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    Comment #49221959

    > they're going to have to start selling future chips that cannot possibly be physically produced. This is already happening with gpus, no? Tsmc and McDaniel capacity are sold out …

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    Comment #49218078

    > How should they know that your bot belongs to a potential customer and not to a competitor surveilling their prices? That's the thing; they can't, really. Best we can do is compr…

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    Comment #49218047

    > Obviously the solution is to restrict the stores to a small, government-licensed list of apps that are known to be safe and regulated. I've been curious about the north korean mo…

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    Comment #49217123

    The physical cost of installing definitely dominates the conversation but there is a reliability component as well. If you have a dedicated point-to-point fiber it's only one backh…

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    Comment #49216442

    I get your point but neither the Play store or the Apple app store are devoid of malware.

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    Comment #49216385

    5.6 medium is pretty good at implementing moderately complicated things as long as you've done a good job specking out the types and the API contracts and acceptance criteria. I ca…

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    Comment #49216004

    > Stuff like calendar appointments would count, knowing you have things scheduled at specific moments or tasks to do, go grocery shopping, etc, todo lists in otherword So ... most …

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    Comment #49215918

    > For home automation, I went with ZWave and do not regret it at all. It's been rock solid and I've never felt the need to get a dongle to debug the traffic. That's because zwave r…

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    Comment #49215849

    > If this is the case, they probably outright do not want you as a customer. Almost certainly! No eComm site wants the cautious shopper that's done their comparisons and knows pric…

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    Comment #49213895

    > I would love some pointers to read up on this, what are some examples of this? Genuinely, not being a troll or ironic There's a "look what I built!" thread every few days on the …

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    Comment #49213708

    > I don’t see the sliding scale - if the website didn’t want a bot they could have blocked you. The point is that not all bots are bad. Assuming as much / implementing policies to …

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    Comment #49204699

    And if you thought the GitHub actions hybrid mix of JavaScript templates embedded in yaml was a nightmare, I have bad news for you with respect to ADO pipeline configuration docume…

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    Comment #49177538

    I've helped lots of people with home automation Network build outs l; the biggest factor is the RF environment. If you're fortunate enough to not be battery constrained at most end…

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    Comment #49149855

    > Outsourcing your security to a big brother leads to all kinds of problems like planned obsolescence and spying. But, won't somebody think of the children! _sigh_.

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    Comment #49117673

    > (for whatever definition thereof) See, that's why this can't be solved technically. Pornhub has a decent amount of sexual health material on it so there's an argument to be made …

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    Comment #49117638

    > How? Phones are already locked down pretty hard But never well enough, it seems. If you can't revoke the token then I'll just sell mine to whomever needs it. Kids will beg/borrow…

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    Comment #49117315

    > - Ask it to update the skill to warn it against making that mistake again Yep! I have a canned prompt that basically boils down to "scroll up, read through and give me the top `n…

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    Comment #49110316

    > Not as described. There's no location info in that path Ip address and general time of day will tell you a lot about location. Not street level, but country or state level. > UUI…

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    Comment #49110263

    > All that psych testing Facebook have used for evil, can also catch bugs and loopholes faster than kids can figure them out What would be the incentive for meta to deploy that aga…

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    Comment #49110211

    This can’t work because it creates a market for people that have an ID that cleared gates to lease/borrow to those that can’t.

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    Comment #49097632

    GitHub actions doesn’t really make you a js shop

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    Comment #49076936

    Will there be a public one?

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    Comment #49050786

    I don't think asics specific to a specific model or even model family are likely to be commodity hardware anytime soon. It's extremely expensive to build that and you'll be at leas…

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    Comment #49043523

    > While most don't, there are developers who actually do understand systems from end to end The last time intel made a CPU where the entire thing could fit in one persons head was …

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    Comment #49039974

    It can't possibly be an inevitable future. Something this would be super easy to game. From their perspective, it's code running on an untrusted third person/adversary's computer..…