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by frereubu 7mo ago
There's a great podcast about Adam Smith here, debunking some of those oversimplifications: https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-...
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by frereubu 7mo ago
When working at the BBC in the late 90s, the ops team would start growling at you if a site's home page was over 70kb...
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by frereubu 7mo ago
Because we could cook the planet in a matter of decades or centuries rather than waiting ~5 billion years for the sun to explode, which would give us plenty of time to figure out how to explore space sustainably rather than some kind of del
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by frereubu 7mo ago
The thing that really worries me about these kinds of beliefs in some kind of a god or gods is that they can provide a get-out clause for existential risks to humanity. If this physical universe is just one manifestation of existence, then
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by frereubu 7mo ago
I presume the database exists, but some of the details don't add up. IDMerit say "IDMERIT’s systems and security infrastructure have never been compromised", "there has never been a data breach or exfiltration from [our
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by frereubu 7mo ago
From TFA: "Fun fact: As part of our research preview, the CodeWall research agent autonomously suggested McKinsey as a target citing their public responsible diclosure policy (to keep within guardrails) and recent updates to their Lill
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Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple's epic hits – and misses(theguardian.com)
3 points by frereubu 7mo ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 8mo ago
I hadn't really noticed anything like this until you pointed it out. My main use for Kagi is to pin Wikipedia results... I just tried searching for "nanoclaw" on Kagi (I'm in the UK so results biased towards there) and g
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by frereubu 8mo ago
Now imagine an iPhone Mini Air. I'd be all over that, camera compromises or not.
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by frereubu 8mo ago
My 13 mini on iOS 26 shows 83% maximum capacity but makes it through the day with light-ish use (Spotify (although generally offline playlists because of lossless audio) NYT games, email, messaging, browsing, Instapaper). I do have lots of
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by frereubu 8mo ago
The thing I've come to like about FaceID on my 13 mini is that I can require it for certain apps to open that don't require it - e.g. messaging as opposed to banking which generally require some kind of auth by default - which is
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by frereubu 8mo ago
On 5G, it depends. There are still plenty of people around the world who don't have unlimited data plans.
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by frereubu 8mo ago
https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo#ssh
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Police arresting 1k paedophile suspects a month across UK(theguardian.com)
8 points by frereubu 8mo ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 9mo ago
How many people do you think see those tweets, how many minds do you think you have changed, and at what mental cost to yourself?
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by frereubu 9mo ago
When my family moved to Somerset from London in the 1970s our elderly next-door neighbour, after hearing we'd moved from London, said "I went to Bristol [25 miles away] once. Didn't like it much." Apart from that he&#x27
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by frereubu 9mo ago
This just seems to link to the front page of the macOS Tahoe user guide. I guess this information might be in there somewhere, but...
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Robert Moreno and the use of ChatGPT that defined his time at Sochi(beinsports.com)
2 points by frereubu 9mo ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 9mo ago
The article says nothing about English language skills. It says: 'University officials have described the unwritten policy as a prudent response to the current uncertainty facing Chinese and other foreign students when they apply for v
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by frereubu 9mo ago
To repurpose Winston Churchill's quote on democracy, "Wikipedia is the worst form of encyclopaedia, apart for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
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by frereubu 9mo ago
While studying a neuroscience-adjacent MSc at UCL in London during the mid-2010s, senior academics would regularly recommend Wikipedia as an excellent primer for neuroanatomy. They wouldn't do it for people on actual neuroscience cours
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by frereubu 9mo ago
I needed a good laugh today and "reading about embezzlement charges for Sesame Street characters" gave me it, so: thanks!
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Louis Gerstner, man credited with turning around IBM, dies aged 83(theguardian.com)
5 points by frereubu 10mo ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 10mo ago
For those saying that news is news because it's uncommon, that's kinda true, but the issue is that the availability heuristic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic - means that lots of people
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by frereubu 10mo ago
Site is down for me. Archive link: https://archive.is/jf3HW
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by frereubu 10mo ago
I love this, thank you for a good belly laugh.
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by frereubu 10mo ago
"now that we ourselves have become a resource to extract" I take your general point, but I'm interested in what you mean by "we" here - the general population or HN readers? People have been a resource to extract fr
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by frereubu 11mo ago
To take the rbg metaphor further, it should really be a "gamut" rather than a "spectrum".
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Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career(theguardian.com)
13 points by frereubu 11mo ago|5 comments
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Iberia tells customers it was hit by a major security breach(techradar.com)
3 points by frereubu 11mo ago|0 comments

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