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    Comment #46486014

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    Comment #46486008

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    Comment #46485781

    ya but you assume someone worked hard on the answer. there are alot of times when you get garbage top to bottom.

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    Comment #46485774

    create a new account every few weeks and don't forget to mix you you'er writin' style to fakeout stylometrics. its all against the rules but i disagree with HN terms. internet poin…

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    Comment #46485033

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    Comment #46485006

    Are you confusing the open openSSL library with the CLI? Absolutely none of this is true when used as a signing tool on the CLI. Seems like you just needed to rant, rather than ans…

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    Comment #46483689

    I've been hearing "Iran is weeks away from a nuke" since the 1980's. It's almost like that dude who keeps saying, "FSD in my EVs is just months away."

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    Comment #46483648

    Wasn't there a "bounty" program where if it had a lot of views but no answers, the answer rewarded more internet ego points?

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    Comment #46483641

    And you can't delete your post when you realize how awful it was years later! That anti-information sticks around for ages. Even worse when there are bad answers attached to it, to…

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    Comment #46483627

    Why not zoidbe... I mean, why not open ssh? It's literally a CLI that does every crypto operation with every primitive (except some PQC)?

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    Comment #46483573

    I'm sorry you don't understand my answers. Like, at all. Maybe calm down and re-read my responses when you have a clear head? It's all spelled out multiple times.

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    Comment #46468533

    What didn't you understand? The point isn't whether I do specific thing A or specific thing B, the point is that when I can I do the best in the situation to improve the average. T…

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    Comment #46467409

    "Quicken is a single-entry accounting system, which means that amounts can appear out of or disappear into thin air. In a double-entry accounting system you can't put amounts in an…

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    Comment #46467376

    Right there with you. I've tried to leave quicken multiple times. Especially when they moved to annual subscriptions. I haven't tried to leave since 2019-ish, and all the alternati…

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    Comment #46467332

    What do you mean re-enter? I've been using every new version of Quicken since 1992 and never had to re-enter all my data, and I switched from PC to MAC around 2005.

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    Comment #46467294

    I'll see your decade old text file and raise you one more: my current quicken file goes back to 1992! Lemme tell you about gas and grocery prices back then... (hint $1.09/gallon in…

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    Comment #46467262

    About 5 years ago I purged as many apps as I could. I still have some I need for my job, especially on my work-issued iPhone, but excluding those apps I have exactly 5 apps on my p…

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    Comment #46467232

    FWIW: Me too. I want 100% transparency and I have no problem clicking a dialog every single time. My credit card company sends me a lot of alerts and I have no issue spending 5 sec…

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    Comment #46467047

    Excellent! This discussion will proceed as follows: you will present a laundry list of examples, and if I answer NO to any of them, you win. It will play out as the illustration of…

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    Comment #46461399

    We are discussing whether the LLM deciphering is accurate. That hasn't been demonstrated as measured by review, provenance, cross-referencing among historical record, etc.

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    Comment #46461333

    Hello. I'm one. AMA.

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    Comment #46460054

    Sure, but we are talking about generating a random number, not sampling noise: those are two different things, albeit the former can be derived from the latter but not directly and…

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    Comment #46459982

    I don't think you understand the word "knowledge". Just because an LLM spews out an answer doesn't mean it is correct. It needs to be verified by experts in the field, that's how i…

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    Comment #46458761

    Because the experts weren't cited, and without provenance or review this is just "fancy slop".