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The German NSA seemed unable to access the server as they only intercepted the traffic. They got a TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt by intercepting traffic. If the app had used public key pinning, and the server had full disk encryption, this wouldn't have been enough for a compromise.

Sounds like the risk is negligible, and kids will be denied the opportunity to play with this stuff.

Win for the lawyers


This is my biggest fear wrt gov't search-and-seizure. I know the police won't be able to get at my juicy encypted bits, but I also know they're vindictive basterds who'll be held to no accountability. Of course they'll wipe my drives just to get revenge for me "winning" by having blocked their access.

I suppose my comparison is that Uber eventually turned a profit and mostly displaced the competitors.

I don't see the current investments turning a profit. Maybe the datacenters will, but most of AI is going to be washed out when somewhere, someone wants to take out their investment and the new Bernie Madoff can't find another sucker.


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I don't think it's really fair to compare IA to a real library. The Seattle public library for example spends 76% of their operating budget on employees, most of who are doing public services work. The second major expense for a real library is paying for books and materials, again IA doesn't do any of that.

It's not fair to compare an institution with a website.


This all sounds impressive, but tbh there are no real provable numbers to evaluate...

I take a different approach, I use an email client called Shortwave and configured it to deliver most messages on schedules - once a day, once a week, all at once. And then whitelist certain senders and keywords to deliver immediately. That way I don’t feel overwhelmed but I also don’t feel like I’m missing out on important things.

thats pretty much what I do, I have a bash alias to launch either the normal claude code, or the glm one

I've noticed this company also has coax modems. I wonder if they will work better than MOCA adapters. I've tried MOCA at my house and the quality of the signal is not good, connection keeps dropping every 10-15 minutes for no apparent reason...

OpenAI does KYC. I refuse to deal with that.

Result or Error types may just be normal values, but they add overhead to the code as well when they’re ubiquitous.

Once they’re the standard error method then case every function has to intertwine branching for errors paths vs normal paths. Often the compiler has to generate unique code or functions to handle each instance of the Result type. Both add to code size and branching size, etc.


You're as usual spitting out nonsense. Containers are just fine, as a matter of fact they suit their purpose very well for 99% of the software out there. Do you ever get tired bashing on the exact same topic? I see you're relentlessly doing it for years here on HN. How bitter one has to be ...

Always check the man pages..

Thanks, we've documented how some of our products work, where we get the data, the manufacturing process, and how to write/upload your own code to your board.

We should have a couple more technical posts released this year as we update the way our boards get their data.


That's a pretty heavy debt.

Absolutely.

I think some of these people need to be reminded of the Bill Gates' quote about lines of code:

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”


It can be separate yes but I generally keep it the same for simplicity

fair point. i'm taking some poetic license with spacetime.

treating 'distance traveled' as a proxy for age since we're all stuck on the same rock moving at the same speed.


The current US administration is not competent to ensure continual financing in real terms.

If the White House keeps up current threats against allies it may find nobody willing to lend them money, and therefore the government will be forced to inflate its way to balancing the books each year; if they follow through with kicking out the undocumented migrant workers (even if they improve their current behaviour and limit themselves to *only* undocumented migrant workers), they mess up US agriculture at the same time; there is also visible corruption and self-dealing within the government.

The question is the level, rather than the existence of these factors.

There's been another authoritarian in my lifetime who messed with farms by actually kicking out non-native people in the way Trump threatens, demonstrating even worse corruption, and that actually did try to fund the government with inflation rather than my hypothetical of "will be forced to": Mugabe. It didn't go well for Zimbabwe, and the US military can observe what happened there and decide if that's what they want to see in the US.


Anyone have any idea of what their caching strategy may be? I think that may be the most interesting and impactful thing here.

ChatGPT is definitely the snappiest web UI of any LLM.


The title of the article: "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Ember, Dojo, Prototype, YUI all were reasonable alternatives at the time. Although all with their own warts and highlights, as is tradition.

"Sanni Virtanen", I guess it was meant to be Finnish? Maybe the "bank customer support" part threw the AI off, lmao.

> Wikipedia spends $185m per year

Only a small fraction of that is spent on actually hosting the website. The rest goes into the pockets of the owners and their friends.

You can do a lot with very little if your primary goal isn't to enrich yourself.


Never heard of those, but many sites that sell THC/CBD products also sell amanita because they know it has desired effects and is mostly legal in the US.

Well, I had something like this back in the late 90s (can't recall the year exactly)

https://walkman.land/aiwa/hs-px297

    Battery: 1AA gets 30h
    Dimensions: 111.4 x 29.1 x 80.7 mm
    Weight: 132g
Ok, so you were limited to 90 minute tapes with slow seek. But aside from that compare it to the specs I posted for the android vs non-android mp3 players. Remember, this cassette player has some seriously impressive clockwork inside that case and it's still smaller and much lighter than the android.

Also remember you can just buy another AA battery, and keep a few spares in your bag.


It's not that each turn has a time limit but that each player has a time limit to spend across the entire game.

So quantity of code?

If you are in the US, you probably already know who the players in your area are and can approach directly. Frankly though, the small number of firms and positions is a sign it’s time to change careers.

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