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by urbandw311er 4mo ago
This is a horrible and yet not unexpected insight into the internals of Excel
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
Let’s wait and see how those three big IPOs go first…
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
Exactly the same problem manifests itself in Google Docs. Hit RETURN. New paragraph. Begin considering what you will write. Prompt pops up: “Help me write.” Every time. It’s incredibly distracting and turning it off is hard wired into disa
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
Visual memory is really powerful and maps far more easily onto human brain’s experience of navigating the world. So it’s easier for many people to imagine and organise around a grid.
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
11.94 tokens/sec (from another answer above)
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
This is sometimes exposed in front end browser code and I had an actual (non technical) end user email our support team last month asking if it was something they should be concerned about! God knows how they found it, I suspect everyone is
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
Nrwl are right to be sceptical about Microsoft’s published download numbers for the compromised extension. Given that my machine downloaded it a full two hours after it was supposedly unpublished.
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
I wonder if this was the compromised nx console extension that bit me yesterday. The timing seems identical. See https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-...
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
This list is incomplete - at least one other package (nx-console VS code extension; 2.2M downloads) was compromised yesterday with this worm: if suitably qualified/connected people are reading this, it could be worth following that dep
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
Incidentally, this is one of the first times where an LLM was genuinely useful in helping me quarantine & identify the issue with a degree of certainty. If you want further information on how the attack was obfuscated & executed, I
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Critical: Compromised Nx Console version 18.95.0(github.com)
3 points by urbandw311er 5mo ago|2 comments
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
Ouch: critical supply chain attack in one of the most popular VS Code Extensions (2.2M installs) I was bitten by this today - the payload dropped a Python C2 backdoor and LaunchAgent. (fortunately, it failed to run due to failed dependenci
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Show HN: An addictive phone game about phone addiction(downtime.partridge.works)
5 points by urbandw311er 5mo ago|3 comments
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
This feels like an underrated comment. Anyone here got the technical chops to address it?
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by urbandw311er 5mo ago
> You speak into the microphone, it gets sent to one of OpenAI’s billion servers, and then a GPU pretends to talk to you via text-to-speech. Neato. People (including this article) keep talking about OpenAI realtime like it’s a STT - LLM
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
There is perhaps _some_ truth to this, long term. But I think it’s way too early to remove all the QA.
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
I think it’s more feature bloat to be honest. And trying to deliver on massively over-juiced profit projections.
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
This is a really underrated comment. It’s a great question and speaks volumes as to what the hell so many modern tech cos are actually doing with all their resource. Didn’t Elon strip most of the team at Twitter away, after some awful false
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
> Tan’s website made 169 server requests > (Hacker News makes 7). It shipped 28 test files > to production users. It loaded 78 JavaScript > controllers > Uncompressed 2MB PNGs that could’ve been 300KB. > An empty 0-by
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
Oh, this is a glorious and nostalgic romp back through past memories. Thank you!
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
I think it’s about plausible deniability: you can pretend you’ve forgotten your password, you can’t pretend you’ve forgotten your finger.
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
The idea of Google lecturing anybody about hijacking UI for dark patterns is absurd. The company that hijacked an open source mobile OS and turned it into a closed source profit machine. The company that hijacked the web so “accelerated mob
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
I didn’t downvote it but it doesn’t seem particularly new or insightful. The points are quite shallow. Perhaps people come here for comments that offer an expert opinion or a bit more. As I say I didn’t downvote.
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by urbandw311er 6mo ago
This feels like an underrated comment if true
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Mythos Is Everyone's Problem(theatlantic.com)
10 points by urbandw311er 6mo ago|3 comments
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by urbandw311er 7mo ago
This is a great idea. It’s always been inconvenient requiring access to the physical board just to be able to test these sort of projects.
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by urbandw311er 7mo ago
Why are we discussing the issue being ATC workers when the recordings make it clear that they had identified the issue and ordered the vehicle to stop? Sound like the issue is whoever was driving the truck not doing what was asked of them f
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by urbandw311er 7mo ago
It’s kind of sad to read your arrogant and xenophobic rantings. I’m not sure you’re really down for the sort of inclusive and open minded discussion that normally takes place here.
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by urbandw311er 7mo ago
Or, to put it another way that actually gives him some credit, because he founded the company.
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by urbandw311er 7mo ago
Are they? I thought they were moving the access to it to be solely via their app or something like that

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