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Beautiful. Looks like what I'd see when I would press on my closed eyeballs.

Within 30 seconds, it crashed my 2016 MacBook Pro (maybe overloaded the CPU + the failing battery? It's a feeble machine).

After the Mac's version of the BSD, Mac helpfully restored all of my windows (I have that setting turned off), and there it was again, happily Game Of Lifing in the background. Shut it down just as the fans were spinning up again.

Re:Every UUID Dot Com on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:35PM (#42344116)
Mine too.

Takes me back to when my password was leaked:

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155

Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:55AM (#37943746)
> another owner who doesn't understand what they bought.

I couldn't imagine who you might be referring to! /snark

Re:Inside the AI porn marketplace on Thursday August 24, 2023 @04:54PM (#37254411)
This talk of deepfake porn takes me back to a classic HN comment from mabbo:

"As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and ubiquitous that you can fully expect your asshole friends to grab a dozen photos of you from Facebook and then make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla. Pandora's box is open, and you cannot put the technology back once it's out there."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32555540

And the reply from ForrestN, "In a world where every celebrity is having sex with gorillas, doesn't such an image lose its charge?"

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023) on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:51PM (#36961689)
Hi! I'm Ethan. On the hunt for my next FT Senior Software Engineer role. I've spent 8+ years working on software at scale; my team at GovOS built our Cloud Search product from greenfield to +1 Million Active Monthly Users. I've got fullstack chops, and my passion skews towards the backend.

My teams have given me the feedback my attention to detail and my efforts to bridge and coordinate communication between disparate teams has been invaluable.

Thanks for your time!

Location: Asheville, NC, USA

Remote: Yes, 8 years experience working hybrid and fully remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node, React, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Docker, React, Jest, Redux

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanjstark/

Email: ethanstark () gmail.com

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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:08PM (#36884167)
Thank you so much for your call to action; just emailed [email protected].

For any experiencing barriers for writing the email, my method is below; Bing Chat generated an excellent email that only needed a bit of editing.

1. Open https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme... page in (ugh) Edge.

2. Open Bing Chat sidebar (top right corner); it auto-summarizes the article.

3: My prompt: Using the that webpage summary, please write a letter reporting Alphabet for antitrust violation. Please include the following [this language is from the ftc.gov site]:

Q: What companies or organizations are engaging in conduct you believe violates the antitrust laws? A: Alphabet

Q: Why do you believe this conduct may have harmed competition in violation of the antitrust laws? A: [use the article]

Q:What is your role in the situation? A: I'm a user of the Firefox browser

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Re:Google's Codey model now public preview via Vertex AI on Thursday June 08, 2023 @02:27PM (#36246431)
Just got an email update from Google Cloud Trusted Tester Program, informing me that

> Generative AI support in Vertex AI is generally available

and

> Our Codey model is now in public preview, giving Vertex AI users access to powerful code completion, generation, and chat capabilities.

Trying it out requires signing up for Google Cloud. A 90-day $300 free credit trial is available, which happily does not auto-charge your credit card after the trial is over.

Curious if anyone out there has played around with Codey, and how it stacks up to GH Copilot etc.

Tell HN: Apple quit allowing syncing Photos and FinalCut to cloud-based storage

For years, I've kept my 286GB Photos library backed up via Dropbox. But as of MacOS 12.5, this has been disallowed, per Apple's policy.Here's Dropbox's writeup, see the table entry "Some types of files aren't supported on Dropbox for macOS."https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changesAttempting to open my Photos library results in the following error:The library could...

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Re:Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:16PM (#35157752)
Way cool. Enjoy!
Re:Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT on Sunday March 12, 2023 @11:06AM (#35120879)
Thanks for sharing. Your audio work sounds really interesting! Is any of it sharable, or still in-flight?
Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:42PM (#27237306)
So bad--it boggles my mind. We joke that their company moto is: "U-Haul: It's Always Somthing".

So many instances of showing up after reserving online, and the staff says, "Uh, we don't have that truck."

Most recently, my friends couldn't get their reserved truck (on their moving day) because their site (and backend) was down nationwide. They had the truck, but _because_ everything's digital now, they had no fallback ability to rent out the reserved truck.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:55PM (#20640061)
No recruiters or agencies, please.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019) on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:51PM (#20628846)
Kofile | Frontend, Backend, DevOps | Full-Time | Remote US Only

Join our team and help us build our modern, powerful platform for county government records! Some government sites may be terrible, but we're building something better--take a peek at our search site: https://bexar.tx.publicsearch.us/

We're a small (8) engineering team that's part of a larger (~200), established, privately owned company. Our software is in use in dozens of counties across the US. We believe strongly in work-life balance, and are family-friendly.

We presently have the following open roles:

  * Midlevel-to-Senior Frontend React
  * Senior Backend
  * DevOps
For job descriptions, visit by:

https://github.com/kofile/jobs

Send your resume to [email protected]

++ on the touchbar being worthless. I use a touchbar MBP for work. It's managed to complicate the most frequently used functions (brightness + sound adjustments), and I experience bugs / temporary freezing of both of those sliders until I cmd + tab switch apps.
It's a great teardown and commentary. I found this presentation easier to follow, as it has inline images.

https://imgur.com/gallery/G1EcegS

I've always been a "Save $$ by buying used Macs" guy, but I'd be very hesitant to purchase a used MacBook with this terrible keyboard . . .