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by tredre3 8mo ago
> They do note that their contract language specifically references the laws as they exist today. Where? > The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and ot
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by tredre3 8mo ago
The flood of humorous GPT-generated reviews on Amazon made me stop reading reviews altogether. I can understand someone using a LLM to extrapolate one sentence into two paragraphs. I don't like it, but I understand that on Amazon the b
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by tredre3 8mo ago
Is this really how password managers extensions work? They inject arbitrary javascript in every page you visit? I would have naively thought that there'd be a better and safer API for it, considering that all browsers already have the
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by tredre3 8mo ago
If all but one of my neighbors were improving, why would I focus on the one that insists on repeatedly shooting itself in the dick?
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by tredre3 8mo ago
> these pretend attacks Feel free to disagree with the death tolls and the demographics of the victims, but the bombings are very much real...
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by tredre3 8mo ago
> Iran are the good guys? Nobody said that. But they are a sovereign country that did not attack America. Bombing them because you find their internal politics distasteful is appalling, to say the least.
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by tredre3 8mo ago
In the last paragraph you handwave that all the Z80 and ZX Spectrum documentations is likely already in the model anyway... Choosing to not provide the documents/websites might then requiring more prompting to finish the emulator, but
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by tredre3 8mo ago
And America isn't the only source of the world's aerospace or space-qualified screws, so what was the point of your comment? China is fully capable of producing high quality screws.
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by tredre3 8mo ago
> the massive popularity of run clubs and marathons A few hundreds/thousands members in cities of millions doesn't equate massive popularity. Doing cardio is unpleasant to most people, I don't understand why it's so i
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by tredre3 8mo ago
> It's not just MacBooks, nearly all laptops have SSD and RAM soldered That's simply a lie. No other laptop have soldered SSD. An increasing number do have soldered RAM.
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by tredre3 8mo ago
> when it feels so handwavey Carefully making decisions and then reassessing those choices later on when they prove to be problematic is the opposite of handwavey...
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by tredre3 8mo ago
They defer all very real issues caused by their approach as being problems for others to solve (wine, antiviruses, users, even microsoft). That's such a weird level of hubris. I think the only place where avoiding win32 is desirable is
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by tredre3 8mo ago
Your comment applies equally well to aspiring actors. The similarity between actors and influencers is more than superficial.
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by tredre3 8mo ago
> I don't think it's necessarily a dumb question It's not a dumb question, but OP didn't answer it. Cloudflare is fronting the website. So we don't know if the server is handling the entire traffic, nor if it&#x2
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by tredre3 9mo ago
> while in mining 1t contains around 2-3% of Gold Where in the world would that be true? That would be 800 - 1000 ounces per ton! As far as I know the best pay dirt produces a handful of ounces per ton, or 0.01%.
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by tredre3 9mo ago
Foreigners can drive in California without a California license. But it's important to note that in this situation they're not driving at all (the latency would make that unfeasible). They're there to disambiguate complicated
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by tredre3 9mo ago
Because it's very dangerous and first responders access in national parks isn't always easy. You can obtain a permit to do it, however, see this memo that summarizes the current situation: https://www.nps.gov/subje
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by tredre3 9mo ago
Now you're conflating a programmer with an engineer.
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by tredre3 9mo ago
Because in your own words what you built is "a shitty self-hosted website", not a complex web of distributed services that need to talk to each-other.
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by tredre3 10mo ago
That's an absolute lie. The entire browser uses around 400MB when a single tab for news.ycombinator.com is open. The tab itself sits at around 35MB. Additional tab increases by the same amount. https://imgur.com/a&#x2
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by tredre3 10mo ago
> a janky JavaScript mess. You might be thinking of Vivaldi. Brave is certainly buggy, but it's not written in Javascript.
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by tredre3 10mo ago
> Where are the upsides in CSAM - whether real or computer generated? How does it benefit society? In a public forum like X, there probably are no upsides. In general, though, pedophilia exists. This isn't something that is going to
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by tredre3 10mo ago
Install Windows 11 and accept the default options. Congrats, your Documents, Desktop, Pictures are now synced to OneDrive. Unless you've read everything during the install, you might not even be aware of it. From now on, deleting files
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by tredre3 10mo ago
The rust way isn't intuitive if you're coming from C, but b = a does indeed transfer the ownership to b and a is now invalid/unusable. You would need to make a mutable reference if you want two variables that point to the sam
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by tredre3 10mo ago
> Who doesn't love multiple system settings apps, a mix of minimal new context menus and overcrowded legacy context menus just one more click away. I get that you're making a Windows joke, but this describes Linux equally well.
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by tredre3 10mo ago
PWNO provided a patch but it was rejected for being too large[1]. A maintainer fixed it himself[2]. I don't know if PWNO used a LLM but it seems clear that the maintainer had a preferred specific style in mind so it was likely hand wri
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by tredre3 10mo ago
Thanks to tools, I'm a far more capable hunter than my cat. It's trivial for a human of any size to kill a slow moving cow. It's very hard to imagine any scenario where a domestic cat would be capable of hurting a cow, let al
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by tredre3 10mo ago
> I'm sorry but why C#? Because Stardew Valley is written in it. Probably half of modern games are written in C#, too (Unity). It's not exactly an odd choice. > Isn't the big tech (Microsoft) in this case is a very big
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I very much doubt that the track record of companies fronted by an hands-on engineer is much better. If anything they probably fail faster on average so we never hear about them.
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by tredre3 10mo ago
You misunderstand how licensing works. They can build an entirely closed source OS around the Linux kernel if they want. The only thing they'd have to publish is the changes to the kernel itself. I don't see why they'd need t

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