anExcitedBeast

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by anExcitedBeast 9mo ago
To gently push back, there are absolutely accountants and roofers who dedicate their free time upskilling or in adjacent hobbies. Many (perhaps most?) other fields have are conferences and journals, certifications, prestige jobs and grindho
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by anExcitedBeast 1y ago
They make long articles to maximize ad exposure and SEO. It's good faith --they're doing what they have to to make money with the underlying tech ecosystem-- but it's not a good outcome. LLMs are shifting that ecosystem (at l
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by anExcitedBeast 2y ago
The celebrity crypto phenomenon has spread to world leaders on three continents. Tracking the pattern seems worthwhile - open to suggestions and thoughts.
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Show HN: Grift Club tracks celebrity crypto schemes(grift.club)
5 points by anExcitedBeast 2y ago|2 comments
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by anExcitedBeast 4y ago
I LOVE this. I'd love a correspondence mode so I can play over the course of a few days (or even PBeM if you wanna go old school).
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by anExcitedBeast 4y ago
I'm sorry you're dealing with this. Maybe it's time to rethink how you spend your working attention. Impact can drive fulfilment. https://80000hours.org/
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by anExcitedBeast 7y ago
At the risk of taking the fun out of this, you can recover "failed" text. After you fail, close the tab. Then restore the closed tab from browser history. Your text should rest ahead of the prompt.
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TechCongress: Serve as a technology policy adviser to a Member of Congress(techcongress.io)
2 points by anExcitedBeast 7y ago|0 comments
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by anExcitedBeast 8y ago
>Assuming that "rich" means "don't need to work at all, for the rest of your life, to keep a roof over your head and food on your table," none of what you listed require being rich. Yup, I believe that's the
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by anExcitedBeast 8y ago
Oxford has a project on impactful careers you might find interesting. https://80000hours.org/
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
Theology is a broad term and includes the anthropology of religion, history, and philosophy. Many atheists study theology in good faith.
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
> Tip: if you care about maximizing the quality of your dietary supplement, research and buy each ingredient individually, and then mix it all up yourself. That defeats my primary use case for MRP: not needing to think about nutrition. I
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
Every political research product is funded by someone with an agenda. GAI, Brookings, Cato, Heritage, take your pick. Funding should always be considered, but is not cause to discount otherwise valid methodologies and findings.
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
In Android, you can disable App notifications. That may accomplish what you're looking for.
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
Everyone understands the merits of data-driven design. There is heaps of merit. No point to further discussion. Everyone does NOT agree on the ethics of force-feeding this model on non-technical users without meaningful and informed consent
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
I noticed IR services are not listed on your website. I hate to be this guy, but you don't want to offer IR/forensic services if you don't have experience doing exactly that. Your client can sue you if you get it wrong. ( htt
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
This incident isn't over. You must fully scope the incident, and the only way to do that is to hire outside help. If the breach leaks and it's found that you haven't properly responded, it will destroy trust with clients and
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
Sure, but piracy where everyone gets paid.
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
I know they have no incentive to do this, but it would be nice if they let you configure alternate VPN providers. This is a really clean VPN UX.
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by anExcitedBeast 10y ago
"JavaScript must be enabled in order to use the bytejail website." Good way to keep stubborn technical users from learning about your project, whatever it may be.
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
For the sake of dealing with better numbers, about a third of that figure is suicide. And very, very, very few gun deaths are by rifle. Last year ~9k people were shot in the US - ~8450 by handgun, ~300 by shotgun, and many of those killed b
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
I spent a few months in Australia last year. In Queensland, I heard a lot of Aussies say "no drama's" in the same context.
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
Probably because of the first part ("...doing some of the coolest most innovative big data parsing that there is"). "Creeeeeepy" companies tend to offer good pay to do cool work with smart people. Something that hits 3&#
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
The article is littered with lines which don't reflect reality, but do reflect the sentiment of IP lobby. Reeks of "Save the American Inventor" astroturf.
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
On an individual scale, you're right. But the fact is almost every corporation, non-profit, and government agency is weak inside the perimeter security stack; once you're in, you're in. A backdoor in networking equipment is a
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
This wouldn't make you "good at chess", but you can learn a bunch of opening traps and mate patterns like the Scholar's Mate and the Légal Trap. Some traps are wicked simple (ie, e4 e5, nf3 nf6, nxe5 nxe4, qe2. If black
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
I don't understand your complaint. 1) They freely admit that they use Google products, and 2) Google search is a way to be discovered by curious users. SpiderOak is looking to avoid giving excessive user data to Google, which is a tota
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
HTTP status codes are also useful for infosec people during breach investigations. Sometimes all that's available is access logs, and those codes can provide a lot of context.
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
Don't trust them. Add a system you control between the device and your internal network. If you're just worried about your traffic privacy and not just internal resources, establish an end-to-end encrypted tunnel from that jump sy
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by anExcitedBeast 11y ago
They do really cool stuff with with data, including puzzle generation. lichess is worth checking out.

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