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by pibaker 8mo ago
I frequently come across comments from people who think raspberry pis are overpriced and you are better off buying from one of the numerous Chinese SBCs with better bang for the buck. Your comment is why these people are often wrong. Most o
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by pibaker 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajar_Mountains "Just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
When dockworkers went on strikes in 2024, one of their demands was to forbid automation of their jobs. HN responded negatively. How the tables have turned now it is white collar jobs' turn on the chopping block! https://news
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by pibaker 8mo ago
What stops a student from going home and asking chatGPT to write about few bullet points about how to answer and coming back the next day doing what chatGPT told him to do?
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Let's just focus on CS for a moment because this is HN and I have a CS degree. How do you evaluate a student's ability to implement a piece of non trivial software following a specification that would take, say, over five thousand
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I just saw this recent survey about whether or not people view their fellow citizens as morally good. Canada ranks first, with 92% respondents answering affirmatively. It's not hard to imagine people like these extending their good wil
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by pibaker 8mo ago
+1. Maybe it's just pattern recognition misfiring, maybe I'm too just used to workhorse software with websites that look stuck in 1999, but everything coming out of that company (Charmbracelet, Inc. according to website footer) fe
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by pibaker 8mo ago
> Along with the cameras being used to reduce crime, the sheriff’s office said they may also be used for public safety concerns, including AMBER Alerts and Silver Alerts. Hot take: AMBER alert is a way to keep the public paranoid about c
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I think you missed the point in GP's post. Not all organizations optimize for problem solving. Some organizations prefer subordinates who follow orders (or better, is able to read the mind of the boss to decipher what order he is actua
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by pibaker 8mo ago
The average family size has never been smaller in the history of humanity, and yet only now do people feel so entitled to ask others not even in the same family to bear the responsibility of raising their children. I wonder why.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Lying is only ok if it is done by the BBC and funded by tax money.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
No nation state actor is going to waste a 0day on a random nobody. Even the recent Notepad++ exploit was only used against specific political targets. Any actor smart enough to be able to have an arsenal of 0days at their disposal is also s
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by pibaker 8mo ago
> shifting your mindset from making a game to making a game engine This reminds me of when someone makes his own static site generator, write one blog post about how he started a blog with his own static site generator, and then post not
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Even in an environment where filming (with phones) is common and acceptable, smart glasses can still come off as rude because others find it hard tell if you are recording or not. To record a video on your phone you need to hold your phone
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Given there is an "AI pipeline" in play, I suspect this is just the typical compulsive equivocation from an LLM. Never assert strong opinions. Find something to say while actually saying nothing. Always give "both sides"
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by pibaker 8mo ago
> feels like they're setting whatever price they can get away with. This is just a free market for any product works. No? Why do software engineers ask for six digit salaries? Because they can get away with it — someone is willing t
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I don't understand why are you downvoted. Are people in this thread really pulling out a laptop and trying to get it connected (or pay for one with a cellular modem) every time they need to respond two words to an email, call a uber or
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I don't mean to dismiss your opinion but I doubt this is the reason android has such a huge market share. I doubt the average person even knows that apple forces every app to use apple's own browser. The countries where android
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by pibaker 8mo ago
I am an iPhone user myself, but the number of "this is an android problem" and "just use iPhone" in response to the author's complaints surprises me. I thought HN was more anti apple in the past? Maybe we are all ol
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by pibaker 8mo ago
A while ago I replied to the topmost reply to a comment to rebuke some factual errors. I didn't notice anything wrong with the comment itself when I replied. But after I posted, someone replied to my post and accused the post I replied
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Per levels.fyi, median salary of most openAI positions are above 300k. Even "technical writers" have a median pay of 197k. I searched around the internet and it seems like even entry level positions receive well above 150k. Apart
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by pibaker 8mo ago
> in my experience approximately zero users actually understand where their passkeys are stored Passkeys are designed to be hidden from the user. The author of this article even went on GitHub telling an open source implementation to not
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by pibaker 8mo ago
If no one can implement a specification without causing problems here and there, perhaps we should consider the specification itself problematic. See also: Bluetooth.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
The main benefit is you will never put your passkey on a phishing site. Password managers provide some protections against it because if they do not work automatically on a website you know something is fishy, but sadly many websites have b
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by pibaker 8mo ago
First, in relation to TFA: even if you regain access through a recovery channel, any data that was encrypted using your lost passkey will now be gone. There are also many exciting new ways you can lose your passkey that wasn't the case
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Biometric keys are still a niche techie thing that the average person probably doesn't even know exist. Most people will be using passkeys exclusively through their phones, often unintentionally. And outside the first world it is not u
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Just make sure you don't say anything against our glorious leader while you are on it. Surely nothing will go wrong if we give the state physical control over private communications.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
There is food advertisements everywhere in Japan and yet no one is fat. Maybe the real reason Americans are fat is instead of taking responsibility of their own health they prefer to blame it on le marketing departments instead. Shrug.
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by pibaker 8mo ago
You can absolutely care about your health and still enjoy some unhealthy things every once in a while, be it dinning out, a grill party, a glass of wine or a motorcycle ride. Thinking that you must optimize every single bit of your health 1
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by pibaker 8mo ago
The problem with communism is you eventually run out of successful organizations to ruin.

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