leptons

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by leptons 6mo ago
>That is a problem with you not understanding how security works. That's hilariously wrong. >There is no such thing as "being really secure". Sure there is. "Being really secure" isn't what I said at all,
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by leptons 6mo ago
>You completely underestimate it. I am absolutely certain that you cannot create a browser extension that meaningfully solves this problem in 15 minutes. You are absolutely wrong. I write browser extensions, I can spin up a new one in a
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by leptons 6mo ago
>We can't do this with Proton where our mail is supposedly end-to-end encrypted. They can easily view our mail if they can send us a different code when we load their site. That isn't a problem with how the web works vs how app
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by leptons 6mo ago
>Well, you can verify that the code that you downloaded is the same that everyone else downloaded. Even if it contains webviews. Not impossible to do with websites, if the need to do it was there. It would take about 15 minutes to create
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by leptons 6mo ago
>. It shows that you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code. The product is also a bit wonky and doesn't always provide the benefits it's hyped for. It oft
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by leptons 6mo ago
>That the server can send you a backdoor every single time, made just for you, and nobody else will ever know? There is no "backdoor" when the browser is sandboxed. "backdoor" is a specific thing, I think you need to
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by leptons 6mo ago
2.4ghz isn't the only problem - even cell towers have problems with large amounts of devices. And "large BYOD" events are not a normal use case for wireless, and even 5GHz will have problems in those situations.
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by leptons 7mo ago
There's already been an explosion of apps - and most of them suck , are spam, or worse, will steal your data. We don't need more slop apps, we already have that and have for years.
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by leptons 7mo ago
Considering Apple's always-low market share worldwide on desktop and mobile, I find those ratios hard to believe, even on a niche website like HN.
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by leptons 7mo ago
I use ESP32s extensively. I also use wifi extensively around the house - I have about 8 wifi access points around the property, with a ton of commercial IoT stuff powered on including sensors, lights, cameras, you name it, I got it. It&#x27
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by leptons 7mo ago
It seems like you think you have it all figured out, but you don't. >So many of the "best" minds in various fields started working in that field at like 16, Name them. Also, child prodigies exist but that doesn't mean
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by leptons 7mo ago
So you don't think wisdom is a thing that people acquire as they age? I can tell you from experience that 22 year old people are generally lacking in wisdom. A few of them have a little bit, but overall 22 year olds are just as stupid
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by leptons 7mo ago
It's an IoT device, not a laptop. It does not really need 5ghz to fulfill its purpose as an embedded CPU, and adding 5ghz likely would require making some room for it by removing other functionality.
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by leptons 7mo ago
His enacting of tariffs could be considered "molesting money", and that is affecting practically everyone in the world right now.
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by leptons 7mo ago
There are alternatives to oil for energy, a lot of them. Helium is unique in its place in the universe, for the properties it possesses as an element. And once it's gone, it's gone. Hydrogen is similar but extremely volatile, wher
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by leptons 7mo ago
I was on Windows for 30 years. I advocated for it and even got a few CTOs to switch from MacOS to Windows because they saw Windows was actually more capable than Apple propaganda would have you believe. I'm not really sure how you figu
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by leptons 7mo ago
I remember how I felt the first time I saw an ad come across my browser, it seems so long ago - I guess it was more than a quarter century ago now. I knew it was going to be downhill from there, and it has been.
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by leptons 7mo ago
>How is probing your browser for installed extensions not "scanning your computer"? The same way taking a photo of a house from the street is not the same as investigating the contents of your pantry.
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by leptons 7mo ago
I quit Outlook and went to Thunderbird when I upgraded my CPU and Microsoft told me I had to re-purchase Outlook when I had paid for a "lifetime license". That was the last straw for me. I installed Linux and Thunderbird and hav
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by leptons 7mo ago
Yeah, I got the AI to convert some code that ran at 30fps in Javascript to C, and it resulted in a program that generated 1 frame every 20 seconds. Then I told it to optimize it, and now it's running at 1 fps. After going back and fort
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by leptons 7mo ago
Moore's law only really works when at least part of the world is functioning under practically ideal conditions. Right now that's far from what's happening.
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by leptons 7mo ago
Considering helium is a finite resource on earth, it should be made illegal to put it in a party balloon.
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by leptons 7mo ago
This pointless internet interaction is over.
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by leptons 7mo ago
>If you are "match or beat Claude at the tasks" you give it, you're using it wrong. Are you purposely mischaracterizing what I said to perpetuate a pointless internet argument? Because it should sounds like that. I don&#x2
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by leptons 7mo ago
So because I can match or beat Claude at the tasks I give it, you think I'm somehow using it wrong? Maybe you don't recognize someone with real skill and 30+ years of experience? I don't need Claude, but I'm using it. So
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by leptons 7mo ago
I think developers fall in to way more than 2 "camps" .
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by leptons 7mo ago
They don't. There's myriad laptops out there that are nothing like Apple's products, not even trying to be like them at all. You can get PCs in formats Apple has never ventured to make and never will. And let's not forge
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by leptons 7mo ago
> the cost $1000-2000/month or more for coding. Every programmer will be forced to pay for it because it's only a fraction of their salary (in the US anyway) and it's the only way the programmer will be competitive. I rout
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by leptons 7mo ago
What percentage of Americans do you think live paycheck to paycheck?
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by leptons 7mo ago
I have no idea if they do this, but they should partially or fully sponsor weddings of couples that met on their service in exchange for a small ad at the venue. There's a captive audience of potentially lots of single people watching

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