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by pwg 9mo ago
Spoken like someone who does not have a "second person" around while they are working from home. Unless the "other people" (spouses/partners/parents/etc.) also work a from home job, they simply do not in
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by pwg 10mo ago
From the fine article, second paragraph: "you can build a tiny “crystal detector” that responds to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and even microwave oven leakage"
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by pwg 10mo ago
> Building 29 separate settings with confusing and overlapping effects is less work than making a single setting of: [Local Only]? The 29 separate confusing overlapping effects is by design. A single "local only" switch would
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by pwg 10mo ago
And it fails to render anything with Javascript disabled.
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by pwg 10mo ago
It comes about from digitizing analog video signals. The early standards for sampling (digitizing) analog video signals resulted in the digital pixel horizontal sample size (often) being wider than the line spacing of the displayed analog
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by pwg 10mo ago
> Guaranteed nutrition and food safety Nope. There is no 'guarantee' the centralized kitchen produces nutritious foods. Further, you the recipient have no way to verify with any ease the accuracy of any 'claims' of
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by pwg 10mo ago
Most journalists are ex. English majors (or some other non-technical degree). I would not expect any (even the supposed tech. journalists) to understand the technology they report upon to the level that us here on HN understand that same
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by pwg 10mo ago
As far as creating a click bait title, yep, the editor knows what they are doing, and most likely picked the word for the click bait factor. But I'd also bet the editors technical knowledge of how this "revelation" of the hid
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by pwg 10mo ago
No, it is not. But given the abysmal lack of technical knowledge of the "typical computer user" they don't see the redacted PDF's as "having black stick-it notes stuck on top of the text". They see the PDF as
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by pwg 10mo ago
The journalist writing the story has the same level of technical knowledge about how to "redact" properly in the digital realm as the individuals doing the redaction. To the journalist, with zero knowledge of the technical aspect
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by pwg 10mo ago
> Why would anyone want to buy a new computer now unless the old one is worn out? There is no price/performance improvement. Which is exactly why MS is pivoting to begging you to buy a new computer by harassing you with an apparentl
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by pwg 10mo ago
The reality is that the ratio of "total websites" to "websites with an API" is likely on the order of 1M:1 (a guess). From the scraper's perspective, the chances of even finding a website with an API is so low that
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by pwg 10mo ago
This sounds much like a post hoc justification for having not bothered to go to the effort to implement the ability to allow anyone (power users or otherwise) the freedom to customize the "app" to their liking.
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by pwg 10mo ago
> if anyone knows anyone over at Google, could you ask them to please stop doing this It will do no good. "DoubleClick"'s (what Google is now, after the ad company it bought took it over) sole purpose is to push more ads
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by pwg 10mo ago
It's related to "Enshittification" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification ) but that term does cover more than just making something they would prefer you not do a confusing labyrinth to deter yo
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by pwg 10mo ago
> But it'd be awful if my best shopping option was 15mi away. In much of the rural US, 15mi away is having your good shopping close by. A lot of areas make due with their "best shopping option" being well more than 15mi a
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by pwg 10mo ago
The stores get away with it because even when ignoring the fact that tax is added after, few of the shoppers in these stores will remember the shelf price for a basket of 20+ items from the store. They might remember one or two, but they w
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by pwg 10mo ago
> then why do poor people shop there? While the typical viewpoint is that "poor people" shop there, that's actually somewhat of a misnomer. Most dollar stores in the US are located in rural locations, and in part because a
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by pwg 11mo ago
> That still doesn't give any context that would support the action. That's because if the true context in support was given, it would be: "because seed sharing reduces our rate of sales, and our resulting profits".
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by pwg 11mo ago
It (LEA) does all the work of a memory access (the address computation part) without actually performing the memory access. Instead of reading from memory at "computed address value" it returns "computed address value" t
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by pwg 11mo ago
Register renaming allows the CPU to execute in parallel instructions it might otherwise need to serialize. But it does nothing to help you, the programmer, when your algorithm really needs to have 9 registers worth of data in registers and
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by pwg 11mo ago
The DEC Alpha chip was the same. It also had a hardwired zero register (although IIRC the zero register was r31 instead of r0) and about half the addressing modes and a whole bunch of "assembly instructions" were created by inter
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by pwg 11mo ago
> the CPU could do the exact same thing for "mov eax, 0", couldn't it? Yes, it could, but mov eax, 0 is still going to also be six bytes of instruction in cache, and fetched, and decoded, so optimizing on the shorter versi
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by pwg 11mo ago
> Only because watching a video earlier, I heard "MOV" pronounced "MAUV" not "MOVE" Was it someone from an electronics background? Because MOV is also the acronym for Metal Oxide Varistor [1] from electroni
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by pwg 11mo ago
The best advice you will get is: "find an attorney and ask these questions of that attorney".
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic(righto.com)
7 points by pwg 11mo ago|1 comments
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by pwg 11mo ago
> How did Microsoft get to own it in the first place? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996035
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by pwg 11mo ago
Today, in 2025, neither are safe assumptions to make. Much in line with the Internet meme's of "new college freshmen in 2025 have never known a world without cell phones" and the like, in 2025 there is now some rather larg
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by pwg 11mo ago
This is a very recent aspect time wise in the very long history of Unix (and Linux) systems.
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by pwg 11mo ago
Ublock origin -- blocking the javascript, and the article is readable with no page flicking, and no ads at all.

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