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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
In-between jobs you are stressed to find the next job, that's not a good background for vacation.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Hah! Reading about the way democracy was done in Athens, both are at 0. In Athens, they had some 5000 people gathering together to vote every week on various matters out of the total population of around 20000 (the others were women, slaves
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
> our security policy required us Nope, someone should have requested that from you directly or indirectly, but you should not have done the pointless job if you have a pointy one usually. If you obey, it degrades you and the society at
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
> no one will visit your website... RSS could be it I thought it too, then I broke the RSS feed on my blog and someone complained immediately.
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Ask HN: Why are comments under news articles gone?
2 points by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago|6 comments
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
What an ode to exceptionalism /s You also think that you are smarter than the people flooding Ceuta streets these days, don't you?
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
>incandescent light bulbs which are an order of magnitude less efficient than contemporary LED lights.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Scary but then liberating once you get to know what you have to type in to reach your objective.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
I am old enough to have observed non-tech workers using all kinds of text-based interfaces and it was a real pleasure seeing how old ma's would jiggle numbers on the bc-style TUI in the way that would offset any modern CompSci major.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Harness? I am an avid HN reader but even I don't yet fully understand how this word is used in the AI context. Which is exactly the point of the OP. It all boils down to naming things and cache invalidation, /s
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
I can't share all of it, but to understand the relationship between SPF, DKIM and DMARC one should know that DMARC covers two possible cases. Either DKIM domain must match From: domain or MAIL FROM domain must match the From: domai
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
I think he reposts them on his consulting page https://www.sh.consulting/blog and no, I am not affiliated. Just keeping an eye on the email deliverability topic as a hoppy.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
A little known but amusing fact: Fujitsu (well, ICL, the UK company that was bought by Fujitsu and then became the UK branch of Fujitsu) is still the supplier of Microsoft software to the European institutions through a long-standing fram
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
> Every email carries two "from" addresses I made a presentation about exactly the same subject many years ago, but I was not shy of separating the SMTP protocol (RFC 821 and the following ) and the email message (RFC 822 and t
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Can you provide your view of the events, then?
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Same for French, and this is due to the centralized state that enforced uniformity.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Pretty much like the patent system sounded at first to commoners.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Dude, sorry for being rude, it's out of desperation, really. I worked for a unicorn once and it came with the maxxed-out Mac book and the most meaningless job ever in the industry that should not exist. I also wrote endless FP7 and ESA
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
I only recently passed my good old T420s down the generation and switched to T14 Gen 2, the one that still has S3 ACPI Sleep Mode.
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by sam_lowry_ 2mo ago
Except if the authorities anywhere in the world or valuable partners politely ask for it, yeah.
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
iproute? nft all the way!
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
Depends on your mindset. If you are an Engineer that does not need hand-holding and you accept terse answers from support with the gratitude to the human on the other side, then go for it. You will at least not need months of training and t
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
This is another way to put it, yes.
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
> corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society It is part of every society, but Ukrainians and the west perceive it as a problem for Ukraine while, say, Danes do not, although Denmark [1] is utterly corrupt in its own w
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
Looking at the ivan_gammel's startups now and chuckling.
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
AFAIU HuggingFace is a US company only because all successful companies end up setting up a US HQ. Anyway. Allow me to politely disagree with the essence of your statement. Hacking happened.
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
So... Can it sleep with echo mem >/sys/power/state? Abd wake up without crashing?
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
For the curious, there is a lot more about National Numbers in this pdf: https://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/sites/default/files/documents/nl...
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
PR exercise or not, there was a successful hacking attempt, the company behind it acknowledged it. It's a crystal clear case for OFAC, the French cyber-security branch of the National Police. I guess FBI would happily move such a simpl
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by sam_lowry_ 3mo ago
> My assumption is no What do you mean by no ? If I hack into Hugging Face, and I publicly brag about it, I will be prosecuted. If I do it using a computer, my computer won't be prosecuted. I will be, but the accusation may change

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