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by harikb 1y ago
Wow! I just discovered option-click in Finder -- unrelated to sqlite :o . Thank you! thank you!
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by harikb 1y ago
Sorry, I would word it differently. 99.9% software should be decently performant. Yes, don't need 'fancy assembly micro optimization'. That said, today some large portion of software is written by folks who absolutely doesn&#
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by harikb 1y ago
What is surprising to me is how low res the public street camera are. Combine that with the glare of car headlights ... :(
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by harikb 1y ago
I think GP is talking about Claude Code Max 100 & 200 plans. They are very reasonable compared to anything else that has per-use token usage. I am on Max and I can work 5 hrs+ a day easily. It does fall back to Sonnet pretty fast, but I
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by harikb 1y ago
hmm... I am drawing a parallel between your theory on 'controlled opposition' from the linked thread from 2023, to the current M vs T fight. Plausible...
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by harikb 1y ago
They don't have to be as good as the best film production team - they just need to be better than the average/B-grade ones to gain adoption. With the media & entertainment hungry world which is about to get worse with the unem
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by harikb 1y ago
You are underestimating the risk to people who protest and how bad it needs to get before people are pushed to it. Distribution is somewhat like this... Say there are 10,000 people affected by this 5,000 probably have skills to pivot to som
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by harikb 2y ago
I think GP remark was just a funny take on 'think of the children!' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
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by harikb 2y ago
It may be possible for you (I am assuming you are > 20, mature adult). But the context is around teens in the prime of their learning. It is too hard to keep ChatGPT/Claude away from them. Social media is too addictive. Those TikTok
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by harikb 2y ago
They will just ask their AI agent to decrypt it (with the password of course). No need of ability to run gpg.
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by harikb 2y ago
“1Password anywhere” (single html file password manager) stopped working a while ago. May be 6 years back. Sure you can install a new client and use a stored folder - but compatibility lasting to your grandchildren’s time / 50 year etc
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by harikb 2y ago
+1. It is also possible for tech savvy people to fall for regular scams (automated text in the middle of the night from your bank etc..). It is 2025 - still banks can't do everything through their apps. To Fintech: Stop SMS based OTP ,
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by harikb 2y ago
"We use sampling and summarization to reduce the volume of data we store and process, ensuring we retain the most valuable insights without overwhelming our systems." is it 1/1000,000.
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by harikb 2y ago
Here is an alternate possibility 1. They introduced a checkbox for "users to confirm that they are not affiliated with WP Engine" 2. A court ordered Automattic to reverse course 3. Developer thought it was easy to quickly just cha
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by harikb 2y ago
I think the key value of Google sheets link is that you can do rest of your aggregation/data fixes on Google sheets. And data is in your control I made an app for a meetup/reunion, but 10 user limit meant everyone had to given a s
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by harikb 2y ago
Well... Not that being connected to the world has helped others... > According to Google Trends, searches for "Did Joe Biden drop out" started spiking around 6 a.m. on election day and continued to rise over the course of the d
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by harikb 2y ago
:) but we take it that you are not disagreeing on the first part of their claim? That said, I have bought many cheap Windows PCs/Laptop in my lifetime and I have only ever upgraded them once and they also don't last as long. Som
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by harikb 2y ago
The refund policy page is hilarious [1] What are they selling that requires return shipping? 1. https://okbookmarks.com/refunds
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by harikb 2y ago
It was called Palm Pilot - the one pictured as the very first image in Wikipedia [1]. It still works, except for some bleeding/damage on a portion of the e-Ink screen. I probably need to find the appropriate Linux based tools to load t
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by harikb 2y ago
I have the Original PalmPilot, hardware upgraded to 3.0, as part of a beta program. I also have a few Palm 3's. Is there a compiled PDB available?
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by harikb 2y ago
:)
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by harikb 2y ago
I don't get what you are trying to say though. If companies can use 'a mile long paper trail', why can't the engineer do the same?. If it turns out they were forced to do X over their own objections (people do have mortg
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by harikb 3y ago
Is the choice of lzma to demonstrate isolation intentional or was it just a coincidence considering last week's tech news...[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
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by harikb 3y ago
Looking forward to this. My guess though will be that only methods that require a "subscription" will see the light of day. As in, things that require repeated applications, life long medication etc.
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by harikb 3y ago
I was very confused initially because you talked about 'seed' as well as a garden. Do you mean something like this? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method
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Ask HN: PG&E site does not function with ad-blockers
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by harikb 3y ago
Just for the record, OP is talking about the "obfuscation" tool and not about the "decompiler".
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by harikb 3y ago
One of the folks behind this effort, Filippo ( https://filippo.io/ ) is now, as he calls it, a full time professional open source maintainer https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer/ > That means
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by harikb 3y ago
I have used adventofcode with my kids, but beyond day 5 or 10 is very hard to explain. I wish there was a simpler version of adventofcode targeted towards kids.
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by harikb 3y ago
Do you know of any performant relational-db layer on top of FoundationDB? It seems there usecase would need at least simple join, which raw FoundationDB lacks.

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