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by jmb99 2y ago
If the only weapon a country has is nukes, would you attack them, knowing that their only possible (and pretty much guaranteed) retaliation is nukes?
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by jmb99 2y ago
An HSM bypass (extracting keys, performing unauthenticated crypto ops) on any recent iOS device is worth 10s of millions, easily. Especially if combined with a one-click/no click. In that sense, it’s auditable, because it’s one of the
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by jmb99 2y ago
How would an alt service help this situation? You’d just end up with backdoored services advertising E2EE, no? Apple’s move here is definitely the right one, introduce as much friction as possible to hopefully get the user pissed off at the
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by jmb99 2y ago
I use docker a few times a week and didn’t see that. Nor would I have seen this if I hadn’t opened HN today. Not exactly great notice.
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by jmb99 2y ago
It supports cookies, so generally yes. Anti-bot measures may block it, so you may need to get creative.
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by jmb99 2y ago
So the moral here is, only use alternative app stores that are run by companies larger than Amazon?
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by jmb99 2y ago
> As you say, Valve does not directly promote gambling products. Counter strike cases are a gambling product. They cost money to buy, they cost money to open, and they reward with an item worth real money. This is indisputable, and argui
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by jmb99 2y ago
I don’t believe you get any drops without Prime, period. But even if you only get lootboxes, they also have value and can be sold on the marketplace (which is what I do with all of mine).
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by jmb99 2y ago
The solution is fairly straightforward. The list of gambling and item-selling (for real money) sites is finite and known. Valve could either stop allowing their bots to trade items, or (even more usefully) ban and burn any items that pass t
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by jmb99 2y ago
> and (to an increasingly smaller extent) automotive maintenance I disagree, with the cost of maintenance these days. The cheapest shops in my area (large city, Canada) charge $110/h, reputable (and/or German) charge $125-$150&
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by jmb99 2y ago
In my experience in every city (literally) in Ontario and lots of south western Quebec, Apple Maps is the clear winner. There are some areas where google is better, but overall Apple wins on navigation. I generally use google for business s
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by jmb99 2y ago
You should buy more reliable vehicles, then, if you care about maintenance costs. Ignoring tires, my maintenance budget for my daily is about $200/year, and including them, averages ~$300/year. With above average mileage per year.
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by jmb99 2y ago
> I can tell you don’t own a BEV. I don’t - my daily cost $1400USD, I don’t think there’s an EV on the planet that will work out cheaper before its batteries fail. Ignoring that I’d prefer one that could tow at least 5k lbs (which I make
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by jmb99 2y ago
> BEVs are a superior technology While BEVs have a lot of benefits, they are still objectively inferior to ICE vehicles. They’re (in most cases substantially) more expensive, less energy dense by mass and volume, and require planning for
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by jmb99 2y ago
I’m not sure how you could have worse grip when braking (caused by lower friction) while simultaneously increase tire wear (caused by higher friction), unless I’m misunderstanding something.
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by jmb99 2y ago
It’s more expensive, but Zen4 Threadripper Pro is probably the way to go on that front. 8 memory channels, with DIMMs available up to DDR5-7200 for 8x32GB (256GB), or DDR5-6800 for 8x48GB (384GB). It’ll set you back ~$3k for the RAM and ~$6
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by jmb99 2y ago
All of my search results are search results, because of ad blockers. Now, many of my search results suck due to SEO and whatnot, but that’s a different story.
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by jmb99 2y ago
> I hate how harshly CS punishes acting rashly, it really encourages you to hold angles and play methodically/strategically It does, but at the same time it doesn’t. If you spend as much time practicing rushing/+w as you do pla
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by jmb99 2y ago
Hilarious that there’s a separate sub-$1000 line item for books and supplies. If it’s that expensive, you can’t just throw in some pens and pencils with the tuition?
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by jmb99 2y ago
What makes (plain-text) TextEdit insufficient?
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by jmb99 2y ago
> But given that no-one seems to seriously dispute that he did try to pay to have the guy killed, It’s my understanding in the US that you are innocent until proven guilty, right? Therefore, he is indeed innocent of those crimes, since h
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by jmb99 2y ago
> Canada didn't have Prohibition to the extent that the US did, which in turn led to the rise and financing of organized crime. All the rest of it fell out of that: Organized crime was violent and ruthless, so people started demandi
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by jmb99 2y ago
Exactly. He’s a convicted felon, and so what? It doesn’t matter. What’s an investigation into a meme coin going to do, other than cost taxpayer money and give Trump the chance to say more sound bites?
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by jmb99 2y ago
Windows 11 is quite bad, but so is 10 (just to a lesser extent), and 8/8.1. It’s really been a downward trend since 7. macOS isn’t great these days either, it’s been downhill since somewhere around 10.13 I’d say. The last truly great r
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by jmb99 2y ago
In some cases, power efficiency. Modern software is quite bloated in general, so a newer CPU/GPU on a more efficient architecture could actually have an effect on power bills in some parts of the world - especially over a 10+ year life
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by jmb99 2y ago
The web app versions are slower/laggier, have fewer features, and require an internet connection. They’re not quite as performant as google docs, but in some cases have more features (while missing features in other cases). The UI&#x2F
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by jmb99 2y ago
> If you really believe this, then sue your school district. It’s very funny (in a depressing way) reading this sentence as a non-American.
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by jmb99 2y ago
At least where I’m from, the majority of homeschooled children are in conservative Christian (or Mormon) families, with a minority (but still notable) in super-left-wing hippy families. Very, very few in non-extreme families.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Pretty much any non-carbureted car should do that. All fuel injected cars have some mechanism for controlling idle, which involves some kind of valve bypassing the throttle (for mechanical throttle linkages) or just directly actuating the t
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by jmb99 2y ago
> ffmpeg has always felt like a gui application crammed into tui format. It’s one of the only tools where I reach for a GUI equivalent (Handbrake) by default, unless I’m doing batch processing. There are a few pure ffmpeg GUIs out there

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