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by arcfour 3d ago
It's just a typical enterprise PC configuration. Probably because nobody writes efficient software these days.
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by arcfour 3d ago
So the governments that install them aren't somehow complicit? Two things can be true at once.
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by arcfour 4d ago
We don't have it in the US, I remember being annoyed that there were no more cheap cellular modules for microcontrollers for a while.
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by arcfour 5d ago
Was anything I said disrespectful? It is not intended to be, but it may read as somewhat stern; that's more because speculating without having the fundamentals down is not what I expect from HN. The knowledge in question isn't arc
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by arcfour 5d ago
Does any combustion engine, like the one in your car, have instant throttle response? When you hit the kickdown switch in your car there is still a delay before you start really accelerating. Now imagine a much bigger engine - it's not
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by arcfour 6d ago
No. They might have to say why they went around but they can't be punished for it (that's a great way to open yourself up to liability even stripping away all of the human elements). And I can't imagine any reason that an air
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by arcfour 6d ago
> unclear how speed didn't increase How can you comment as if you are knowledgeable enough about aviation to speak on this with authority, but you aren't aware that turbofan engines don't have instant throttle response and
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by arcfour 9d ago
So your employer is having a problem, and prevents you from using any of the available options to solve it? And you have asked them about all of them/told them about the problem? They don't like saving money? Well, sounds like it&
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by arcfour 10d ago
There are numerous services that will let you host static pages for free or nearly free. There are also numerous services that sit in front of your website that can block bots and reduce load on your origin server, many of which are also fr
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by arcfour 10d ago
Because you don't apply to a gun company to buy a gun. (You actually apply to the government...chew on that one for a while.)
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by arcfour 11d ago
Most of them are also easily pissed away if you have money. It cuts both ways.
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by arcfour 11d ago
The functionality is restricted, but the capability of expressing the intent at all exists.
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by arcfour 12d ago
Among other things, JavaScript in the browser has no way to even express "kill PID 1234 on the user's machine" or "list the contents of `C:\Users\Documents` and upload all of the files" or "spawn cmd.exe on t
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by arcfour 12d ago
Speak for yourself, there are hundreds of thousands of people playing games that do not fall into this category on Steam right now.
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by arcfour 12d ago
This really grinds my gears, way more than it should for some reason. Use the system as it was intended, people!
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by arcfour 12d ago
Very few are these days with the enormous amount of resources Valve has been pouring into Proton. The only truly Windows-only games I have encountered were online multiplayer with anticheat and that was almost always because the developer
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by arcfour 13d ago
A "data breach" refers to unauthorized access to nonpublic or protected data. Scraping content that is publicly viewable without logging in - or even with logging in, since an account is effectively disposable - is not a &quot
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by arcfour 13d ago
Obviously I meant that any data a person expects to be public, like a public post on a social media site... I was not referring to data exposed in data breaches, which is a different subject entirely... If that was not obvious to you then
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by arcfour 13d ago
That's a blatant strawman - that's not a reasonable position at all. A reasonable person does not expect their private medical records to be accessible to you or me just because they are stored in an EHR system. They might be s
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by arcfour 13d ago
Something posted with the understanding that it could potentially be viewed by anyone on the Internet with minimal/no restriction. ToS are just what you follow if you don't want to get banned off of the site. If you don't c
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by arcfour 13d ago
No, I don't care at all, but I recognize that my morals might be lower than others here. To me it's just public data...whatever. My criticism was basically - this is trying to sell an AI slop project for $699 a pop - I could get t
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by arcfour 13d ago
Man, I could use $699. If this gets even a single sale, then maybe I need to try having less decency... (I guess that is sort of a roundabout summary...)
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by arcfour 14d ago
So if I uploaded a black screen, or a black screen with text (the title of the song), that would be sending a message...that I do care about quality...? Since there was no AI? As opposed to thinking of a play on words between the game/
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by arcfour 14d ago
Yes, I'm thinking I'll stop doing it from now on since YouTube doesn't make the distinction. I figured that LLMs saving me the 20 mins in GIMP making a silly joke filler album cover was the perfect use case... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by arcfour 15d ago
What's the difference between me pasting a face over a body in GIMP manually and me prompting an LLM to make the same edit, faster, and better than I would by hand? They aren't particularly high-effort. The artwork isn't real
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by arcfour 15d ago
Yeah, I make song remixes in the style of a particular video game and while the music is completely human written (by me), I'll often have AI generated or edit the "cover art" for me so people have something to look at/c
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by arcfour 20d ago
No it doesn't. This reads like someone who hasn't touched a non-apple Laptop in 15-20 years.
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by arcfour 24d ago
> IMHO, capitalism and FOSS are fundamentally incompatible. A bold statement to make given the world we live in today contains plenty of both, working together, in harmony.
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by arcfour 29d ago
Not really. They can get RAM just fine, and delay upgrade/refresh cycles to stretch existing component lifecycle, which was already very long if they needed to.
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by arcfour 29d ago
Nobody really "needs" RAM immediately though, like a heart or a lung or something.

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