gusfoo

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by gusfoo 1mo ago
I assume you're also of the view that 9/11 was entirely the USA's fault, and it deserved it? And on that topic, most of the terrorism in recent times is Islamic. IRA intercepts are down to about 5/year nowadays.
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by gusfoo 1mo ago
It's laughably naiive to think that that stuff works. Not even the maker thinks it does.
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by gusfoo 4mo ago
https://x.com/garrytan/status/2018368316033946021 "I am currently averaging about 10k LOC per day (35% of the lines are tests) so wow, 15k/day is #goals" Garry Tan - YC CEO and LLM psychosis victim
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by gusfoo 4mo ago
There is, sadly, no place for non-standard ICs in corpos nowadays. HR will enforce that.
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by gusfoo 5mo ago
In fairness, their privacy policy DOES explicitly say that they collect this information. See https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?ref=cms.hondas... > 1.5 Your Device and Location > We receive data throu
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by gusfoo 5mo ago
* Andreessen Horowitz - scammers. * Y Combinator - vibe coders. Are there any respectable VC tech companies out there in 2026?
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by gusfoo 5mo ago
> I still hope that one of these days people in general will realize that executable signing and SecureBoot are specifically designed for controlling what a normal person can run, rather than for anything resembling real security For hom
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by gusfoo 6mo ago
Nota bene: these aren't "tech" jobs, these are "laptop job" over-hired email people. Not real people.
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by gusfoo 7mo ago
I really tried my best to open a Facebook account, so I could open a developer account. All correct and real info. Instaban immediately after account creation, immediate "go away forever" email after clicking the "appeal&quot
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by gusfoo 7mo ago
Love the fact that you use USA date format, not rest-of-world. Love the fact that your AI customer service bot takes a question and then asks for an email address for a reply. Love your incoherently bolded statements: " The Docs app
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by gusfoo 10mo ago
> The US government is not free to use frivolous sanctions to indirectly make payment processors stop serving a foreigner. You may regard them as such, but they are not in any sense frivolous. It is the law that if-x-then-y, it's no
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by gusfoo 10mo ago
> And how far out is that? These guys have a 100% market share https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems at the 'extreme' end and, obviously, everyone else is trying but haven't re
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by gusfoo 10mo ago
> For example, accounts with non-US banks have also been partially closed. Transactions in US dollars or via dollar conversions are forbidden to him. So people don't think this is a new thing; when I worked in retail banking in the
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by gusfoo 10mo ago
> This is just how I write in the last few years "We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us", may be the apposite bon mot . That aside, I did enjoy your article. Thank you.
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by gusfoo 1y ago
FWIW, on old.reddit.com it still shows the cached image view, so no actual need to visit Imgur.com - a site that has had some quite interesting drama for the last few months.
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by gusfoo 1y ago
> Sharply declining usage? I don't see the stats to back that up on https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats Odd. Here's another BlueSky stats page, and almost every metric is in the red. https://bluefacts.app&#
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by gusfoo 1y ago
> If it's all very safe and accurate, why is this exception necessary? Because you'd be massively adding an attack surface on to National Security elements for no benefit to National Security.
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by gusfoo 1y ago
I genuinely think that large language models are a useful technology in data processing. Being "language models" I find it easy to use LLMs to extract subject, object, quantity, time, verb, amount, user's language code and so
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by gusfoo 1y ago
Russia is running out of money to pay anti-nuclear activists in Europe, it seems. "Atomkraft? Nein Danke!" should be viewed as what it really is.
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by gusfoo 1y ago
I made a whatsapp business account yesterday, started a test advertising campaign. Went to log in to the developer area, "Your account is banned, there is no appeal". And whatsapp customer services says "Your account is fine
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by gusfoo 1y ago
A trillion dollars of value disappearing in 2 days. We've still got our NFT metaverse shipping waybill project going on somewhere in the org chart, right? Phew!
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by gusfoo 1y ago
> The cavity magnetron, one of the first practical microwave transmitters, was an invention of such import that it was the UK's key contribution to a technical partnership that lead to the UK's access to US nuclear weapons rese
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by gusfoo 1y ago
Delete the div called `presence` and the page becomes nicer to read.
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by gusfoo 1y ago
The UK has also released some details of a new 'in bulk' RF-based drone takedown DEW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1vY5efYXMQ
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by gusfoo 1y ago
> Do we know how these apps were able to track browser activity? The only clues I see in the article are that it was on a per-website basis, and that it worked in incognito mode. The App listens on localhost:xxyyzz when backgrounded. You
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by gusfoo 1y ago
Nice article, although I despise the "lowercase only" affectation that so many of us techies pass through. Capitalising the first letter in a sentence is a courtesy to the reader, not a stylistic choice you should impose to make y
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by gusfoo 1y ago
Here is the website: https://odin-lang.org/ - which was not obvious.
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by gusfoo 1y ago
For balance, I clicked the link and (after a moment of my browser imposing my will) the video started playing. Opera + Ghostery is quite a pleasant experience, at least when compared to mobile browsing (at the other end of the spectrum).
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by gusfoo 2y ago
> Side question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok? Yes, I'd say so. Bear in mind that, outside of the Terminally Online
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by gusfoo 2y ago
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