tardedmeme

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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
I believe it's called ham radio
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
I think this is the single most retarded comment I've ever read on HN.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
You could also actually go to a rave. It should be easier than setting up your VR environment.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
I saw a new marketing strategy recently: Someone tried to sign into something with my email. I didn't have an account, so they took the excuse to send me an email asking me to create an account.
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by tardedmeme 4mo ago
The gap between "block transaction" and "don't block transaction" is nonexistent and that's the only thing that actually matters. What else are you, as a payment processor, gonna do besides block a transaction?
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
This is true. I vouched it. It's well known that Reddit was initially seeded by bots copying from other sites to fake organic activity.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Got any examples?
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Organizations will become even less about adding real value and more about making the boss feel good about you.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
This is why executives think LLMs can replace everyone. They can see it can replace them , and project that onto everyone else. And they don't see the gaps in knowledge because they don't care about the facts, only the presentati
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
This is so true. It can even just be regular club nights at good clubs. Ever been to Berghain? (Me neither) Some clubs around here sometimes run whole-weekend parties that attract thousands of people, those are fun.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
There is no gap between those things. Any fraud signal at all either causes people to get blocked, then it's a cross-merchant block, or it doesn't cause people to get blocked, then it's useless.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
That is called the flag button. It works by majority vote. But beware: if you disagree with the majority too many times, your flag button is silently changed to a placebo.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
It once told the compiler to hold the value in a register because the compiler wasn't very smart at all.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
I thought Trump defunded them last year? It was big news at the time.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Easy to imagine protective mechanisms in hindsight, now imagine you have to build a system for every tank of every chemical in the world
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Failing is a color, but throwing an exception isn't. An exception-throwing computation can easily embedded in a computation that doesn't throw - you can catch and return null, etc. But very rarely can a computation that may fail
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
What I like most about the article is that it drove the conversation to realising that async is just a poor reimplementation of threads, and put the focus back on how to do threads faster.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
idk, what happens to someone who keeps giving away lead-painted toys for free?
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
... You don't. Did you actually read the law you're complaining about? It says the OS shall ask the person who creates an account what is the age bracket for that account. No verification is required. In fact the same law makes it
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
This isn't true. Proctor and Gamble cancelled $200m of advertising and saw no change in sales. And companies using AI are costing more money to produce worse quality stuff more slowly. Facts don't matter, only how well you can con
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
We're now, in 2026, currently at 1.5 degrees above baseline. This used to be the threshold at which we decided it would be too late and everything would be fucked and human civilization would inevitably collapse. That won't happen
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
The law defines it as a product quality issue. Meaning you can return it for a refund and a company that keeps selling broken products may be ordered to recall them or to stop selling them until they're fixed. You can't go to jail
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
It gets really complicated when you get into overlapping file types, like with ISOBMFF. An .mp4 can also, simultaneously, be a valid .3gp because those are profiles of ISOBMFF. On the other extreme, JPEG is secretly two different incompatib
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
If this project causes people to stop trusting Apple platforms so much, that seems like a win/win?
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
When the testing is over, 'U' will be... missed.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
telling Debian it should ask you during setup whether you're over 18 (which you're allowed to lie about) is the same as North Korea now?
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Do you really believe that your computer asking you if you're over 18 is government spying? I don't believe that you really believe that.
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Better idea is just tell the server if you want to hide restricted content. Then it can make any changes necessary. Yes it's a fingerprinting bit. Not a new one, because they could already detect whether the restricted tag was renderin
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by tardedmeme 5mo ago
Fair enough. Most advertising isn't individually posted to each address because that's expensive - they hire their own guy, who isn't a postal worker, to go around and put it in everyone's mailbox. It's like paying

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