stronglikedan

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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Lots of good tools can be used for malicious purposes, but it doesn't make them bad tools.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
ignoring any Russian data isn't that hard
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
> Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account I don't understand why this is a barrier considering their accounts aren't invasive at all since you can use a temporary email account to sign up, and then y
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
> you get used to it And once everyone gets used to it, we'll chide people for writing things themselves, like we're chiding them for writing with AI now, and the ouroboros of life will continue.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Just that fact that the company expects a candidate to even have their own machine is egregious.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
> Accessibility is not accessible if you need to go through extra steps to get it. That seems a bit entitled to me, especially in the story you shared. They had access to the school just like everyone else. Why does it have to be in the
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Or just use what works best for you, since everyone is a little different, but don't forget to try new things to see if they work better for you moving forward. Oh, and don't be like this author, and don't tell people what to
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
oh, the irony!
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
I wonder if this fixes the bug in Logi software that affects copying in Excel. When Logi software is running, and you go to copy something in Excel, there's a 50% chance that it won't make it to your clipboard. Excel shows an erro
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Open AI and Claude were not nearly as mature as Github when the boom started. That's a lot of legacy infra to scale up.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
I think automatically printing the system console log to paper is the real villain in that story.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
It's a ten dollar dongle that can stay attached to your audio cable out of the way when not using it and has no perceptible affect on sound quality, and there's even passthrough options for when you need to charge, so the whole no
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
> minus the maintenance costs. Given the context (government), the taxpayers are probably footing the bill for expensive therapy sessions that go unattended.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
When AI directives are coming from the top down - when everyone above you all the way up to the CEO is all in on AI - the writing is on the proverbial wall. I'm not saying it will be that way forever, but it is the foreseeable future,
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Don't send me anything you don't want screenshotted. Easy-peasy. I'll accept an opt-out of whatever protections are in place for the general user, but I don't accept that those protections should remain in place for all
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
> This is the same technology that prevents you from accidentally screenshotting your password manager I should be able to screenshot anything I want, including my password manager. I should be able to opt-out at the OS level, or any oth
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Doesn't matter. You'll come off as the baddie. It's the foreseeable future. Best just to learn how to interpret AI generated shit, or learn how to run it through AI and have it translate it to a more concise format without al
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Then that is just the 1 in 3-2-1 backups, and neglecting the 3 & 2 is a sin (wrt backup strategies).
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
considering how much it's grown lately, you're in the minority
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
I used to hear that sexually active couples lived longer, so there's that.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
I hope so, since I take it daily for my enlarged prostate.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
BleskOS's color seems... offensive. Perhaps they don't want people living on their desktop.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
The US has gone through a lot of changes since it's inception, so there's no reason we can't change this. Preferably to a system where people have the freedom to pay out of pocket for whatever level of care they want when the
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
It's not terrible as far as I know, and it's less ambiguous than putting a "comment" key. I like it!
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
So they can play the game that the other big AI companies are playing, where they invest in one another to make each one look bigger on the books, even though it's all the same money, likely.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Companies buy other companies all the time, so I'm not sure why anyone is surprised.
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Why not? The product isn't likely to change
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
Why? The product isn't likely to change
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
SpaceXtra
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by stronglikedan 2mo ago
So HN isn't included in the "wherever it gets posted on the internet" since it's implied that "wherever" needs downvote capabilities. Doesn't make the sentence any less true - you just read too much into i

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