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by vanviegen 7mo ago
Ah.. I'm glad it's just a narrative then, and that there are in fact just as many good things to report and that America is not rapidly becoming an authoritarian state.
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
> This seems like sort of a straw man, though. I don’t think anyone advocates for system diagrams in the absence of any context. My point is that I see value in interactively building up a diagram together. The final artifact, even when
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
Look at the attack vectors that are actually being used, and address them specifically, with minimally invasive measures. If the problem is apps that allow remote control of your device, that people can be socially engineered into installin
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
I actually rather dislike having my info spread over a gazillion services, all of them having their own paid accounts or advertising. Also, a single unified search for all communication and shared notes would be very helpful. Also, I'm
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
I recently used Bunny for a small project. Pretty good experience. And they're rolling out new functionality at a good pace.
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
> finally someone says “we need a diagram here; this is too much to follow” and everyone in the audience nods because they are all lost. Yes, that happens. I can't remember any occasions where the diagram actually cleared things up
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
> A diagram is a dense way to express information. I'd say it's a lossy way to express information. I find that architecture diagrams often cannot express the exact concepts I mean to communicate, so you're left trying to
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
Yeah. If ordering a pizza also regularly involves entering BIOS setup to change boot device ordering, change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI and disable secure boot, depending on your distro.
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by vanviegen 7mo ago
As you said earlier, therapists are (thoroughly) trained on how to best handle situations. Just 'being human' (and thus empathizing) may not be such a big part of the job as you seem to believe. Training LLMs we can do. Though it
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
It used to be, but only in cases where your distro doesn't just package whatever software you require. Nowadays I prefer Flatpak or AppImage over crappy custom Windows installers for those cases. They allow for sandboxing and reliable
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
> But you cannot afford to maintain an important feature Google wants to remove, like MV2. That depends on who "you" is. Maintaining extensive patch sets is still way cheaper than building and maintaining an entire browser.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
> After that there will be no stopping of Japan, South Korea and Iran rightfully wanting to have their own nukes. And I'm afraid they'll be far from the only ones...
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
Just tight fitting casing with some rubbery edges, nothing special. Just look at smart phones from ~10 years ago.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
> I think the EU and European countries have much bigger fish to fry, including with regards to the environment. Yes. And they should fry those too.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
I remember early cell phones (not smart phones, mind you) having weeks of standby time, or something like 20 hours of talk time. These had replaceable batteries. I don't recall people carrying spare batteries being a thing..?
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
I'm rather curious where in the US HP and Dell source, let's say, their displays? And while many (but certainly not all) of the other components could be made in the US, it's expensive and capacity is limited. So even the l
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
On that subject, I'd be curious to see any computer that's not mostly made in Asia.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
I don't understand how it would work either, but it may be something similar to this: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/predicted-outp...
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
> Particularly, they allow you to write code whose output is unpredictable Is that an easy mistake to make and a hard one to recover from, in your experience? The way you have to bend over backwards in Terraform just to instantiate a thi
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
> and especially how China caught up so fast. Isn't that largely nationalism and pressuring companies to use (initially) mediocre local tech solutions though? Once the market is there, quality catches up rapidly.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
Ah, I didn't realize the landscape was different on the Apple side of things.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
GUI apps are good for discoverability. They generally are not optimized for rapid use by power users though. That's of course not an inherent limitation of GUI apps, it's just that dominant paradigms hardly seem to consider power
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
But they already had their own solutions that worked just fine. I can't see how switching to integrate a new system instead would save on dev costs. There surely must be some other reason?
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
I think most/many banks had their own nfc tap-to-pay solution before Google/Apple Pay came along. Any idea why the banks chose to give that up?
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
Discouraging superfluous production is not nothing.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
And what about games that are actually just great fun? That would be easy to confuse with addictive, right?
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Show HN: Light Lynx – polished light app and automation based on Zigbee2MQTT(lightlynx.eu)
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
No. You'd add a lot of technical complexity, especially if you need this to be instant. You'd loose the ability to effectively fight fraud, and because of this get a huge target on your back attracting all sorts of unwanted behavi
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
You right, I misused to term. What I meant to say is that it is a small production that made it big.
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by vanviegen 8mo ago
That's not even close to dominating in chess.

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