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mynameisvlad
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About mynameisvlad
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/vladzaharia; my proof: https://keybase.io/vladzaharia/sigs/6YGouS4aFZEhpCxvzs8giQeAZF9XWUNtTAzjfrzJab0 ]
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Comment #48770718
I mean, you choosing not to use the feature doesn't mean the feature doesn't exist and fulfill your needs.
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Comment #48770505
> The final major downside is having to switch apps out of navigation to control music then switch back, But... you don't. Tapping on the home button once more or swiping to the ri…
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Comment #48692007
Nobody denies or even claimed that. Just as a reminder, the claim (only two comments ago) was that it will never reach people and be limited only to certain government-approved com…
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Comment #48691807
From the OpenAI press release: > We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterp…
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Comment #48543572
I'm not exactly sure what your point is. This has always been the case considering Microsoft made the encryption itself.
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Comment #48536720
You can save your recovery key in different formats (printed, on a USB stick, etc). The online recovery is just automatic.
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Comment #48506841
Is that a problem?
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Comment #48506807
I would argue that preventing instructions for making biological and nuclear weapons is a pretty reasonable guardrail to have.
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Comment #48417787
I think Slack requires reauthorization after some time. I get asked to sign back in to various accounts after a while.
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Comment #48416935
100% and it has regularly happened in the past as live updates change the current state. Things like service status/degradation is a big one that comes to mind which is almost the …
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Comment #48415745
Marketing emails are send to existing and new paying customers all the time, it's exceptionally strange that that is the line you decide to use to determine if something is marketi…
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Comment #48415540
The point of the rule is to not editorialize, not to keep an always-updating title.
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Comment #48415337
It has "Live Updates" in big bold text as one of the first and most prominent lines on the page so... yes? Is that a problem? Publications have had live-updating articles for thing…
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Comment #48406845
A transactional message is something like "Thank you for signing up" or "Your password was changed" once per transaction. Hence, transactional. Regardless how much they and you wan…
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Comment #48403389
What is transactional about a daily message for 14 days? Especially when you haven't made a transaction to trigger said message?
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Comment #48402630
That is a completely separate question and discussion.
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Comment #48402566
What promises? The announcement for BastionZero was quite clear as to what would happen: > The BastionZero team will be focused on integrating their infrastructure access controls …
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Comment #48396173
I mean, yes. Most people aren’t security researchers, and either way it’s apples to oranges at that point if you’re counting “the guardrails stopped me” as a negative for one but n…
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Comment #48393303
It seems harsh to critique guardrails and take them into account in the scoring when GPT-5.5 seems to have been explicitly whitelisted to remove most of said guardrails. A more fai…
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Comment #48269834
YC is not some end all be all arbiter of what will succeed. Plenty of YC startups have failed. https://ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com/ https://startups.rip/
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Comment #48269787
So… You’re trying to hide spam by making it seem like human interaction. That doesn’t address the actual issue with these messages… which is that they’re still spam, regardless how…
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Comment #48269766
Not even the worst reading of their reply would lend to that implication. It’s pretty obvious that they meant that anyone who depended on their service would/should probably run aw…
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Comment #48269739
Being accepted into YC is not something that makes you or your idea invulnerable. https://ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com/ https://startups.rip/
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Comment #48250475
That's just plainly untrue. https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/new-data-shows-visa... With the raw data from 2023-2024 here: https://refugeerights.app.box.com/s/bizdcdev37okn…
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Comment #48169347
You can set up recovery keys at any point in time, not just at creation. Just because people don't do it doesn't mean it isn't and hasn't been available for almost 2 decades.