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by zamnos 3y ago
someone's vetted the code, right? I'm not just texting my drug dealer for the NSA to tell the DEA to then later parallel reconstruction me, to listen in on with this thing, am I?
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by zamnos 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29218953
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by zamnos 3y ago
> Technical people suffer from what I call "Engineer's Disease". We think because we're an expert in one area, we're automatically an expert in other areas. Just recognizing that helps. https://news.yc
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by zamnos 3y ago
Parable - The Mexican Fisherman and the Investment Banker An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin
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by zamnos 3y ago
That would be the exception that proves the rule then. If he's able to SEO the whole first page for Thai restaurants, that would seem to say the rest of them are terrible at the web.
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by zamnos 3y ago
But all that information goes to the large platform vendors (eg DoorDash, Uber Eats) if you use their app instead. What makes the business-specific app worse in this regard? At least with the business-specific app, there's one less mid
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by zamnos 3y ago
It's a reference to the concept in US law of protected class - discrimination is entirely legal against certain kinds of people. It's only protected classes that it is illegal to discriminate against. Specifically the law prohibi
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by zamnos 3y ago
It's still the case! Upload speeds (especially on consumer-grade Internet connections) haven't kept pace, and AWS will send you box for you to copy your data into that you mail back to them. If you have a lot of data, they'
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by zamnos 3y ago
> You act like there are actually fullstack developers and not just people who do both poorly. If you haven't worked with someone who's smarter and more motivated than you are, then I can see how you'd draw that conclusio
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by zamnos 3y ago
Covered previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982447
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by zamnos 3y ago
I had the opposite happen to me. The password length was enforced on the frontend by JavaScript, which the password manager bypassed. The backend recieved the whole string though, so I could only log in by pasting in the password, which got
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by zamnos 3y ago
Ever is a long time! In 50 years when travel via rocket between cities on Earth is common, why wouldn't airports build rocket pads for it? When you can fly New York to Singapore in less than an hour, JFK isn't going to just give
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by zamnos 3y ago
I don't know about the meme, but the spider webs done by drugged spiders dates back to 1948, by Swiss pharmacologist Peter N. Witt and later repeated elsewhere. If there's questions as to it's veracity, it's not mentione
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by zamnos 3y ago
ESP32's neat and all, but it's severely underpowered and very limited in what it can do. A Banana Pi (while we're waiting for Raspberries) is going to be a much shorter route to success.
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by zamnos 3y ago
Using one principle (nukes are expensive) isn't the same thing as deducing something from first principles. In particular, it's not enough, especially given hypersonic missile technology, to just take an ICBM, reprogram it, and vo
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by zamnos 3y ago
Ten or twenty buildings on the continental US being hit by Russian hypersonic missiles may seem like basically nothing, but on 9/11 we lost two buildings, plus minor damage to the Pentagon, and the US collectively lost it's shit.
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by zamnos 3y ago
ChatGPT's knowledge only goes up to 2021. BingChat, meanwhile, can access the Internet and try to look things up.
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by zamnos 3y ago
> How does the 'economy' work for your Milk and Cereal producers? Just fine. By "Just Fine" you mean there's currently a hullabaloo about what can legally be called Milk? In a story of naming rights and lawsuits,
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by zamnos 3y ago
Maybe Xpra would work?
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by zamnos 3y ago
What word would you like to use for a gathering of a dozen or so adults, meeting for one or two nights (colloquially known as Friday and Saturday, because adults have jobs) where there is zero damage to the property? Because most people I
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by zamnos 3y ago
What numbers did you use? How much cheaper would batteries need to become to be viable?
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by zamnos 3y ago
Uncredited picture but I 'd know that art style anywhere. It's by Zach Weinersmith of SMBC. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wolf
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by zamnos 3y ago
Travel near the coast where waves are limited in size. That means this thing won't be going from SF or LA to Hawaii any time soon.
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by zamnos 3y ago
just to nitpick, but with airline travel about five or six nines (99.9999%) safe, that is, one fatality every million miles of travel or so, 95% vs 99% is nowhere near good enough. https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines&#x2
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by zamnos 3y ago
Followed by a slap on the wrist of a fine? How many tens of millions of dollars do you think the TAM of NYC taxi service is, vs a single digit million dollar fine from regulators? Most days, fines are just the cost of doing business. They c
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by zamnos 3y ago
A couple of times I'll see a friend doing something toilsome, and set them up with a script or tool to make it easier. A trivial example is Instagram limits the number of hashtags to 30, but has a poor UX if you exceed that number. A q
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by zamnos 3y ago
They'd have to fight with legal to distribute something newer than Bash 3 though.
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by zamnos 3y ago
how do you teach them what the right choices are if you don't actually see their choices? if your teenager is texting on TikTok with a 40 year old man who's asking them to send them underwear pictures, how do you find out about th
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by zamnos 3y ago
PGP's extremely poor UX would suggest there's code that doesn't exist that should.
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by zamnos 3y ago
By hospitals who "can't afford" to pay their nurses more.

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