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by jameshart 5mo ago
Pack it up folks, nubinetwork has exposed the scam that is the guitar tuner industry. You don’t need a guitar tuner if you have ears; all the guitar techs and musicians who use them have bought into a lie. And obviously since guitar tuners
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by jameshart 5mo ago
HTML was invented for physicists to be able to write papers. It's not something that's beyond anyone without frontend dev experience. CSS, on the other hand...
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If you’re interested in how the inner mechanics of an Underwood typewriter work, Animagraff’s cutaway 3D animations are an excellent exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKpIwi1UUIk All of Jacob O’Neal’s videos in t
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Crafting outbound links with your own additions and handing them out to visitors to your site is similar to the practice of writing someone’s phone number on the door of a bathroom cubicle with ‘for a good time call:’ written above it. You’
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Use #fragment identifiers then
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Publishing a tip jar link is going to be possible no matter how you distribute. The desire to use itch is about wanting to sell.
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by jameshart 5mo ago
There’s nothing ruder in hypertext etiquette than giving someone a link to navigate to someone else’s HTTP server, where you have manipulated that URL in some way unsanctioned by the server you are sending them to. You can’t just send arbit
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Making it take some pain for developers is precisely what makes it valuable. If you could automate signing up for a developer account and didn’t have to put up some cash it would lose all value as a trust signal.
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Maybe the PDFs were malware?
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Okay, but then the argument that Apple is charging them to certify their software and that is excluding hobbyists falls away doesn’t it? Now you’re not a hobbyist.
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Useful context: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-avail...
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> Your device carries these typefaces, of the seventeen commonly probed by fingerprinting checks. The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique The set of fonts available in stock iOS is hardly going to be unique now
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Some liability, sure. Civil, not criminal, though, right? But the post I was responding to said it should be a crime to have unsecured systems. That is equivalent to saying it should be a crime to leave your door unlocked.
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to defend Canvas, so much as give general advice that ‘I could build this in a weekend’ is rarely a wise claim. The specific ways in which Canvas could not be built in a weekend do not need to be the ones I identified
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by jameshart 5mo ago
I think states should be able to do better than a ‘great firewall’ to defend their domestic net infrastructure from malicious foreign actors. But I do think it should be much more states’ responsibility to make their domestic network safe f
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by jameshart 5mo ago
No no, this quarter we’re trying to shift from capex to opex. Try to keep up.
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Genuine kubernetes scaling strategy: add a do-nothing container that runs with a lower priority than your real workloads, that requests half a machine’s worth of mcpu. When you deploy a new container, and all your nodes are fully allocated,
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by jameshart 5mo ago
There are two kinds of tech company. Companies which have done a layoff And companies which haven’t done a layoff yet.
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by jameshart 5mo ago
On the contrary. My analogy would be: of course buildings have to be built to withstand gravity. That’s a natural part of the world that cannot be eliminated. Buildings are built to stand up to natural forces. But not to, for example, the t
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by jameshart 5mo ago
We do not generally hold victims of crimes accountable for failing to defend themselves adequately. If someone threatens you with a knife and gets you to hand over your wallet, your bank doesn’t get to say ‘you should have hired better secu
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by jameshart 5mo ago
It is a very common error to look at a specialist piece of software, superficially consider the basic data structure it appears to have and think ‘seems simple enough. Basic CRUD app.’ But it’s rarely the case in practice. In a sibling comm
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by jameshart 5mo ago
I’m sorry… is your view here that you can’t believe it is legal for a school to purchase software or pay someone to host software for them ? You are aware that you are posting on Hacker News, a forum for people who make their living sel
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by jameshart 5mo ago
Biologists should be more qualified than most to classify and tag email specimens.
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by jameshart 6mo ago
This analogy seems to be portraying 'ransomware hackers' as an unstoppable force of nature akin to gravity . I'm not sure that's a fair analogy.
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by jameshart 6mo ago
Criminal law isn't about making things alright for the victim. That's what insurance is for. Even if you leave your door unlocked, if someone walks in and steals your stuff, it's a crime. The state has an interest in prosec
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by jameshart 6mo ago
You should probably read the whole article. Those sentences are dripping with irony that is entirely wrung out of them when they are quoted here.
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I suspect character counting - counting small numbers in general in fact - is something that multimodal models will gradually learn through their visual capabilities. We have generative systems that are capable of generating an image of the
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by jameshart 6mo ago
I loved the example where he requested ‘studio lighting’ and it put a bunch of studio lights in the picture.
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Typical European loyalty programs offer spend-based ‘points’ accumulation which can be spent as a discount later. Additional offers on top of that like ‘bonus points on product X’ or personalized offers based on purchase history add to the
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by jameshart 6mo ago
There's also no distance haze effect; there's a single point source of light and no atmospheric scattering illuminating the shadows. Plus it's basically a single uniform gray texture with no variation other than the height. I

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