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Re:Who Is the Doge and X Technician Branden Spikes? on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:45PM (#43286792)
It's from various people all over the internet probably threatening to kill him, his entire family, and everyone he knows.

I'm not sympathetic to these jokes anymore. The internet harassment and doxing campaigns along with retributive swatting needs to be brought in line.

Re:How to add a directory to your PATH on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:17AM (#43195111)
You haven't edited env vars in the path since win 8 then. At some point they made a GUI for env vars and the path variable.
Re:Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022) on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:39PM (#43146256)
Works great until you break the law by accident if you're in a regulated industry. Sometimes it isn't as easy to do that.
Re:To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't on Saturday February 15, 2025 @05:32PM (#43063109)
If you think trying to debug a hallucinated code block is more productive than understanding how to write it in the first place is a good thing I have to think you're one of the stupid ones.
Point to the law that requires them to do it and keep quiet about it. The US law.

I'll wait.

Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:12PM (#42555695)
It's almost like... They're owned by Google and don't really compete or something...

Gee, fucking wow, it's almost as if it's plain a day why they've sucked as a corp, non profit, and culturally for a decade at this point.

I personally just really don't like magic links auth. It just feels brittle and if your email provider attempts to scan urls to see where they actually go you end up giving them an auth token and by the time the user clicks the link it's invalidated (or you don't invalidate the link at all which is worse).

If you have an issue with bots on your platform you're going to always have bot problems. It's trivial to abuse your auth to derank your standing too. I can force your app to send out bounced emails to hundreds and thousands of bad emails. Costing you $$ or rep in the email exchange. The second affects your ability to authenticate legitimate users too.

Wish magic links would just go away and be acknowledged as an anti-pattern.

Comical that contributing to the most used CMS on the planet isn't sufficient. They must contribute financially to all open source otherwise they don't have a claim against WPE
Re:Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:46PM (#41653697)
Allow me to introduce a whole new suite of bugs that occur when feature A exists but feature B doesn't.

Congrats you're back to square 1!

Re:USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut on Saturday September 14, 2024 @09:52PM (#41544583)
Nope that's how CAFE standards work. You can thank the EPA for that!

Instead of building more efficient small cars it becomes impossible to make them meet the efficiency requirements without making the car cost so much extra through fines. So instead you just get more "trucks" and SUVs. No more sedans! Those are the vehicles killing the planet!

Re:Founder Mode on Sunday September 01, 2024 @01:36PM (#41418688)
Care to elaborate? Most things boil down to client side features like streaming the video with HLS or DASH, even if it's not live just to get the encoding benefits. DRM is its own thing.

I think it's important to have the distinction between delivering video content and the in-app experience. I do think streaming VOD is way easier than live content.

Honestly I see this as anti-competitive of Google to award only YC companies this benefit. All, specific, or none.
My guess is Google wanted to really give them every opportunity so that most people come to your conclusion instead of "wow! Google is just trying to censor the internet"
You must hate poor people as that's who it's going to affect the most.
Re:Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout? on Sunday November 26, 2023 @12:52PM (#38423468)
Like most people who complain on the Internet for a living. Nothing.
It may come as a surprise but some people have literally nothing better to do than to hate musk to an obsessive level.
Re:Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:09PM (#36576728)
It sounds like you got some refactoring to use since you didn't namespace your own core types?
Re:I booted Linux 292,612 times on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:21AM (#36327343)
I just have it running 24/7 and never restart for weeks. I don't even have the 100 tab problem, I just like having the immediate availability without waiting for startup.
Re:FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says on Saturday May 20, 2023 @12:46PM (#36013453)
And the resulting punishment was...?

Did you miss that point or did you purposely want to make a non-constructive comment.

Re:Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud on Friday May 19, 2023 @07:07AM (#36000178)
You honestly can't see the issue of a silent vehicle progressing towards a pedestrian?
Re:Haxe 4.3 on Sunday April 09, 2023 @03:26PM (#35505631)
I looked at Haxe but have trouble figuring out what real benefits it would have over something like Godot at this point.
Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next? on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:53AM (#34720962)
Yeah I'm sure everyone can be unemployed for a year straight and live out of their car.

That sounds completely reasonable and not absolutely, in any way, privileged or insane.

Re:Heroku deleted my database with no warning on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:48PM (#34599822)
Redis is a memory store, you're the one who fucked up treating a cache as a persistence layer.
Re:Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:30PM (#34358225)
Oh shut up
You think it only costs 5k?
Re:Docker on Mac is slow. Here's the fix on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:58PM (#34099370)
Have fun managing osx and Linux dependencies then when you could just maintain one.
With all due respect, why is this article even approved here? This is something I'd expect on /r/politics, not a technical news feed.

It's blog spam that can be summarized to something like "here is the problem, upvote to show you agree that this is a problem"

Yeah burning the coal to power those EVs is really that much better.
Re:The entire crypto ecosystem is a ponzi on Sunday November 27, 2022 @03:05PM (#33766254)
Actually it just means you were part of the few that profited from the ponzi scheme not that it wasn't a ponzi scheme.
Re:Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now. on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:50PM (#33603692)
I'm not surprised she was fired with that attitude.

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