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Please don't disturb the FUD with facts.
Re: on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:05AM (#39775878)
My (human) heuristic LLM score for this text is very high.
> By and large, the Palestinian civilians being murdered by the Israeli bombings are not Hamas supporters, they were just like you and me - trying to live a peaceful civilian life during a tumultuous time.

You clearly lack some understanding/knowledge. Most (>70%) civilians support Hamas and probably a much larger percentage (>90%) would happily mass kill the Jews. This is their education from the day they're born. The worst atrocities on 7/10 were committed by those "civilians" monsters, not Hamas.

Not saying they should be killed unarmed, just giving a context.

Re:Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs on Friday October 06, 2023 @04:06PM (#37795615)
Specify what languages are supported
You don't need bone conduction for that, air pods pro 2 work just as well. Bone conducting headphones are mainly good for sports involving water (or sweat) IMO, but the quality is significantly subpar to regular headphones.

Also, you can definitely hear bone conducting headphones in the environment if the volume is high enough as the vibrations also vibrate the air.

Re:Show HN: I made a puzzle game with Three.js on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:27PM (#36605808)
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Re:Update on Twitter's Rate Limits on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:22AM (#36597840)
People are hating because Elon == Bad. Twitter is pretty good these days, I see almost no spam and content quality has improved.
O'Dowd picked this route specifically to fail FSD, as he obviously has a financial interest and a vendetta against Musk. It was clear as day Gerber was gonna get tricked but he didn't care.

As can be seen in hundreds of uncut hours of driving, FSD is already pretty good and improving fast. Most rides don't req

Re:Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:48PM (#36157836)
Brave gives a very bad vibe (mostly due to the affiliate links scandal), I prefer to just use my favorite browsers (ff/edge) + uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger which give good privacy/adblock experience, are open source and customizable to my liking.
Re:One Day You’ll Find Yourself on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:30AM (#35913495)
It's the internetz' eye-roll, shorts are perfectly fine in nyc.
Re:One Day You’ll Find Yourself on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:23AM (#35913460)
> One day you’ll find yourself wearing shorts. Fair enough, it’s probably hot out. One day you’ll also find yourself wearing a t-shirt. Again, fair enough. Unless you’re playing a sport, however, you will not be wearing the two together because you’re also no longer a ten-year-old boy.

Yikes, OK boomer

Re:Why is DNS resolution via UDP faster than TCP on Mac? on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:37AM (#34439660)
Filter by "ip.addr == 1.1.1.1" and look at the "Time" column. With UDP you'll see 2 datagrams - request and response. TCP you'll see a SYN,SYNACK,ACK handshake and then 2 segments. TLS you'll see a longer handshake and then (encrypted) request and response (2 segments).
Re:Why is DNS resolution via UDP faster than TCP on Mac? on Thursday January 19, 2023 @07:19AM (#34439533)
On Windows DNS/UDP/WiFi to 8.8.8.8 with query=www.google.com is 3-4ms

TCP is around ~10ms including overhead, 3ms excluding.

TLS is ~100ms including overhead, 5ms excluding.

1.1.1.1:

udp - 5ms

tcp - 15ms / 10ms

tls - 70ms / 4ms

Use a sniffer (e.g. wireshark) to get a better idea for timing, I wouldn't count on dig for that.

Re:VPN by Google One security assessment on Sunday December 11, 2022 @12:54PM (#33945499)
Really boring report, nothing of real essence. Either G's product is bullet-proof or the research quality from NCC has deteriorated.
Avoid sending a token when downloading, then send thousands of metrics to Mozilla when double clicking firefox.exe (Not necessarily saying it's bad, just the least of your worries)
Elon hate is strong on this site
Type random, select the word and click ? -> About Notepad++
That's one of the oldest Tesla FUD classics, from ~10 years ago. It probably has little to no relevance to current operations.
uBlock origin removes all "annoyances" from the page, which should imply reject most cookies.
Re:Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:52PM (#32754760)
So now an unreasonable user input will crash my server instead of slowing it down by 50ms. Great DoS mitigation!
> this sort of directly lays out "Here are 3 difficult technical problems we need to solve for a VR headset"

It lays out the problems Meta had most progress in. Another very significant VR metric is FOV which was not discussed.

> He says normal monitors are a fixed distance, whereas in VR and AR you need to focus on different distances. But these VR headsets are just a fixed distance away, so how is that really a problem?

You want dynamic focus to convey the feeling of real world eye focus, and make the projected scene more natural/believable.

Re:Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:36AM (#31489137)
Seems like another unbased short sellers conspiracy:

> Ultimately, math doesn’t lie. If we are going to find fraud, the math should add up to at least justify the reason for the fraud. As far as I can tell, and as far as a warranty expert can tell, Tesla’s numbers don’t support the company doing any sort of fraud with this. I cannot find proof of the supposed “widespread” issue of repairs being mislabeled as goodwill. And the only things I can seem to find that are even questionable wouldn’t have a benefit from a safety standpoint, thus not lending credence to the theory that Tesla is avoiding NHTSA scrutiny.

(https://cleantechnica.com/2020/07/18/re-tesla-tsla-has-a-war...)

Re:Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:01AM (#31488885)
> There were reports of Tesla logging repairs as "goodwill" repairs and replacements, when they should have really been done under warranty

I call BS, got any source for that? Tesla has cash reserves for warranties (as most companies do), it would be stupid financially not to use them, and waste "real" money instead.

> There's several other things like this were Tesla has first hand manipulated data to benefit them.

Like what?

Re:Seven Teslas have caught fire in the last four days on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:36AM (#31488739)
PlainSite's owner Aaron Greenspan is a known TSLAQ troll who's obsessed with Tesla and Elon Musk, and just lost a huge lawsuit against Tesla (https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/judge-dismisses-...)

Let's look at all these reports:

* Some seem fake/old - (e.g. a single potato quality image in a tweet https://twitter.com/ATXKev1n/status/1528826357177892864 from a TSLA short - https://twitter.com/ATXKev1n/status/1527691352569524224)

* Some are caused by other fires (e.g. https://brooklynreporter.com/2022/04/streets-of-fire-tesla-g... - "A garbage fire on Fifth Avenue and 77th Street engulfed a Tesla")

* Some are minor fires in the cabin that didn't proliferate to the battery and didn't cause any serious damage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZf-auOZxI)

* Some involve other vehicles as well (https://presse-fotos.dk/post/fire-elbiler-i-ladestander-brud..., https://abc7.com/santa-monica-car-crash-fire-parking-garage/...) - and as expected only reported as Tesla fires on PlainSite, although it's unknown which one started the fire.

Overall, the rate of serious Tesla fires with any injuries/fatalities is extremely low, since there are many safety nets in place and fires take a lot of time to expand (if they do at all).

Many apps are "pinning" TLS certificates, so you can't see their traffic w/o changing a hard-coded public key in the app itself.
Autonomous cars are already safer than human drivers. Not as featureful or accurate, but safer.
Re:Ask HN: Why are chess problems attack oriented? on Sunday April 10, 2022 @07:58AM (#30976279)
Usually puzzles start from a position where one side has a clear advantage and a single good move. It depends on your puzzle rating, but many puzzles include an important defensive component (e.g. preventing the opponent from mating you while you keep the advantage). However in low puzzle ratings I believe it's more mate-in-X, material grabs, and other simple attacks.

You can also use the defensive theme on Lichess: https://lichess.org/training/defensiveMove

Re:Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019) on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:19PM (#30643815)
You should introduce them to RFC 7413.

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