gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I think the big problem is that anyone can email anyone at any time for any reason; and that it's highly abused by people who think what they are doing is fine.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Years ago I read an article on Slashdot where someone did that with a flatbed scanner. (This was before everyone had a smartphone, and before digital cameras were common.) Audio quality was poor.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
American religions are supposed to stay out of politics, or they risk their tax-exempt status. For me, the disturbing event was shortly before the 2016 event when a Catholic Church in Lowell MA had posters urging people to vote no on mariju
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I'd like to point out that these systems had modems answering the phone and allowing access without any authentication. The sanitized story of the airport was used as a warning to why computers on the open internet need passwords at
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I ran a dial-up BBS in the late 1990s. One summer a few of my loyal users suddenly stopped calling. About a year later I learned that one of my users hacked an airport. At the time a few of my users would set their computers to dial random
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Just remember that it's significantly more time consuming to photograph a screen than steal large group of files. Thus, even though it's not preventable, it adds enough friction to be effective.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
If my work PC was a Mac I'd give it a try! One thing: I really like the colors of Hacker News. It feels weird to me when Hacker News is presented in other colors. If I were to use your app I'd want to change the color pallet back
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
An AI bot is not a human. People have a responsibility to protect the work they do, and that includes using discrimination against computer programs. AI bots are not human.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Which, in the decades that we've had access to the internet, we found have real and legal consequences.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I think you're trying to abdicate someone of their responsibility. The AI is not a child; it's a thing with human oversight. It did something in the real world with real consequences. So yes, the operator has responsibility! They
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Years ago, I went to a show where Hank Green sang a song about his IBS. I still chuckle at the lyric about rerouting his bowel to a spigot. That being said, I wish this was a normal page that scrolled. The click click click just breaks the
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> The fact that there's often thousands of applicants for one job is exactly what companies and recruiters want Are you sure that's true? I often read complaints here from hiring managers that have to wade through far too many
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> I see this as the #1 benefit of private school, to be honest - if a student does not succeed, the teachers do not get paid (you pull your kid from the school) Charter schools have the same benefit too, at a much lower cost to you. Pers
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> Can someone explain why we ever stopped doing that? Talk to someone educated in the 1950s and 1960s and you'll understand. There was always one or two kids in the class who were 2-3 years older than everyone else, because they fre
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I get it, I really hate when I go looking for instructions and all I can find are long videos. (Just try to Google instructions for learning CAD. All it comes up with are videos.) Grady's video are not instructions, they are entertainm
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
The article is a transcript of the video at the top of the page. Grady's videos are quite impressive to watch.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> If the problem is that we’ve painted our development environments into a corner that requires tons of boilerplate, then that is the problem. We should have been chopping the cruft away and replacing it with deterministic abstractions l
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
You get that kind of nonsense when people get an irrational attachment to a technology brand. I see that a lot with Tesla, there's the group that praises them publicly and makes outrageous claims about self-driving... But remains stran
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I think the point is that the keyboard is so broken the problems should be obvious to the people who work on the iPhone.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure. My Pixel 10 is in a pretty orange case. Furthermore, if I get sick of it, it&#x
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
Or when you pay for the digital version and it's 640x480.
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
About a year and a half ago we started writing end-of-day status reports at my job. They include what we did, and what we're going to do the next day. I started really relying on the "what I'm going to do tomorrow" to re
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
More importantly, the Beatles are one of the few groups that I can listen to the entire album and love every song, and then come back 5 years later and still love the album. There are many successful musicians who have a handful of good son
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
This quote brings to mind the movie "Secret Mall Apartment," which I watched last weekend: > Art is absolutely an expression of yourself. But your art is not you. Try not to entangle your ego with your art. If someone does not
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
> As a final note, if you make something that you like, at least one person will like it — you. If you make something you think other people will like, you run the risk of no one liking it at all. That would be sad. Love that quote!
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
One recent link on HN said that they double in quality every 7 months. (Kind of like Moore's Law.) I wouldn't expect that to go forever! I will admit that AI images aren't putting in 6 fingers, and AI code generation suddenly
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
I thought this was going to convert my spoken voice to a British accent. When I opened the link, I was quite disappointed to see that it's just text-to-speech. In the late 1990s I had text-to-speech on my run-of-the-mill 100mhz Penti
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
How does it know your schema? Do you have it connect to a real database, or did you feed it a query that constructs the schema?
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Anyone using AI to write manual SQL instead of using an ORM?
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by gwbas1c 8mo ago
And older people are very good at reading blurry text. (My grandmother always told me to "never get old." I wish I followed her advice.)

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