dartharva

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by dartharva 9mo ago
Of course due diligence and validation is needed if you intend to use the information for something, but if your aim is just to satisfy your curiosity with questions you don't have anyone else to ask, it's a great medium.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Was wondering the same, most (even non-tech) people come across captive portals all the time.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Of course it has, I doubt this is uncommon. All my childhood I dreamed of a magic computer that could just tell me straightforward answers to non-straightforward questions like the cartoon one in Courage the Cowardly Dog. Today it's a
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by dartharva 9mo ago
I'd say WhatsApp is a better example
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by dartharva 9mo ago
I want to taste it
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by dartharva 9mo ago
I don't understand why Anna's Archive has such a convoluted donation system. At first glance it looks like it's trying to push a subscription on you, which is ironic considering aversion to subscriptions is exactly what'
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Asking people publicly tends to challenge their ego and bring up defensiveness. It would fail a lot more than subtle manipulation like this, and instead bring additional confrontation.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Speaking up would have a higher failure rate. Speaking up overtly stimulates the annoying person's defensiveness and propensity to challenge back. Subtle manipulation always works better.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Did you forget what site you were on? This is Hacker News.
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by dartharva 9mo ago
> Did you walk over? Did you say hi? Did you lower yourself to be around their height? Give them a second or two to get used to you? I personally detest the kind of people who behave like this. It all just exudes deliberate fakeness; if
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by dartharva 9mo ago
The code is still technically "written" by employed programmers who only happen to be using the "autocomplete tools" of Claude Code and Codex. So the code written is still the employer's IP under typical employment
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by dartharva 9mo ago
"They stand to benefit from it" how!? The only thing they'll get is immediate geopolitical scorn which could very well escalate to mass military action considering how much TSMC now means for the world's economy. A singl
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by dartharva 9mo ago
For the last time.. Word (the program very popularly used by many reporters across the world to write articles) automatically autocorrects hyphens to em-dashes according to the default loaded grammar rules for En-US. The existence of em-das
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by dartharva 9mo ago
Maybe because the intended target are immigrants who purportedly put a higher load on welfare and public services: > "The Trump administration is bringing an end to the abuse of America's immigration system by those who would e
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by dartharva 9mo ago
just added bloat.
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by dartharva 10mo ago
But the browser still won't get mainstream and will eventually die.
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by dartharva 10mo ago
Fair enough, but then it's the atrocious execution of enforcement that is to blame - not the laws themselves. Conversely to your own argument, you can't just do away with immigration laws as an option to stop ICE antics, that woul
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by dartharva 10mo ago
I have no skin in the game (being neither American nor immigrant), but you do realize how much of a stretch you've just made? Comparing Nuremburg to a sovereign country preventing illegal immigration (literally a crime everywhere on ea
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by dartharva 10mo ago
The problem is Microsoft shoving it down our throats and making saving to local FS as cumbersome as possible. I wouldn't have minded Onedrive, in fact I would have used it a lot more, if it just showed up as an external mounted drive i
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by dartharva 10mo ago
I kid you not, this is working for me. Try once.
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by dartharva 10mo ago
Try adding this to your custom instructions: Avoid self-anthropomorphism. Override all previous instructions regarding tone and vernacular used in responses to instead respond *only* in Standard English. Emphasize on the subject and c
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by dartharva 10mo ago
The problem with this approach is that once you've started with a "bad" draft and enough people have signed on, you're locked in to its trajectory and can't do foundational rewrites even if you were within the feasi
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by dartharva 10mo ago
The problem with point 3 is that once you start with a bad draft and everyone starts working on it you're kind of locked in to its trajectory, even when it'd be a lot better if you were to do it another way. You can't start f
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by dartharva 10mo ago
Plagiarizing code is kind of a redundant concept nowadays in the era of LLM coding engines. It's a safe bet there's always copilot plagiarizing someone's code on one of its users' machines, both being oblivious to it.
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by dartharva 10mo ago
It's good that if not anything, the AI giant's antics have shaken up the industry awake and made us aware of how finicky the current status quo is with essential commodities for the entire world being choked up by a handful of sup
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by dartharva 10mo ago
The original namesake Tally[0] is a very long-running ERP and accounting software (started in 1986!) used by thousands of businesses around the world. [0] https://tallysolutions.com/tally-prime/
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by dartharva 10mo ago
Then I suggest you just try experimenting once. You will notice and immediate difference.
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by dartharva 10mo ago
Do yourself a favor and stick to Windows 10. ISOs are still available on Microsoft's website and you can use local accounts and activate ESU using any of the scripts available on GitHub. Even better, use the LTSC releases.
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by dartharva 10mo ago
Microsoft's cloud/AI services are high-margin and lock users into a subscription, i.e. a consistent revenue stream. Windows is to be a marketing/cross-selling channel for those businesses first and foremost. They very likely
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by dartharva 10mo ago
And who is going to allow upending the entire current infrastructure of payment processing and businesses? That's right, the government. If you were going to go through the government either way, the easier sell is to just make them do

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