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by elric 5mo ago
I wonder how true that statement is. Dutch grammar simplified a lot after the invention of the printing press. And while I don't speak Neuhochdeutsch or Mittelhochdeutsch, I imagine the latter is a lot less streamlined than the forme
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by elric 5mo ago
Last time I looked (which was some years ago), I couldn't find any that support display over Thunderbolt without resorting to DisplayLink.
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by elric 5mo ago
Which is maybe 10-20% for most people without batteries. Better than nothing, but not great.
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by elric 5mo ago
My electricity comes from a cooperative. You have to own at least 1 share in order to become a customer (250eur/share). They sell power at very competitive rates, are powered entirely by renewables owned by their customers, and they ac
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by elric 5mo ago
I wasn't expecting any architectural answers when I asked the question (not that I knew what to expect, hence the question), but I'm adding this one to my list of "why architecture matters".
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Ask HN: How do you defend against supply chain attacks today?
5 points by elric 5mo ago|3 comments
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by elric 5mo ago
Can't read the full study, but it seems to be specifically about people who run ultramarathons. Which sounds like a very small subset of the general population. I doubt that tiny cohort is in any way responsible for the overall increas
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by elric 5mo ago
How do you know those duplicates are the only errors it made? You weren't aware of the apparently countless human errors before, so how would you be aware of Claude's errors?
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by elric 5mo ago
OCR based invoice recognition has been a solved problem for well over a decade. Source: I've consulted for a company doing that. No exploitation. No LLMs. Just clever engineering. In my neck of the woods, B2B invoices are now required
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by elric 5mo ago
> As part of our public benefit mission, we are committed to helping business owners harness AI more fully and effectively for their most important work. That's rich. What public benefit mission? The benefit of extracting money from
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by elric 5mo ago
Thanks for that link! The results are predictably depressing.
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by elric 5mo ago
"Important" according to whom? A tracking cookie is trivial to fix (or to automagically disable for the more tech savvy citizens). Email being hosted by an untrusted foreign corporation is way harder to fix and impossible to bypas
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by elric 5mo ago
Colouring an area red because they don't have DNSSEC enabled on a domain seems excessive. A nice addition would be to add who is hosting their email. First handful I've looked at are all outlook.com, which seems a much bigger pr
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by elric 5mo ago
I've used both platforms regularly over the years, and I have mixed feelings about both. I mean they both have some truly excellent content, but so much utter trash. There should be some kind of quality control. They make it reaaaaally
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by elric 5mo ago
Value types are a work in progress. It won't be (another) 10 years. Give it a few more releases.
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by elric 5mo ago
I don't usually like annotations in Java, but I'm rather liking your use of @size here. @size(3) int[] z Are you working on anything in particular that drove you to build this? Looks great!
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by elric 5mo ago
I run Obsidian with restricted capabilities: no network access, and no filesystem access outside its own directory. I only enable network access when updating plugins/themes. Same way I run any other application that could potentially
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by elric 5mo ago
> It's a problem in search of a solution. The cynic in me suspects it's a way of slowly but methodically eradicating online anonymity and thus anonymity in general.
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by elric 5mo ago
There is some opposition, but none of it is making a dent. It's depressing. I can't decide if it's incompetence, corruption, or malice.
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by elric 5mo ago
Care to elaborate on that?
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by elric 5mo ago
Think of each day as a lesson, and then it makes more sense. E.g. Lesson 49 was useful for understanding Lessons 50 and 65.
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by elric 6mo ago
Agreed. Running ancient nuclear power plants in one of the most densely populated countries does not seem wise. These plants have been running with phase-out in mind for the last 20 years.
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by elric 6mo ago
IIRC those old Belgian reactors got in the way of more renewables for some time. They provided a very cheap base load that seemed hard to modulate, which meant that even cheap renewables couldn't really compete on price. If I understan
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by elric 6mo ago
This doesn't seem like a terribly great idea, for several reasons. Belgium is nearly bankrupt, with a government deficit that the EU is already giving us grief for, in spite of some of the highest tax rates in the world. That same gove
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by elric 6mo ago
While we've been agonizing over Age Verification (real or planned), Greece has apparently introduced a ban on anonymity on social media. I'm not liking where the world is headed, but I have no idea how to push back against it.
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by elric 6mo ago
It all depends on how you define "social network". We had BBS and forums that operated much like "social networks" in the mid 90s. I don't think being "the first social network" is particularly interesting
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by elric 6mo ago
You might want to look up what Luddism was all about. Hint: it's not about being anti-technology, but about fairness.
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by elric 6mo ago
Dissolvable tablets & powders are still useful for getting rid of mucus. Maybe inhaling is better, but anecdotally the tablets seem to work.
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by elric 6mo ago
When I go out drinking with my pharmacist buddy, we take NAC before going out. He swears it makes hangovers less likely. I can't say I've noticed that particular effect, but I do seem to sleep a bit better on those nights.
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by elric 6mo ago
Interstingly, a recent conversation [1] between Hank Green and security researcher Sherri Davidoff argued the opposite. More GenAI generated code targeted at specific audiences should result in a more resilient ecosystem because of greater

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