dheera

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by dheera 7mo ago
TBH I'm not opposed to the government knowing where I live. Having ways to find and lock up actual criminals is not a bad thing. I'm also not opposed to certain private businesses or financial institutions needing to know who I am
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by dheera 7mo ago
This. Every time I point out that I shouldn't have to leak my residential address to private businesses to register to vote or complete KYC, 15 people immediately come out of the woods to point out that addresses are public information
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by dheera 7mo ago
Just because you raise 1 billion dollars to do X doesn't mean you can't pivot and do Y if it is in the best interest of your mission. I won't comment on Yann LeCun or his current technical strategy, but if you can avoid sunk
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by dheera 8mo ago
jQuery is still sooo much easier to use than React and whatever other messes modern frameworks have created. As a bonus, you don't have to npm build your JS project, you just double click and it opens and works without any build step,
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by dheera 8mo ago
It says 10% of crashes If Firefox itself has so few bugs that it crashes very infrequently, it is not contradictory to what you are saying. I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of crashes in my "hello world" script are caused by bi
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by dheera 8mo ago
Just walk around San Jose residential neighborhoods, all the combinations are literally dropping everywhere.
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by dheera 8mo ago
Auth is a massive pain across almost all Google products. Just being able to send commands to my Nest thermostat (which I own, and is on the same LAN) involved creating a cloud account, a "project" (wtf is a project, I just want a
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by dheera 8mo ago
Wouldn't be surprised if elaborate worms like this are AI-designed
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by dheera 8mo ago
Fine with me too. I think many other apps (WhatsApp, FB, etc.) are using E2EE for PR purposes and are not actually good implementations of E2EE. Good implementations of E2EE: 1. Generate the key pairs on device, and the private key is never
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by dheera 8mo ago
Meanwhile I just bounce from the site 60% of the time. Most websites aren't needed for my survival, and I hope they are happy that they lost a customer while I go to their competitor. Moral of the story is: If you want me to see your c
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by dheera 8mo ago
My 256GB phone is already almost full because of all this app bloat. 6 different parking apps, 17 messaging apps because nobody uses the same thing, 13 different financial apps, EV charging apps, ... I have one messaging app eating 40GB On
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by dheera 8mo ago
Times are just numbers, just shift your work hours accordingly. The only real problem is that the people seeing you leave at 4pm and grumble are the same sort of people who don't acknowledge you starting work at 7am. As long as you don
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by dheera 8mo ago
256GB? My laptop has 8TB. Why is Apple so stingy?
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by dheera 8mo ago
No. I have a Titan V CEO edition, which is basically a 32GB V100 but has full active fan cooling which I'm finding works just fine.
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by dheera 8mo ago
I tried connecting OpenClaw to ollama with a V100 running qwen3.5:35b but it was really, really, really slow (despite ollama itself feeling fairly fast). These "claw" agents really multiply the tokens used by an obscenely huge fac
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by dheera 8mo ago
> you're stuck on Android 17, which is centuries of work ahead of literally anything else in the open source community Honestly if this happens, look to China to maintain Android going forward and add new parallel implementations of
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by dheera 8mo ago
WeChat effectively is all of this but does work on rooted phones. There are far too many brands and variations of phones all over China running various forks of Android for them to keep track of.
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by dheera 8mo ago
I'm sure Baidu could safely index Reddit if they wanted to.
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by dheera 8mo ago
3D printing was never intended to replace scale manufacturing; the media seemed to conjure up that story. To the realists, 3D printing is specifically for small-scale manufacturing, rapid iteration on prototypes, etc.
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by dheera 8mo ago
> American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't. It's not American employees vs. China employees. No need to villainize China at every opportunity. Most Chinese employees are more similar to American employees
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by dheera 8mo ago
Radially related: Every plug looks like a face https://imgur.com/a/xPe5lT8
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by dheera 8mo ago
What about vegetable-forward breakfasts? Completely not on this chart.
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by dheera 8mo ago
Yeah, so I'm not buying unnecessary crap this year. If the "system" wants to drive more consumption, it's on the "system" to put more buying power into my hands. Double my salary, reduce my taxes, make BTC do a
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by dheera 8mo ago
> opted to sell priority access to their models to the Pentagon The bottom of all of this is that companies need to profit to sustain themselves. If "y'all" (the users) don't buy enough of their products, they will se
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by dheera 8mo ago
I don't think it's about memory shortage. It's that everything has become 20% more expensive in the past year, I'm being taxed to death, fighting with companies trying to money grab me, my electric bill is now $800, and
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by dheera 8mo ago
even clearer syntax: command &stderr>&stdout
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by dheera 8mo ago
I also don't think the "maker movement" disappeared, it's just that the bar for making stuff is so much lower now that anyone and their grandmother can do it. In the past weeks I: - 3D printed custom cups that fit onto a
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by dheera 8mo ago
Prompt it well and this is an unlikely scenario. I'm concurrently fighting about 5 such things at the same time at any given point in time. Last week I got a W-2 for a company I didn't work for in 2025. The week before I got denie
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by dheera 8mo ago
> Some botocalypse is going to happen at some point. Yeah the bots can duke it out. As long as my time is saved. For me the main concern is, before I have a stash of millions of dollars saved up, my medical expenses need to be paid for b
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by dheera 8mo ago
The bot doesn't need to be held accountable. It only needs to spew out the right text that triggers humans to rightfully transfer accountability from me to the insurance company.

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