ngetchell

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by ngetchell 14d ago
Was this written by AI? What is a load-bearing statement?
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The Open Source Maintenance Fee for Polly(thepollyproject.org)
2 points by ngetchell 28d ago|0 comments
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by ngetchell 2mo ago
How do you know you haven't seen bitrot? What rsync arguments do you use to error out when an old, untouched file suddenly changes?
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by ngetchell 2mo ago
Don't be so dramatic. Firefox on macOS is perfectly usable.
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Miasma Worm Targets AI Coding Agents via GitHub Repos(safedep.io)
7 points by ngetchell 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ngetchell 5mo ago
Most Americans don't profit. A very small few do.
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by ngetchell 5mo ago
He did it twice and knew exactly what he was doing. The crowd he was in front of ate it right up.
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by ngetchell 5mo ago
Or more likely, some automated security system flagged popular but suspicious apps for further review.
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by ngetchell 6mo ago
The government is sued all the time.
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by ngetchell 6mo ago
How do you know the scripts aren't AI generated?
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by ngetchell 7mo ago
Blanket tariffs were a terrible idea. And the advisors that told Trump he could successfully start a gun fight with just his pointed finger in his pocket should scare us all. No adults in the room to stop him.
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by ngetchell 7mo ago
Count me out of a society that uses LLMs to make rulings. The dystopia of having to find a lawyer who is best at promoting the "unbiased" judge sounds like a hellscape.
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by ngetchell 8mo ago
This screams E911 compliance than stalker-ware but I could definitely be wrong. I know E911 was a big deal in the telephony world and since Teams is a phone service, this makes sense. I don't like it but it makes sense.
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by ngetchell 9mo ago
A company that produces a wireless mouse that charges upside down really does not care about user experience.
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by ngetchell 11mo ago
I don't think his legacy was the reason him or his daughter were kicked out of the Republican party. It was solely due to speaking out against Trump.
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Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84(nytimes.com)
1 points by ngetchell 11mo ago|1 comments
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by ngetchell 1y ago
No but if there are no billionaires to buy up our media and politicians maybe we can start making positive changes in this country.
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by ngetchell 1y ago
Is that a bad thing?
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by ngetchell 1y ago
I mean usually it is pretty hard to determine fault since most presidents don't make gigantic changes early in their presidency. Tarrifs on the whole world is a pretty large smoking gun.
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by ngetchell 1y ago
I must have imagined the hang Mike Pence chants. You know his kids were in the building, huddling in a secure location and could hear those chants. They probably also saw the noise they made for him during subsequent news reports. The capit
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by ngetchell 1y ago
I saw the video live. It was violent with the intent to attack America when it is at its weakest, during the transition of power. Pardoning those people was a big green light signal to do it again.
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by ngetchell 1y ago
I don't feel like Lex does anywhere near the prep that Dwarkesh does for the Sarah Paine interviews.
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by ngetchell 1y ago
Bury the lede is the correct phrase. Otherwise I think you are spot on.
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Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty(arstechnica.com)
10 points by ngetchell 1y ago|0 comments
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by ngetchell 1y ago
Is that a change? George Lucas certainly brought his politics around Vietnam to Star Wars. The 70s were a very radical and political time for movies
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by ngetchell 2y ago
I think you'll find if you do a little research that Republicans use the idea of trickling down to justify their tax cuts. They even make the CBO change their accurate models to "dynamic scoring" models to help sell those tax
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by ngetchell 2y ago
It will never stop being amazing seeing the actors that bring the Simpsons to life.
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by ngetchell 2y ago
I had an IR remote that was set up to wake my Kodi box on button press. Seems very doable.
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by ngetchell 2y ago
Trying to justify stealing the election, then trying to rewrite history saying the other side broke stuff when they prostested is the laziest sort of whataboutism I've seen on this site. Trump and his minons tried to undo the results o
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by ngetchell 2y ago
He ordered murders. There isn't much of a difference in my eyes.

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