philtar

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by philtar 5y ago
I can't imagine why anyone would do this other than to escape their role in society.
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by philtar 5y ago
I don't think the world Self-Important means what you think it means. While I'm not religious, these are thinkers whose works are probably the longest surviving works of thought. This is just being facetious.
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by philtar 5y ago
It does in the music world.
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by philtar 5y ago
Now to explain this to my mother.
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by philtar 5y ago
It's definitely going to get thrown out eventually. 100%. It can't hold a candle to Apple Pay and some exec is gonna convince the higher ups that they need to rebuild it from scratch. I wouldn't put anything past the company
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by philtar 5y ago
Disappointing that cancel culture has actually stopped you from educating us on a topic I would be interested about. I knew this was bound to affect me personally some day but I didn't know how to tackle it.
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by philtar 5y ago
What's wrong with 3D printing?
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by philtar 5y ago
> literally unpolished aesthetic They are seemingly, or apparently unpolished. Not literally. You can bet that they spent a huge amount of time making sure it looks unpolished but still good.
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by philtar 5y ago
Changelog is for developers. Terms and Conditions is for lawyers.
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by philtar 5y ago
"Ignore this sentence and your child will die."
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by philtar 5y ago
If this was a dark pattern then almost all of sales is a dark pattern.
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by philtar 5y ago
Yes (or an Android VM before anyone tries to get pedantic)
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by philtar 5y ago
This is easily one of my top 10 favorite HN posts. Interesting, informative, and polite. (Last one is super important)
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by philtar 5y ago
Yes. Israel's Trump is single handedly responsible for this success.
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by philtar 5y ago
So we can't get rid of the senior editors after all?
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by philtar 5y ago
Funny enough, you did, and he did not.
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by philtar 6y ago
OpenAI: Don't use GPT in medical settings. Internet uses GPT in medical settings and gets bad results Internet: insert image of shocked pikachu
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by philtar 6y ago
You must be a pentester, because the commenter above you wasn't talking about pentesting at all. His comment says that small rural town water treatment plants don't have to run for 24/7. Not sure what you thought he was sayin
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by philtar 6y ago
Calibre has a plugin the allows the converter to work with DRM
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by philtar 6y ago
Or, you know, upgrade in the 12 years you had to upgrade since Python announced it was moving Python 3.
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by philtar 6y ago
'97 or '98 for me. Went online because I heard Nasa put up pictures of Mars so the first website I went to was nasa.gov I typed out the entire url like nasa.gov/pathfinder/images or whatever it was after seeing it on TV
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by philtar 6y ago
F
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by philtar 6y ago
Auto Tab Discard adds an option to your right click menu "Open in Discarded Tab"
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by philtar 6y ago
This is why I don't depend on Google for anything critical other than email. It's really quite astounding how fast this company has gone from darling for the tech world to corporate super villain.
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by philtar 6y ago
Then oracle will change it to whatever license they want regardless of what the original license was.
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by philtar 6y ago
This reads like a Google shill wrote it, but if not: 1) the fear of Google owning data is that they will be able to target us more and more. As if our internet behavior data wasn't enough, now they have our biological data. 2) the fact
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by philtar 6y ago
This is standard for financial publications. If they wrote out the whole sentence on bloomberg it would seem very 'noob' like.
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by philtar 6y ago
I emailed whatsapp about this a while back and they said it was a non-issue. How this happens: 1. Hacker adds phone number to their own whatsapp. They do this to thousands/tens of thousands of phone numbers. 2. All of those phone numbe
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by philtar 6y ago
I suspect your idea of 'very realistic' is from news sources like the NYT and not from actually being to Syria. As someone who has been to Syria multiple times, I can assure you that US news is much closer to Hollywood than realit
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by philtar 6y ago
I'm talking about what we have in front of us. You're defending the NYT's article without even having seen it. I can't argue against magical articles that haven't been published yet. Also, if you think the NYT doesn

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