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by devsda 11mo ago
> I have PR's at work I and coworkers fully AI generated and fully AI review. I first read that as "coworkers (who are) fully AI generated" and I didn't bat an eye. All the AI hype has made me immune to AI related sur
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by devsda 11mo ago
I don't know how it was during the dot-com bubble, but the current AI hype is the biggest "Fake it till you make it" operation I've ever seen. My only worry is about the huge impact on rank and file employees when they i
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by devsda 11mo ago
I wouldn't mind it if those people are from non-tech background. Now, if it is a growing misconception among cs students or anyone doing software development or operations, that's a cause for concern.
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by devsda 11mo ago
It can go wrong too. You search that in Google with file sharing keywords and the AI will helpfully correct it to 'do you mean GDrive?' They would've lost a prospective user to a competitor while sounding like a knockoff of
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by devsda 11mo ago
It is more harmful for those who cannot afford to spend 20K, 2K or even 200 but does anyway out of ignorance or stupidity.
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by devsda 1y ago
Short of setting up dns validation and using 3rd party dns service as many registrars don't support API for dns management, how is domain validation done for acquiring TLS certs when serving only via wireguard ? There's the priva
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by devsda 1y ago
You mean reputation laundering ? Email marketing services provide a similar feature called IP warm-up which does the same thing but over a shorter timeline.
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by devsda 1y ago
I'm glad fdroid is voicing its concerns and asking people to act. This is not just another technical challenge. If your country is ever in the crosshairs of "American interests" and bears the brunt of its sanctions, it is pos
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by devsda 1y ago
It is just the case that the west and its leaders have had the luxury of choice and have only seen relative poverty but not absolute poverty for various reasons. When your are poor and basic necessities are difficult to meet, its natural to
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by devsda 1y ago
> We've all been through that phase where you have to google the words you don't know. I hope I'm not the only one who for a moment thought those were real terms in some esoteric new age programming language like LOLCODE
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by devsda 1y ago
I'm just surprised how the responses here(including the original announcement post) at HN of all places are mild and at times indifferent to the fact that we are about to give up control of our devices and make Google the arbitrator of
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by devsda 1y ago
> They apparently had no problem giving map data to local SK companies, however, so essentially those companies had an unfair advantage. I don't suppose having GMaps installed by default on Android and having the backing of nation g
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by devsda 1y ago
US with its control of social media etc can push a narrative to instigate population of friendly or unfriendly countries. There's no way to know say for sure whether the protests were organic or inorganic. Every country has problems th
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by devsda 1y ago
"An X country's covert operations team landed on country Y's shores, opened fire on a boat in which an innocent fisherman lost lives and left" If X is Iran/Russia/North Korea/<current choice> and Y i
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by devsda 1y ago
> Beats all the "Trump did X, popstar married gf" crap out there. No doubt, HN is one of the best resources for tech and tech adjacent topics. It has all sorts of people ranging from the experts to beginners. Also, tech is on
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by devsda 1y ago
I said I'll refrain from replying in this post anymore (apologies dang) but I'll just close it with this at the risk doxxing myself as I may have mentioned the following in another forum. > But India would never recognize any f
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by devsda 1y ago
I'm going to sit this one out going forward.
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by devsda 1y ago
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by devsda 1y ago
> participated in company-sponsored hackathons Company sponsored hackathons are better if you have a large one that works on diverse fields and products. Usually org-wide hackathons within a company are plain nonsense and soul sucking. P
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by devsda 1y ago
Does anybody have guesses on what percentage of browser development is for 1. New web standards related changes 2. shiny new service integration(like AI, vpn etc) 3. UI & UX enhancements 4. Bug fixes 5. Security fixes I believe changes
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by devsda 1y ago
Now I'm curious. Is there a law that carves out specific exemptions for parents disciplining kids/teenagers like grounding, taking away phone and internet privilege etc.
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by devsda 1y ago
> Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted? The popular keywords for some time have been AI, Trump, Russia, Ukraine. As these are hot topics, the "Hacker" part of HN has taken a noticeable backseat.
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by devsda 1y ago
Will Amazon also display the referral fee they charge the seller for the purchase ? Its good to know if Amazon's cut is on the total price including the tariff or the price excluding the tariff. It'll help understand whether Ama
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by devsda 1y ago
Since you are using AI, what are the chances of your app suggesting existing recipes vs "inventing" new recipes. Also, there can be set of ingredients that should not be mixed together or be cooked in certain way. Are these cases
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by devsda 1y ago
Couple of years ago, I think openvsx faced funding crunch and on the verge of the shutdown a dedicated working group was formed (including big names like Google, Salesforce etc) to support it. Not sure if this outage and its long duration
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by devsda 1y ago
Haha. I guess discovering & teaching how to do X is more rewarding than doing X. It applies to blogging, PKM and productivity too. Is there a name for this phenomenon where this actually turns out to be true? Closest I can think of is
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by devsda 1y ago
Agree. On reading the headline, I was hoping it would extend my laptop battery life.
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by devsda 1y ago
> In fact they do distribute and contribute to lots of GPL software, including Linux. systemd author is employed by Microsoft. Depending on your views on MS and systemd, that's either a net positive or negative for the linux communi
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by devsda 1y ago
American universities are in demand among foreigners because they are a gateway to network and life in the US. If it's a choice between say Princeton in the US and Harvard outside the US, Princeton will be the choice for many.
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by devsda 1y ago
> I almost have to tip toe and pee into the the air in projectile. Sounds like an alternate origin story of your username.

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