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5d ago
Not forgetting of course that an RTX5090 is what 600W+ ? And the Mac is probably half that at most ?
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5d ago
> But Uber's terms explicitly force consumers to waive their right to go to court if they want to access Uber's service. In most jurisdictions there are often laws related to unfair contract terms. And even if there are no such
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5d ago
> big corporations about why they force everyone into arbitration out of the goodness of their hearts. We don't need it regurgitated as if it's the truth. Its not a regurgitation. Its the facts. It applies to small businesses t
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5d ago
> Uber ToS requires you to accept arbitration First to be clear, I am speaking in general terms. I know nothing about this case, I don't want to know anything about this case, but I have just scrolled through people's thoughts
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11d ago
> A little birdie tells me they work closely with the Shapr team on certain feature developments in the app.... It is no secret that Apple work closely with various well-known app developers, and in the case of Shapr they are even featur
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12d ago
> many family members of diplomats and government officials Point still remains. They will be family members of people with suitable job description and rank. As an extreme example, nobody seriously expects a janitor at an embassy to be
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12d ago
> Reversing the table drop doesn't fix this issue. Also reversing a table drop doesn't solve extra corruption routes such as cross-table dependencies.
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12d ago
Point one remains. The "solution" appears to come from somebody who thinks its OK to run Claude against a production database.... “wouldn’t it be nice if prod DB writes were easy to roll back” The point remains that if they ran
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12d ago
> after recovering from a Clade-generated bug, I was thinking to myself “wouldn’t it be nice if prod DB writes were easy to roll back”. Hmmmmmm...... 1. "Claude-generated bug" . No it was PBCAK (Problem Between Chair And Keyb
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12d ago
> She was convicted by the way.... Not according to this[1] She refused to attend court in the UK. After a lot of pressure she reluctantly agreed to appear via video link. She was sentenced in absence by the UK court to eight months in
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12d ago
> And you certainly don’t want an agency asset floating around in the legal/prison system of another country, friend or foe. This person was allegedly looking at CSAM. Police and courts interrogating someone as to why they were look
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13d ago
> it’s necessary. Yes, but the point in this case is that we are told the person did not have diplomatic immunity. Not everybody who works at an embassy has diplomatic immunity. The Geneva Convention dictates who gets diplomatic immunity
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13d ago
The point I'm making is that companies who are serious enough to want to keep their code-base in-house and off the various online repo services are also the kind of companies who are strict about what you can and cannot do with LLMs (i
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13d ago
I very much doubt the problem magically disappears with "newer" pesticides. Afterall, if a pesticide washed off in the rain, it wouldn't be much good as a pesticide .... it would be a very expensive proposition for the farmer
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13d ago
> You don't have to give out your phone number. You can mint an arbitrary "username" and give the username out to people. You are deliberately missing the point. Signal are gatekeeping these new advanced security features
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13d ago
> you can buy Mullvad credits on Amazon That is not the same thing. You buy a Mullvad scratch card on Amazon and you redeem the token string. Mullvad also offer the option to put your card number into the Mullvad website, and I'm su
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13d ago
> How does that work? My gut feeling is that any serious real-world company with a proprietary codebase worth looking at would not be handing out the crown jewels to a third party. License or not. I don't doubt somebody licensed the
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13d ago
> You're giving up transparency for it being harder to game But then if we take that argument to its natural extreme, surely it means people should take the marketing bullshit published in the 100-page system cards published by Anth
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13d ago
Yeah, erm. You should only ever eat fruit skins if the fruit is organic and the skin is clean. At this point I think its safe to say there are hundreds of scientific studies out there telling you why. This is one example[1]. I quote from th
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13d ago
So TL;DR benchmarking in a completely non-reproducible manner ? "Model X performed great, but we can't possibly tell you anything about the code it was looking at apart from it was a large code base from an unknown company".
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14d ago
> What is a more private, usable solution for filtering them out than using a phone number? Since when is giving out your phone number a "more private" option ?
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14d ago
> registering without phone number as a paid option soon Replacing the need to register with a phone number with a requirement to pay is a better option how, exactly ?
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21d ago
Super, thanks. zonemaster added to my bookmarks !
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21d ago
> Netnod.se uses a DNSKEY that is too small on their main domain. Interesting, could you expand on that ? I ran netnod.se through the Verisign[1] and internet.nl[2] and it passes DNSSEC tests ? [1] https://dnssec-analyzer.veri
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22d ago
> We found deSEC to be the only affordable DNS supplier in the EU that complies with state of the art secure DNSSEC. I mean, if your definition of "affordable" is free, then sure. But for the record there are other affordable E
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23d ago
> Main browser: A restricted Firefox Mullvad Browser[1] is an example of just that, ready to go for people in the real world who don't have the time or inclination to mess around with random extensions and `about:config` hacking. Al
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23d ago
> given they've been a bit of a hot mess since the early 2010's-ish No. Oversimplified summary: There was a period around 2010 when the management at the time wanted to follow a more commercial route with various unrelated &quo
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23d ago
> My point is both that it's hard to tell, Its not hard to tell for things like ".uk" or other serious suffixes. It only (maybe) becomes hard(er) to tell for all the vanity ccTLDs that came along in the 2000s. But even th
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23d ago
> but you have to admit that the existence of these SLDs (like co.uk) I'm sorry, what ? Admit ? Confusion ? In the case of .co.uk it has been around since 1996. HN is a technical forum, most people here should be well aware it is a
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23d ago
> What's so dangerous about it? Implying lack of trust in `co.uk` Implying `co.uk` may suffer the same fate at `.name` Complete FUD.
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