mrguyorama

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by mrguyorama 5d ago
Even the big news networks were "only" warping the minds of about 50 million americans total. Go ahead and compare that to Facebook's reach. Fox News never convinced me to watch it because of other people in my family watchin
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by mrguyorama 5d ago
The driverless car which, as well as having an insufficient and negligent safety driver (a regime that the Air Transport and Train industries would be happy to provide the hundred years worth of evidence that allows us to know ahead of tim
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by mrguyorama 5d ago
Every single app/service/"community"/whatever which is based around total optimization of your "algorithm", ie, total optimization of owning your eyeballs being in that app, are working in an attention ec
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by mrguyorama 5d ago
Most of Christianity puts some weight of "You" into the "soul". A machine can never have a soul. There are semi-explicit beliefs that what makes humans think "like us" is that soul and that things without a sou
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by mrguyorama 5d ago
Your credentials and pedigree seem to be "Self taught @ Meta"
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by mrguyorama 5d ago
People who were in high school in 2016 and therefore not being aware of leftpad are currently in their 6th year of their career if they went directly to college and then a job. Tech doesn't teach it's own history in a useful way,
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by mrguyorama 5d ago
It's simpler than that. To a public company, the product is the stock price, and the customers are investors. Consumers exist as a resource to consume. You hold the same mental position in their minds as the cheap plastic packaging the
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
That they have purposely put effort into preventing you from doing that shows you everything you should need to know. The entire point of passkeys is yanking the control over authentication out of the hands of people. These companies do
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
Yes, that is what everyone keeps complaining about and the people who insist passkeys are the best continue to loudly and totally ignore. The repeated response to "I lost the passkey, what now?" is apathy. It is your fault, you sh
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
No, microsoft uploading disk encryption keys to your account is the exact opposite situation. It's microsoft purposely reducing security to ensure there is a recovery path, because average people don't need or want the security
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
The entire problem with passkeys is that zero of the issues should have been a surprise, because it should have been part of the design discussion from the start, so the fact that it's not properly implemented before being forced on us
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
That any and all physical security measures can be defeated is a feature , not a bug. Almost no human beings actually need that level of security, and the tradeoffs are absolutely not worth it for those of us without Mossad as a threat. Ho
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
This is called college.
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
>USG is under no obligation to have up to date information. Why not? This is not the perspective of the various international agreements the US has signed about war. Knowing what you are shooting is in fact an obligation. Hell, knowing w
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by mrguyorama 8d ago
Hegseth said loud and clear that they wouldn't be a pussy ass weak ass bitch ass military anymore. What the hell do you think he meant by that? Because this is the exact thing he meant by that. Note that this kind of "Double tappi
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by mrguyorama 9d ago
Google actually puts effort into security for "normal" people who don't want to earn a PhD in cryptography just to have a damn free email account or watch Mr. Beast That's why they had powerful and effective account take
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by mrguyorama 9d ago
You have. That airship's maiden voyage was in 2012. The US DoD has pretty much never stopped throwing a few dollars at airship projects. They want them as long term air reconnaissance assets, but now satellites are competitive for that
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by mrguyorama 9d ago
Rather than just not paying and letting the owner auction off the contents, maybe you can tell the owner of the storage facility you'd be fine with them auctioning off the contents without ever going into debt?
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by mrguyorama 9d ago
That's because parkisons drugs can upregulate a certain protein that is implicated in all forms of addiction that feature that kind of "seeking" behavior and modification of the reward system! https://en.wikipedi
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by mrguyorama 9d ago
I have recently found the following article interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSB Specifically the part where a variant of this protein seems directly implicated in the specific self upregulation that leads t
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by mrguyorama 10d ago
The reason that modern computers are no longer filled with malware has nothing to do with completely irrelevant locked garden app stores on phones. The reason is because Bill Gates put out a memo because it was fucking embarrassing that you
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by mrguyorama 10d ago
This "myth" isn't a myth. Most games aren't the "digital key only" style of discs, like how Nintendo has game cards that are just entitlements now, but game companies took huge advantage of the fact that update
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by mrguyorama 10d ago
You cannot ship on device inference with a real LLM still. Average people freak the hell out if it's even 10% slower than whatever google ships. At least thats the claim for how Firefox lost all their marketshare in the first place (
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by mrguyorama 10d ago
I'm expecting a full court legal attack on Wikipedia at some point. It's just too good for information, and companies would rather you use their chatbot to regurgitate that info now that they have their own copies. Google was al
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by mrguyorama 11d ago
So, uh, have you tried just not folding laundry? I think it's funny how often "Folding Laundry" is brought up as the critical use case as if that's a labor function that needs to be done in the first place! Some of us al
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by mrguyorama 11d ago
The arms race was always happening. Russia put a weapon on a space asset decades ago, basically for shits and giggles, but was recently practicing a space asset maneuvering and deploying a smaller asset, and there's very little justifi
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by mrguyorama 11d ago
Iran is 90 million people and a gigantic mass of land. Go read some history about what industrial quantity of ordinance was required to somewhat destroy European cities in the 40s. America does not have a bomber fleet capable of doing tha
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by mrguyorama 11d ago
There's an incredibly simple product case I think HN is missing: I bought a Vive and then an Index. This has higher resolution than the Index, lower mass (even with a battery!), and easier setup that can enable more spontaneous use. In
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by mrguyorama 12d ago
Okay, why was this rescued from the 2nd chance pool? Was it from some sort of interesting discussion? Something novel enough to warrant it? A significant amount of petitions from legitimate users?
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by mrguyorama 12d ago
I feel like even in this thread people are missing a huge one: Pottery. Can't have soup without pottery. (nit: you can use some sort of leaf bowl but like, eh)

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