laurencei

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by laurencei 1y ago
I did something with my Bosch washing machine (not like the OP). My washing machine is at the other end of the house from my home office. Sometimes I would put a load of washing on, and despite setting an alarm, might forget (perhaps I am i
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by laurencei 1y ago
I'm from Australia. You dont want to use us as an example of internet speeds or leading the world on anything in this space. Our internet infrastructure/speed etc is considered sub optimal by many. It is (slowly) getting better -
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by laurencei 2y ago
Excluding the part of how the access was gained (i.e. fault of end user etc) - I would have thought Stripe would have far better security measures in place for obvious signs of fraud? If someone changes the bank account of a business for fu
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by laurencei 2y ago
Yeah - me too - I dont have the time/tools to build these myself - but would happily pay for them as a product.
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by laurencei 2y ago
Yeah - I actually asked on the Discord if anyone was selling them pre-made - I would buy some if available. I dont have time/tools etc to do this.
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by laurencei 2y ago
Hey OP - if your thinking about a smart knob with haptic feedback etc - check this open source project out that you can build yourself - its amazing: https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob Video demo here: https:&#x2F
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by laurencei 2y ago
"They might not have "known", but come on, you're selling radiation-hardened chips to NASA. " But do people ever actually "invoice NASA" for components. It was probably one of 100 different sub contractors
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by laurencei 2y ago
So does this mean if they allowed the game to run on "full moon days", it would be expected to eventually get a higher score (if the full moon day allowed that through the actual game mechanism)?
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by laurencei 2y ago
So for ML to work, it has to know all permutations of a game? Does that mean ML is useless for non-deterministic games with random outcomes or procedural generation?
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by laurencei 2y ago
I'm not a machine learning person - so I'm confused about this. As someone who doesnt understand ML - I have always assumed the whole point of ML is to try different things in the game, almost randomly, and over (long) periods of
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by laurencei 2y ago
I'm trying to find games for my kids that would have the same influence. Fortnite etc is all so popular - but I feel that Police Quest, Hero Quest etc are a big part of my logical reasoning skills I have today...
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by laurencei 2y ago
What I find strange about this is you dont need it to be "deepfake". Just an inside job. If a large company allows a single employee to transfer millions to a new bank account/vendor that has no history, on "their belief
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by laurencei 3y ago
> I don't want music recommendations from something that can't appreciate or understand music. Human recommendations will always be better. I find Spotify's "discover weekly" list to be generally pretty good. Sur
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by laurencei 3y ago
We laugh as IT experts. But think about it from the end user perspective. Literally the most simple instruction; near fault proof. On an airplane that is thousands of feet from remote IT support (plus "costs"). The instruction to
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by laurencei 3y ago
When attempting to login to your Microsoft account, instead of typing your password you can do an optional "one time password" generation thing from Microsoft. So instead of typing your password +2FA - they email you a 6 digit &qu
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by laurencei 3y ago
Yeah - and what is crazy is when you think about it - Microsoft generates a 6 digit code. So it is a "one in a million" to randomly guess what the code is on any given login. But it is "one in a million" for each Microso
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by laurencei 4y ago
Doesnt that just mean you need to validate the source of the video? If LTT says to stay way from a product on the LTT main youtube channel - that would seem valid? If the video was a re-post or hosted elsewhere - then you would start to rec
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by laurencei 4y ago
I mean - isnt that how all DR is essentially configured? You need it "somehow" connected to Prod depending on the failover, config, system etc. And in many of these complex systems DR can be on a subsystem etc - not an "all o
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by laurencei 4y ago
I love my LG TVs. The problem is, for anyone who wants a smart TV, every brand is just as bad. Samsung, Sony etc. I know some people say "get a dumb TV" and use chromecast etc - but I just want an all in one integration etc.
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by laurencei 4y ago
I've been using the old v4 "standalone" edition for a long time. About a month ago I finally allowed myself to switch to the SaaS model on a 'family' plan. Its amazing, and more importantly I can now help manage my
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by laurencei 4y ago
I suppose the risk is people could 'game' the system. Person A finds the issue, reports it. Then Person A secretly tells Person B about it (with no apparent connection), and Person B reports the same issues a few weeks later, but
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by laurencei 4y ago
At the risk of been downvoted: you cant. It is impossible. Even if you had $30 billion, and your goal was to guarantee the distribution of only $1 to everyone, it still wouldnt occur with all the excess. When you factor in corruption, fra
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‘Immense harm’: Medibank confirms hackers have stolen customer data(smh.com.au)
5 points by laurencei 4y ago|3 comments
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by laurencei 4y ago
Another article along those lines that I think was on HN previous is "Life Is Not Short" I found it quite eye opening: https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short
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by laurencei 4y ago
So if I've already upgraded my LG Tv to the latest version, I cant rollback and jailbreak?
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by laurencei 4y ago
Should be [2018] in title. Previous discussion (215 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16173199
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by laurencei 4y ago
They have a sub-title in their article "Redefining the game engine – this is more than ads" Then they go on to say "Advertising has long been and we believe will continue to be the economic engine for mobile games, driving pl
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by laurencei 4y ago
Check out the "Apollo" reddit app. Its a 3rd party app for Reddit. I've started using it and would never go back to the native Reddit app. No ads, very fast, constant updates etc.
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by laurencei 4y ago
Its funny though - because their mobile web interface is SOOOO bad, I'm using the "Apollo" app, which means I dont see any Reddit ads, and its a much better experience. If they didnt have such a crappy web experience, I would
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by laurencei 4y ago
"I have noticed that as I build better landing pages for my MVPs I get judged more harshly" Can I ask - why do you think you are building a "better" landing page? If you are getting judged more harshly, doesnt that mean

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