indymike

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by indymike 6d ago
> Even if it was a mistake or "mistake", the part where the agent can exploit things across multiple levels like that, isn't just marketing. When we say "safety" people do not think we are protecting them from ac
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by indymike 8d ago
Or worse, take money to steer you to a specific airline.
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by indymike 8d ago
Just disable wifi. Occasionally factory reset, hook up to wifi for firmware update, then disable again.
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by indymike 10d ago
> the only option is to cave Or sue, or organize and protest, or win the next election. Not every government problem warrants revolution, and not needing to revolt is not a failing of the people. > Americans/Westerners (left, rig
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by indymike 10d ago
> This is unsurprising to me, since people are often quite resistant to learning. This is an attitude I had when I was 19 and had spent a bunch of time and money going to school. I had a life event that made me leave school and take on
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by indymike 13d ago
> It kind of seems like an insane TLD structure to begin with, right? It's been around for years. I seem to remember this issue coming up around 2001 where originally .name was for third level registration (i.e. john.doe.name) and
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by indymike 27d ago
> Foldable phones still feel like a novelty that is expensive and fragile, among other tradeoffs. I've had a Moto Razr Pro for three years now. No signs of wearing out and it's taken quite a bit of abuse. The only tradeoff is p
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by indymike 2mo ago
The author is Gregg Miner, and Gregg has an extensive library of harp guitar music. A long time ago I met Gregg when one of my friends Brad Hoyt (a keyboard and harp guitarist as well) hosted a harp guitar convention here in Indianapolis, a
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by indymike 2mo ago
It's not that as much as the usual something new, complain about rapid change.
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by indymike 2mo ago
It is hard to get vendors to give up revenue no matter how illegal the source of revenue is.
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by indymike 2mo ago
A few small things (from the perspective of the suburbs in a large flyover city), as in most things design the real drivers are usually material driven, and often a byproduct of a trend. I'll sum up by saying modern interiors feel temp
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by indymike 2mo ago
That is how it starts, trust is built on hobby projects.
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by indymike 3mo ago
When the legal reality does not align with actual reality, there is injustice of the worst kind. The button says "buy" not "rent" or "license". That should be enough to defeat all the fine print, click wrap hid
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by indymike 3mo ago
> The snake oil is much more how LLMs are being weaponized and utilized Calling something "snake oil" implies that the product only, at best, has a placebo effect (amplified, no doubt, by the sales presentation). LLMs seem to b
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by indymike 3mo ago
Another reason is their competitors didn't get it the value prop because everyone had been competing on rates, and little thought given to developer experience... early on a lot of Stripe's competition's apis used fixed field
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by indymike 4mo ago
If you don't have pride in what you are making with AI, you will let a ton of bugs through. Likewise you will ship bad architecture.
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by indymike 4mo ago
UV is very, very good. The command line is very different than any other package manager I've used, and so it does make for some learning, often in the heat of trying to ship something.
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by indymike 4mo ago
This is the best question of all. Why are we allowing this?
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by indymike 4mo ago
Divorcing technical detail from how it is used does little good for humanity.
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by indymike 5mo ago
Why were we not doing this already?
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by indymike 5mo ago
Not really, now the social network can be immune from prosecution by checking the complies with bad regulation box.
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by indymike 5mo ago
An echo in the sounding chamber? Say it isn't so...
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by indymike 5mo ago
Byte was interesting because it editorially covered everything from home computers to high-end workstations. Byte was a favorite for me (at the time I was in high school) because it covered things that platform specific mags didn't.
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by indymike 5mo ago
> New York Times that criticizes the New York Times, This has happened. > the government to decide what is allowed to be banned and what isn't, This is a civil lawsuit where people are trying to a) prove they were harmed and b)
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by indymike 6mo ago
I hate seeing this down-voted. It is such an important warning to people here. Severance agreements are pretty strong. Also, be very careful of snap settlement offers. So many of the greatest tragedies I've seen inflicted on people com
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by indymike 6mo ago
There was a body of evidence far before 2002 that dealing employees in was a good move.
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by indymike 6mo ago
> An empty justification, since a state has no interest apart from its citizen's interests. Sometimes a government only cares about a few citizens, or in some cases one citizen.
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by indymike 6mo ago
Camcorders were not, but cameras and portable battery powered tape decks were.
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by indymike 6mo ago
Reply of the year. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to laugh or cry.
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by indymike 6mo ago
Yes, it is precisely misguided, and will be in five years, too. Software lasts way longer than people think it does.

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