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by robgibbons 29d ago
I tend to think the same way, but I've personally had far more issues with my local (largest in the region) credit union. Their (human) customer support reps frequently make mistakes processing my share certificates that automation wou
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by robgibbons 1mo ago
FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging), and Apple's own APN (Apple Push Notifications) work as a single OS level service, and they are multiplexed so that many different apps can route through them with a single connection, even waking your ph
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by robgibbons 1mo ago
You can personally avoid those websites, if you philosophically disagree with those terms. Good luck avoiding the operating system.
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by robgibbons 1mo ago
This is a very Western-centric way of thinking. The Japanese are culturally oriented toward "saving face" rather than directly confronting things like this. It's very likely that Nintendo approached their own government with
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by robgibbons 1mo ago
During the initialize step, the client tells the server about its capabilities. Then the server remembers them for the session, so the client doesn't need to keep saying what it can do, and the server won't expose tools the client
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by robgibbons 2mo ago
It's worth pointing out that Google's AI got its answer from this HN post and Tumblr posts referencing this post
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by robgibbons 3mo ago
This export ban follows Anthropic refusing to provide uninhibited use of AI to the US military, and the Pentagon subsequently listing them as a supply chain threat. That in turn led to Anthropic suing the government. This most recent develo
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by robgibbons 3mo ago
What about Mastodon or other federated platforms? If someone created a new Facebook, but it didn't have these corporate terms, it would still be social media.
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by robgibbons 4mo ago
Cuts very close to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Artemis II: Christina Koch's PCD Failure
4 points by robgibbons 5mo ago|2 comments
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by robgibbons 6mo ago
`indy 500`
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by robgibbons 8mo ago
This site is flagged for some reason by BitDefender.
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by robgibbons 9mo ago
When I helped a friend set up his LG C2, we plugged it into Ethernet just long enough to update its firmware, then promptly disconnected it, never to even set up WiFi.
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by robgibbons 9mo ago
U.S. — United States (of America)
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by robgibbons 9mo ago
For what it's worth, writing good PRs applies in more cases than just AI generated contributions. In my PR descriptions, I usually start by describing how things currently work, then a summary of what needs to change, and why. Then I g
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by robgibbons 10mo ago
Your best bet might be one of the Pixel "a" series, which are Google's budget-oriented models. Stock vanilla Android with as little bloat as you can hope for.
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by robgibbons 11mo ago
What else are they going to use? A trampoline?
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by robgibbons 11mo ago
I've greatly enjoyed my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and would recommend it, with the following advice: I am very careful with mine. It's rated fairly well for water resistance, but not well for dust ingress. It's imperative that you kee
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by robgibbons 11mo ago
When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Til
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by robgibbons 1y ago
I'm assuming the same until informed otherwise.
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by robgibbons 1y ago
Thanks for this. I've thought about building this exact thing ever since this vicious trend began.
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by robgibbons 2y ago
Every amendment should be taken literally. How else should your rights be interpreted? Figuratively? I agree with you that people are much better off using constructive dialogue, and communities like HN are much better off because of modera
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by robgibbons 2y ago
As an American who appreciates a strictly literal interpretation of the first amendment, it's very funny to me that a German not only takes pride in their government hunting down and suppressing inconvenient speech, but wants the rest
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by robgibbons 2y ago
This is the platform that led to the proliferation of newspeak terms like "unalive" to circumvent content restrictions. Such speech restrictions were never a thing on FB, IG, X, or YT, yet this form of self-censorship has spread t
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by robgibbons 2y ago
SSI's were my first foray into "backend," if you can even call it that, sometime around the year 2000. Some benevolent commenter on Slashdot gave me the tipoff, and my growing frustration with copy-pasting HTML snippets betwe
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by robgibbons 2y ago
Most 3D printed parts have a telltale texture resulting from the layer-by-layer deposit of material. The same goes for many milled/CNCed parts bearing evidence of tool marks. Once you've seen and held enough, it's relatively
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by robgibbons 2y ago
It's commonly referred to as a deflationary spiral because the falling prices lead to people (perhaps counterintuitively) holding off from large purchases, anticipating a continued drop in prices. Sort of a "buy the bottom" m
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How Stellantis Destroyed Jeep [video](youtube.com)
1 points by robgibbons 2y ago|0 comments
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by robgibbons 2y ago
Right, I meant it's not a JavaScript object. It's serialized into a string in any case, no matter which API you're stuffing it into. So it's a bit of a non-sequitur for the parent to suggest that it's somehow weird
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by robgibbons 2y ago
In both cases (cookie vs localStorage) you're really just storing your data as a string value, not truly a JSON object, so whether you use a cookie or localStorage is more dependent on the use case. If you only ever need the stored da

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