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by tredre3 2y ago
> Why hasn't any evidence of such client-side interception ever been surfaced? In such scenario only the target of the wiretap would receive the modified client application. Both google and apple allow pushing updates to small subse
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by tredre3 2y ago
> I respect this so much. You really shouldn't, Gary is extremely pedantic himself. He really really dislikes criticism or being corrected. For example on youtube, in many of his video comment's, he's engaged in long fight
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by tredre3 2y ago
> this seems like a technology that raises the floor not the ceiling of what is possible. In your view, how is making GPU programming easier a bad thing?
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by tredre3 2y ago
Nilay Patel is an odd example to use. He has absolutely no credibility and he just attacks critics when his errors are pointed out.
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by tredre3 2y ago
Your camera app might be hardcoded to always use Google Photos if it is enabled (some manufacturers do that) but it would more than likely look for another gallery app if you disabled Google Photos. Google itself has one such alternative ga
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by tredre3 2y ago
It has essentially nothing to do with AI, they seem to have thrown that in for bonus PR points. Sure, ML is plenty involved behind the scenes for both actual use cases (AR and VR) but it's not relevant and not what people think of when
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by tredre3 2y ago
In the financial world, hiding an asset doesn't always mean making it literally invisible. It just means making it out of reach to the collector. You can argue about the legality of what he did if you want, but being a pedant about the
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by tredre3 2y ago
> Sure there can also be interesting discussions about actual bank account closures, but I think it's a lot more of a minority, there's better recourses, and most decent countries will be willing to guarantee citizens can get s
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by tredre3 2y ago
Which is already a big improvement over the situation in America. Being cut from the savings/investment/loan system would certainly suck and be unfair if you did nothing wrong, but much less than losing your basic bank account. Th
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by tredre3 2y ago
> HN [...] were not that popular pre-2017 Is that true? What happened to change that in 2017? I've been around longer than that and I admit I haven't seen that much of a difference in engagement around here. But over such a lon
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by tredre3 2y ago
> or just not giving it a name (nonstandard, but very commonly supported) It's only supported by gcc 11+ and clang 11+ (both from ~2021) because it was a suggested C2x extension. It's been accepted in C23 so other compilers wil
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by tredre3 2y ago
> Why do health services somehow get a free ticket to cheat? In the vast majority of western countries, a tourist would need to pay more than 250usd to receive the services described by GP. Even when a country has UHC it rarely(never?) c
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by tredre3 2y ago
> I’ve spent days reviewing comments on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, news articles, et al and I’ve never seen such a uniformity of opinion on anything in my life. I felt the same way about the American election. Yet, Trump won. Online conse
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by tredre3 2y ago
It's likely downvoted because it's irrelevant. Very few (if any) private plans in the US would cover it either.
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by tredre3 2y ago
> how gigantic $100 billion models are all you need for AGI and that it’s just a matter of time until we reach this scale. And if you didn’t see this you’re a simpleton who doesn’t understand how exponential curves work. OpenAI made no s
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by tredre3 2y ago
> Modals that blocks focus to an entire browser window aren't really a good idea (I'm of the opinion that they are almost always a shitty idea, but that's harder to argue). Good news then, because alert/prompt/co
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by tredre3 2y ago
> so using a monochrome LCD makes sense for cost saving and power consumption reasons The Sharp Memory LCD used in the Playdate is more expensive than a similarly sized IPS LCD. Whilst power consumption was probably a consideration, the
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by tredre3 2y ago
The difference being that not many HN posters have any power over others, so their (wrong) opinions are harmless in that context.
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by tredre3 2y ago
> It's not a cultural thing to accuse customers of committing fraud their first interaction. In my experience a lot of German businesses are like that, they'll woosh you away for any slight (perceived or real). So it is definit
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by tredre3 2y ago
OVH's infrastructure is absolutely very reliable. The pain begins when you need support. Just like you, I have lost a lot of sleep over domains held hostage by their incompetence (for almost a year in one instance). Lesson learned, nev
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by tredre3 2y ago
> Good luck getting a functioning body without consuming carbohydrates, either. The body doesn't need carbohydrates to function. > The body also requires dietary sugar to function :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by tredre3 2y ago
Someone who is self-taught is likely to have an interest in the topic of programming. Most bootcampers I've come across have no interest in understanding the fundamentals. In my experience, the former produces much higher quality devel
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by tredre3 2y ago
Use xcancel instead of archive.is and you will see the replies. https://xcancel.com/TomHacohen/status/1861137484249252093
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by tredre3 2y ago
I get you're trying to be a white knight of sort and protect the world from HN's american-centric view, but of the 215 world capitals it's currently Sunday in 195 of them and Monday morning in the rest, so...
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by tredre3 2y ago
I actually agree with you that single-header libs are often not ideal. They're kind of neat in concept: just copy paste and done! But after being burned a few times by naming or linking conflicts or you cloned your .c and forgot to rem
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by tredre3 2y ago
HN's guidelines aren't "laws" to be "enforced", they're a list of unwelcome behaviors. There is value in setting expectations for participants in a community, even if some will choose to break them and get
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by tredre3 2y ago
That specific duration, two weeks, was an official policy from the CDC and the White House https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-s... . Here's the US Surgeon General talking about it: https:&#
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by tredre3 2y ago
Honesty is often unpleasant, especially when someone tells us that our work isn't good enough. But it is a required thing from a leader. The important thing is that he's cut down on needless personal insults.
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by tredre3 2y ago
> no instruction bloat via creating multiple instances for all functions. This makes me think that you're using single-header libraries wrong. These kind of libraries usually require you to do something special prior to including it
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by tredre3 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure windows uses "long" for 64 bit but linux uses "long long" for 64 bit Windows long is 32bit even on 64bit CPUs. Linux long is arch dependent and is 64bit on x64, 32bit on x86. long long is always

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