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by shawkinaw 4d ago
I am so tired of these self-serving theatrics. These bosses take advantage of the fact that most people don’t remotely understand how “AI” actually works, building up this aura of omnipotence and inevitability, the net effect of which is to
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by shawkinaw 1mo ago
> promising the impossible — the 19th century version of Steve Job’s reality distortion field. Seriously, that’s your best example of that lately? Not, I don’t know, Tesla FSD? Theranos? Bernie Madoff?
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by shawkinaw 1mo ago
Let me add to that: how about “no uncontrolled left turns onto busy streets” mode? Google Maps does this to me all the time and it’s infuriating, it’s up to me to avoid it.
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by shawkinaw 2mo ago
Yeah I wish I hadn’t, this will not help me get to sleep at night
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by shawkinaw 2mo ago
Mine was just over $1 billion. I thought the email was a phish at first and almost trashed it, but it seemed otherwise very real, so I logged in to AWS just to check. Then I almost had a heart attack when I looked at my billing estimate. Ev
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by shawkinaw 3mo ago
I really enjoyed the line “The incident was resolved when the attacker’s autonomous agent read a file it shouldn’t have, which is also how the incident started.”
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by shawkinaw 3mo ago
Could really use a good rollback mechanism, is there one in the works perchance? I have broken my home server multiple times with bad InfluxDB and Grafana updates, and rollback was a huge pain. I’ve now disabled cleanup so old versions of p
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by shawkinaw 7mo ago
Exactly this. Seriously, look at a 10 year graph of SQ/XYZ. How a board of directors puts up with this is beyond me, seems like a massive governance failure.
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by shawkinaw 11mo ago
I do love the random stream of pics at the end.
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by shawkinaw 11mo ago
I appear to be in the minority here, but I really like Liquid Glass on iPhone, Apple Watch, and especially Apple TV. But I do hate it on the Mac, the window borders are so thick and rounded, I really can’t stand it.
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Hadley Cell(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by shawkinaw 1y ago|0 comments
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by shawkinaw 1y ago
Reading about the Azores high, Hadley cells, etc. on Wikipedia is incredibly illuminating. Hadley cells and related phenomena combined with the Coriolis effect explain a bunch of weather phenomena: trade winds and westerlies, the jet stream
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by shawkinaw 1y ago
Yeah, I tried to read the post and was immediately put off by the lack of capitalization. Then I came to the comments and had to fight the urge to ask “why not capitals”
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by shawkinaw 3y ago
Meta, but I’m glad to see Eclectic Light getting some love on HN lately, it’s such a great resource for really in-depth articles on macOS internals (and art!)
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by shawkinaw 3y ago
Yeah. I mean, the headline is just straight up false: > Whisper Aero unveils ultra-quiet electric leaf blower, powered by aerospace tech
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by shawkinaw 4y ago
Looks a lot like the app World Clock Pro I’ve used for a while: https://worldclock.pro/mobile/
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by shawkinaw 4y ago
What a bad headline. “Raises emission standards” sounds like a good thing, i.e. making the standard more strict, but actually the article is about Texas raising emission limits .
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by shawkinaw 4y ago
The goal was to stop Congress from certifying the vote. That’s not a protest, that’s sedition, plain and simple.
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by shawkinaw 4y ago
No, the tactic used in non-democratic societies is to take power by force, which is what was attempted on January 6.
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by shawkinaw 4y ago
Hard to take seriously when the cons list doesn’t even have “versions no longer indicate breaking changes”.
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by shawkinaw 5y ago
> It contends that there was collusion between Apple and Facebook to protect their abuses of dominance in the marketplace s/Apple/Google/
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by shawkinaw 5y ago
Besides Reader View as mentioned by others, you can increase the zoom of the page (accessible in the “aA” button to the left of the URL.) This particular site renders pretty well at 200% on my phone in portrait. The zoom is site-specific so
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by shawkinaw 5y ago
From watching the documentary linked in another comment, a big part of the JWST’s potential is its deep-infrared sensitivity, which in turn requires very cold temperatures and exquisite shielding, and why it will be literally 1 million mile
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TreasuryDirect.gov’s Password Input is a Virtual Keyboard(twitter.com)
2 points by shawkinaw 5y ago|1 comments
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by shawkinaw 5y ago
If it’s on, apps still have to ask. Global opt-in is what it used to be.
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by shawkinaw 5y ago
Boy do I hate blog posts with no link to the page for the actual project. I’m tapping “Murex” in the banner, that should take me to the homepage so I can see what the heck it is!
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by shawkinaw 6y ago
You can have ads without tracking. Print, radio, TV all do this.
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Are You an Anti-Influencer? (2020)(nytimes.com)
1 points by shawkinaw 6y ago|0 comments
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The Family with No Fingerprints(bbc.com)
18 points by shawkinaw 6y ago|2 comments
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by shawkinaw 6y ago
Let me be clear, I agree it should not be normal to SSH into a prod box. Our logs are centrally aggregated. But it’s one thing to say it’s not normal, but quite another to say engineers shouldn't have access , because I totally disa

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