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floam

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About floam

Aaron Gyes

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    Comment #49131614

    They are unable to do much. Look, their systems cannot distinguish them - not since the crooks figured out the phosphor tags. They aren’t detecting any during the course of busines…

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    Comment #49118045

    I tried your tool just now, on my iPhone. I am really kind of stuck and frustrated. I cannot get that first box, the one you can type into, that’s on a grid into a state where I ca…

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    Comment #49114916

    Half priced stamps work though, and nobody is going to prosecute grandma for counterfeiting postage stamps.

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    Comment #49094769

    Pretty sure that’s what happens after adapting to Dvorak. Still not sure why ascended beings bother communicating with us though.

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    Comment #49016032

    You have this problem after paying for Pro?

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    Comment #48944649

    I don’t see how it’s incompatible with open source, just because my development builds aren’t being blessed.

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    Comment #48943531

    Maybe people will find deep meaning in “AI is us, any intention was shaped by the written down intentions of every human that ever put pen to paper”. maybe masters of art will trai…

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    Comment #48936727

    Try {"messages":[ {"role": "user", "content": "hi"} ]} but also an explicitly empty system message: {"messages":[ {"role": "system", "content": ""} {"role": "user", "content": "hi"…

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    Comment #48784006

    You’re talking about oxygen like it’s California Rocket Fuel or meth.

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    Comment #48668518

    Distillation from having enough logs

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    Comment #48654000

    TLS just encrypts the IMAP / SMTP sessions, no guarantee it’s stored encrypted, let alone end to end

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    Comment #48620873

    Certificate pinning is actually rarer today than it was a few years ago. You see it mostly in bank apps, and some system services. It’s not a best practice.

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    Comment #48381853

    Distillation attacks. The weights are just a proof-of-work hash

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    Comment #47902668

    I doubt many Spanish or Portuguese speakers refer to themselves in English. Regardless, sure South Americans can absolutely call themselves Americano in the continental sense. But …

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    Comment #47886337

    Well yes. Someone has the other side of the bet, and it’s not 1:1 long:short. That’s how folks could hypothetically hire somebody to kill me, by putting $5M on “floam will survive …

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    Comment #47885909

    Very carefully

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    Comment #47813688

    Stars make it, our sun is made of it, it’s the third most abundant element. Distant third

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    Comment #47745399

    6 digits effectively the time salted … the other digits are your lat long lol.

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    Comment #47317237

    Preferred like people today prefer their private jet? It cost more than your typical annual salary at the time. I just read that the trip was still a 5 day journey, involving 20+ s…

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    Comment #47160239

    Please add an arbitration opt out option or better yet ditch requiring people who care about their rights waive their right to a trial and jury.

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    Comment #47147562

    I found a flip phone in the fry’s parking lot, my dad turned it in to security, who accepted it with a smirk. I had gone through it and wrote down the phone number belonging to the…

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    Comment #47146232

    There’s a chance this catches on with some folks with blacklisted IMEI’s due to a quirk on AT&T MVNOs where service works for a few days before getting halted per IMSI.

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    Comment #47139760

    For everyone? I mean it doesn’t seem to apply to Apple, need it apply to Google or Samsung?

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    Comment #47105144

    They don’t give the customer access to it, for probably an obvious reason.