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someone's vetted the code, right? I'm not just texting my drug dealer for the NSA to tell the DEA to then later parallel reconstruction me, to listen in on with this thing, am I?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29218953

> Technical people suffer from what I call "Engineer's Disease". We think because we're an expert in one area, we're automatically an expert in other areas. Just recognizing that h…

Parable - The Mexican Fisherman and the Investment Banker An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman…

That would be the exception that proves the rule then. If he's able to SEO the whole first page for Thai restaurants, that would seem to say the rest of them are terrible at the we…

But all that information goes to the large platform vendors (eg DoorDash, Uber Eats) if you use their app instead. What makes the business-specific app worse in this regard? At lea…

It's a reference to the concept in US law of protected class - discrimination is entirely legal against certain kinds of people. It's only protected classes that it is illegal to d…

It's still the case! Upload speeds (especially on consumer-grade Internet connections) haven't kept pace, and AWS will send you box for you to copy your data into that you mail bac…

> You act like there are actually fullstack developers and not just people who do both poorly. If you haven't worked with someone who's smarter and more motivated than you are, the…

Covered previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982447

I had the opposite happen to me. The password length was enforced on the frontend by JavaScript, which the password manager bypassed. The backend recieved the whole string though, …

Ever is a long time! In 50 years when travel via rocket between cities on Earth is common, why wouldn't airports build rocket pads for it? When you can fly New York to Singapore in…

I don't know about the meme, but the spider webs done by drugged spiders dates back to 1948, by Swiss pharmacologist Peter N. Witt and later repeated elsewhere. If there's question…

ESP32's neat and all, but it's severely underpowered and very limited in what it can do. A Banana Pi (while we're waiting for Raspberries) is going to be a much shorter route to su…

Using one principle (nukes are expensive) isn't the same thing as deducing something from first principles. In particular, it's not enough, especially given hypersonic missile tech…

Ten or twenty buildings on the continental US being hit by Russian hypersonic missiles may seem like basically nothing, but on 9/11 we lost two buildings, plus minor damage to the …

ChatGPT's knowledge only goes up to 2021. BingChat, meanwhile, can access the Internet and try to look things up.

> How does the 'economy' work for your Milk and Cereal producers? Just fine. By "Just Fine" you mean there's currently a hullabaloo about what can legally be called Milk? In a stor…

Maybe Xpra would work?

What word would you like to use for a gathering of a dozen or so adults, meeting for one or two nights (colloquially known as Friday and Saturday, because adults have jobs) where t…

What numbers did you use? How much cheaper would batteries need to become to be viable?

Uncredited picture but I 'd know that art style anywhere. It's by Zach Weinersmith of SMBC. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wolf