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by hakfoo 2mo ago
3-D Secure has been a fiasco IMO. I can recall when we first tried 3DS in the US and it went over like a lead balloon. Let's jump out of the middle of checkout and go to a page which looks like they're trying to phish your bank a
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
It's disappointing that we still have terrible "press 9 buttons at the same time while reciting from the Necronomicon and plugging in and out the device" recovery stories. Put the firmware and config on a ** uSD card, or set
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
The keyboard enthusiasts got to "personalized hardware" pretty early, so there might be some lessons there. There's a whole continuum from "Buy an off the shelf unit" to "here's a barebones case you can sl
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
I always hoped we could make "cinematic universe" for really enormous refactorings.
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by hakfoo 2mo ago
I'm not sure if a bigger population would really justify more jet manufacturers. Outside of general aviation (hobbyists/business jets), the potential buyers for jet aircraft are going to trend towards natural oligopoly. Military c
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
I think we can even skip the "that may be targeted by the US government" clause. The whole "hosted AI" business feels like like a huge violation of corporate norms on confidentiality. Businesses that would have your hea
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
I think, to a degree, ergonomics are a complete package and sound can be part of it. I tend to err on the side of loud-click switches (Alps/Matias, buckling spring, Gateron Melodic or Kailh Box switches lately) in part because I beat a
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
If you use a machine with an ISA slot, you can get a card with a chip called CH375 or CH376, which deploys a USB flash drive like a normal hard disc with either a loadable driver or option BIOS ROM. You can just pull out the entire drive a
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
> Outside of coding, almost every business case for AI doesn’t need above human intelligence, it doesn’t even need human intelligence, or half a human intelligence, a business can extract a lot of value from a machine that has a fraction
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
There's also another side of it: there's a legitimate case for places where we don't need high quality creativity. We have a world of clip art and stock photos. A lot of this is not best effort-- people grab what's in
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
For some of us, we found digital "third spaces". In a way, when we're arguing on HN, or the kids on Discord, are using it largely as a community centre on their screen. It clearly shouldn't be the only option-- it'
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
Isn't the solution just to take the market out of real estate? At the individual-homeowner level, a lot of NIMBYism, HOA activity, and other toxic activity is grounded in "I have $400k of equity sunk into this square of land and i
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
We lost this war when we got bamboozled into putting the V-Chip into televisions. The obvious tradeoff was that we should have been able to have all forms of offensive and pornographic choices on the public airwaves, because we've give
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
I'd suspect one of the big constraints was that you had to support basic VGA: 640x480 at 16 bold colours on a cheap CRT. With that palette, using white/black/dark grey/light grey for the UI leaves most of the "satur
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
I can't quite understand the "fixing small errors is easier when just talking to Claude" flow. I tried having it write some tests today. It got very close to what I want, but picked a stupid set of input values (two fields t
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
My point is that you can't cherry pick a profitable business unit if you don't have a story for how the entire business can operate profitably. Cars have low margins, but they generally don't rely on an ongoing infusion of
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
In the coin collecting universe, which has had a world of third party grading for close to 50 years now, there's a saying "buy the coin, not the holder". But at the same time, there's also a sub-market of people explici
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
On the one hand, it's nice that Epson provided a Linux package. On the other, it's a pain in the arse that it's specific to a handful of distributions. I had a V33, and I use Void. At one point I was able to get it shimmed t
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
"Profitable on inference". Isn't that exactly the same a physical business saying "our widgets have a marginal cost of 95 cents to make, and we can sell for a dollar, so we're profitable, as long as you forget we h
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
Sometimes you want the machine to be an advisor and sanity check your suggestions. Sometimes you just want it to do the boilerplate you have in mind without trying to reason everything from first principles. I told you to check fields &quot
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
Because decimal types are still vanishingly scarce as a built-in in modern languages. Storage as an integer often adds complexity because of currency reforms. Decimals can and have been dropped in the past.
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
Stupid thought: Maybe it's about scale. Take that "sort of newspaper for breakfast reading" description and multiply that by 20 million MAU and you have the yahoo.com front page circa 1999, or the opening screen of the Reddi
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
> I don't really get how you guys can be so demanding - this technology is magic That could be the problem. I suspect a lot of developers have spent years developing workflows and understandings based on the idea the machine is pre
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
That feels like a market failure though. For a tool to be a useful extension of the user, it should work in the way a user expects it, without a huge amount of having to realign and repackage your normal process. Maybe that's somethin
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
That value for advertising goes negative on a marginal basis. The first time (or few times) you saw an advert, you were informed of the product's existence. I now know the Hyundai Elantra exists and could potentially be suitable for m
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by hakfoo 3mo ago
There was sort of a conceptual firewall between "using the computer" and "programming the computer" for a lot of systems. Some (various LISP and Smalltalk environments) had a much narrower wall between the two, but I cou
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
In the US there were some experiments on delivering high-volume content by broadcasting, say, a 30-second spot which flashed dozens or hundreds of images and you were supposed to record it on videotape and play it back frame-by-frame. There
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
I thought GlobalFoundries was AMD's fab division spun off.
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
You're expecting that there's going to be a supply collapse only, but there's a real risk the collapse hits both supply and demand. A lot of the current AI business is FOMO and vanity metrics. Nobody really wants to acknowle
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been a dedicated effort to support display offload to, say, the CPU's iGPU. I'm sure manufacturers would love saving a dollar per card, and OEMs would appreciate eliminating the suppor

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