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wil421··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
If you think this way then why not talk to LLMs exclusively. Don’t let the oxytocin cloud your ability to problem solve.
wil421··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
Isn’t that by design so governments can prosecute citizens they don’t like? For example, curl is probably ok but that one annoying Kim Dotcom guy is probably going to catch a case under some dubious law.
wil421··on Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings
Did the same thing early in my career. Built a quick bootstrap website with like 5 pages and all the data was static. The backend was a year off. It was great for end users but the non-IT managers were dumb. Same issue about seeing something working and expecting the world.
wil421··on Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
What’s the NROs take on capturing the signal from the ground? They already have it from a satellite in space.
wil421··on Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies
How did OP imply anything? He asked why one of the parties in the conflict don’t cut cables.
wil421··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Depends if the director or VP liked Microsoft or not. I’ve worked at places that loved SQL Server and Microsoft server products in general. Others did not use them anywhere in their datacenter and wouldn’t have considered them. Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft were very dependent on if the people in charged liked them. Not so much technical merits.
wil421··on The sudden fall of Sora
Did you read OPs part about AGI and UBI hype?
wil421··on Apple Business
Got it. It’s registering with the company email first, not their personal one.
wil421··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
There’s no way he suddenly developed autism or whatever mental illness plagued him upon arrival to American. Like most absolute geniuses he struggled in other areas. He said he had visions as a child.
wil421··on Apple Business
How does a company allow personal Apple IDs?
wil421··on The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award
Serving Ads is more lucrative. I wonder what kind of stories we will tell about how the social media companies exploited human nature to make a buck.
wil421··on AirPods Max 2
People wear them at work daily and it doesn’t seem to be a problem. One guy looks likes he’s Tier 3 support and uses them 8 hours a day 5 days a week for years.

People compliment my Jabra’s voice quality otherwise I would’ve switched already.

wil421··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
My buddy owns several Firehouse restaurants. There’s a couple windows programs he uses to run his businesses. Not having a way to virtualize windows was a show stopper when the ARM Macs came out.

Same with my father in law who’s a general contractor. He uses some freeware estimate program and an extremely old photoshop he got in the early 2000s.

He also went through 2 crappy Amazon bought chrome books for his wife that could barely function. The Air was too pricey.

wil421··on I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills
Liability and they probably want whatever blob of bits they use to identify you from the OS.
wil421··on Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
I’m sure you thought GSM was secure too. They absolutely have taps, just search for YouTube videos then cross reference the exact places and situations they talk about.
wil421··on Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The intelligence agencies should already have taps into Starlink and should be able see the data. Whether do anything is another story.

Or Starlink uses an encryption scheme somewhere in the network only the big boys can break.

wil421··on Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Feds love to wait. I doubt the next president will be as lenient with pardoning. Maybe there’s a market I can bet on pardoning.
wil421··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Hasn’t in been that way for years? Almost all of the people I’ve seen selling used Mac Pros use them for creating music. I assume the studio is a better, cheaper option.
wil421··on Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package
Android too.
wil421··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
Do they own the enodeBs or the RAN? How many hops does it take to get to their core? Not sure how MVNO works maybe they have encrypted VLANs to their systems. Not a RAN guy.
wil421··on Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
> A tenured professor hinted she might try to get me fired. A person with a PhD accused me of “cynical metacognitive polywaffle,” which a good name for a postmodern noise band. I got some weird and vaguely threatening emails, including one that had a screenshot of my personal website with my improv experience highlighted, proof that I am literally a clown. Which is, I guess, true.

(People said nice things too.)

wil421··on How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
I don’t remember U2 being a gift being ready to download. It was automatically put on all my devices in iTunes. I think it’s still there but I use Spotify instead of iPods and iTunes.
wil421··on Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
wil421··on Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?
What are the returns for a landowner leasing a solar farm vs passively growing pines? My state has a lot of land to use and a good portion of the rural part is pine. Some landowners harvest pine trees on unused land.
wil421··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
In addition to terrorist stuff, they are probably passing of bunch of stuff to the military or defense industry to do things like fine tune their radar to cutting edge military secrets.
wil421··on 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
You and everyone else know exactly what I meant but whatever. Not sure why I train AI on this site anymore.
wil421··on 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
To put it into perspective, we did not invent fire.
wil421··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
HN has hated Trucks and American cars, except when Tesla came out, for as long as I’ve been here. Same with Reddit.
wil421··on FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
What if you had the hard copies of the classified files or the original USB drive used in exfiltrate the classified data, not a digital copy.
wil421··on Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
What kind place were you eating at the puts sauce on steak? Are you complaining about a BBQ restaurant, they are notoriously unhealthy.
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