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_nub3··on AI Prompt Examples and Techniques for Better AI Outputs
Article is mostly detected AI slop and essentially a waste of time. When it comes to AI Instructions only one truth stays: "the computer doesnt do what you want, the computer does what you write." That was the first thing i learned 40yrs ago when i was a clueless kid who just tried to get a programm to load and execute on a c64.
_nub3··on SecurityBaseline.eu
Actually Spain leaded on this and had strictest regulations before Germany regulated broader "Neuland" Cookies.
_nub3··on Gabibi is a tool for intentionally degrading images (in Japanese)
http://needsmorejpeg.com/ and friends
_nub3··on Television is 100 years old today
1897 Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode Ray Tube dubbed "Braunsche Röhre"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenjiro_Takayanagi

'Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television"'

He presented it in 1926 (Farnsworth in 1927)

However father of television was this dude:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Ardenne

Better resolution, wireless transmission and Olympics 1936

_nub3··on Construction to begin on Florida expressway that will charge EVs while driving
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If you navigated here, it's because the previous request experienced an error. If you are the site owner, you can use the Translate Error String tool to investigate this further. This is located on the control center under: Hamburger menu > SUPPORT > Edge Diagnostics.

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interesting.

_nub3··on Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave
https://archive.is/gDvhC
_nub3··on GPT-5.2-high LMArena scores released, OpenAI falls from #6 to #13
Cookie Banner conflicts with cloudflare anti bot stuff

Site is unusable.

_nub3··on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]
yeah, i'm not clicking that.
_nub3··on What you need to know about EMP weapons
wtf?
_nub3··on World's Smallest CSV Parser (C#)
Back in the days (2008) i created an Autohotkey v1 function for parsing a delimiter seperated line called ReturnDSVArray

it can be found here: https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/30102-how-can-i-parse...

it consists of some 30ish lines of code and 67 lines with comments and usage example

_nub3··on No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
Thanks for the title. Went right up into my alltimefaves.
_nub3··on Darmok and Jalad on the Internet-The Importance of Metaphors in Natural Language
made me laugh. tyvm.

smilingcat.jpg

_nub3··on Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite
Might also be an interesting idea to use sqllite's inmemory feature.
_nub3··on Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum
Actually it is explainable. This pitty comparison only tries to conceptually illustrate what is happening.

Think of a pond with a smooth undisturbed surface. Now, define two spots as center, and for each spot in the exact same distance a point of measurement.

Here it comes: now drop two identical balls of steel into the pond at the very same time and do your measurement. You will detect that the waves on the surface of the pond are perfectly the same.

The entanglement is - simply spoken - just a syncronizing of the particles, hence the reason why they "seem" to behave the same.

_nub3··on Linux has bad battery duration compared to Windows. What can I do?
Except for phones, do you have a link for other hardware, such as laptops?
_nub3··on A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases
Instead of adding more features to a basically broken language, why not fixing the essentials first?

typeof null === "object" language consstency etc

but hey, let's add more syntax sugar

_nub3··on A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley
All wrong. As everybody should know by now it has been the former residents of Atlantis who disabled them in order to remain the only superior nation on the planet's face. That was shortly before a inner political force succeeded and they started space travel and submerged their old city.
_nub3··on Teletransportation Paradox
Think of Firefox, same hardware (body), same profile (nerological pathways), yet a new process when restarted, b/c no brain activity measured in deep sleep, only with REM phases.

edit: typo

_nub3··on Teletransportation Paradox
it doesnt work that way. you have that copy of your "consciousness" as long as you are awake. when being in deep sleep - opposed to REM phases where brain waves are measurable, or when highly dosed with narcotics such as for heavy surgery you (in the sense of your consciousness) do not exist anymore - no brainwaves. when you wake up, to be precise when you enter REM phases, your mind slowly boots up again. awake, you're reaching out to you assets, read memories, and cross checking references allows you to re-establish confidence who you are.

think of firefox. you start it and it "lives" in the memory of the computer. however, turned off it is gone. the process is eliminated and purged from memory. when restarted, however, it remembers your browser history, sessions and passwords. still it is a new process.

basically this is what happens each night when we sleep. every morning a new you wakes up.

so when a cloned asset of cross linked (aka relational) memories is spinned up, the resulting process does not have a distinct possibility to determine if it is being cloned. it just have it same associative pathways in its wetware as the original. yet it will believe being the original and also act accordingly. when you ask outsiders who know you, they wont be able to make out a difference, and label the clone as original. the clone (depending on the age of the information) will also believe it is original as it knows your passwords, your mental setup (and lives by that because of reasons) and it remembers whatever has happened to you, too.

this can only mean one thing: our so called consciousness is a fake conclusion. yes, cogito ergo sum, but only for the moment. new day, new me.

_nub3··on A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room
Reminds me of “I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28361341

IEEE 802.11bf will happen, because we allow it to happen and after it has been established everywhere for some questionable reasons everybody is looking like a suprised Pikachu when stuff like this is being abused.

_nub3··on The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
Not eating meat is a simple decision. But feeling morally superior to those eating meat is a problem. Especially when the meatless lifestyle is defended by saying to save other creatures' life, yet the same lifestyle is heavily supported by products which were grown in large monocultures, destroying the natural habitat of countless critters in an otherwise rich flora and fauna all over the globe.
_nub3··on The fungal mind: on the evidence for mushroom intelligence
> This leans far too heavily on the word “intelligence” to describe the behavior of fungus.

True dat. However since there is not a single valid definition for intelligence, I started to speak and think of heuristics when others are referring to intelligence. As long as any traits can be learned and trained their testing has nothing to do with what I'd call intelligence.

_nub3··on Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
On a side note, the linked article is not accessible anymorr, nor does a link to latest article work.

i guess the author must be stupid. /s

_nub3··on ‘The war has changed’: CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta more severe
nevermind - found myself https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
_nub3··on ‘The war has changed’: CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta more severe
Has the referred CDC document been published yet?
_nub3··on Russia disconnects from internet in tests as it bolsters security – RBC daily
laughs in CIA's Umbrage
_nub3··on React's UI State Model vs. Vanilla JavaScript
is that how react was invented?
_nub3··on JavaScript Is Weird
so when the transpiled typescript is used by the next door 'i know javascript'-1337-hax0r and is fed with some arbitrary data, your wonderful conceptual typed world does not exist anymore and that wonderful code eventually fails, because a simple sanity check was too much.
_nub3··on Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?
> Routers will accept a "shut up" request. If A wants to block B, it sends to a router on the path, the router pings A to validate the source, and then blocks traffic from B to A for a few minutes. This also contains DDOS attacks. Routers can forward "shut up" requests to the next router in the path, for further containment.

This is an invitation to silence unwanted users by certain governments.

_nub3··on Ask HN: Do you recommend anti-malware to your family?
Mom uses a Laptop with Linux and it is only for surfing the interwebs and occasionally printing and scanning.
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