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   by golem14 10mo ago

   Eh ... I question that 5% ranking is google's only contribution, even if it was important. Everyone stood on the shoulders of file systems and databases, ethernet (and firewalls and netscreens, ...) Well, maybe a few stood on the shoul
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   I'm sure you can find the whole sketch on Youtube. I can only recommend watching it, unless you are allergic to swearwords - there are lots of those. Look for [George Carlin Germs]. But I guess the audience on HN generally knows how to
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   I don't think that's a good argument. If I went this route, I would have to forgo Monty Python, Key & Peele, Mitchell and Webb, and god knows who else. There are always people believing this hyperbole, that's why it&#x27
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   Oh, it gets a lot better, I just don't want to quote the entire thing. It's very worthwhile to watch this skit in its entirety. It's the first piece I ever read/saw of G.C., it made a lasting impression...
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   Is there actually a whitelist of sites where it's OK/necessary to enable JS ? I'd love to use that (although, I don't know how to load that list into safari or chrome.)
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   To quote George Carlin (careful, swearwords ahead): When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that t
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   I didn't believe Brexit would happen either, until it did.
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   And yet, here you are, posting ... BTW, I don't explicitly disagree with what you're saying, but it would be good to look at actual data instead of anecdata to know for sure, and the people who have the data are not telling ...
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   by golem14 10mo ago

   What does that matter for learning how operating systems work? But even then, SAYING that this is an how-to-build-an-OS project similar to those others, but focused on Rust, would be quite helpful.
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    I wish instead of discussing typos, folks her who surely know better (or author) could shed light on how this project compares to the many other existing projects, like https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial , http
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    Except, wiretapping was considered very illegal in the USA.
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    For high volume services, you can still log a sample of healthy requests, e.g., trace_id mod 100 == 0. That keeps log growth under control. The higher the volume, the smaller percentage you can use.
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    It will be interesting to read the actual study when it comes out. Interesting questions: * What is the baseline of consumption / THC level? * what was the alcohol level in decesased drivers ? (e..g how many people only had alcohol, h
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    Am I the only one that doesn't find skunk smell not so horrid as it's generally made out to be? It's very strong, yes, but between skunk and asa foetida, it would be hard to choose ;)
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    Mango, especially dried, smells and tastes of terpenes sometimes. I sometimes question why I like Mango ;)
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    Come on, there are exceptionally stupid people almost everywhere. No need for ad hominem.
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    I wonder if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is actually a good media diet. I mean, I wonder if I will be OK just reading this (and maybe HN) and not suffer irreparable harm :)
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    I stand corrected.
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    I'm far from being versed in this, but when I read the wikipedia article, it's about whether CONGRESS can dismiss someone without approval of the president, not the other way around. It also cites https://en.wikipedia.o
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    That's not what they are thinking. They are thinking: "We want to capture the dev and make them use our model – since it is easier to use it in our tab, it can afford to be inferior. This way we get lots of tasty, tasty user data.
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    I would really like to have a browser extension to run articles through a "Simple English" filter as proposed by Rudolf Flesch a long time ago. LLMs seem pretty useful as a first draft. As is, I find these kind of high-falutin, pr
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    Yeah, but if use proton for everything else and signal only for my secret world domination plans, traffic analysis will be so much easier…
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    I found an interesting set of charts + explanation for China: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1ijcocq/chine... It would really be great to understand (rather than me guessing) China's
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    by golem14 10mo ago

    Feels exactly the same as the "yes, and" crowd.
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    by golem14 11mo ago

    Doesn’t this leak info when clicking on a link in say gmail opening that link in another profile? Most URL’s have pretty long extra strings in them that I assume are just cookie-equivalent?
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    by golem14 11mo ago

    Carl Sagan has entered the chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-jtyhAVTc&t=450s
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    by golem14 11mo ago

    Oh my god, that list lacks DATAFlex!
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    by golem14 11mo ago

    BTW, I really would like to have a way to partially clear cookies – i.e., I don't want to be signed out of gmail, and maybe not out of the Mechanic's Bank of Alaska or Amazon or Netflix, but most other things could go. I don'
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    by golem14 11mo ago

    for those, llms are a godsend
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    by golem14 11mo ago

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mikesimoncasey_our-team-at-re... ? How much is due to long overdue infrastructure upgrades and greed by providers, vs the cost of energy? Also, consumer prices _have_ risen (mine included)