dkarras

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by dkarras 2mo ago
why not zip the entire internet to 1MB so everyone can have a copy? because it is not possible - we don't know if it is possible. I mean we know it is impossible, but we don't know if it is possible to do it with acceptable qualit
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by dkarras 7mo ago
>No, you did something fake to avoid doing what you were asked to do. Yes, that is what plausible deniability is. >But there are very effective ways to find hidden encrypted volumes on devices. And then you’ll be asked to decrypt thos
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by dkarras 7mo ago
It absolutely offers some legal protection. If it is implemented correctly, no legal framework for it is required. Government forces you to enter your password. You comply and enter "a" password. The device shows contents. You did
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by dkarras 10mo ago
Kind of that. I'm not USA based. In my country you can do it through gov. insurance which is a lot of bureaucracy that I can't handle. Will go through the private route (fast) and pay out of nose. This to help my anxious mind and
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2 points by dkarras 10mo ago|4 comments
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by dkarras 1y ago
Private court system? How does it work? Regular court system works because the government has the threat of violence, has the muscle and rights to hunt, capture and detain. if "private court" rules against me and I refuse to obey,
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by dkarras 1y ago
You can create e-mail addresses for single use, even temporary ones.
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by dkarras 2y ago
Someone might think: surely seeing ads targeted for them instead of random ads must be useful / beneficial for the user!
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by dkarras 2y ago
I don't understand this. Copyright law does not prevent people from sharing their information freely. It gives the option for "rent seekers" to do their thing. Enforcing your rights for return is optional for people that don&
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by dkarras 2y ago
the point is, if your economic model cannot survive / adapt to the environment it is living in, is it viable? Cuba froze itself in time decades ago, is it just the embargoes? Why do they need capitalist trade to go a single step forwar
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by dkarras 2y ago
your antivirus is arguably a malware itself. you don't need to give a 3rd party your entire internet browsing content to have a secure computer.
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by dkarras 2y ago
did you read the article? author says you get approval from Apple for your use case then it is kosher.
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by dkarras 2y ago
you're not the target. advertisements work. the people managing ads are very meticulous about their spend vs. return. if you are seeing an ad of something for any noticeable duration of time, that means it works. by that I mean they ge
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by dkarras 2y ago
spent a lot of time trying to troubleshoot why vscode can't access extension marketplace as I just installed a new computer and am trying to bring in my profile but getting XHR errors, and devtools showing CORS errors... after an hour+
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by dkarras 2y ago
oh ok. is running things in server really necessary though? it sounds like an enormous cost even if you are mildly popular.
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by dkarras 2y ago
What is the limiting factor there? I don't understand. I assumed these programming languages were working in a browser (wrapped into wasm or some other VM) so everything was client side. Is that not the case? Are they running the langu
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by dkarras 2y ago
how does being backed by something big in China makes it less scammy?
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by dkarras 2y ago
not eager to defend Sam as I think he is shady (maybe necessary for a successful CEO? don't know) but the Scarlett Johansson story was just speculation because she knew that she was asked to act, then the news spun it in a way favorabl
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by dkarras 2y ago
Trusthworthy has two meanings here. I trust that Apple does have no intention to look into my private data. I think they'd rather have no way of getting into it while providing the services as that minimizes their liability. In that se
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by dkarras 2y ago
Yeah, my initial response was: this is wrong on so many levels, and I love that it is out there for public to see 100 art points.
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by dkarras 2y ago
It is not just about marketing though. There is this belief, especially among fledgling indies that if they make a game that they think is good, and if they are able to market it well, it will be a success, even a hit. A hit in gamedev is n
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by dkarras 2y ago
unless I am very mistaken, that is the default behavior. youtube won't show any ads on the videos you post unless you put them there. so you need to be eligible for monetization (have videos that people watch, proven by some metric), a
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by dkarras 2y ago
just make a utility function! don't see what the fuss is about. the original API choice is arguably not great, but haphazardly adding multiple ways to do the same thing does not improve the API either.
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by dkarras 2y ago
macOS asks you to give permission for an application to read your clipboard. do other operating systems not have that?
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by dkarras 2y ago
is oai image generation any different than the microsoft copilot provides for free? I thought they were the same.
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by dkarras 2y ago
>I wouldn't say these anti-cheat tools that come with Valorant or LoL are from dubious origins. You are talking about Vanguard, developed by Riot which is owned by Tencent which is a Chinese company? China has demonstrated enough gr
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by dkarras 2y ago
Except for his own businesses and work, he refuses to understand or acknowledge that everything is composed of sequences of tradeoffs and they are that way for a reason. His schtick is painting things black and white instead and telling &qu
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by dkarras 2y ago
transformers / attention is very robust against typos as they take the entire context into account just like we do. launch any free LLM and ask them questions with typos that you would notice and auto-correct and you'll see that t
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by dkarras 2y ago
Very similar story. Never managed to memorize multiplication table. Can do it, but it vanishes. By that I mean the "tricky" pairs but I don't know what is tricky about them. Been programming computers for close to 30 years, d
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by dkarras 2y ago
There is enormous value in polishing the user experience, especially if no one else is doing it (or maybe capable of doing it?). It will never get old as long as they are the only ones doing it.

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