it with people getting bitchy the moment a project starts asking for donations? Being angry is easy and fun, and writing angry, misleading articles gets ad views.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Fun fact: MS Office also uses Direct3D :) See "Graphics" requirement here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requiremen... We put a ton of effort into D3D11 specifically to get MS Offi
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> It is interesting that these are harder to get working than games. Games are mostly just doing their own thing, only interacting with the system for input & output. MS Office is using every single corner of Windows: every feature
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I see where you're coming from and I'm glad you've had a successful career, but $52,000 for a watch is absolutely cartoonish money lol. It is definitely a cool piece though, no question.

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