malux85

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by malux85 2y ago
Photographing the price labels and then comparing each one during checkout for a big trolly of groceries? Spending an extra hour to make sure you weren’t overcharged $3? Assuming your time has a nonzero value (I’m not sure of that actually)
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by malux85 2y ago
ls ~/bin is wayyyyy slower to type than ,<tab>
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by malux85 2y ago
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed a big increase in the number of encoding artifacts recently? Rapidly oscillating patches, blurry smears, it’s only Netflix (other video streaming services are fine) its getting quite annoying, a few
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by malux85 2y ago
A hierarchy of folders Inside are pdfs, markdown files, images, schematics, mind maps I frequently review them, shift things around I have a set of spaced repetition folders which topics I am currently memorising go up and down depending on
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by malux85 2y ago
Did they get paid 2M in USD, or did they get paid 2M in magic-bean tokens, where is so little market depth that selling 30k of it would tank the market, so they will have to bleed it out slowly and hope the price doesn't tank before th
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by malux85 2y ago
I would buy this! Especially if you got the sizing right so that an SD card could be inserted like a floppy, that would rock!
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by malux85 2y ago
I am solo builder and runner of https://atomictesselator.com and I have used k8s from day one. I also agree with you, it's been rock solid, and the ability to horizontally scale so easily is great. I dont even know which ph
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by malux85 2y ago
Even still, "no zero days" is a desirable state, so the phrase still holds
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by malux85 2y ago
I’ve been doing this for longer than a year now: https://github.com/blackrabbit17 One thing that really helps me is “do nothing time” When I sit down, it’s tempting to fire up a browser, or Spotify or YouTube or something,
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by malux85 2y ago
Extrapolating future technology from current technology is known to be a flawed method, this has been known for hundreds of years now, maybe longer. For example, in the 1920's they also extrapolated their current tech into the future.
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by malux85 2y ago
Yeah, an enormous greedy corporation being generous when paying the government, that is totally normal and definitely doesn’t send up any red flags for me!
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by malux85 2y ago
I wonder if the machines will be more impressed by elegant, efficient, bug-free code
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by malux85 2y ago
3,817 VC's entered the chat
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by malux85 2y ago
These are awesome, I love “Give and Take”, I’m a computational chemist, you should have a look at Kohn Sham orbitals and google images “the hydrogen wave function” I will reach out to you for a commission
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by malux85 2y ago
That person in the thread was remarkably calm about their out of warranty laptop being randomly bricked, I would be fuming, that is not OK!
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by malux85 2y ago
I think on hacker news you’re preaching to the converted - everyone here likes intellectual challenges, puzzles and technical mysteries. I think the problem is that it’s not a great measure of real world ability on many dimensions - often y
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by malux85 2y ago
And root means you can hide your tracks easier, find IDS, install secondary backdoors, and a zillion other things that a normal user can’t do It’s only the same thing if you’re some ham-fisted script kiddie stealing the database, loudly in
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by malux85 2y ago
Local privilege escalation isnt just a problem on shell account sharing - it turns a "this image uploader has a weird RCE" into "I have root and compromised the application server, stole the database credentials and moved lat
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by malux85 2y ago
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" - Margaret Wolff Hungerford, 1878
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by malux85 2y ago
It says “no comics available at the moment” ?
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by malux85 2y ago
I say no by default to companies asking too much information all the time, here in NZ companies seem particularly bad at asking for this info, and it's become so normalized that I always get weird looks when I say no, which annoys me e
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by malux85 2y ago
Google 2010 was a very different place from Google 2014, I only imagine it’s got worse. When I started in 2010 managers had IDEs and could discuss code, it didn’t matter if I came in at 11AM because I was there until 9PM and got the work do
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Yeah, and it’s completely wrong at basic basic stuff
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Yeah it reads like an inexperienced/junior dev found a bug in a production system for the first time, and has a grandiose vision of themselves as saviour of humanity, rather than realising that bugs in software is the normative state o
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by malux85 2y ago
My usage of Google has dropped dramatically in the last few months, with ChatGPT and Claude answering 80% of my questions with astronomically better answers now that it has context of what I’m doing. Google really really screwed up by missi
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by malux85 2y ago
Afaik this is a decompilation and recompilation, which means there should be non-trivial performance increases over running it in an emulator, which will be important for people with non-high-end machines (the majority of the population)
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I know right?! I was super psyched to see some killer retro graphics
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Open Source creators: If your utility is a graphics tool, visualization library or anything related to images : for the love of science and all things holy, put screenshots on your repo.
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"The program is trying to quash bugs that force pilots to reboot in midair" - eeek
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This was exactly my setup for like 4 years a few years ago. MacOS was the host and it was immediate boot into Debian VM and it was my main machine I used to dev every day. Pros and cons: I switched to parallels vm software from virtualbox b

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