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by macNchz 2y ago
They claim the right to audit purchases through the edu store and charge you the difference if you don't qualify, but I've never read anyone online reporting they've been audited/charged. https://www.apple.com
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by macNchz 2y ago
That makes sense for Chinese citizens, but I was talking as a foreign citizen, since we were discussing the differences between having your own government vs a foreign government involved in what content you see.
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by macNchz 2y ago
It is a frustrating and often ineffectual system, but I simply cannot disagree more that I, as an American citizen, have equivalent powerlessness over the American government as I do over the Chinese government. There is a clear and storied
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by macNchz 2y ago
I have plenty of beef with the American political system, but a loud group of motivated Americans absolutely has the ability to influence government decisions. If you, a citizen, decided you really cared about something, and gathered your l
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by macNchz 2y ago
If you live in a democracy you have a vote and a voice to bring to the table. It’s wild to me that on this topic people seem to see their own governments as largely equivalent to an outwardly adversarial if not explicitly hostile foreign po
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by macNchz 2y ago
I read this something like: I’m working on a feature, I notice something curious in some adjacent code that could maaaybe let someone bypass the UserAuthorizationAdapter with a carefully crafted request, but I’m not familiar enough with tha
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by macNchz 2y ago
Depends on the nature of the content you’re working with, but I’ve had some good results using an LLM during indexing to generate a search document by rephrasing the original text in a standardized way. Then you can search against the embed
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by macNchz 2y ago
> I think very few people actually do need the heavy MBPs, especially not the web/full-stack devs who populate Hacker News. I can fairly easily get my M1 Air to have thermal issues while on extended video calls with some Docker cont
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by macNchz 2y ago
Arguably Apple would love to push people who handle large amounts of data into absolutely unreasonably priced upgrades, and people with large media collections into lifelong iCloud subscriptions. It's not especially hard to fill up 250
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by macNchz 2y ago
At least in the northeast/east coast US there are still lots of old parkways without modern onramps, where moving over to let people merge is super helpful. Frequently these have bad visibility and limited room to accelerate if any at
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by macNchz 2y ago
I've generally assumed the simplest explanation is that many of these weakly-supported procedures are regular, consistent income streams for the people who perform them in the US: my four wisdom teeth (that were causing me serious issu
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by macNchz 2y ago
I think that’s more of a topic for impacts to places like California and the Gulf Coast that have been heavily built up over the past fifty years despite their known issues with fires and hurricanes, vs the places in Europe impacted by thes
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by macNchz 2y ago
I did the same thing, implementing formulas we learned as interactive programs in TI-BASIC. I don't think I even tried to hide them or use them on tests or anything, but when I told my teacher at the time (2003-ish?) she freaked the he
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by macNchz 2y ago
Chrome was already several years behind the other browsers on 3rd party cookies before the UK CMA had anything to say.
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by macNchz 2y ago
User authentication? While there are alternative methods, a very large proportion of website logins will not work properly if you reject all cookies and prevent them from setting a session identifier.
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by macNchz 2y ago
There are other standards that can put vehicles in different emissions categories. I believe the one that most crossover SUVs target is being considered “off road”, by having four wheel drive and meeting a few ground clearance specification
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by macNchz 2y ago
From the “Dirty Comms” episode of Darknet Diaries, a SIM swapper being interviewed describes how attackers will use breach information from other crypto-related sites to credential-stuff Coinbase. That doesn’t necessarily get you very far b
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by macNchz 2y ago
Your source doesn't support that (no comparison with other places), and other sources don't seem to back it up. See the "Local Life Expectancies by Income" chart here: https://www.healthinequality.org/ .
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by macNchz 2y ago
That document doesn’t seem to compare things to national rates, but to my knowledge the NYC life expectancy is above NY state’s, which itself is significantly above the national average. The densest parts of Manhattan, which also have some
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by macNchz 2y ago
Generally I think it is actually pretty much safe unless it has rained heavily recently. The last time I looked at the data, much of the harbor and Hudson have bacteria counts that are consistently within the safe-for-bathing parameters. Th
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by macNchz 2y ago
It wasn’t always the case that the lake was clean and swimmable—as a kid in the 90s I remember it as kind of a “new thing” to be able to, since it had been polluted for decades and people came to prefer the public pools.
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by macNchz 2y ago
Absolutely, I've been using fish for at least ten years and have very little config, which was not at all the case before I switched. The only material thing in my fish config is adding `echo -n (date "+%H:%M:%S ")` to the fi
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by macNchz 2y ago
By my estimation the ad networks and publishers are the primary violators of the social contract by allowing malicious ads on their systems. They could absolutely stop essentially all bad behavior by 1) not allowing any rich or dynamic ad c
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by macNchz 2y ago
This is one I use all the time, super handy. Another CLI module I regularly make use of is `python -m json.tool`, for formatting and validating json. Last year I ran http.server with -h to remind myself of something, and the --cgi flag caug
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by macNchz 2y ago
Your example looks quite like the intro example to Pinia for Vue: https://pinia.vuejs.org/introduction.html I don’t really see any tangible differences between Vue 2 and 3. As far as I know there are no plans to remove the
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by macNchz 2y ago
Yes this is definitely what the parent comment was getting at, he gave voting rights to diaspora ethnic Hungarians: “Orban granted citizenship and the right to vote in Hungarian elections to more than a million Hungarians living in neighbou
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by macNchz 2y ago
I guess... at the end of the day without some reform to the CFAA I just wouldn't ever feel comfortable using exploits to gain access to a random website–particularly one related to air travel security–that I had no engagement with, eve
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by macNchz 2y ago
> The simple presence of them might be enough of a deterrent The planning for 9/11 took several years, $500k in financing, and had a lot of moving parts between recruiting, research, travel/visas, flight training etc. It's
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by macNchz 2y ago
Is there any sort of assurance that this wouldn't turn into a prosecution, though? It's not obvious to me on that site. Perhaps the CISA doesn't want to deter researchers, but do they get to make the final call? The DoJ annou
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by macNchz 2y ago
This printer will simply refuse to print without an always-on connection to their cloud, it's diabolical. Thought I might be able to get root via its crappy web interface but no luck, and it seems to use properly implemented TLS when t

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