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by degamad 1y ago
> Does "control legislation" mean deprecate a tool for publishing info on government sites? I believe the intended meaning, in context, is "... for publishing the literal text of laws on government sites".
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by degamad 1y ago
And that's where the confusion comes from: according to this, 300% faster refers to 300% more speed, whereas 300% slower refers to 300% more time.
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by degamad 1y ago
I don't know about your friends, but as we're on HN, I'm sure others here have friends like mine, who absolutely have conversations about how the low level shit that facilitates our world works.
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by degamad 1y ago
You've hit on the relevant distinction: user context vs system context. I use containers to separate system context (partitioning cookies and site data) while remaining in the same user context (e.g. "personal browsing"). I u
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by degamad 1y ago
Also known as "lying".
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by degamad 1y ago
Also possible: he's unaware of a change implemented elsewhere that (intentionally or unintentionally) has resulted in a change of behaviour in this circumstance. (e.g. are the terms of service, or exerpts of it, available in the system
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by degamad 1y ago
Of course, my mind glossed over the point that the factor is being applied to the speed, so 300% faster than 20 items per hour is 80 items per hour. That makes sense. It's also analogous to "300% more than 20 is 80". But then
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by degamad 1y ago
What would 300% faster mean? If the original process took 30 minutes to process 10 items, how long would the 300% faster method take?
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by degamad 1y ago
While this is an interesting data point, the main thing it tells us is that when the algorithm has no information about your preferences, that it skews racist. This might be because, absent other information, the algorithm defaults to the &
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by degamad 1y ago
> [1] Looking it up, storing 45TB would end up costing anywhere between $250-$1500 a month pretty easily, which I currently cannot justify. Or about $5k one-off at pCloud, which is still a big investment. (No affiliation, just a customer
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by degamad 1y ago
In assembly, like stage0 does: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
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by degamad 1y ago
> is it not fair to question why this business pays no electricity or either owns/rent the property? It's fair to question, and it is addressed in the article. They're a subsidiary, and the utilities and rent are in the pa
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by degamad 1y ago
> if you believe your opponents will ever gain power. Or are already in power.
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by degamad 1y ago
* in Australia
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by degamad 1y ago
As someone who previously was part of the management of a small non-profit, we absolutely cared about things that lead to us losing money... Now, we might have had good reason to pursue a plan that cost us money, but in general, threats to
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by degamad 1y ago
And in your verification, what's your usual experience? Citation usually shows the claim was right? Mix of right and wrong, say 60%/40%? Usually wrong? Citation often doesn't exist or is not relevant to the claim? (I don&#x27
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by degamad 1y ago
> adds up to 22.5% after 3 years and 40% after 5 years.
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by degamad 1y ago
I agree that our choices should not be limited to protect us. However, we need a better solution than pop-up warnings. I guarantee that you have clicked through a pop-up warning that was standing between you and the thing that you wanted to
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by degamad 1y ago
F-Droid provides curated applications vetted by parties that *the user* chooses to trust. By default, F-Droid provides only the applications that they themselves have verified and built from source. They also allow the user to add other sou
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by degamad 1y ago
Another supporter here, chiming in to let you know you're not alone on this hill.
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by degamad 1y ago
> To assert that the way problems were solved in 1970 obviously has dramatic lessons for how to solve them in 2025 seems to me to completely miss what we're actually doing with computers. True they might not all be "dramatic le
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by degamad 1y ago
> art [has] very limited or zero dependence on a material substrate This seems to fundamentally underestimate the nature of most artforms.
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by degamad 1y ago
My understanding is that here in Oz we get access to cheaper beef than the rest of the world...
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by degamad 1y ago
I read that as "sign your allegiances away from their current counterparts (e.g. the user) and towards the VCs instead".
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by degamad 1y ago
Fraud prevention on my primary transaction account requires 2FA for every transfer. The only supported 2FA is the bank's own dedicated 2FA app.
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by degamad 1y ago
I initially made the same misread that you did... The OP's point is, having the firmware permanently burnt-in on a ROM chip vs loaded as a binary blob via a driver doesn't change the "non-free"-ness of the firmware itsel
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by degamad 1y ago
https://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhereDoIBegin (and https://kernelnewbies.org/ in general) has some good pointers...
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by degamad 1y ago
> ngirx and granian are my favorite technologies to work with! I had the same initial thought, but I was skimming the page and came across this line: > Then, see how to deploy a Flask+HTMX app via Granian, wire it into NGINX, and ensu
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by degamad 1y ago
Your piece is well-written, but embeds an important assumption that leads to your conclusion being different from Ed's. > And how can TV retailers make money in this situation? Did they expect to keep charging $500 for a TV that’s n
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by degamad 1y ago
Some of us remember when Google was just an upstart and anyone who wanted to do anything serious used Altavista or MetaCrawler. Even the behemoths can get taken out.

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