ratg13

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by ratg13 2mo ago
Interesting and good to be aware of When on a random CLI though my personal preference though is still to use telnet as the commands are easily memorized and there’s something more natural about typing the email out and then sending it.
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by ratg13 2mo ago
AI / LLMs are not intelligence .. they are just a prediction engine that has been branded as 'intelligence' by marketing employees At the end of the day it is still making a best guess at what the user wants based on data it
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by ratg13 3mo ago
Set up a GitHub action to auto-close any pull requests from anyone not on an approved list. Leave a message in the pull request that if they want to argue their case for a pull request they can send a message through a communication channel
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by ratg13 4mo ago
You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body
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by ratg13 4mo ago
I stopped using samsung because of the uninstallable facebook apps. I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider spyware and give the user no option to uninstall it
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by ratg13 5mo ago
As long as you never have to interact with them. If you run into issues they have caused themselves, you'll find yourself dealing with a unique mix of arrogance and incompetence.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
I think people are too focused on the device part of it. Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being sent in plaintext through Apple and Google’s servers. It’s ha
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Went to bed with a $10 budget alert. Woke up to $25,672 in debt to Google Cloud(old.reddit.com)
11 points by ratg13 5mo ago|2 comments
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by ratg13 5mo ago
This doesn’t affect existing users. This is a simple supply and demand curve. Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers
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by ratg13 5mo ago
Could also be non-native speakers .. Even as a former grammar nazi, now that English isn't my daily driver language I find myself making basic mistakes .. (two, too, to / its, it's / etc.)
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by ratg13 5mo ago
I was always more partial to Compute magazine
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by ratg13 5mo ago
If this gets swept under the rug, it doesn't seem like they are going to do anything about it, and it will mean that only the bad people are going to be able to find this stuff.. who knows for how long.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
Trump support is currently at 37% and only 69% of people think this is valuable. A 6% overlap is hardly unifying. The few Trump supporters I know think the whole thing is fake.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
E-Gold fulfilled all of these ideas and existed long before bitcoin and this article.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
Notifications are not part of an app, it is a service provided by Apple/Google Most notifications are sent by backend servers straight to Apple/Google
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by ratg13 5mo ago
Boris from the Claude Code team explained this on HN 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442
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by ratg13 5mo ago
It should be noted that they are not just bombing, but using airburst white phosphorus munitions over civilian areas attempting to scorch the earth and give people a lifetime of health problems.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
No new features, no security patches.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
I hate Amazon more because than most people, but let’s be realistic. These devices came out in 2007-2012 14-19 years is a respectable lifetime for a handheld electronic device.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
If you are interested in learning more, check out the David Lynch foundation (Yes, that David Lynch) There is also tm.org which is a worldwide organization offering courses in most countries.
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by ratg13 5mo ago
At some point they got ultra aggressive about "duplicate" questions. Technology changes at a fast pace .. so new questions would get asked, and then closed by moderators and pointed to similar questions that might be 5 or 6 years
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by ratg13 6mo ago
The xAI merger is the core of the rugpull SpaceX made 8 billion in profit last year and xAI is losing 1B per month. The whole IPO is convincing people that datacenters in space that are orders of magnitude more expensive than ones on earth
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by ratg13 6mo ago
They have made something that can more easily be adopted by schools for students. They are creating countless customers for life.
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by ratg13 6mo ago
App setting Yes I understand that GPS still works in airplane mode, but the app should not have my location made available to it when I am not using it
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Ask HN: How are mobile apps able to track users without permission?
4 points by ratg13 6mo ago|3 comments
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by ratg13 6mo ago
Gas turbines emit an array of pollutants including nitrogen oxides, methane, carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, and formaldehyde that you should not be breathing. You might not feel it right away, but the closer you are to these things
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by ratg13 6mo ago
Create a new account every so often, don’t leave any identifying information, occasionally switch up the way you spell words (British/US English), and alternate using different slang words and shorthand.
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by ratg13 6mo ago
One has to wonder if the people placing these bets didn’t have some plans of their own. A million dollars for a single bet is extremely high stakes.
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by ratg13 6mo ago
I find discord is very helpful for this. Find servers that are used by people in your desired audience and there is usually an appropriate channel to post in. Let people know what you are doing and what you are looking for and interested pa
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by ratg13 6mo ago
You either need a lab to test donor samples first, or when this was more of a craze, a popular source of 'donations' for the DIY crowd was young children. If you're interested in digging into the people that were doing this,

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