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by khiqxj 3y ago
the web is a pile of horse shit why is this even news. the best part is how all the SJW apple tesla cloud smart tech yuppies in tech dont care about how 99% of the world who cant afford to buy a new machine every year have an experience on
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by khiqxj 3y ago
Here's what needs to happen: The tech industry is not ready for pervasive internet enabled devices that have microphones, cameras, or control heavy machinery. It all needs to be taken out. Aside from the threat to human life (due to ma
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by khiqxj 3y ago
you cant sue someone for writing down what error messages that product can produce. you cant sue someone for reverse engineering their product (it has to have been done for an actual purpose like cracking or copying). you also cant sue some
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by khiqxj 3y ago
1. stop putting software in things 2. especially dont put webshit in things 3. especially dont put smartphone shit in things really, i'm not trying to sound rude, theres no other way to put it, you deserve it. its unfortunate that peo
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by khiqxj 3y ago
> I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. it's still right here every day when Firefox says "gah this tab crashed".
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by khiqxj 3y ago
why are these new languages always built to solve problems in windows or unix or whatever and the main problem in those os are that there are 21 languages and thats before you even start talking about build systems, config files, and query
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by khiqxj 4y ago
there absolutely never was a "line of death". one of the major problems with web and OS isolation has always been that they could never make up their mind where to draw the line. i never even knew they have nomenclature for this u
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by khiqxj 4y ago
no, i never used such a product. > Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. i have never had this problem because i implemented it myself in a few hours of work
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by khiqxj 4y ago
> Generally speaking, I'm happy to pay a subscription because this way I get a steady stream of all the updates, and it's much more likely the company has a sustainable business model. software was (marginally) better before th
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by khiqxj 4y ago
this could be solved by not requiring collection of citizens' private info at gunpoint. but im sure all the idiots who reacted to snowden by building half working "solutions" with "please donate" buttons will not ge
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by khiqxj 4y ago
before HN, i just used to post something and google would magically index it and a ton of people would pour in suddenly one day.
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by khiqxj 4y ago
the field of engineering exists so that these types of problems are known by nature of what subfield you are working in so that you can use your expertise at the time of design to avoid such problems. COTS (TM) isnt a scapegoat either. dont
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by khiqxj 4y ago
literally this. user agents are an obsolete feature (i considered it obsolete around 10-15 years ago) and whenever a new protocol includes it you already know its made by backseat networking "engineers". all user agents do is brea
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by khiqxj 4y ago
> single letter variables i hate when people put descriptive names on variables that dont need it. when im tired i end up reading the name over and over as if it has meaning (it doesnt), and subconsciously ponder the meaning for up to a
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by khiqxj 4y ago
you get enough copper (to meet national recommendations) just by eating anything, no need to seek it out. what i want to know is how to correctly interpret all these studies that claim some food substantially increases health outlooks. whil
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by khiqxj 4y ago
well chocolate is high in calories and much more so when you buy a product that adds a bunch of sugar. this is relevant because people who eat a lot of chocolate have bad health but still probably dont have any lead problems aside from subt
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by khiqxj 4y ago
if you take the product they tested with the highest lead concentration (2.4µg per serving), and ate 10 servings, you would have 1/20th of the harmful concentration of lead, according to my calculations: https://news.ycombin
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by khiqxj 4y ago
initially this article read as a scam (lobbying corpo "non profit" that claims to care about health and enviro but just creates a worse net effect by wasting resources) and a bit of research concludes: CDC says [1]: > Until 201
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by khiqxj 4y ago
now i will never know what purpose this software served
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by khiqxj 4y ago
i think the top e-sports games are terrible: cs (the recoil system is a literally a hack), fortnite (F2p crap[1] and its not really a real game, you can feel the OOP system while you're playing as it takes several round trips for any a
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by khiqxj 4y ago
8chan like every forum ever has dumb moderators who dont know how to do their job / over extend their hand (and the moderation position of web forums seems to attract people with certain mental disorders that make them seek out perceiv
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by khiqxj 4y ago
i cant see your site. the mirror/proxy is useful and doing its job. Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to www.saashub.com. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site. Error detai
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by khiqxj 4y ago
true
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Tell HN: Stop Making AI “Moral”
1 points by khiqxj 4y ago|3 comments
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by khiqxj 4y ago
so just change the definition of who needs to be taxed what to whatever you want in your country. at the end of the day, the company has the option to actually (not just for show) move wherever to another country if it doesn't like you
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by khiqxj 4y ago
cool, i remember spending hours trying to understand the section in the bash manpage about profile and login shells, and seeing if it has security implications and also why just the shell behaves bezerk when deciding what bashrc or whatever
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by khiqxj 4y ago
the mode of thinking certainly hasnt changed since hardware improved, however
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by khiqxj 4y ago
theres no difference. stack overflow has never been better than AI generated code. every answer is just "get the camera like this bro: ((Camera)GetFactoryProvider().CreateThing().GetGlobalThingContext("somestring"))".
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by khiqxj 4y ago
how would police investigate random people for hypothetical crimes they need to make up to justify their job and shoot them when they pull out their wallet if they werent overfunded?
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by khiqxj 4y ago
> somoene in some country im not part of has money and it isnt taxed according to how my country says it should be taxed > therefore we need global tax minimum agreements how does this follow? this isnt reddit or 4chan; your particula

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