danudey

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by danudey 5mo ago
Running a web browser _with a local AI model_ is likely something that most users are not aiming for. This is extra disk and bandwidth for something that benefits Google but does nothing for the average user.
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by danudey 5mo ago
Given that the US is the only country in recent memory whose politics have shifted from "pretty normal for a western nation" to "unpredictable rogue state", it's not as though the list of "countries to avoid&qu
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by danudey 5mo ago
There's a McDonald's near my home that I can order from if I'm craving garbage food quickly and don't feel well enough to leave the house, but they only get my order correct about 20% of the time. Another 20% of the time
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by danudey 5mo ago
The thing that Sun Ray added was the ability to move to a new physical terminal without logging out of your existing session, closing your apps, reopening them, picking up where you left off, etc. Could see it being great for e.g. universit
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by danudey 5mo ago
When I was in Uni our IT department had rolled out Sun Ray systems and they were actually pretty cool. You'd have a smart card you'd insert into the device which would give you a login page. You'd log in, use your apps. If yo
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by danudey 6mo ago
> The new products Anthropic is shipping is more like Lambda. Vendor kool-aid lots of people will buy into. Counterpoint: there are probably tons of people out there who were hacking together lousy versions of these same tools to somehow
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by danudey 6mo ago
One thing my team lead is working on is using Claude to 'generate' integration tests/add new tests to e2e runs. Straight up asking Claude to run the tests, or to generate a test, could result in potential inconsistencies betw
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by danudey 6mo ago
Nice that OpenSSL finally relented and provided an API for developers to use to implement QUIC support - last year, apparently. For those not familiar: until OpenSSL 3.4.1, if you wanted use OpenSSL and wanted to implement HTTP/3, whic
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by danudey 6mo ago
Yet the same is true of IP addresses. You (typically) cannot know for certain whether traffic from an IP address was originated by a specific person and yet it's typically considered PII because it can be used in conjunction with other
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by danudey 6mo ago
The laws say that data about you is your data, information about you is your information. No one is saying that you "own the data", but by virtue of the data being personal information about you specificially you are allowed to ex
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by danudey 6mo ago
If AWS maintained private infrastructure that stored and indexed data associated with people's license plates and vehicles and then charged customers to do searches against that data then yes, you could write them to ask them to purge
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by danudey 6mo ago
Do your applications not expect any network hiccup to cause them to block indefinitely in a system call making them effectively unkillable and making the filesystem unmountable?
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by danudey 6mo ago
7 million people per year die prematurely from air pollution alone. Are you suggesting we should just keep killing those people indefinitely instead? Those 7 million lives were apparently never worth fixing things for; now maybe we can shif
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by danudey 6mo ago
I mean, everything is computer so yeah.
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by danudey 6mo ago
BYD is bringing their EVs to Canada, including models starting at $20k, $55k less than the Model S: https://cardog.app/blog/byd-canada-full-lineup The only reason Tesla is still in business is American protectionism.
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by danudey 6mo ago
There's a big difference to end users between "a robot walking around my house doing something" and "a human remotely controlling a robot and walking around my house". The privacy and safety implications are huge, a
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by danudey 6mo ago
The problem with WP Engine was that the name is confusing to users who aren't familiar with it. Presumably the WordPress Engine is the core of Wordpress? Or it's the thing powering Wordpress? It's easy to see ways in which an
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by danudey 6mo ago
If you can find a way to trick agents into always accepting your payment required then you could set up a tarpit generating trash content or an infinite string of redirects or "read this other page for more info", charging extra f
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by danudey 7mo ago
> In all my years of writing tools for other devs Not just tools for devs, this is true in a lot of cases. I used to work at Fortinet and every now and then we'd get an e-mail from information services letting us know that they woul
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by danudey 7mo ago
The Windows ecosystem does a lot of things that, to me, as a Linux/MacOS user, seem like a weird bunch of crazy decisions that are different just because. Whether that's true or not, it does mean that a lot of people who came up o
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by danudey 7mo ago
All that law says is that the applicant 'shall have the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI system in the decision-making procedure and the main elements of the decision taken.&#x27
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by danudey 7mo ago
Valve pays over a hundred open source developers to work on the various open source projects that they rely on so heavily, so yeah Valve's 30% of your Steam purchases is already contributing to these open-source projects (like Mesa, th
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by danudey 7mo ago
Yep, depending on where you live you can probably find them wherever you find other major brand gift cards.
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by danudey 7mo ago
Until we start to penalize companies by percentage of global revenue rather than some arbitrary dollar amount that pales in comparison to their revenues this sort of stuff is going to keep happening. $3m is nothing. 10% of global revenues (
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by danudey 7mo ago
I think that GitHub should set up Actions so that whenever you run a Github Actions step, it checks to see if either you have pinned it to a SHA or if the repository has immutable tags configured. If not, put a giant warning at the top of e
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by danudey 7mo ago
TL;DR Github Actions is the NPM of CI systems.
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by danudey 7mo ago
Like "never work at Meta unless you can out-toxic your coworkers".
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by danudey 7mo ago
If you're interested in implementing this directly into your dockerfiles with some minimal changes, Docker already supports this to a degree: https://docs.docker.com/reference/dockerfile/#copy---link The TL;D
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Show HN: A user daemon to provide an age-bracketing API(github.com)
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by danudey 7mo ago
And which supports DICOM calibration, which normally costs you >$5k for a smaller (e.g. 21") display. It's now vastly cheaper to buy a Mac and a 27" Studio Display XDR than it is to buy a single 21" DICOM display for

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