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by integralid 7mo ago
As a technical person, who only ever used Android, I have no idea how files really work on my phone. I even used adb a few times but still. From my PoV there are no "files", just photos, videos, screenshots, downloads, application
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by integralid 7mo ago
>The cost of writing code has fallen 100x in the past 3 years Maybe, but the cost of actually shipping a product has fallen by maybe 10%. I don't see dozens of production ready mainstream OSes and web browsers popping up because LLM
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by integralid 8mo ago
>Please provide your name exactly as it is in your government documents. >This is extremely important. Failure to comply will lead to termination of your service with no refund, criminal prosecution, our CEO calling you in tears and a
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by integralid 8mo ago
>top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses will be terminated. No exceptions. Adapt or die This is unrealistic populism. The type that gets upvoted on HN, apparently. It's not possib
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by integralid 8mo ago
No need to look for malicious intentions, this is just a feature that costs money so it's very low (or zero) priority for profit driven organisations. I wonder if finding people responsible and spamming then with their own service emai
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by integralid 8mo ago
>But writing and reading are asymmetrical and a more expressive language used well can expose the code patterns and algorithms in a way that is easier for multiple maintainers to read and comprehend. It's exactly the opposite. Writi
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by integralid 8mo ago
Definitely, being unpaid LLM trainer for big corporations while nobody actually reads your work is not very encouraging. I wonder what the future will bring.
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by integralid 8mo ago
Reed-Solomon and Shamir secret sharing are quite similar (even though in practice they're used for very different things). "Do not roll your own crypto" though.
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by integralid 8mo ago
You also probably don't use heroin. Everyone knows it's a bad idea and yet for some reason we have very severe punishments for people that distribute it. Why? Because addictive things are addictive, and addicted people suffer, and
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by integralid 8mo ago
The idea of banning meta or Google is indeed not serious. What's realistic is forcing them to behave by issuing fines that make such behavior prohibitively expensive. Admittedly there's nobody doing that in Europe seriously yet, b
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by integralid 9mo ago
I'll bite (I'm not German but I'm close culturally): * Old Androids are not repairable because they're shit, not because a megacorp works hard to make repair impossible * Old Androids may be hacked by a pegasus-like soft
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by integralid 9mo ago
> i can‘t think of a single person who‘d stop paying for streaming services (music) in favour of going back to illegally download or (or even legally purchase) songs I'd love to self host my music, but curating my collection is a lo
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by integralid 9mo ago
Yes, HN is my safe space. I have enough politics in my daily life, I don't need it when I'm with phone in my bed trying to wind down. And which politics? American internal politics are foreign and distant to me. How much do you ca
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by integralid 9mo ago
>one of your non-political core contributors goes by @zyklon1488 on twitter I think this is exactly what author meant? This is just a tool, private life or political opinions of contributors are not relevant, as long as they don't t
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by integralid 9mo ago
>The spirit is good, but that software has cost good money to produce, and universities are dependent on external revenue Obviously, but most of university research - at least in Europe - is funded by public money. The idea is that resea
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by integralid 9mo ago
North Korea has its own Linux. Google has its own Linux. There are Linux distributions maintained by a single person. Belgium will do fine.
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by integralid 9mo ago
The same way you discover official clearnet domain names, i.e. by using a search engine, getting url from a friend, etc.
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by integralid 9mo ago
But you can share torrent links via onion hidden service easily.
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by integralid 9mo ago
Isn't "alcoholic" defined as a person who "struggles with addiction" to alcohol? I think that makes sense.
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by integralid 9mo ago
2011 was 15 years ago. I was not even legally adult back then. And even if I was old enough back then, people are allowed to change their opinions in 15 years.
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by integralid 9mo ago
The set of people that left their country is not random, and certainly statistically biased.
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by integralid 9mo ago
>Things could not be worse than they have been. Things can always get worse. The GP didn't say changing Maduro to other president is bad, but that "periods of violent transition" can have dire consequences for the regular
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by integralid 9mo ago
>the US in its current form is heading towards long drawn out collapse like the Roman empire, The Roman empire collapsed for more than 250 years. Longer than US exists. I think it's too early to compare those two.
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by integralid 9mo ago
Calling company strategy an "asshole move" is anthropomorphizing a lawnmower.
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by integralid 9mo ago
>That is interesting to see the common fallacy of what we think users want versus what they really want. Or a fallacy of what users think they want versus what they really want. Non-cryptographers shouldn't use cryptographic primiti
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by integralid 9mo ago
>What do you think it optimizes other than individual fitness? Chance to pass genes forward. This is only equivalent to individual fitness for very solitary species and humans aren't. As an extreme example, take soldier termites - t
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by integralid 9mo ago
That's not a problem with strncpy, right? Fixed width records are a thing of the past, and even then it was only used for on-disk storage.
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by integralid 9mo ago
I surely hope you don't really think "might makes right" and only cynically say that to express your thoughts about international politics. Between humans might does not make you right. Of course parent's comment is we
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by integralid 9mo ago
Cash is more anonymous and less trackable than Bitcoin and the society didn't collapse.
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by integralid 9mo ago
He could, but that would be a very expensive stop.

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