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by lenkite 3mo ago
Patreon lost >90% of customers from India and a few other Asian nations since they did not implement credit card 2FA nor implement support for native payment gateways. Had to drop a dozen patreon subscriptions and found several hundreds
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Sorry, but gopls doesn't even support moving files/packages and updating references properly - which is basic, tablestakes, "everyday" feature supported out of the box by Goland. I can list 2 dozen other things that Gopl
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by lenkite 3mo ago
US Supreme Court has yet to make any explicit ruling though. It The EU top court (CJEU) is currently hearing arguments. I guess we will know in 2027-28 globally.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
> Open source developer: I'm going to open source my software so the world can use it for whatever they want! No, you are describing a SPECIFIC License called the The Unlicense: https://opensource.org/license/un
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Doesn't this merely mean that states will do the job of investment ?
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by lenkite 3mo ago
ALL High-tech Infra that leverages "eminent domain" SHOULD be held in the name of the nation state for public good not by the billionaire or his corpo. All these private data centers that leverage eminent domain to grab land shoul
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Private Corpo Infra != Public Use Infra. They cannot be treated the same way.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Trump will send the US Navy to intercept all cargo ships demanding his 20%. A defensive action to protect the US economy and US national security. (and increase Trump family wealth for the beautiful job)
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by lenkite 3mo ago
A blank cheque on corpo infrastructure just means that billionaires win and everyone else loses. At that point, just paint "Peasant Slave" on your forehead if you don't have a multi-million lobbying group at the state and fed
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by lenkite 3mo ago
I am just confused on how you know that all of what has been generated is valid. When you write the code generator yourself, you have that level of confidence.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Jesus Wept. Software engineering is dying at the moment and everyone has AI Glitz in their eyes.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Thankfully, the webpages I make are so god-awful that no one can accuse of me of using an LLM. I use bog-standard browser controls for forms - they look fugly but its so rare to see raw/naked form controls nowadays that they look snowf
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Once you lose ownership you lose interest. AI has supercharged that. It a huge matter of scale now.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
US Navy now doesn't care either. Using Palantir's Maven Smart System, which incorporated Anthropic's Claude AI model, to identify and evaluate targets - which blew up the girls elementary school in Minab. Use AI => No War
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by lenkite 3mo ago
They are even going to the extend of preserving SQLite footguns, so I am not sure what else would it be.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
The best way to sort this out is to have truly random election winners and heads of organizations and bids for govt contracts. And yes, you must have enough numbers in the input for random selection. If a Pvt corporation fails to deliver
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by lenkite 3mo ago
I went through the thread twice and unsure what precisely is the "real issue" you are talking about ?
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by lenkite 3mo ago
I think he meant you should use the word "corrupt", not "lucrative".
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by lenkite 3mo ago
DuckDB ? Strict by default and excellent for logs, telemetry, dashboard apps, etc.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
I agree with you. There are 2 dozen foot-guns to be kept in mind. And discovered a new footgun regarding multi-byte strings and NUL handling today on HN. SQLite became popular because it was the only free and open-source choice 2 decades ag
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by lenkite 3mo ago
I would just go all the way to using https://unpoly.com/ if I wanted the full-bang whiz.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
The GPL mandates that if you modify and distribute GPL licensed software, your derivative work must also be free and open-source. This ensures code cannot be made proprietary. Other than that, there is no expectation of political stance. On
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Yes, now that Postgres offers property graphs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/19/ddl-property-graphs.html , which allows ergonomic queries using graph pattern matching syntax, instead of joins, these dbs feel lik
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Can someone explain this circular-investing domino ? If Oracle falls, who else would fall ?
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Why send a message to support ? Expose the prompt to your customer if all they are doing is just bouncing it.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
For every single person alive in Australia, there >52 alive in China. So comparing solar per capita to Australia is a useless metric.
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by lenkite 3mo ago
U.S. is actively considering restricting highly advanced "open-weights" models due to cybersecurity and national security concern. Chinese models will be enlisted in NATS - the National Terrorism Advisory System. Can't have t
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by lenkite 3mo ago
Well, this is Microslop ( https://microslop.com/ ) in action. The Microsoft 365 Team rely HEAVILY on AI to for coding and development including security fixes. None of the AI fans on HN will admit that AI just produces buggy
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by lenkite 3mo ago
As a non-American, USAID was an agency heavily used by American 3-letter agencies to influence domestic matters of other nations. They should have probably been been gentler in sifting through the programs and shutting down intel operations
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by lenkite 3mo ago
As a non-American, it is bitterly funny to hear a NATO citizen say that.

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