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by globalise83 12d ago
Copy of At least it's not Clippy (2)_final
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by globalise83 12d ago
IBM Watson 2.0
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by globalise83 21d ago
Yes, this strategy is known as "commoditize your complement"
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by globalise83 2mo ago
What Ukrainian software and hardware engineers are achieving, with very significant European support, is nothing short of inspirational. Within four years, under very tough circumstances, they have invented and deployed at immense scale all
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by globalise83 3mo ago
I have a database on my local machine with 200 million records in one table and 2 other related tables. Even the most complex queries take about 1 minute to vibe code and paste into the DuckDB browser playground UI and always less than 5 se
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by globalise83 3mo ago
Well documented in Acute Radiation Syndrome, and features in the excellent show Chernobyl.
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by globalise83 3mo ago
This kind of prompt injection should also work for customer feedback forms for companies I really don't like, right?
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by globalise83 6mo ago
When you think that the Norman successors still own the vast majority of England to this day, cramming the Anglo-Saxons into rabbit hutches on high density estates, very.
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by globalise83 7mo ago
Your confirmation of the correlation is the first real result.
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by globalise83 7mo ago
My guess is that the current administration has deleted all internal data from the CIA World Factbook to prevent any attempt to revive it in future. Would be amazing if the next US administration were to use this archived data to rebuild it
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by globalise83 7mo ago
In the EU countries with local instant bank payments schemes they are much more popular with consumers than credit cards when paying attrusted merchants, who in turn pay around a quarter in fees of what they'd have to pay for cards. No
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by globalise83 8mo ago
Key part of what you wrote: "as to the identity and location of aliens" - so whatever claim they have to access health information applies to aliens. The big question is: are they harvesting citizens' health records illegally
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by globalise83 8mo ago
You don't HAVE to. In a no fault case you can just take the insurance payout and live with the damage.
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by globalise83 9mo ago
Peak HN - captures it perfectly.
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by globalise83 10mo ago
There were, but it turns out that the moral fortitude required to defend them was just a figment of the national imagination.
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by globalise83 10mo ago
I would add the nuance that the possibility of controlled migration from one versioned API to another should be right from day one, not necessarily the first API version.
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by globalise83 10mo ago
I believe that means you are more or less setting yourself up as a payment facilitator, meaning you and your other merchants will be kicked off Stripe at any time if too many of your merchants misbehave. Is your compliance team ready for th
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by globalise83 10mo ago
No Preventative Measures (NPM)
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by globalise83 10mo ago
The computer science equivalent of choosing between the red, green and blue wires when disarming a nuke with 15 seconds left on the clock
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by globalise83 10mo ago
This should be treated with absolute top priority by the police, with the same level of forensic attention as a terrorist attack. If everybody associated with the crime, including those providing, accepting, storing, transporting and dumpin
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by globalise83 10mo ago
docx files of merchant onboarding questionnaires Why would merchants fill out docx files? They would submit an online form with their business, director and UBO details, that data would be stored in the Checkout.com merchants database, and
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by globalise83 10mo ago
It's not just business data though - usually it will include ultimate beneficial owner and directors' passports, tax ID, etc. So there is a risk of identity theft there of potentially some very wealthy individuals.
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by globalise83 10mo ago
"The system was used for internal operational documents and merchant onboarding materials at that time" To me it seems most likely that this is data collected during the KYC process during onboarding, meaning company documents, di
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by globalise83 11mo ago
Same for the audience!
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by globalise83 1y ago
In some ways Amazon's entshittification is others' gain. For example, Amazon used to be a place you could easily buy and download music files legally. But they entshittified their music product to the point where it was impossible
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by globalise83 1y ago
So how much money for 5 years of effort?
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by globalise83 1y ago
"We the software engineering team were paid well for it"
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by globalise83 1y ago
As someone with literally every single possible variation of skin blemish, mole and God knows what else, this scares the living hell out of me.
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by globalise83 1y ago
That will kill their sales, because debit cards are hugely popular in the UK (4:1 ratio versus credit cards in transaction terms).
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by globalise83 1y ago
Is it really a bigger jump to go from plausible to frequently useful, than from frequently useful to indispensable?

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