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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:31PM (#50291765)
I know what people use them, for convenience. I also know why the business use them, is probably cheaper for them to advertise on this companies instead of trying to lump the users to your own app or worse, to call you business.

I know why they do it, that doesn't mean I like how the world works.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:59AM (#50287128)
So... they’re still selling the old ones, and the same CPU/RAM/SSD combo is $500 more expensive in the touch version than in the old one?

I didn’t upgrade before the price hike, and I probably won’t any time soon. Tech prices have gone up across the board, and the worst part is that the same money now buys you a noticeably worse product than it did a couple of years ago, instead of following the old rule that you’d get more for the same price each generation.

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:37AM (#50241280)
they could, 3 minutes is a hard limit between reestarts to leet everything stabilize, the same way they say you shouldn't plug in a refrigerator after moving before letting it 4-6 hours still. you should be able to play with the hysteresis or with using another thermostat if you don't want it to cycle so fast.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:43PM (#50197819)
I cant comprehend how they were able to put something like "4" as the private key. someone said that they could have used a rand generator from 0 - 255 instead of 256 bytes one. but anyway, I don't remember putting a private key value manually and always generated it with something like keygen.
Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:52AM (#50192908)
how the hell are they able to resell the keys and be able to take profit from that is beyond my imagination. Is not money what they are stoling and they are still able to take advantage of it.

With cloud credentials I understand that they are able to create machines, but with api keys... what they are able to do to take profit from?

today i read that for new game studios, the possibility of going stream only (like amazon luna) instead of downloadable is a probable future if they want to prevent piracy.
one thing i noticed, there are a lot of new things, but the software has not changed at all, we are building the same things again and again, but no new things.
bufff.... the music from second reality still gives me goosebumps.
Re:Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:06AM (#49890249)
very inspiring. it's nice to see how an idea evolves from a though to a product / installation.
I don't know if lobbied is the correct word, or they are directly bought.
Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:12PM (#49832775)
for 32gb, this is my model of reference now, you have to run it with a patched version of llama and is still not available in lmstudio or omlx, waiting for that to streamline the experience a bit. But so far, the best i had till now.
if you can order for free or below cost doing anything in the app, you are not paranoid, you are directly stupid, is like being able to modify the shopping cart total in the browser and the server accepting that as the correct price. Everything should be server side validated where you have the full control of it.
with llms maybe you can reuse their api for your own benefit instead of just showing some maps, so the issue is even worse that only cost.
Re:The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:11AM (#46871952)
not letting outside people at the luggage area seems fine to me, if anyone could enter there the number of stolen baggage would skyrocket.
Re:Google Opal on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @02:26AM (#46442165)
not available in your country...

I suppose for any in europe waking up like me that I can save you one click and some time.

Re:Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:49PM (#46281207)
My case, I have to manage a portal for old tvs and those don’t accept the LE root certificate since they changed a couple of years ago. Unfortunately the vendor is unable to update the firmware with new certificates and we are sold
there was an ad, or a presentation in a conference keynote, from when microsoft built phones, showing a user leaving the house and continuing what was he doing in the car in a very futuristic way. I can't find it now, but was something crazy by then, the continuum idea was also a good one, but here we are, walled gardens and nothing smart about them.
maybe it doesn't do everything postman does, but I'm very happy using the rest client extension in vs code, the http files with the api calls are commited to the source code repository along with the code is easy to use, does what i need, and is easy to share with my colleagues.
Re:Apple M5 chip on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:51AM (#45603413)
I don't have a problem with the notch, I have a problem with the icons not showing in the status bar and there isn't a *** way to show them. It's so difficult to add a overflow button that shows the hidden icons?
Re:PNG Is Back on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:52AM (#44375776)
the main reason is probably that the chip is already outputting the image in a lossy format, and if you reorder the pixels you must reencode the image which means degrading the image, so it's much better to just change the exif orientation.
That’s why you have an vpn or the rdp gateway instead of exposing the machines directly to internet.
Re:Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:35PM (#43429821)
I was on the real state listing site side long time ago, we were trying to block scrapers from getting our data, at the en we loss, and now we pay them to send us users instead of paying Google ads because it’s cheaper. Fun times
Re:Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:29PM (#43429768)
That kind of search is already available in many portals. You can actually find the shape of a polígon with the places you can reach in 1h of conmuté easily, as there is a google maps api for it (distance matrix) and finding the properties in a polygon is a solved problem. (
Re:Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:24PM (#43429725)
Almost as easy as cropping the center. Doing it well automatically is another kind of problem
I like almost everything from this project, even the documentation and development is being done in the open, with design docs like this: https://www.figma.com/design/qdCWR4tTUr7vQSecEjCyqO/DOCS?nod...
Re:Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack? on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:37AM (#43279001)
¿chatgpt?
Batteries also degrade by time even if you don't charge and discharge them.
Thats by design, you can’t trust the client, everything has to be checked server side.
Re:Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:18AM (#42513851)
I didn’t see synology or qnap mentioned here. They are probably the easiest way to self host and stream the músic, even if they are simpler, but for me worked well.
Re:Why conversations are better with four people on Sunday December 15, 2024 @11:08AM (#42424152)
Sex is also better with 4 people, requires a bit of organization though.

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