DecoySalamander

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by DecoySalamander 2mo ago
Losing my home would suck, but the prospect of having a semiconductor fab in my country, in my city even, is so exciting that I would be 100% on board with it.
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by DecoySalamander 2mo ago
The only losers are foreign adversaries who would prefer it if your country didn't develop high-tech infrastructure and businesses.
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by DecoySalamander 6mo ago
Not really. Many scenarios where that would mean spending 50x the time or hiring a team.
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by DecoySalamander 7mo ago
Maybe not weeks, but there was extensive damage and parts of Berlin went dark https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/europe/berlin-power-outag...
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by DecoySalamander 7mo ago
It would be highly impractical to go to war with all of them at once, but USA can still fix one country at time. Venezuella, Iran, hopefully Cuba next.
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by DecoySalamander 7mo ago
Kitchen knives actually do have safety features, such as non-slip handles and finger guards, which users appreciate. I certainly do. Users also appreciate safeguards in cli tools, such as not deleting all data if input happens to be slightl
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by DecoySalamander 7mo ago
Why not? It wouldn't be acceptable in any other context - like running a lawn mower that spits oil onto your neighbor's lawn.
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by DecoySalamander 7mo ago
There is a plausible scenario in which a user finds some malicious example of cli params for running your command and pasts it in the terminal. You don't have to handle this scenario, but it would be nice to.
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
The most interesting data running through Starlink is Ukrainian and Russian military comms (including feeds from drones). I wonder if Musk actually plans to tap into that.
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
You will need to implement some very invasive issuing mechanism to ensure that only those with a pulse can procure new keys. Even then, keys will still be bought or stolen - as was the case with pre-Elon Twitter checkmarks.
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
Bots can authenticate just as well as human users. Both bots and trolls are completely different set of issues that cannot easily be solved, regardless of your approach.
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
USA is not Russia. I don't think an order could ever be made to level a "rebellious" city, and even if it were, it would never be followed.
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
> How doable is it with vanilla css? Under all of the framework complexity that specific look is still achieved with CSS. In fact, you could rip out the CSS they use with very little modification and pair it with a ~five-line React compo
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
Most of Ukraine doesn't need to do it. The internet infrastructure is largely intact and very decentralised. The biggest challenge is the lengthy power outages, but mobile networks keeps running thanks to generators.
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by DecoySalamander 8mo ago
I think that there are more apps that are better off as web apps (cross platform and sandboxed) than not.
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
From a purely moral standpoint, my answer would be "yes, absolutely." Unfortunately, most of these interventions are not practically possible. Taking out a dictator in US's backyard is so much easier (and easier to do bloodle
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
I'd just call the police, since they're more powerful than your average robber. Maduro's remaining cronies could call on Russia for help since they just signed a military alliance. However, that's not likely to work.
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
> maybe slightly further cementing that the US will not come to Taiwan's aid Isn't that the opposite? The US just demonstrated that it can still conduct military operations, and the presence of Chinese envoys in the country do
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
The difference is that Russia's goal is the annexation of most or all Ukrainian territory, the looting of the country and the erasure of its national identity. Without western support, Ukraine would be in a much worse state than it is
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
Fight back whom? US is already out with "no further action" planned according to Rubio.
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
It's not entirely unexpected - you must have missed the recent deployment of the US Navy in the region, which looked like a naval blockade. But this operation is certainly daring - far more impressive than simply blowing Maduro up with
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
Why bother monitoring junk food purchases when we can watch videos of helicopters flying over Caracas being uploaded almost in real time?
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
Another difference that has not been mentioned in other comments is that: The US is not completely delusional about its military capabilities and could actually complete this invasion in three days. In fact, it may already be over, as Madur
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by DecoySalamander 9mo ago
It's all-round horrible advice. Once you have developed an understanding of 'fundamental operations', such as code formatting and file operations — and, realistically, you will already have done so if you are doing any progra
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by DecoySalamander 10mo ago
It doesn't sound that far-fetched. The stalker probably told her that he was planning to join her company and meet her, which gave her enough information to find his name. Once she had his name, she could find his profile on social med
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by DecoySalamander 10mo ago
> An autocratic one may use them when the leader is close to defeat as one last "f*ck you" I don't think that could realistically work. The suicidal leader would need buy-in not only from the military command, but also fro
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by DecoySalamander 11mo ago
I think it's more of a link with a nice title getting 700+ upvotes. IMO many (and most non-tech) articles linked on HN are bad and most of their value lies in them being a conversation starter.
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by DecoySalamander 11mo ago
I wanted to write, 'They have to load the entire catalogue for a category, including all the images. What did you expect?' However, having looked into it a bit more, it seems that they didn't particularly care about optimisin
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by DecoySalamander 11mo ago
Not a native speaker, but to me it reads as canned or AI generated response that acknowledges nothing in the post besides there being some kind of tiny disagreement. I don't see how "I'm sorry for how you feel about this&quot
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by DecoySalamander 11mo ago
> I genuinely don't understand why people don't get more upset over hitting refresh on a webpage and ending up in a significantly different place. I'm in the opposite camp - I find it extremely annoying when sites clutter

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