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by notatoad 3y ago
running trash cans in horizontal orientation can't have been good for cooling, right?
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by notatoad 3y ago
talking about a "moral obligation" usually means there's no legal obligation, so people don't start down that route until they've exhausted all other obligations. unfortunately, a moral obligation is about the least
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by notatoad 3y ago
but we're talking about google's implementation here, where fido keys are only a second factor. and in google's implementation, allowing passwords to be compromised means compromising your security, because their authenticat
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by notatoad 3y ago
making a 5px black bar clickable or hover-able might be hard or not super discoverable. but maybe link the Y image to the HN link that's usually at the top of the page, accompanying the black bar. in this case, https://new
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by notatoad 3y ago
No. Hardware keys are a second factor. But if you allow passwords to be compromised just because there is a second factor, then you're back down to one-factor auth and you've solved nothing
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by notatoad 3y ago
Theverge article on this words it as "adapt their ipad apps for vision pro". Sounds like not so much an explicit opt-out as holding out for apple to make the headset run their existing apps.
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by notatoad 3y ago
Doesn't google explicitly forbid a WebView for oauth? The point is to not have users entering their google credentials into third-party apps, and a WebView is still entering your credentials into a third-party app. The app has to op
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by notatoad 3y ago
>I think it's a much bigger assumption... i don't think it's that big of an assumption. there's a long history of discrimination being enforced through building codes. will a second stairwell save a life at some poi
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by notatoad 3y ago
>that were put in place to save human lives There's an assumption here that the code was put in place to save lives. There's a whole lot of regulation that exists simply to make it difficult to build. Lots of people profit wh
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by notatoad 3y ago
but I would be, if i could make a couple million copies of you and direct them to do whatever i wanted.
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by notatoad 3y ago
>What advocates of microtransactions don't see: It turns something that absolutely should not be a commodity (creative work), into a commodity. as an advocate for microtransactions: yes, i see this. but i think you've got it b
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by notatoad 3y ago
they couldn't even spring for the kitchenaid?
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by notatoad 3y ago
i love when my first reaction to a headline is "why on earth would anybody want that" and then the first comment completely answers that question.
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by notatoad 3y ago
if you're looking for a good pumpkin pie alternative while pumpkins are out of season, sweet potato pie is also excellent.
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by notatoad 3y ago
it's documentation enough to not call it an undocumented feature. the concern with truly undocumented functionality is that it's not included intentionally: either it's a bug or an experimental feature that could be removed o
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by notatoad 3y ago
not so much a downside or an upside, just a totally different thing.
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by notatoad 3y ago
>If you have an iPhone 14 or above, Apple offers similar capabilities to all iPhone users in about a dozen countries (so far) regardless of which mobile network you subscribe to at home. Apple only lets you communicate with an emergency
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Just like the banks are regulated by FDIC so can be Boeing that's a good example, because when the FDIC runs out of regulatory measures it can apply to correct a problem, they have the option of nationalizing a bank to reduce the h
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by notatoad 3y ago
customer obsession, but the customer they're obsessed with is the scammy marketplace seller, because that's who they really make money off of.
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by notatoad 3y ago
> In my opinion, integrating LLMs and add function calling would be a significant improvement i'm sure this is where they're headed. but what announcement reads as to me is some clever PM at google realized they don't wan
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by notatoad 3y ago
I don't mean to rag on ikea here, i have a bunch of ikea furniture and find it to be generally sturdy and good enough to stand up to anything i ask of it. i've also got some similar wal-mart furniture that i have no complaints wi
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by notatoad 3y ago
meh, probably not significantly worse than the actually well-known and distinguished furniture brands like KALLAX, HEMNES, FINNBY, or BAGGEBO https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/cat/bookcases-10382/
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by notatoad 3y ago
>There are plenty of home users with 5Ghz only networks really? is this a configuration that some ISPs are shipping in their routers, or how is this happening? i've never heard of anybody with a 5GHz only home network.
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by notatoad 3y ago
It looks like this announcement was timed for the end of citi's Q4 today.
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by notatoad 3y ago
>I have to think they will lose at least 10% just through attrition and before anybody says that's maybe intentional, that just a really dumb way to do layoffs. that's how you lose your best people, rather than your worst.
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by notatoad 3y ago
the pseudo-anonymous amateur communties still exist. but they're private and invite-only, because a public community that allows anonymous posting becomes a cesspit of toxic behaviour, or else requires so much content moderation that
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by notatoad 3y ago
making a specific kind of cheese is mostly about replicating the traditional procedures and ambient conditions of the place that cheese originated. "go to this specific valley in switzerland and spend 20 years immersing yourself in the
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by notatoad 3y ago
I think something like dataframes suffers from having a name that isn't obscure enough. You read "dataframes" and think those are two words you know, so you should understand what it is. If they'd called them flurzles y
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by notatoad 3y ago
I found dive super useful for understanding how docker images work, and how to write efficient dockerfiles. Reading the docs is one thing, but making a change to the dockerfile and then seeing how it has affected the resulting layer struct
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by notatoad 3y ago
that xkcd has aged beautifully.

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