flumpcakes

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by flumpcakes 7mo ago
Care to expand further?
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by flumpcakes 7mo ago
In 25 years I have never seen anyone use Microsoft Access in earnest. For the overwhelming majority of users I do not think this is an issue. The last time I used it was when studying for CLAiT Plus.
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by flumpcakes 7mo ago
The vast majority of office use at my work is in the browsers because the files are stored in Sharepoint. It seems to work well enough for basic needs (no macros and fairly simple formulas in excel etc.) I have a non-technical friend in fin
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by flumpcakes 7mo ago
How far do you go, how do you use the private key to sign something if you can't keep it anywhere?
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
Not at all. It's a depressing read because the US Government is doing such things that would have been considered insane before 2016.
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
Are you saying intelligence is inherently unsafe? That seems like a pretty wild conclusion and I can't see any logical way to jump to your opinions.
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
This is such a depressing read. What is becoming of the USA? Let's hope sanity prevails and the next election cycle can bring in some competent non-grievance based leadership.
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
Imagine receiving this message and the author couldn't even be bothered to capitalise letters properly. How insulting. It's like being fired by a five year old child.
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
I suspect I am one of those 1bn users by their metric. I have an account, and I sometimes query it. I also query Claude and Gemini. I have zero loyalty, if I run out of tokens on one, I will just pick up the conversation on another provider
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
The woman in the pink smock-like clothing: In the video there are Chinese characters on the clothing above the front pocket area. In a picture of her later on in the news article the Chinese writing is gone. Has it been photoshopped out for
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
I am about to talk about "vibes" and "feelings" so please take this with a grain of salt: Does anyone else get the impression that they feel like the nefarious surveillance state is now real and definitely not for their
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
What does the (I assume) acronym KYC mean?
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
Statistically, yes.
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
I think that must be fashion dependent though? I can think of plenty of women's clothes that are definitely not marketed for hourglass physiques.
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
I'm a big fan of passkeys, but they are currently harder to manage/reason about than passwords (even autogenerated ones stored in a password manager). My web browser wants to own the passkeys, my OS wants to own the passkeys, I ha
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
It's news to me that the UK/Europe has killed millions of people. I think you mean Russia has killed hundreds of thousands and wounded millions. I can only assume you are talking about Ukrainians in some conspiratorial way; I thin
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
This fits the pattern of sabotage all across Europe. The obvious candidate is Russia who are using hybrid warfare against Europe/UK for a long time. Why does this post have so many... strange comments, mostly from new accounts? More hy
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
You can point the telescope away from the wind turbines, you can't point your telescope away from the night sky?
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
> For 1. it seems to breakdown if we look more broadly at how LLMs are used. e.g. as a coding agent. We're basically starting to treat LLMs as a higher level framework now. We don't hold vendors of programming languages or fram
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
This must be the best example of why China will overtake the US as the world's number 1 super power before 2050. I would link you to a white house press briefing from Biden https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
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by flumpcakes 8mo ago
How many laws has the Trump administration flat out ignored? You're cheerleading the introduction of a lawless society. Perhaps you should reconsider your frame of reference.
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
Ditto. It seems like the graduate wage in the US is 2x my senior salary in the UK, which sounds very similar to yours. It seems massively inflated compared to other US jobs. Tech jobs in the UK seem to be more inline with other sectors.
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
What is the story behind that? I would have thought GOG would be neutral at worst about Linux as a platform considering their anti-DRM pitch.
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
I can't believe there are so many boot licking fascist-lovers on hacker news. ICE are executing Americans on the streets and a bunch of people here are defending that. The US is cooked.
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
How is it 'resisting' when you have been chemically blinded and being beaten with metal objects? This idea of people "resisting" when they are being assaulted to death is ridiculous. If I start beating your face in with
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
> to rely so heavily on video evidence alone is simply flawed. Don't trust your eyes. That is the final and most essential command.
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
That's not how addiction works. If you could "just stop" then it isn't really an addiction.
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
An American VA Hospital ICU Nurse was disarmed and executed. Which crime is it OK to be chemically and physically assaulted before being disarmed and shot dead?
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
This Prism video was not just typesetting. If OpenAI released tools that just helped you typeset or create diagrams from written text, that would be fine. But it's not, it's writing papers for you. Scientists/publishers reall
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by flumpcakes 9mo ago
LaTeX made writing Em dashes very easy. To the point that I would use them all the times in my academic writing. It's a shame that perfectly good typography is now a sign of slop/fraud.

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