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Maybe there's not much market right now, but who knows if DeepkSeek R3 or whatever will need something like this.
It would be awesome to be able to have a high-performance local-only coding assistant for example (or any other LLM apllication for that matter).
It's also rootless so I assume it has the same restrictions, but it's been very helpful with apps like Uber, which I use seldomly, but prefer not to have their notifications shoved in my face every 30 minutes.
It's also helpful for disabling access to most of the bloatware that comes with e.g. Samsung phones and such.
Probably not blocking everything, but I feel like it's at least something.
I've only ever been addicted to caffeine and cigarettes and while my withdrawal symptoms were terrible (almost-disabling headaches, anxiety, etc) I don't think they were ever so bad that it would make me violent.
As opposed to people I knew that were addicted to cocaine and meth which would go absolutely crazy for their next fix. In the particular case of the person that was addicted to cocaine, money was not an issue and would still become violent when the fix was not available, so I don't think it's necessarily a function of price or access to it.
Of course, my sample size is very small but given that I also know a ton of people that quit cigarettes and caffeine without becoming violent, I would say withdrawal symptoms are probably a strong component on how violent people get.
I would imagine they used specialized controller cards or something like that.
If the idea is "we'll hire Crowdstrike for CYA" when things like this happen, the blame is on CS and they pay with their reputation.
Shouldn't that hit Crowdstrike's stock price much more than it has then? (so far I see ~11% down which is definitely a lot but it looks like they will survive).
Are they somehow controlled remotely? or do they need to ping a central server to be able to operate?
I can see how alarms, email and phones are affected but the heavy machinery?
(Clearly not familiar with any of these things so I am genuinely curious)
The "Experience" section looks like a big complain about the world not recognizing his genius.
I really don't think a lot people would call him for an interview just by looking at this resume.
I use it and it's very handy. Thanks for creating useful no-nonsense tools!
I had the settings disabled, then updated to the latest version ("126.0 (64-bit)") and settings were kept disabled.
So at least for now it looks like it respects your current settings.
i.e. do HN users upvote more based on the title of the article or on actually reading them?
Just programming one of those interactive comics must be quite a challenge, to then add the story, the wittiness, depth, etc is what blows me away.
Of course there are some people that simpliy are hyper productive, but the level of detail and complexity of these comics always made me feel a bit "inadequate" :)
Edit: I don't think it matters if "only" 400 are land-based, does it? it's still "thousands".
[0] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Fact-Sheet_...
It is my understanding that only ASML had cracked the EUV litography, but if there's another company out there, that would be an interesting development to watch.
It doesn't matter if you give a piece of the key to the ACLU, one to the EFF or whatever other entities one might think as "impartial" or "without conflict of interest".
As long as there is a law that allows the governnent to send Men With Guns® to these entities, they can and will be coerced.
FISA is the prime example. You can have all the laws you want, but as long as "they" have things like NSLs which prevent you from even having a lawyer without clearance to defend yourself, you are royally fscked.
(This case is in Australia so they might not have FISA or similar, but the point is the same)
However my wife has an iPhone and although going next to the same antenna does crash the system as well, it does so very briefly and just resets the connection or something, and as soon as we go out of range it starts working again.
So it does look like there's some difference between CarPlay and Android Auto even when using the same exact car with both.
No idea why this happens and I can only assume the antenna is transmitting in a frequency that interferes with the wifi connection (it does not require a cable like older VW cars) which triggers a bug in the Android's stack, but Apple's stack seems more resilient somehow.
I would love to know if anyone else has had the same experience because I find it quite baffling and very annoying when I forget to disconnect my phone when going through that antenna.
I really think the article was relatively interesting, enough for me to consider other articles if it weren't for the amount of annoying nudges I got, which is a shame because the author probably put some good effort into it.
I agree that the only CTA should be at the end, but more and more it looks like it actually works, otherwise I would imagine people would stop doing it so often.
There was a CTA right at the beginning (which appeared suddenly after 4-5 seconds of reading so I lost my place), then another one a few paragraphs later, then less than 3 seconds after that, a pop-up to subscribe!
At that point I was so annoyed I just scrolled to the end to see how many more of these distractions I would have to endure, and then I found _yet_ another one and ALSO a bottom bar?
What gives? Is this really useful anymore? do people that subscribe after being harassed like this actually care about your articles?
I try to ignore these as much as possible, but holy cow, I just want to read this one article and maybe later _if_ I find it interesting I might read a couple more and THEN actually subscribe.
I am really annoyed by the amount of distracting stuff these "blogs" put in front you as if they wanted you to avoid reading the material. What is wrong with these people?
I think the OP was expecting something like "we value the company at 8 billions because reasons, so we want to fund for half of it" or something like that.
Which I agree with but it's also a reality that you need to think about your future/retirement and it's a hard balance to make, especially if you live in a country with a poor healthcare system and lacking other social nets.