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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> In the old days of P2P MP3 sharing, there were just a few songs that were misidentified I remember (a friend) downloading Box Car Racer's new album on p2p only to find an indie band had uploaded their own songs under the legitimat
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
It's his brand, though—of course he'd be that way for an interviewer. Which leads to the next slightly annoying bit—author was reluctant to follow up because Jimmy Fallon is a celebrity , which isn't said explicitly but is
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I understand the sentiment, to an extent, but I find myself simultaneously wondering how our great/grandparents didn't become similarly disillusioned by World Wars, Great Depressions. To them, it could have very well been the end
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Interesting, this test can be worked both ways then: ChatGPT will answer quickly and with different cadence than a human AND it will, at least for now, struggle with precision in timed events.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Genuinely curious—if the purpose is to hire/identify an AI, why the "Australia (preferred)"[0] under Qualifications? [0] https://twitter.com/Schappi/status/1670612150182887424
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
If you're using ublock origin, I have these filters which I copied from another HN comment once upon a time. news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg)) news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white) n
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/06/15/nytfrontpage/scan... [0] https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/06/15/nytfrontpage/scan... [1] Should be helpful—th
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I'm honestly surprised the public library is the only place to get free 24/7 wifi in San Francisco . Bizarre.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Agreed apart from: > One advantage of a mobile app over a mobile web site is that you can use the accelerometer Accelerometer API access has been available on mobile web for ~ a decade. I think it'd actually be more trouble than it&
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
On one hand, I agree—on the other, the US military has had [historically] a really hard time with farmers in flip-flops.
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
The only popular fashion (if you can even call it that) I've ever observed with any consistency is "hoodie" and "graphic tee". More rare, but worth noting, is shorts-when-its-pants-weather. The lack of dress-code ju
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
IMO, including those generated .txt files is a small[ish] feat that's important to those that are looking for it, and benign to those that don't need it or know what it is. I suspect most users who use a site generator would be ha
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I gravitate towards startups for this reason. In my experience with big orgs, everything takes forever and involves 20+ people. Often, still nothing really gets done. At startups, I or someone sitting virtually next to me is the one creatin
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Hovering the link to preview its location in the status bar reveals the trick because the browser doesn't see any real slashes. The anchor's href (when inspected) actually does have the full bogus URL, but when hovered we'r
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
The official Watchy firmware is designed to put the esp32 into deep sleep and only wake to update the display, which being e-ink doesn't need any further power to hold its position until the next update. In deep sleep no radios are on
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
A senator whose name isn't on this list—what's your point?
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
break through at several strategic points where the building meets the foundation and place hydraulic jacks in the voids. Once enough jacks are in place and lifted, _they_ now serve as the support; the remaining parts of the building can be
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
> _reasonably_ trust a power-only USB ... like the built in ports on aircraft. I'm with you, this might fall under "safe". Then again, from threads posted here and elsewhere, and through personal investigation...the infota
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
> common knowledge to never use public chargers Perhaps here on HN. Most people will plug their smartphone into any accepting receptacle. trains, airplanes, NYC SmartLink, or ask the bartender if they can plug it in behind the bar. I sti
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
Source code reveals clicking all Kings adds Jokers to the deck, but also clicking all Aces will do the "Winning" sequence from Solitaire, aptly named "startWinning()"
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
Personally, I can't think of a more likely-to-tell-everyone-in-the-room profession than a journalist.
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
The content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" was interesting to me since I'm so used to seeing utf-8. Caring about charset seemingly makes little sense here, given everything is embedded into the image. I wonder if this
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
That's not "hidden" though, it's the alt text that also appears verbatim on the image itself.
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
> is so f*cking retarded It's possible to express yourself without resorting to words/phrases like this. Shake your vocab tree. There are a million other appropriate ways to express your belief that a person thing (or country)
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
> That it also coded it up itself is pretty amazing I haven't tried to replicate the author's journey, but in my experience it requires a considerable amount of hand-holding. e.g. Functions will be stubbed out, but contain no l
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
"I quit infosec and I couldn't be happier" is how I'd have written it. Thanks for the good-read!
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
Stuck out to me as well—author uses it only once apart from the title, and it's in scare quotes. Are they calling attention to the fact that it's not the usual form of the word, but then failing to explain why that's importan
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
Made me think of Joaquin Phoenix's job in Her: > Theodore Twombly is a lonely, introverted man who works for a business that has professional writers compose letters for people who are unable to write letters of a personal nature th
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
That the frontend is hosted on someone else's server is a convenience, but I see your point and agree. Technically nothing is uploaded anywhere, nor does it call any APIs to do the de/encryption. Instead, it uses the cryptography
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by cuttysnark 4y ago
> Can Apple disable push notifications if the website [] and is actively [] No, and previously you could add a hacked website to your homescreen and Apple couldn't stop you from doing so. Not speaking for the other features, but th

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