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by phs318u 2y ago
To all the people wondering why Trump has been elected, the answer is very simple and has been true in all countries that have had elections. When a large section of the voting public is chronically missing out on the benefits of what they&
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The thing about Australia is that voting is mandatory. By definition this makes it difficult for politicians radicalising the edges to pull the mass of the normal curve away from the centre. In the US the opposite is true. The radicalised a
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> liability should be on corporations selling the LLM as a solution I agree. There was a period of time (don't know if it's still the case), where Microsoft Windows licenses/ToS expressly and explicitly did not warrant the
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The single most annoying thing about this announcement for me is the fact that I literally just paid for an Asus ProArt P16 [0] on the basis that the Apple offerings I was looking at were too expensive. Argh! [0] https://au.st
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by phs318u 2y ago
This reply is very informative and should be much more visible given the extent of general ignorance about the "zomg it phones home" feature.
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Lol. So who does "deserve" privacy your highness? I'm guessing you do at the very least since you seem so judgemental on those with an "incessant, insatiable need to broadcast their lives 24/7" - which you pres
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Correct. I did not realise this and am disappointed, having paid a pretty penny for the lifetime license. Reading the github thread, the surreptitious way they changed things is a bit of a dick move.
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I use the Strongbox app on iOS [0] and the KeepassXC app my Linux laptop. The passwords.kdbx file sits on my Onedrive, which the Strongbox app can access. On Linux I use a Onedrive client [0] that I use to sync several folders within my hom
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For those interested to learn a bit more about the “unhackable” operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_(operating_system) https://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integr
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I'm in a 12-Step program for an addiction (have been since 1998), and have met hundreds of other 12-steppers over the years in multiple fellowships. I see two incredibly common traits among members: 1. A significant majority have ADHD.
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Am I the only one that saw this and thought, "What's a python shell got to do with it?" https://github.com/JoelGMSec/PyShell
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Once you’ve read the primer, you may want to give this a look in. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p0x3dx/comp... Then maybe follow this reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by phs318u 2y ago
Indeed :) This page takes me back to a different time when every person and their pet wasn’t trying to monetise their hobby and squeeze value out of my eyeballs. Bless you Gunter!
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It’s not that collateral damage is irrelevant. It’s that the calculation as to whether collateral damage is “worth it” in the context of the specific goal/target is usually relative and calculated unemotionally. Some may say inhumanly.
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My first dog t7xW6q+WX-i9$G4*&^sY was a beautiful creature. I remember her fondly.
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When forced to provide answers to dumb “security questions”, I will typically use a password manager to both generate a random “answer” and to store the question-answer pairs. I generate new strings for each site that asks the same dumb que
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> I think except email, most of the solutions will require all users to use specific platforms. You'll find that, while not perfect, most tools like Slack, Teams, Confluence, Jira have integrations that allow various degrees of noti
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by phs318u 2y ago
"Ports" seems to just be "tags" as channels/filters? The problems with all such schemes (channels or tags) when used for more than personal organisation, is discoverability by the other party. This is addressed by
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Well, I don’t know much about market making but as a member of Gamblers Anonymous since 1998 I’ve seen just about every kind of devastation caused by every kind of gambling. In the last few years I’ve seen a significant increase in the numb
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When the "cherry on top" (problem gamblers) is responsible for half your revenue (from the Bloomberg article), then that's not just a cherry. That's half the cake. And it's a really, really, big cake.
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Mine was asking me to check in with my sister for a while. This seemed to follow a prolonged period of me texting or calling her on the way home from work. The check-in reminders started after I stopped regularly contacting her at that time
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As a non-USian who has worked in the banking industry I find it hard to understand how such a technically advanced nation is so backwards with respect to modernising its payment infrastructure. Around 5% of all non-cash retail transactions
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> You are all clowns who don't live in the real world. From the HN Guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Clickbait title. Mods please correct to reflect actual title of article.
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https://archive.is/m7ELA
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Yes. They are the new Oracle. And like Oracle, they won't care how much their brand stinks like a fish market on a hot summer's day because they'll still be raking in enough cash not to care.
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This. So many times this has been the cause of the problem. First time someone pointed this out I was amazed at the amount of lint I pulled out and even more amazed that the port was - with some jiggling - able to function at all with all t
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> Wars will be fought using AI. I agree with the sentiment but not the mechanism (munitions). If power equates to control of resources then destroying the resources is kind of self-defeating. Far better then to "win" a war by g
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You’re assuming that the other party in this transaction is rational. If there’s one thing that should be obvious to all by now it’s that humans as consumers can be incredibly irrational to the point where entire industries have flourished
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Love it! “The concept for the device emerged from social research conducted in six countries, which identified a need for digital communication among youth. … a radio protocol was patented. This protocol allowed up to 3,000 Cybiko devices t

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