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by maeil 2y ago
This [1] is a good piece on it. Here's [2] anorher good one. We don't just carry out a MySQL upgrade, oh no. We embark on a significant journey . We don't have reasons, but compelling factors . And then, we use compellin
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by maeil 2y ago
There is too much potential money in it, especially for a country such as Mauritania, to bungle it.
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by maeil 2y ago
I understand, this is exactly why I noted "even on their 2nd chance". The initial lack of payout/meaningful response was incompetency by not understanding the severity of the vuln. Fine, happens. But after the PoC that show
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by maeil 2y ago
I'm not trolling, see my reply elsewhere. Do you not know anyone who has spent many years of their life doing something and are still rather poor at it? You probably do. You may even have such a skill yourself - I certainly do!
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by maeil 2y ago
Doing a rain dance and concluding that it doesn't help also gives you another data point. Praying as prescribed in 50 different religions a whole lot more data points. And so on. I'm not a nut screaming "It's all a scam,
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by maeil 2y ago
That's not clear cut. There clearly exist plenty of combinations of "situation + physician" where this is not the best thing to do. To claim otherwise may as well be religious dogma.
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by maeil 2y ago
> “We encourage households with solar panels to make the most of their clean energy and save on bills by using their solar power during the day – whether it’s charging electric vehicles, doing laundry or running dishwashers,” a Victorian
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by maeil 2y ago
A $1.3 billion revenue company being too tight to pay this after all, even on their 2nd chance, is so short-sighted it's absurd. They're putting out a huge sign saying "When you find a vuln, definitely contact all our clients
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by maeil 2y ago
> on mobile Android has historically lagged behind iOS although that gap is close to indistinguishable in 2024. This is true, but unfortunately in the negative sense: both are as insecure as each other, i.e. pwned. [1] [1] https:/&
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by maeil 2y ago
Great video, though it even understates just how extreme the monopoly is. They kind of show it on the screen as part of the article but the message would've benefited from reading the percentages out loud.
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by maeil 2y ago
> Contrast that with american politics where it's all or nothing. If you like abortion and low taxes, there is no way for you to vote. I'm European. The most influential topic in voting behaviour is immigration, as any study (o
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by maeil 2y ago
> I did worry a bit about https://htmlforpeople.com/zero-to-internet-your-first-websit ... - "Step 1. Create a folder on your computer" - because apparently a large number of people these days don't underst
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by maeil 2y ago
They likely can, even if indirectly. [1] > I'm going by this document from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and a lawsuit brought against Google, signed by member of Congress, that alleged data brokers are "siphoning"
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by maeil 2y ago
Chrome would be absurdly profitable. Imagine selling the default search engine setting to the highest bidder on Chrome when it already goes for $20 billion/year on the far less popular Safari.
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by maeil 2y ago
Commendable lifestyle! We live in almost the same way :) > That is neat! People in general will not change their behavior. Unless you rolled out of the womb with the plans to live in the manner you've described, there must at some p
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by maeil 2y ago
It regurgitates the average human completion of a certain text/sentence. Guess which humans have been writing the average text related to these subjects. Not plumbers and bakers.
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by maeil 2y ago
This is of course untrue, given that we know that there are people who have changed their behaviour after learning about realities through articles such as this one. And a huge percentage of people still haven't learned about them. In
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by maeil 2y ago
Unbelievable that you're saying this when the last 14 years have seen the same party in power, who throughout that entire period have ran on a platform with little in common with "the greens". It's like as if the Reps
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by maeil 2y ago
The PRC is very well known for "repeatedly stating things" [1]. Finally, after decades, the West has started to catch on to this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
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by maeil 2y ago
The machine in question is not based on a set of rules of better quality. It regurgitates the average of the exact humans you're talking of. This is no improvement.
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by maeil 2y ago
To add one row of anecdata: I recently got an ad on Instagram (= Meta) for an "only for gay men" holiday resort. I'm straight. Took a screenshot of it because I thought it was funny and I'd never seen it (nor such a plac
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by maeil 2y ago
I was confusing it with LPG. The huge majority of buses and taxis around here run on it, which is a big percentage of traffic on the road. A decade ago it was 100%, now most new replacements are electric but it will take at least another de
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by maeil 2y ago
You're correct, I was thinking of LPG.
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by maeil 2y ago
Is this the same LNG used as fuel in some cars? Wondering because the comparison here is coal rather than oil.
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by maeil 2y ago
Hardly worse than their usual sins considering the case of Meta and Myanmar.
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by maeil 2y ago
> Google is a major investor in Anthropic. And Microsoft is an even bigger investor in OpenAI. Why couldn't Apple join Google in this? There's also Meta, whose money is as endless as Microsoft's.
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by maeil 2y ago
o1, which you seem to be referring to, is at best slightly better at specific tasks than Sonnet 3.5 while being completely unviable economically for production use, despite the amount of subsidizing OpenAI has been doing to make them lose a
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by maeil 2y ago
> ‘In every relationship people use terms of abuse for each other,’ says Hof in an email. ‘I don’t remember this one.’ Besides the rightly pointed out conviction and numerous third party sources quoted by the article, this quote by the m
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by maeil 2y ago
Isn't the general rule on HN to use the original title unless there's a very good reason not to?
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by maeil 2y ago
I see this comment pop up here often in these threads about EU fines and regulations. "Apple/company should just call the EUs bluff and stop selling in the EU!". Apple's a good example because they're such an incred

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