hkpack

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by hkpack 3d ago
> may terminate those economies in the same way a full stop terminates Absolutely not. It would be unpleasant to a lot of people, but it would also be very far from a disaster (measured in a single low digit of GDP). In 5 years everythin
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by hkpack 7d ago
Was I the only one thinking that the author of Careless People was careless herself? I felt that she is much closer in values to the Facebook executives than she was trying to make it seem. Yes, she failed at her job because it was an impos
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by hkpack 7d ago
On other phones it is visible, here we’ll see soon.
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by hkpack 9d ago
Yes, I wonder why this is not the most obvious reason. There are infinite ways to give away money, this scheme allows to align better with what causes other people are ready to support with their own money.
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by hkpack 10d ago
Computer files are very unintuitive concept for humans. That’s why iOS / ipadOS were trying so hard to get rid of files completely. Because any research shows that whatever your solution is - users don’t get it. Professionals came up w
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by hkpack 2mo ago
Try reducing thinking and use lighter models. For example I observed that using Sonnet works much better (compared to Opus) for tasks I want to be in control of architecture and just need a faster code input.
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by hkpack 2mo ago
What does heavily encrypted even mean? Fully encrypted? Slightly encrypted? Encrypted enough to call it “heavily encrypted” but not enough to be protected from whoever is interested?
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by hkpack 2mo ago
Not everything Ukraine uses is public knowledge. There are huge developments in automation happening and are being used right now.
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by hkpack 3mo ago
It is interesting that both options of either not using CC entirely or using CC but paying it off by the end of the month are equivalent, but you’ve somehow reframe the second ine as some virtuous skill one have to master (I’m not just buyi
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by hkpack 3mo ago
NextCloud's macOS app is implemented in a way that completely disregards any UI guidelines or just common sense for the platform. Developers either don't use macOS at all, or don't care. But functionally it works for our smal
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by hkpack 4mo ago
Yes, that is a completely new business which has OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as competitors. While Twitters competitors were Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr and Mastodon.
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by hkpack 4mo ago
> Before the AI craze, Musk chopped an awful lot of headcount at Twitter, right, and proved it was overkill, has that panned out? He basically killed the Twitter as a business. The only lesson here is that it is really hard to fail havin
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by hkpack 4mo ago
> then there has to be something sinister afoot. Not sinister, but just a simple strategy of a business to increase sales of his products (such as hey.com) as well as pushing his personal preferences (grok) to younger audience masqueradi
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by hkpack 4mo ago
Thank you for your help, I think you already know how much people in Ukraine appreciate it. But comparing Ukraine and African countries is more like apple and oranges. Ukraine is by large a European country which culturally is much more sim
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by hkpack 4mo ago
Self-host your git, take this as a sign. Forgejo is great.
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by hkpack 4mo ago
I wish you good luck in building a datacenter in the middle of Sahara.
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by hkpack 4mo ago
> Well this is the dream right ? Yes it is, we call these dreams a nightmare
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by hkpack 4mo ago
Land is expensive, water is scarce, people don’t want sound pollution anywhere near them. Building a datacenter in the neighborhood is already unpopular enough that companies do tricks to prevent public from knowing what is being built and
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by hkpack 4mo ago
> Have you seen how much of a shithole France became No, how far away should I be to see that?
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by hkpack 4mo ago
This is the way, ended up using identical setup.
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by hkpack 5mo ago
It is upsetting that you get downvoted. I think people in the US are thinking that a war is impossible or something, and looking for a stereotypical response. Instead, for an eastern and central European countries, a war is the real threat
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by hkpack 5mo ago
US company doing cloud in Europe changes nothing because of the CLOUD Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
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by hkpack 5mo ago
It is funny that in terms of values they are not a leader but a follower of Russia. The origin and protector of all their conservative values - including fake Christianity, view on power and gender, race, minorities government structure and
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by hkpack 5mo ago
I am not fan of the era when CEO is expected to be a cult leader type person. Cook did very well in all areas as well as in not trying to create a cult.
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by hkpack 5mo ago
2000 shaheds are just a regular week in Ukraine. 90% of that are destroyed far away from targets and the other 10% do cause some damage, but it is usually far from being devastating as the drone is far from being very precise. A single F35
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by hkpack 5mo ago
Famous story about the plane cockpit for average pilot ended up being bad for absolutely everyone comes to mind. Probably you cannot average humans.
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by hkpack 5mo ago
Is it really identical when the receiving party can now identify every workstation at your internal network and track them separately? For example, any website can now not only log that the traffic originated from org A, but specifically fr
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by hkpack 5mo ago
If you are not a software engineer you can judge code the same way as you can judge design while not being a designer. It is that in one case it is obvious for you that you don’t understand what you are looking at, and in another, for some
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by hkpack 5mo ago
There are security benefits of not having public IPs on every VM. I assign few VMs public IPs and use them as ingress / SSL termination / load balancer for my workloads running on VMs with only internal IPs. I personally use kvm w
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by hkpack 5mo ago
It is about trends and perceptions - 70s were very hopeful, now with global problems - wars, climate, AI, uncertainty, what is growing is desperation. I definitely don’t envy kids that are born nowadays.

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