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by sbarre 2y ago
Only if you're starting with paper? Years back I worked somewhere where we had to PDF documents to e-fax them to a supplier. We eventually found out that on their end it was just being received digitally and auto-converted to PDF. It
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by sbarre 2y ago
That may be true, but your first response still doesn't seem to account for that fact.
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by sbarre 2y ago
How hard it is to produce credible-looking bullshit makes a really big difference in these scenarios. Consultants aren't the ones doing the fact-checking, that falls to the client, who ironically tend to assume the consultants did it
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by sbarre 2y ago
I see your point.. I guess again we have different experiences, perhaps depending on how often we come to the site or how much content we're looking for. I can barely keep up with the topics I'm interested in on here, I don&#x27
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The whole site is worth a Friday groan
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by sbarre 2y ago
If the revenue is worth the cost, why leave it to chance? Internet Explorer seemed impossible to beat when it was packed in with Windows, and yet Chrome is now the dominant browser. I'm sure that isn't lost on Google. The change
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by sbarre 2y ago
You're kind of describing an RSS reader, or del.icio.us...
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by sbarre 2y ago
Only if you actually get enough people in the door.. Plus sometimes invite systems mean you just get the "usual suspects", friends-of-friends, etc... It definitely has value in keeping out the spammers and trolls though, I agree t
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by sbarre 2y ago
I guess we've had different experiences on here then. I've had really in-depth and fascinating conversations (or simply lurked the comments when I have nothing to contribute) on all kinds of game dev topics, or web dev, or others.
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by sbarre 2y ago
That's not how I read it at all.. It's the "HN for..." part that is the sense of grandeur.. Not the idea of self-hosting vs. using Reddit or Discord. HN has been around for 15 years, it has earned its place as a quali
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by sbarre 2y ago
That site aims for it, but the front page goes back a month or more. That's not a level of detail or activity that will compel people to go there regularly? I get the desire to have quality users and posts, but the whole invite syste
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by sbarre 2y ago
You say that, but I know at least a few collector types who definitely spend above their means to collect the stuff they're into... it's not great. Hopefully that's not the case here, but it's definitely not just a &quo
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by sbarre 2y ago
The article also mentions this is only one of many databases, and the only one that has self-reporting requirements for abuse.
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by sbarre 2y ago
I find it interesting that this research seems to be (at a glance from reading that first page of the thread) coming from someone who owns some of these fraudulent cards (and could have just re-sold them and kept their mouth shut).
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by sbarre 2y ago
Ok so the answer is that these integrations are not implemented, even if the configuration has a field for an OpenAI API key (obviously just as an example). Thank you for clarifying. Good luck with this project! I'll keep an eye on i
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by sbarre 2y ago
I mean they claim to be in the write-up on this article. I don't really see anything that substantiates your statements here, but maybe I missed something.
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by sbarre 2y ago
Poking around in the code, I don't see how this can be used with OpenAI or other SaaS LLMs... Is that part still WIP?
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by sbarre 2y ago
I mean... when has this not been the case? Technology has never been class-agnostic or universally accessible. Even saying that, I would argue that there is more, not less, technology that is accessible to more people today than there ever
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by sbarre 2y ago
I was in high school in the late 80s and early 90s, I'm well aware. :-) We (a few friends and I) were basically the Novell Netware admins because our school didn't have a full-time computer tech and none of the teachers knew anyt
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Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port(crastinator-pro.github.io)
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by sbarre 2y ago
Expelled or suspended? Expulsion seems disproportionate for that kind of prank.
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by sbarre 2y ago
He created/operated a platform with the primary purpose of facilitating the sale of drugs. He profited from those transactions. That makes him a drug dealer. Comparing Meta and Google to Silk Road is a bad faith argument. You might
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by sbarre 2y ago
> Some of us see a major difference between selling heroin to someone, and building the marketplace from which these victim's freely bought drugs. Let's say I "build a network" of mules, planes, trucks, trafficking ro
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by sbarre 2y ago
So by your logic, a drug kingpin who doesn't actually handle the drug-selling transaction should not be liable for anything, even though the money rolls up to them? Ross directly profited from the sale of those drugs. So, yes, he was
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by sbarre 2y ago
I see lots of people getting hung up on the word "universally" so maybe that was the wrong choice (and also the least relevant part of my sentence but whatever). I should have just said "wrong", plain and simple.
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by sbarre 2y ago
I dunno man.. When someone advocates for treating another person as "not human" or wants to deny them basic human rights, that's universally wrong in my book.
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by sbarre 2y ago
> I suspect other brands are the same. My research shows Sony is the outlier here. Fuji, Canon, Nikon and Panasonic all require software or drivers to be used as a USB camera (or at least did as of a year ago or so). Also, the camera c
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by sbarre 2y ago
Or it's working exactly as intended. Pay-to-win isn't just for the game itself.
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by sbarre 2y ago
I think pervasive (invasive?) social media and the "always-potentially-on-camera" reality, paired with cancel culture, has also killed a lot of "underground" scenes (and counter-culture in general but that's a whole
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by sbarre 2y ago
It's not actually insane if the application hosting the link follows the principle that GET requests should not mutate state. This problem is ~20 years old from when CMS platforms had GET links in the UI to delete records and "bro

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