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by serf 24d ago
>Almost makes you wonder if some of those vulnerabilities are intentionally allowed to exist. the fact that someone can say that post-Dual_EC_DRBG/project-rubicon/eternalblue/eternalromance exposure boggles the mind.
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by serf 25d ago
>It was the first mainstream Wiki-based game. Now, every game does it that way. the wow wiki was from 04, the minecraft wiki is from 09. ... and wow was very documentation based for people pre-quest-helpers.
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by serf 25d ago
What I find interesting is the selectivity of the moral outrage. On HN, people will casually discuss careers in defense, surveillance, ad-tech, exploitative finance, or fairly predatory forms of Silicon Valley capitalism without immediately
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by serf 25d ago
this was the evolution of most online games, same reason why every action/shooter game that's online at the moment has a mechanic that allows players to see through walls : if players have that mechanic available to them then ther
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by serf 25d ago
let's try the entrepreneurial defense that tends to work around here : "oh no, it's okay -- you see I was selling the hack; I wouldn't have wasted time in that game."
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by serf 26d ago
show me how to blend "radical self expression" with "carefully curated guest list" and make it work.
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by serf 28d ago
'aging' is a terrible vanity phrase for '65 years old and over.'. the more interesting result : > Adults in the sandwich generation were more likely than those who were not sandwiched to say they were very satisfied w
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by serf 1mo ago
for all the reasons in the book/movie/television show 'The Andromeda Strain'.
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by serf 1mo ago
>It is a constant, "but my friends can do this", and you have to deal with it all the time. I don't have children, but I was a child and I know parents. It's not a given that a child has this type of 2 way negotiation
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by serf 1mo ago
I believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.
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by serf 1mo ago
>You can't search what you don't even know exists. that's not really entirely true -- one can google for "fast pathfinding' and stumble upon A-star , all that had to be queried was the intent/desire. a lot o
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by serf 1mo ago
>As OP said, simply providing a link to a Wikipedia article, or a glossary, helps widen the audience beyond "IFYKYK." it also serves as a minimum barrier to entry for the masses, which isn't always a bad thing. if you&#x27
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by serf 1mo ago
given the audience and the venue I think it's more like going to a restaurant as a customer and then asking the waiter to explain what a sandwich is.
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by serf 1mo ago
everyone uses github because everyone uses github. it's relying strictly on social effect right now.
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by serf 1mo ago
I don't disagree with your points, but have you ever considered it strange that you're unable to relate to why someone would want to do something for fun? you answer your own perplexity by yourself in the same sentence; they do it
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by serf 1mo ago
also way slower if we're just going against 'nvidia hardware'.
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by serf 1mo ago
this comment has always existed behind every apple release, most especially anything vaguely pro-ish. to answer your question : looking at the aftermarket availability of Apple's prior best and brightest : practically no one buys them.
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by serf 1mo ago
since pre-unix MIT time-sharing machines in the mid 60s. probably before then somewhere on some physical bulletin board somewhre.
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by serf 1mo ago
a GUID isn't an indicator, it's a fingerprint. so unless you want to draw a distinction between 'user' and 'machine' , yeah it is for identifying users. to believe otherwise, especially with Microsoft involved,
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by serf 1mo ago
I thought Brion James was fantastic in The Fifth Element because he's one of the few slapstick outlets. He comes off as sorta military-scary, and ends up frozen like a Looney-Tunes popsicle in the freezer a few minutes later , and dead
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by serf 1mo ago
I just want a version that includes the prophet Mercer stuff. felt like a huge component to drop out.
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by serf 1mo ago
was any evidence ever given? >"The trained eye, weary of vibe coded designs, will see Claude Code’s aesthetic fingerprint all over this. " yeah, everyone is re-doing old interfaces with LLMs. >"They're hosted on Al
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by serf 1mo ago
>Closed source apps that compile fully static, these tend to be stable and Just Run in my experience... but open source apps? Good luck trying to bring these to even compile 10 years afterwards without going through an insane dance with
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by serf 1mo ago
doesn't that just mean that either a) you're using the wrong benchmark to judge or b) the benchmark that YOU need doesn't exist.
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by serf 1mo ago
"dislike ai? prove so by using an alternative ai." I don't think this train is going to stop, but to pretend that the anti-AI proponents are suggesting moving away from frontier labs and into open-source is short-selling thei
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by serf 1mo ago
it's more capable (and slower,63t/s ish) than most flash models i've played with.
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by serf 1mo ago
they knowingly and willfully broke copyright laws the world over in the faces of some of the most powerful corporations , but somehow some magical post-training method to discern provenance is going to be the legal gotcha that bothers the A
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by serf 1mo ago
underwhelming specs, price, ergonomics. marketed for pros, but gated from them by a $240/yr contract for a fedora reskin. another step back towards unix I guess, but bell didn't charge yearly. (edit, remembered it wasnt at&t)
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by serf 1mo ago
zoom users often have little choice but to use zoom. wayland doesn't have that need.
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by serf 1mo ago
>I don’t get how this is not the top post on HN. This should be like alarm bells going off, canary in the coal mine type of stuff. we don't all buy everything sama says as factual. >We’re hitting the frontier of the frontier wher

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