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bastardoperator··on Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
I don't care about speed running at all. The drama in this community though, absolutely top notch, it's like a technical soap opera and I love it.
bastardoperator··on Are DOGE's Claims of Social Security Payments to 150-Year-Olds Way Off Base?
Is this like his level 97 character on POE2? He's a sociopathic liar.
bastardoperator··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
You're going to be adjusting regardless with new tooling, so the point is irrelevant. It's not a rug pull because they're telling you it's not free. So what if it works? I pay for useful services, you do too. My point is not exploring or being curious because a company might ask you to pay for a product, seems outlandish, because that's what companies do, they charge people for goods and services.
bastardoperator··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
What kind of mentality is this? I remember before snapple was a widely known name they used to give out free bottles all over Los Angeles. I never thought to myself, I better not taste this free drink until I know the actual price.
bastardoperator··on TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration
Is this the same China that requires the government to do source code reviews on technical products being manufactured in China? Or the one that forces you to share the majority of your company with a Chinese partner? I hear you, but both are bad.
bastardoperator··on 'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care
Americans love to talk about freedom and rights, you don't even have the right to die with dignity in this country. Healthcare in America is just a basic racketeering scam at this point.
bastardoperator··on Rust kernel policy
fork, runix? (/s?)
bastardoperator··on JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform
They can't build the mothership, that means they only have one product. The problem I have is that they build these editors to their benefit, not mine. I had the same problem despite liking the tools initially. Between nvchad and vscode, I have all my bases covered for any situation/language.
bastardoperator··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
My 4090 connector melted too
bastardoperator··on GitHub Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
Nope, you can use git symbolic-ref to get the remote default branch.
bastardoperator··on DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
Are they blind or do others get paid to do these jobs? I've seen it too many times, no good deed goes unpunished.
bastardoperator··on Oracle Cloud deleting active user accounts without possibility for data recovery
I find it interesting that Tiktok went with Oracle given their history with the CIA.
bastardoperator··on Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
All 1100+ contributors are Apple employees?…
bastardoperator··on I miss Vim
Spot on, this just sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining. Use vim if that's your preference. I used vim for over a decade, and switching to nvim was a breath of fresh air.
bastardoperator··on Dead Games
His company also created Rust which ranks #8 on steamdb/mutliplayer games. They are currently in the process of making s&box on the source 2 engine. I'm just putting this out there, nobody works harder in gaming than Facepunch. Thank you Garry!
bastardoperator··on Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post
All of our videos are under a minute. We have hundreds of them. We have over a million views on TikTok and YT, and almost nothing on Instagram. The interesting part is we did a project awhile back on Instagram and we got tons of followers but little engagement. This could all be antidotal and something we're not doing right, but we didn't try cracking some code on the other platforms, we upload and it mostly does its thing.
bastardoperator··on Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post
They could post their content to instagram today and "make" money themselves. I do a little bit of advertising for some projects I work on, we cut instagram because it has the lowest of all traffic. I have videos getting 180K-10K views hundreds of likes and comments on some platforms, 3 on instagram. It's not even worth the effort...
bastardoperator··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
We're just letting sex traffickers of children off the hook now? Gross. Putting my head in the sand for the next 3 years and 11 months.
bastardoperator··on Trump says ICE can arrest people at churches and schools
You can't enter private property without a warrant. Very few judges will sign these.
bastardoperator··on Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
You need a private subreddit. Do not use nextdoor, we do admin there and it's just constantly fending off racist garbage.
bastardoperator··on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
They're called issue labels, go read up because your complaint isn't valid.
bastardoperator··on Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
Maybe privacy, outside of that, same client, so not much.
bastardoperator··on Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams
I do use mermaid quite a bit in markdown because it's documentation/code that can be updated, the idea tends to start in my notes as excalidraw, and eventually become a mermaid graph. I wouldn't say it's lacking anything. I have not tried it so I can't a valid opinion, but I am happy to give it a try and give some feedback. I do waste time converting. I see a couple of tools, do you recommend one in particular?
bastardoperator··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
I asked for evidence or even some data, show me something that can verify anything you're saying beyond a reasonable doubt. You can't, you're basically regurgitating talking points on topics neither of us really know anything about. I'm not saying I'm against a ban, but "China evil" shouldn't be good enough for a semi intelligent society.

In terms of algorithms, most US companies refer to that as intellectual property. Google doesn't sell their search algorithm to other search engines so I don't think your point makes any sense. Companies keep their IP secret for a reason, they don't want competition digging into their profits. What US company isn't engaging in the same completely legal behaviors?

My point about the phones is that China like America can target any electronic like the US was doing 20 years via interdiction. If we look at the NSA ANT catalog, specifically DIETYBOUNCE, everything they accuse China of is stuff we practically invented.

edit: Also I just purchased a M4 Mac mini, shipped directly from China.

bastardoperator··on Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams
I settled on excalidraw via obsidian

https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

bastardoperator··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
You mean people are waking up to these atrocities and are displeased? Sounds like freedom of press to me...
bastardoperator··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
I do, but there is no data or evidence supporting said non-resident corporation is under control of an adversary, so why should I believe anything the government claims? If you're going to talk about security, just stop, nearly every component in your phone is produced in China, and you still use that everyday.
bastardoperator··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
The government doesn't care about addictive anything, this is about control and access. If they cared about life or citizens in general they would fix healthcare and maybe introduce any kind of gun control. This is the same government that was slanging cocaine in the 1980's...
bastardoperator··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
It's perfectly fine for a South African immigrant to do it, I really don't understand the problem either.
bastardoperator··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The problem with greed is it has no limits. These people are happily dancing on graves all the way to the bank, and we allow it.
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