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I believe it's called ham radio

I think this is the single most retarded comment I've ever read on HN.

You could also actually go to a rave. It should be easier than setting up your VR environment.

I saw a new marketing strategy recently: Someone tried to sign into something with my email. I didn't have an account, so they took the excuse to send me an email asking me to create an account.

The gap between "block transaction" and "don't block transaction" is nonexistent and that's the only thing that actually matters. What else are you, as a payment processor, gonna do besides block a transaction? Allow the transaction but send the user a sternly worded email?

This is true. I vouched it. It's well known that Reddit was initially seeded by bots copying from other sites to fake organic activity.

Got any examples?

Organizations will become even less about adding real value and more about making the boss feel good about you.

This is why executives think LLMs can replace everyone. They can see it can replace them, and project that onto everyone else. And they don't see the gaps in knowledge because they don't care about the facts, only the presentation.

This is so true. It can even just be regular club nights at good clubs. Ever been to Berghain? (Me neither)

Some clubs around here sometimes run whole-weekend parties that attract thousands of people, those are fun.

There is no gap between those things. Any fraud signal at all either causes people to get blocked, then it's a cross-merchant block, or it doesn't cause people to get blocked, then it's useless.

That is called the flag button. It works by majority vote. But beware: if you disagree with the majority too many times, your flag button is silently changed to a placebo.

It once told the compiler to hold the value in a register because the compiler wasn't very smart at all.

I thought Trump defunded them last year? It was big news at the time.

Easy to imagine protective mechanisms in hindsight, now imagine you have to build a system for every tank of every chemical in the world

Failing is a color, but throwing an exception isn't. An exception-throwing computation can easily embedded in a computation that doesn't throw - you can catch and return null, etc. But very rarely can a computation that may fail be part of a computation that may not fail.

What I like most about the article is that it drove the conversation to realising that async is just a poor reimplementation of threads, and put the focus back on how to do threads faster.

idk, what happens to someone who keeps giving away lead-painted toys for free?

... You don't. Did you actually read the law you're complaining about? It says the OS shall ask the person who creates an account what is the age bracket for that account. No verification is required. In fact the same law makes it illegal to verify this.

This isn't true. Proctor and Gamble cancelled $200m of advertising and saw no change in sales. And companies using AI are costing more money to produce worse quality stuff more slowly. Facts don't matter, only how well you can convince a CEO.

We're now, in 2026, currently at 1.5 degrees above baseline. This used to be the threshold at which we decided it would be too late and everything would be fucked and human civilization would inevitably collapse.

That won't happen, of course, since we kept increasing the threshold every time we approached the previous threshold. Luckily for us now, human society won't collapse until we hit 2 degrees!

The law defines it as a product quality issue. Meaning you can return it for a refund and a company that keeps selling broken products may be ordered to recall them or to stop selling them until they're fixed. You can't go to jail for selling broken products, and this doesn't apply to free software since it's free and has no warranty (which is only allowed because of the fact that it's free.).

Do you think the rule that children's toys can't contain lead is equivalent to living in North Korea? That's the same kind of law as this one.

You also have a lot more flexibility to negotiate on product quality. If you have a good reason why you can't meet normal product quality standards because your product is sufficiently different from the normal products in that category, you can usually put a prominent warning label on it to cover your ass and then you're fine.

It gets really complicated when you get into overlapping file types, like with ISOBMFF. An .mp4 can also, simultaneously, be a valid .3gp because those are profiles of ISOBMFF. On the other extreme, JPEG is secretly two different incompatible formats (JFIF and Exif), and a video file with a different codec in the same container, or even a different track layout, might as well be a different format.

If this project causes people to stop trusting Apple platforms so much, that seems like a win/win?

When the testing is over, 'U' will be... missed.

telling Debian it should ask you during setup whether you're over 18 (which you're allowed to lie about) is the same as North Korea now?

Do you really believe that your computer asking you if you're over 18 is government spying? I don't believe that you really believe that.

Better idea is just tell the server if you want to hide restricted content. Then it can make any changes necessary. Yes it's a fingerprinting bit. Not a new one, because they could already detect whether the restricted tag was rendering or not, anyway.

Fair enough. Most advertising isn't individually posted to each address because that's expensive - they hire their own guy, who isn't a postal worker, to go around and put it in everyone's mailbox. It's like paying one cent per email to prove it isn't spam.