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economyballoon··on Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
True. Just have the interface that behaves like grep and the output is as expected like grep but internally: indexed, ranked, ...

So the model trusts the output because it is grep :D

economyballoon··on Secure Boot is a requirement to play Battlefield 6 on PC
This must be optional?

Otherwise this is ridiculous.

EA can really do everything and still the games are bought.

economyballoon··on Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org
I am sorry but what is "300 Go RAM" 300 Go? I only know GB/GiB.
economyballoon··on Unopinionated comparison: 24 different microphones for spoken word and voiceover [video]
you can even download the untreated wave files
economyballoon··on Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
Is this Web4?

Time to free the web again. An we thought Web3 is nonsense :(

economyballoon··on MacPaint and MacWrite First Public Demo (1984) [video]
Full video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ5XwvjPmA
economyballoon··on SolarWinds hides list of high-profile customers after devastating hack
SolarWinds’ Customers

SolarWinds’ comprehensive products and services are used by more than 300,000 customers worldwide, including military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and education institutions. Our customer list includes:

    More than 425 of the US Fortune 500
    All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies
    All five branches of the US Military
    The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States
    All five of the top five US accounting firms
    Hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide
Partial customer listing: Acxiom | Ameritrade | AT&T; | Bellsouth Telecommunications | Best Western Intl. | Blue Cross Blue Shield | Booz Allen Hamilton | Boston Consulting | Cable & Wireless | Cablecom Media AG | Cablevision | CBS | Charter Communications | Cisco | CitiFinancial | City of Nashville | City of Tampa | Clemson University | Comcast Cable | Credit Suisse | Dow Chemical | EMC Corporation | Ericsson | Ernst and Young | Faurecia | Federal Express | Federal Reserve Bank | Fibercloud | Fiserv | Ford Motor Company | Foundstone | Gartner | Gates Foundation | General Dynamics | Gillette Deutschland GmbH | GTE | H&R; Block | Harvard University | Hertz Corporation | ING Direct | IntelSat | J.D. Byrider | Johns Hopkins University | Kennedy Space Center | Kodak | Korea Telecom | Leggett and Platt | Level 3 Communications | Liz Claiborne | Lockheed Martin | Lucent | MasterCard | McDonald’s Restaurants | Microsoft | National Park Service | NCR | NEC | Nestle | New York Power Authority | New York Times | Nielsen Media Research | Nortel | Perot Systems Japan | Phillips Petroleum | Pricewaterhouse Coopers | Procter & Gamble | Sabre | Saks | San Francisco Intl. Airport | Siemens | Smart City Networks | Smith Barney | Smithsonian Institute | Sparkasse Hagen | Sprint | St. John’s University | Staples | Subaru | Supervalu | Swisscom AG | Symantec | Telecom Italia | Telenor | Texaco | The CDC | The Economist | Time Warner Cable | U.S. Air Force | University of Alaska | University of Kansas | University of Oklahoma | US Dept. Of Defense | US Postal Service | US Secret Service | Visa USA | Volvo | Williams Communications | Yahoo

I still dont get it. Why are high profile companies still fully connected to the internet? Makes no sense. If I am not connected to the internet X cant hack me via the internet. $logic.

economyballoon··on FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack
what does "None of the tools contain zero-day exploits" exactly mean? Does the tools contain knows zero-days but not non public zero days?
economyballoon··on Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)
https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Philosophy
economyballoon··on For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
Also here we can see: a machine, in this case a tractor, has to be more complicated in the future to ensure economic growth and to rise added value.
economyballoon··on More Teslas on the Road Meant Hours-Long Supercharger Lines over Thanksgiving
Maybe its a trick by TESLA to force the owners to buy solar roofs and powerwalls. This lets the economy grow. Just a little bit.
economyballoon··on Please Buy Less
We must enable and provide technology to countries that are on there way to western worlds living standard to get there with low co2 emission. Because they want it with or without co2 emission.
economyballoon··on Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers
Does Dell gets paid from Canonical to install Ubuntu?

Why not OpenBSD, Debian, FreeBSD or Arch?

In my opinion we have to do more to free driver source code. To use Ubuntu does not support this I think.

economyballoon··on Node.js 13.0
When I think secure I think

  import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@v0.19.0/http/server.ts";
It would be better to integrate something into Node.js instead of inflating a new economy balloon!