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by fer 7mo ago
> It's not easy, but it's their work. There's a significant asymmetry though, it's not just a bit more work. I'm a bit cynical here, but often it's easier to just overengineer and be safe than to defend a si
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by fer 7mo ago
I call it race to the moral bottom. Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8
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by fer 8mo ago
I do it and never had an issue. I get odd emails every now and then with an unused address, for services/people I never contacted though. But I'm talking about perhaps 2-3 per year.
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by fer 8mo ago
Assuming their mails follow a Poisson distribution, the 95% confidence interval for their new spam rate is 0-0.091 emails per day.
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by fer 8mo ago
I started laugh reacting at Russian propaganda and now all I get is Russian propaganda, literally half of my posts are boomers, shills and people from "non-aligned" countries falling for the Russia stronk/based west evil&#x2F
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by fer 8mo ago
What I remember is that you could push OBEX calendar objects without much refusal from the phones and make people have alarms ringing at 3am, fun times!
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by fer 8mo ago
Disclaimer: self plug[0] I honestly believe everything will be normalized. A genius with the same model as I will be more productive than I, and I will be more productive than some other people, exactly the same as without AI. If AI starts
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by fer 8mo ago
I never expected to see this kind of drama on HN, live.
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by fer 8mo ago
>Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_
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by fer 8mo ago
>people are underestimating how draining is operating and maintaining software Yep. Many SaaS have an edge because they factorize the struggle of many customers, if a SaaS has 1000 customers, each customer vibing their way into a home-bu
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by fer 8mo ago
Yeah, as someone who's been to Russia pre-war, and has worked and befriended Russians, the beam in the eye is quite strong in many. It's striking because the social contract there is basically that you're left alone as long a
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by fer 9mo ago
venera venera venera
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by fer 9mo ago
In some cases, yeah, but in others it just sounds like a company with a lot of regulatory constraints and a strong "need to know" culture. Internal moat building often reflects in their business model as well. Not that I'd li
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by fer 10mo ago
Related (and on the frontpage): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177
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by fer 10mo ago
Can't disagree, but zionism likes to conflate them, and US policy goes in that general direction. P.S. Hi to the border guard reading this!
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by fer 10mo ago
It's been a pain point for me for years with many services. Shameless plug on the topic: https://www.fer.xyz/2021/04/i18n
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by fer 11mo ago
Editing out because it can be misunderstood as a defense of tax evasion as per the child comment. I'll leave a quote from the cypherpunk manifesto instead > We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defe
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by fer 11mo ago
Prompt (Gemini 3 Thinking): Explain the proof to Fermat's Last Theorem Response: Here is a summary of the Gillespie Algorithm (also known as the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm or SSA), a fundamental method used in computational biolog
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by fer 11mo ago
Haven't tested the latest DeepSeek versions, but the first release wasn't censored as a model on Taiwan. The issue is that if you use their app (as opposed to locally), it replaces the ongoing response with "sorry can't
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by fer 11mo ago
Just moved to Niri, it's incredible how snappy it is. The animation makes what you did with the window much clearer vs. other wms where it just teleports, the scrolling just compounds to that effect. The scrolling is great because it t
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by fer 11mo ago
For a while I daily carried an Asus EeePC 901 in my jacket's pocket. Surprisingly comfy if I carried something on the other pocket on top. But yeah my jacket had exceptional pockets.
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by fer 11mo ago
System/34 or System/36, the game was RACE. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRuTHz-wwk
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by fer 11mo ago
I have the feeling that there's a sandwiched generation who will have to protect both their parents and their children from these things.
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by fer 11mo ago
One of the best P2P clients ever created is written in OCaml: https://github.com/ygrek/mldonkey I'm still surprised it can do so many things so well, so fast.
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by fer 11mo ago
Previous/related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847613
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by fer 11mo ago
Literally the volatile keyword in Java is to make the Java compiler aware in order to insert memory barriers. That only guarantees consistent reads or writes, but it doesn't make it thread safe (i.e. write after read), that's what
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by fer 11mo ago
> I'd love to see the internal details on that COE. You'd be unpleasantly surprised, on that point the COE points to the public write-up for details.
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by fer 1y ago
I really, really want to use Helix but I want to share bindings with VSCode/IntelliJ, and all the plugins that promise them have lots quirks, exceptions and various gaps. I know it's never gonna be 100%, but sometimes simple stuff
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by fer 1y ago
You can buy passes with a regular credit card
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by fer 1y ago
Off topic, thread moved to /bant/ >>420694069

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