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by void-star 1y ago
Just want to say: Thanks! I was waiting for this article. Thanks to Ernie Smith, to tedium.co, to HN, to community. This is the kind of curious and intelligent response to FUD that I want to find whenever major news outlets start an insane
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by void-star 1y ago
The product reviews are pretty great sometimes. (I didn’t devise this one, just browsed into it) https://anycrap.shop/product/usb-butt-plug Sprocket Verified Buyer 6/24/2025 Utterly revolutionary; performs b
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by void-star 1y ago
Fart noise apps were the first iPhone killer app for a good long stretch in the early days, dominating the app leaderboards for at least half a year. Yep… Humanity is… let’s face it, pretty stupid. I, for one welcome, the latest bubble. And
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by void-star 1y ago
This is really, well... douchey. Emptying anything I have in Coinbase asap (and yes I read the whole thing) I wonder how likely it is for CEO roles to get taken over by a sophisticated LLM at this point. I’d wager we’d see a 20x increase in
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by void-star 1y ago
Yes this! The observation that being specific versus general in the problems you want to solve is a better start-up plan is true for all startups ever, not just ones that use LLMs to solve them. Anecdotal/personal startup experiences s
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by void-star 1y ago
Really valid points. I agree with the bits about “expertise in getting the computer to do what you want” being the way of the future, but he also raises really valid points about people having strong domain knowledge (a la his colleague wit
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by void-star 1y ago
Right??? Anthropic in particular seems to have directly cribbed from Kurt Vonnegut… and then, made it brown? https://scienceleadership.org/blog/the_use_of_illustration_i...
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by void-star 1y ago
Sketchbook. And pencil… or watercolor… or whatever you can get your hands on. It’s true a picture lasts longer. The memory of the place and experience of creating the image with your own hands does too.
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by void-star 1y ago
There have been loads of others but here is a prominent and slightly ironic example of what you are asking about: Tucker Carlson built his early TV career in large part as a conservative pundit on PBS.
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by void-star 2y ago
> We might be the last generation in living memory, for a while at least, who could ever say "you had to be there" and mean it. Can you explain what causes you to say that we will be the last generation to say this? Not rhetori
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by void-star 3y ago
This begs the question: where is the button I can press to see if my personal data is included and a quick and easy way to inform you to remove it from your service?
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by void-star 3y ago
I’m not sure whether to call what we have now “nuanced” or whether it isn’t a result of that movement having mostly lost the fight some decade plus, though. Tried using a public library recently?
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by void-star 3y ago
Your concern about not wanting to send bytes is totally valid. As it happens (if memory serves) telnet can send some bytes on connection also, in attempting to negotiate terminal settings with the remote “telnet server”. That said the &#x2F
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by void-star 4y ago
Thanks I had a hard time finding the original at all. I do remember it was specifically the one with the blue background in my case, though. Probably not “better” or even as accurate but it’s the one that really stuck out in my mind.
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by void-star 4y ago
I worked at several companies that had this poster hanging on the wall back in the day and spent a lot of time staring at it while on the phone. It comes immediately to mind. https://www.scribd.com/doc/223671868/Po
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by void-star 4y ago
What’s wrong with the existing signal? This is not a sarcastic question. I’m actually curious what the privacy concern over signal is and what is meant by “the facebookified version” and what the privacy concern therein is. The new “stories
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by void-star 4y ago
This is pretty standard, timeline-wise, for most responsible disclosure policies. As-in : Give the vendor ample time to publish and deploy a fix before reporting vulnerability specifics. Aside: As usual, excellent work from Google project-z
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by void-star 4y ago
Good luck not interacting with GNU professionally in this day and age. Snark aside, I’d be interested in how that turns out.
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by void-star 4y ago
RMS has been right about so much and continues to be proven right again and again. And he has written and maintained so much software that is the bedrock of the modern internet. I’m bewildered by the prevalent anti-RMS sentiment I see so fr
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by void-star 4y ago
I know Peter Zatko (mudge) professionaly (having spoken at computer security conferences and worked at more than one company that also worked with him), and personally (to an extent, hung out and talked at aforementioned security conference
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by void-star 4y ago
I have strong personal anecdotal evidence that dreaming and creativity are interconnected. I began dream journaling a few years back, recording descriptions of my dreams along with sketches and drawings. These sketches and notes often led t
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by void-star 5y ago
I would agree with that, however in the context of understanding Ursula Le Guin and her writing I stand by my call out to this translation specifically.
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by void-star 5y ago
I recently discovered her translation of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. It’s become one of my favorite books to open and read a random page from and meditate on. In it I think she also really shows the roots of her philosophy that she express
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by void-star 5y ago
For anyone not already familiar with this, do yourself a favor and at least search up some visuals on the “Survivaball”. I love love the Yes Men!!!
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by void-star 6y ago
I too hadn’t read any of her stuff but I had not heard of her until just a few years ago. After reading the parables and kindred I am a bit dumbfounded I hadn’t heard of her before. Her genre is the stuff I have thrived on since I was a tee
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by void-star 6y ago
I agree this is not how capitalism is supposed to work in the spirit of the version that many democratized nations were sold. But I also agree with another downvoted post, in that this has become the expected behavior. I guess the point is
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by void-star 7y ago
My memory may be flawed here but I vaguely remember there being a minor controversy over SSH being awarded port 22 instead of a competing protocol/program called “stelnet”. It was a similar solution to SSH but only “replaced” telnet, n
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by void-star 8y ago
I think this points out a significant reason "why to incorporate in CA" (as is being discussed elsewhere in the comments, as in "... instead of Delaware") Could somebody clarify? Say I want to create a corporation, and w
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by void-star 9y ago
Strongly suspect this device doesn't have a RTC...
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by void-star 9y ago
Am I the only person who clicked on this link hoping it would provide guidance and help on how to switch to a different text editor after being "poisoned" by vi for so long? Whenever I write code (or anything else) in another edit

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