misswaterfairy

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by misswaterfairy 7mo ago
Looked at LocalStack today, but management said 'no' because $$$$. :( So this is awesomely timed.
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by misswaterfairy 7mo ago
I wonder if Microsoft FrontPage was still a thing HTML/CSS websites might be a little more common? Those were the days...
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by misswaterfairy 7mo ago
Controversial opinion. I am really not a fan of this. Artificially changing graphics to make them 'look better' is similar to my feelings around the (awful) Halo Anniversary remaster. Summed up nicely by Noodle - https:/&#x2
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by misswaterfairy 7mo ago
> if you try and do things it doesn’t like, you’re going to have a bad time. Also that there's the 'Esri' way of doing things, and the 'platform independent' (more-or-less) way of doing things which do not play w
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Windows 12 Reportedly Set for 2026 as Modular, Subscription AI OS(tech4gamers.com)
3 points by misswaterfairy 8mo ago|3 comments
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
> The cloud is a way around this political minefield. Until the bills _really_ start skyrocketing...
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
It's worth watching the 39C3 talk about porting Linux to Apple Silicon earlier this year. https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-app... The jist is that Apple don't want to prevent you from
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
Social media brought us the age of 'the irresistible urge to proffer one's opinion on everything'. AI evolved that age to the dizzying advancement of 'not requiring a brain to do so'.
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
Yes, before billion-dollar companies decided to centralise everything.
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
The irony being that 'Jia Tan' went out of their way to ensure the backdoor was very well obfuscated, to the point it inadvertently caused bugs and slight, but noticeable, performance issues. One wonders whether the xz backdoor wo
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
I couldn't help but notice it was quite similar to a Numberphile video 8 years earlier... https://youtu.be/NmM9HA2MQGI
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
They're definitely pursuing patents... > The authors of the paper have filed several patents relating to the subject matter contained in this paper in the name of Microsoft Corporation. Page 12 of the paper: https://www.n
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by misswaterfairy 8mo ago
Third major outage in as many months...
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Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant(media.mit.edu)
710 points by misswaterfairy 9mo ago|511 comments
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by misswaterfairy 9mo ago
It seems this study has been discussed on HN before, though was recently revised very late December 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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by misswaterfairy 9mo ago
Not OP, but a notepad, a calendar (both I already get for free on my phone), and medication. Your app interesting, but the tracking data and linked data required is an absolute non-starter for me. Privacy is key, especially for those who ar
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by misswaterfairy 9mo ago
Agreed. This app feels like work, which for ADHD-PI sufferers will stop using almost immediately, forget to use it entirely, or use it inconsistently and then feel bad/guilty for failing then give up anyway. > No amount of notificat
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by misswaterfairy 9mo ago
Unproven in the sense that it'll become 'super intelligent', et al. For a statistical word salad generator that is _generally_ coherent, sure it's proven. But for other claims, such as replacing all customer service role
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by misswaterfairy 9mo ago
> Nvidia has indeed grown like a monster in the last couple years - 35Bn increase from 23-24 and 70Bn increase from 24-25. Worringly for Nvidia, Apple is producing products people want and are provenly useful, thus a vast majority of its
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by misswaterfairy 10mo ago
> "Do random acts of kindness". Random acts of kindness are only meaningful if they come from a human who had the heart, forethought, and willingness to go out of their way to do something kind for someone else. 'Random ac
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by misswaterfairy 10mo ago
> Times have changed, many have retired or been layoff to give way for the next round of "cheap young" talent in the form of contract workers. A couple of quotes from the article above: "WebView2-based Microsoft Teams cons
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by misswaterfairy 10mo ago
The bit that really annoyed me: you can't even remove the Copilot button from the Office ribbon any more. Microsoft simply have hidden the option in the Ribbon customisation settings. Even though I don't use it, and have disabled
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by misswaterfairy 10mo ago
https://archive.is/F6rfy
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by misswaterfairy 10mo ago
> Now it's probably way too late. If/when the AI bubble bursts, and the worlds economies crash, we might have a chance then.
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by misswaterfairy 10mo ago
I want to begin by saying I love JetBrains IDEs. I go out of my way to personally pay for PyCharm Professional, DataGrip, Rider, and others, and have done so for years, so I can use it at work where the next best thing provided to us is VS
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by misswaterfairy 11mo ago
> but decided to ignore because they were rolling out a security fix. A key part of secure systems is availability... It really looks like vibe-coding.
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by misswaterfairy 11mo ago
> It would require half of one distribution center of a major retailer. That also meets the specifications of a clean room, and is actively maintained as one? If OpenAI bought 40% of the annual capacity of finished memory, with the goal
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by misswaterfairy 11mo ago
Instead of anti-cheat on the client side, which 'kernel level' anti-cheat still gets beaten, why not look at a wholly server-side statistical analysis of player stats? Make the anti-cheat follow one of the key tenets of cybersecur
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by misswaterfairy 11mo ago
Part of the up-time solution is keeping as much of your app and infrastructure within your control, rather than being at the behest of mega-providers as we've witnessed in the past month: Cloudflare, and AWS. Probably: - a couple of to
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by misswaterfairy 11mo ago
> We have made changes that have allowed Cloudflare Access [their 'zero-trust network access solution'] and WARP to recover. Error levels for Access and WARP users have returned to pre-incident rates. > We have re-enabled W

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