Viewing profile — ratg13

Interesting and good to be aware of When on a random CLI though my personal preference though is still to use telnet as the commands are easily memorized and there’s something more…

AI / LLMs are not intelligence .. they are just a prediction engine that has been branded as 'intelligence' by marketing employees At the end of the day it is still making a best g…

Set up a GitHub action to auto-close any pull requests from anyone not on an approved list. Leave a message in the pull request that if they want to argue their case for a pull req…

You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body

I stopped using samsung because of the uninstallable facebook apps. I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider s…

As long as you never have to interact with them. If you run into issues they have caused themselves, you'll find yourself dealing with a unique mix of arrogance and incompetence.

I think people are too focused on the device part of it. Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being s…

This doesn’t affect existing users. This is a simple supply and demand curve. Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before com…

Could also be non-native speakers .. Even as a former grammar nazi, now that English isn't my daily driver language I find myself making basic mistakes .. (two, too, to / its, it's…

I was always more partial to Compute magazine

If this gets swept under the rug, it doesn't seem like they are going to do anything about it, and it will mean that only the bad people are going to be able to find this stuff.. w…

Trump support is currently at 37% and only 69% of people think this is valuable. A 6% overlap is hardly unifying. The few Trump supporters I know think the whole thing is fake.

E-Gold fulfilled all of these ideas and existed long before bitcoin and this article.

Notifications are not part of an app, it is a service provided by Apple/Google Most notifications are sent by backend servers straight to Apple/Google

Boris from the Claude Code team explained this on HN 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442

It should be noted that they are not just bombing, but using airburst white phosphorus munitions over civilian areas attempting to scorch the earth and give people a lifetime of he…

No new features, no security patches.

I hate Amazon more because than most people, but let’s be realistic. These devices came out in 2007-2012 14-19 years is a respectable lifetime for a handheld electronic device.

If you are interested in learning more, check out the David Lynch foundation (Yes, that David Lynch) There is also tm.org which is a worldwide organization offering courses in most…

At some point they got ultra aggressive about "duplicate" questions. Technology changes at a fast pace .. so new questions would get asked, and then closed by moderators and pointe…

The xAI merger is the core of the rugpull SpaceX made 8 billion in profit last year and xAI is losing 1B per month. The whole IPO is convincing people that datacenters in space tha…