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by varenc 1y ago
If you never clicked "I agree" in the captive portal prompt, and still got free internet via port 53 proxying, could you argue you never broke the contract because you never agreed to the terms? Genuinely curious
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by varenc 1y ago
Your definition of "reasoning" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. No one is claiming this reasoning is analogous to human reasoning. An "LLM with reasoning" is just one that spits out a bunch of semi-private 'thin
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by varenc 1y ago
How'd you find a weapons show? Which one? are these semi-open to the public? Sounds fascinating
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by varenc 1y ago
How much ozone is being destroyed by 15000kg of aluminum oxide vapor? Is it a meaningful amount? On the scale of the Earth, my completely uninformed intuition is that 15k kg of alumina doesn't feel that significant. I'd guess tha
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by varenc 1y ago
> Are they price sensitive enough that they won't go to a competitor that's a few dollars more expensive per month if it has better subtitles Outside of Asia, Crunchyroll is a de-facto monopoly on legal anime. From the article,
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by varenc 1y ago
This article has a somewhat alarmist tone, but isn't this just Starlink working as intended? It seems much better for an old non-functional Starlink satellite to burn up in the atmosphere instead of continuing in an uncontrolled orbit.
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by varenc 1y ago
Agreed it's a bit annoying how non-discoverable this is. Wish it was in some sort of onboarding prompt. But I can see Tailscale's argument for making it the way it is. Tailscale is really targeting the business market, especially
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by varenc 1y ago
I believe setting the "TS_NO_LOGS_NO_SUPPORT=1" env disables this logging.
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by varenc 1y ago
You also have no way of knowing when someone you're chatting with screenshots your messages and uploads them to Imgur. I jest, and Signal's support for backups do really increase exposure to this risk, but just trying to say its a
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by varenc 1y ago
It's a bit misleading to frame stock comp as "60% of revenue" since their expenses are way larger than their revenue. R&D was $6.7B which would be 156% of revenue by the same math. A better way to look at it is they had a
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by varenc 1y ago
digression: > ... when random comments or agent actions place orders I believe that the purchase action must be triggered by a user manually in a specific "Pay <vendor>" UI element? It doesn't seem to me like any pro
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by varenc 1y ago
I believe they're using a phased array grid of emitters to electronically steer the microwave, not just a normal directional antenna. This means the antenna doesn't need to physically move to change what is pointing at. (within so
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by varenc 1y ago
This fictionalized demo video from the company is entertaining: https://vimeo.com/942125659/223b79c285 It's an over the top promotional video that feels like it's out of movie. Must have cost them plenty to
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by varenc 1y ago
If you want keystroke latency to feel faster check out Mosh shell: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh
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by varenc 1y ago
> Samsung already has live translation, including in calls. Samsung isn't large enough to be considered a gatekeeper under the DMA. They're exempt from the rules Google and Apple have to follow. Also I believe Samsung's in
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by varenc 1y ago
> Waymo has what? 700 cars on the road ... They have over 2000 on the road and are growing: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/31/techcrunch-mobility-a-new-... Of course there's 200M+ personal vehicles re
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by varenc 1y ago
According to twitter they deployed cloudflare! https://x.com/rtwlz/status/1971003420317520042
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by varenc 1y ago
This doesn't actually use ssh at all right? By ssh-style auth you just mean a username and password? Seems to work great for the intended use case regardless !
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by varenc 1y ago
An honest visualization to scale would just have the satellites being faint dust smaller than your pixels? Wouldn't be useful. But agreed that if you could zoom in and visualize the actual scale that'd be interesting and informat
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by varenc 1y ago
Tracking the location of the truck delivering your package sounds pretty useful. And UPS/Amazon already do this. But publishing the individual personal location of each of the 500,000 USPS employees in real-time while they're wor
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by varenc 1y ago
I suspect is the source of the data: https://prdwmq.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/sanfrancisco/di... The online tool that lets you pay a citation doesn't list the citation's address, but that one ab
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by varenc 1y ago
The 800,000 pairs of human eyeballs aren't hooked up to a public real-time reporting system? Functionally, this is pretty different. Could argue either way.
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by varenc 1y ago
> There should be no expectation of privacy for any public officer It's worth noting that SF Parking Control Officers aren't "police" by most any definition. They're not sworn, and they don't qualify as peac
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by varenc 1y ago
site now offline: > In rare lightning speed, the SF government changed their site within hours of this site going live. I can't get data from it anymore.
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by varenc 1y ago
you mean screen recording? Or using a virtual display you can record? pretty sure this is false for the level 1 DRM used for 4k content. Still certainly will work for some things but never for 4K. Sites downgrade you to 720p if you're
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by varenc 1y ago
Took the California Zephyr from Emeryville to Chicago and loved it! but 5x more expensive than flying for a private room...but an absolutely beautiful journey.
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by varenc 1y ago
Cases can absorb so much stress because they're made of soft materials that degrade over time. I replace mine ~once a year. Such materials aren't really a good match to be built directly into a phone.
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by varenc 1y ago
Another thought: what about severely sandboxing plugins so they while they have access to your notes, they have no network or disk access and in general lack anyway for them to exfiltrate your sensitive info? Might not be practical but appr
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by varenc 1y ago
DRM isn't perfect of course, but it largely works. Unlike with Youtube videos, you can't just freely pull something off GitHub and crack Widevine level 1 DRM. The tools and extracted secret keys that release groups use to pirate 4
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by varenc 1y ago
Greed is sort of the root of capitalism? Every entity working in their economic best interest. IMHO the problem here is Ticketmaster's monopoly status and the total lack of competition, which otherwise is the only thing applying down

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