Summershard

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by Summershard 2mo ago
> there are no health benefits to learn a new topic after having already exhausted your brain sitting +7 hours at work There are. Unless your work requires almost constant creative reiteration over your mistakes on new topics, learning n
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by Summershard 4mo ago
You actually don’t need any data plan to call emergency services, 112 is literally baked into the GSM standard. As long as the phone (or car) can connect to a network, it can call 112. It doesn’t even need a SIM card. A side note, though. T
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by Summershard 4mo ago
What? It saved the brand. It's their best selling model ever.
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by Summershard 4mo ago
As a side note, is there any online community where you find people willing to do this? I’ve always struggled most with finding people eager to play and create music, especially as I get older. What you describe sounds like fun.
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by Summershard 6mo ago
We definitely must come from different cultures because I raised my eyebrow quite high reading your comment. My family, close friends, and my partner will definitely tell me when I neglect or abuse my mental and physical health. This includ
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by Summershard 6mo ago
Sources needed.
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by Summershard 10mo ago
The amount of negativity your positive comment has received looks almost overwhelming. I remember HN being a much happier place a few years ago. Perhaps I should take a break from it. People working in one of the coolest industries on Earth
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by Summershard 1y ago
> .NET I think you haven't used .NET in a while. Nowadays, logging is absurdly easy to configure. Heck, you usually don't even need to configure it, because the basics are already included in most templates. You just use the Lo
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by Summershard 2y ago
This is much, much less than I would've guessed. I thought the new UI is universally hated. I should leave my bubble more often.
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by Summershard 2y ago
Where did you get those numbers from? 10k words is generally considered a CEFR B2/C1 level which already is a fluent level. Semi-fluent, depending on how you describe it, is anywhere between 1k and 5k words. To comfortably communicate
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by Summershard 3y ago
I guess you are right. It's trust-based. For an actual obfuscation Signal would need to implement something like onion routing, right? I think Session does it.
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by Summershard 3y ago
Well, TIL. That does not refute my comment, though. Signal still does not know who you chat with. It's the cloud provider who might log the IP address of the sender. Identifying the person based on that information alone would be non
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by Summershard 3y ago
Signal does not know who you correspond with. The only information they keep is the account creation timestamp, and the date that the account last connected to the Signal service. You may have confused this information with WhatsApp which
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by Summershard 3y ago
May I suggest creating an option to add waypoints which should help recreate bus routes?
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by Summershard 3y ago
It actually is. The design is just a small part of the control's cost. Then it has to go through a lot of compliance tests (the controls can't be flammable, can't break easily into shards, and so on). You have to do those t
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by Summershard 3y ago
Telegram's encryption is opt-in which means most people don't use the encrypted chats at all.
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by Summershard 3y ago
Signal is private, but not anonymous. Related, but two different things.
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by Summershard 3y ago
I think the related term, the escalation of commitment, suits this better.
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Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy(growth.design)
393 points by Summershard 3y ago|347 comments
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by Summershard 3y ago
You've said it yourself why they wouldn't want to say those things, and yet you expected them to say them. Forcing your opponent to say things that will be cherry picked by the media is a common tactic, and one very hard to defend
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by Summershard 3y ago
A few years ago, when I was studying, my friend and I did a project on that in Xamarin. It took us two evenings, and the accuracy was 300 meters at worst, and 30 meters at best. It's worth noting that this was in a larger city. So, if
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by Summershard 3y ago
Come on, Facebook is not doing this out of goodness of their hearts. They have some hidden motive (e.g. EEE, data scraping), as always, and it's good people finally don't trust them from the start.
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by Summershard 3y ago
Well, not really. Tainted coins is a real, growing problem that BTC hasn't solved yet. In short, BTC is not fungible.
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by Summershard 3y ago
There was a P2P Reddit alternative some time ago. The problem with it was that you had to install a program on your computer, so it can sync with the network. I doubt it still exists, but the idea was intriguing. Anyone remember the name?
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by Summershard 5y ago
Why is a simple typing tutorial webpage forcing me to sign in with Google? This is ridiculous.
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by Summershard 6y ago
I'm out of the loop: what's wrong with Daily Stormer?
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by Summershard 6y ago
Another open-source tool for that is Master Password: https://masterpassword.app/
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by Summershard 6y ago
Microsoft gives virtual images of their OS for free for development. You can work on any platform and test on VMs.
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by Summershard 6y ago
C is a FP language. So are C++, C#, Java and JavaScript. They're not functional first like F# or Scala. A programming language can embrace multiple paradigms.
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by Summershard 6y ago
How would websites create revenue then? People are very unwilling to pay for online articles.

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