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Comment #47243764
I’m here to support both of your statements. This is absolutely true from orgs the size of FAANG to startups because I’ve worked at both. Sure smooth talkers get promoted but so do…
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Comment #47242812
Normally I’d help a bro out but I started and googled and got hundreds of results and realized why does everyone need to be spoon fed. Please go do some work yourself mkay?
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Comment #47235492
Have you noticed half the internet doesn’t work if you use a vpn? Even a good vpn? Even HN wont let you create an account with a vpn. The friction applied to preventing people from…
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Comment #47228228
Yes. Numpy will accelerate if it detects hardware that it supports.
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Comment #47228225
Agreed. Now is our chance to start pushing back on this. Don’t patronize this. Just glad author admitted it. Next time they won’t tho.
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Comment #47225046
This is what worries me. I’ve used Time Machine for almost 20 years and it has provided seamless transitions to new MacBooks. But how do I know if it is currently borked?
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Comment #47222670
In the 1990s we referred to this dilemma as needing a “killer app” to drive an upgrade. Fortunately everything needed more mips, but unless you’re a niche gamer, consumers hit the …
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Comment #47216857
This is the third phone on the HN main page. I’m happy to see this flurry of work at real competition in the market, but I hope the companies can survive and respond to CSVEs.
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Comment #47216676
It’s the trump admin. They don’t care about the decorum you’ve described. They would have no qualms about looking racist. Have you not seen what ICE has been doing? Racism is a bad…
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Comment #47188674
Welcome to reality. HN likes to pretend politics is something you can just look away from and ignore. That’s a mighty big privilege, which makes sense since HN skews cis-white-het-…
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Comment #47186937
Cancel culture and derangement syndrome. This admin is garbage.
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Comment #47177685
It used segmented 32-bit mode. Flat mode doesn’t support virtual addressing which was accomplished with the descriptor tables (and the ES register) if I recall correctly. lol it’s …
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Comment #47177658
I think it was “you lie” under Obama. But my history knowledge awful. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a duel at a pre civil war sotu.
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Comment #47177634
I’ve been called bad things on HN for suggesting there’s even a whiff of corruption in this administration. That alone scares me. Deeply.
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Comment #47168315
Even if they can rewrite the MAC and force a new one via ping, which are usually already disabled, they still can’t eavesdrop on the TLS key exchange. I fail to see how this is a r…
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Comment #47159816
Name calling. You win! I’m sooooo bad … I’m bad … I’m bad shamone … chorus: really really bad. This is actually me when I’m not out punching nazis like you: https://m.youtube.com/w…
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Comment #47152229
You just labeled me as a bad person. Lol. Try again.
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Comment #47152202
Ah yes. Whattaboutism. Awesome. Tell me again the political leanings of the billionaire class? Tell me again who is fighting them? Facts speak for themselves but go ahead and make …
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Comment #47152076
Up is down. Black is white. Dogs are cats. Sound logic, troll.
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Comment #47152058
Don’t ban it. Regulate the shit out of it and keep it in academia and prevent it from toppling our economy by sucking up all investment. It’s worse than private equity right now.
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Comment #47152024
Nobody is forcing AI on us? How can you be on HN and even make that claim? It’s literally everywhere.
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Comment #47151958
Vote for progressive democrats. All of this AI is a choice. We don’t have to let it be forced on us by the parasite billionaire class.
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Comment #47131465
If you’ve never heard it, his duet of the song Common People is pretty awesome: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXhWf0vE7c