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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Here are 3 examples identified in their results. Play Store pages for all 3 list strong assurances about how the developer declares no data is being sold to third parties, or collected unrelated to the item's core functionality. Brave
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
It turned out that the post Karpathy shared was fake—it was written by a human pretending to be a bot. Hilarious. Instead of just bots impersonating humans (eg. captcha solvers), we now have humans impersonating bots.
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Just pray they don't buy and kill it the way they did Lookout (which was an instant search plugin for Outlook).
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
This chain is an example of why I love HN so much.
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
I'm convinced it isn't rocket science to design a flush handle that looks as clean yet has a manual operation fallback (preferably mechanical). Eg. Something like an integral hinge where you can push the short, base end in to pop
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
I use some basic analytics (page views, referrers) but zero tracking inside the app itself. No session recordings, no behavior analytics, no third-party scripts beyond the essentials Take my upvote
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Neat! Civ 3 was always my favorite version.
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Nice! Good to see some tooling in this space explicitly designed for simplicity and user-friendliness. One practical problem to consider is the risk of those distributed bundles all ending up on one or two major cloud provider's infra
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Hacker News readers are very protective of the site... reacted negatively... to... stories that... weren’t of high-enough quality to otherwise be credible candidates for the front page... HN users have an intense emotional relationship wi
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
The curse-ed ribbon was a huge productivity regression. I still use very old versions of Word and Excel (the latter at least until the odd spreadsheet exceeds size limits) because they're simply better than the newer drivel. Efficien
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Thanks for putting words to that; the paragraph which most stuck out to me as outlandish is (emphasis mine): The basic math is that launching a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per ton would add 1
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Didn't the Pentagon give SpaceX a bunch of money a while back? Any chance this was developed alongside, or as a component of, military applications? Getting 30,000 new eyes in the sky actively monitoring objects in orbit seems pretty
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Weapons test springs to mind, or as a sibling comment suggested a test of Starlink response capabilities. How confident are we the intent was nefarious? Do you ever see accidental near-misses with this type of flight profile?
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Is GLM 4.7 still leading in terms of local models?
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Is anyone else concerned about the huge , centralized dependency AI introduces into your workflow? This is one reason I've been resistant to using it. I don't want my work to go to the companies providing the models. I don&#x
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Apps on my smartphone have a strict "one strike and you're out" policy. As soon as they raise an unwanted notification, the sledgehammer comes out and their privileges get permanently revoked. Developers: I don't care h
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Not really. The Y doesn't even come close on towing capacity.
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
What would you do with a satellite, if I gifted you one for free? Let's forget orbital mechanics for a while to make this answer more fun. It would follow me around and provide a dedicated, private lifeline of communication anywhere
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
$40B in cash/equivalents, minus some $13-20B in debt (depending what source you pick).
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Next up, Apple starts taking a cut of every money transfer you do with your banking app.
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
With the ability to change one number and regenerate everything That's exactly how I use Solidworks (and similar parametric CAD software) all the time. It takes some discipline, but the key is for all your geometry and relations to
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
One point I'm confused on: The demo was on a Windows 11 host, but they start by talking about a Linux Paravirtualized SCSI driver that gathers data "provided by the guest's driver". Is that PVSCSI driver one that runs o
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Modern Windows... It's like having your own DoS adversary baked into your PC.
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
The older I get, the less I buy into "too big to fail" arguments. I now view it as "can't fail soon enough". The sooner it breaks down, the sooner something better will supplant it. This last sentiment holds true
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
What metrics show 100X or 1000X improvement trends?
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
I love it! Such a SimCity 2000 vibe!
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Why not? Can someone make a better plugin?
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
If you want to try something totally different, check if you have a local volunteer fire department looking for new recruits. I know a few people who eventually transitioned from tech and made it into their full-time career. I think part
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
My coarse understanding is monolithic kernels historically gained favor over microkernels for practical performance reasons bound to the cost of context switching. I always felt there was opportunity to address that in order to have your ca
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by rkagerer 9mo ago
Thanks, of all the discussion on this HN comment page, your link (without even having to watch the video) finally answered my question of what the intended purpose is of this OS.

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