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TheNorthman

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TheNorthman··on M4 MacBook Pro
It's also the rule in the EU.
TheNorthman··on [dead]
https://archive.md/9nisn
TheNorthman··on Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable
You ever think the "safe" districts are safe because the constituents living in those districts swing further left and right than average?
TheNorthman··on Show HN: I built an interactive cloth solver for Apple Vision Pro
> Spending time horizontal while not asleep is very unhealthy for your heart.

Why is this?

TheNorthman··on MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan
> BTW, there are only 1/5 of people in

The argument isn't that Manhattan is car-centric qua its people, the argument is that Manhattan is car-centric qua its infrastructure.

TheNorthman··on More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages
A danish perspective: Primary care doctors are paid (by the state) based of a fixed list. A 15 min video consultation pays 162.99 DKK (~24 USD)

[1]: https://laeger.dk/media/mjpbsm2a/honorartabel-2023-januar.pd...

TheNorthman··on Hetzner switches to new billing model
OVH have some in the US. I've only had good experiences with them. I like Server Hunter to get a general overview:

https://www.serverhunter.com/#query=product_type%3Adedicated...

TheNorthman··on German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
He can't predict the future. The relevant metric must be

1. The chance, weighted by amount, of a price hike/salary increase

2. The chance, weighted by amount, of a price decline/salary decrease.

As inflation is generally an upward trend, clearly no. 1 is more likely and thus the best bet.

TheNorthman··on Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
I think you're reading the chart wrong. The majority does say that police cars and ambulances are not allowed in based on that rule.

It is a bad chart though. I was confused too.

TheNorthman··on Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
> If you come to an interview without any AI coding skills you would certainly be marked down.

And I, in turn, would be delighted not to work for you.

TheNorthman··on Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video]
Very cool!

While at uni, I worked on a local fishing boat doing (amongst many things) hardware/software integration, and did some work on equipment communicating via NMEA. Very fun blast-to-the-past, didn't know the standard was used outside of marine environments.

TheNorthman··on Tractor cab looks like a space ship (2021) [video]
Imgur should work fine. It at least does so for me.

If not your style, https://imgbb.com is also an option. More ads, though

But please do upload a picture. That would be interesting.

TheNorthman··on OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 to Be the Last in Its Current Form
https://archive.ph/o34ou
TheNorthman··on DNS Toys (2022)
`nslookup`
TheNorthman··on Apple workers deserve iDorms as good as the technology
https://archive.md/bVTJv
TheNorthman··on Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content
Read your own article. The byline reads:

> Google is taking the unprecedented step of paying back users for all the games they bought on its cloud gaming platform.

Google _voluntarily_ refunded their customers. It's unheard of and was, frankly, extremely unexpected. Good for Google and good for Stadia customers.

TheNorthman··on Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
The advantage of tor over just E2EE is that it hides the sources of traffic and not only the traffic itself.

So it really depends on if your threat model can handle others knowing that you're using Matrix. It most likely can.

TheNorthman··on Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
It's not applicable to clients. A clients traffic never touches another client, only the nodes.

Of course, malicious clients can ruin it for everyone else in the form of DoS attacks but that's clearly not happening here.

TheNorthman··on ChatGPT has no inner monologue or meta-cognition
> Yes, I'm sorry, that was a mistake. The correct answer is actually [hallucinates something else]

Doesn't even have to be a new hallucination, sometimes it's just the exact same wrong answer.

TheNorthman··on [dead]
There doesn't exist a corporation on the planet, that doesn't have power over its employees.
TheNorthman··on PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
That's hilarious. "Payment of vest and explosives for ISIS attack"
TheNorthman··on Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand
They're not a government organization. Haven't been for almost 10 years
TheNorthman··on Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language
I was sort of vaguely aware of this but thank you for pointing it out! I think the point still stands, and that reference counting like this is just a different kind of garbage collection.
TheNorthman··on Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language
Nim, while providing the same memory safety as Rust, doesn't do so without overhead. So Nim very expressly sacrifices performance for safety.

In rust, for example, it's possible to safely share data between threads without incurring costs of a garbage collector. Nim uses a different GC for each thread, so it naturally increases costs on a per-thread basis.

TheNorthman··on US defence forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All
Hey man, just a heads up: You're currently shadow-banned on HN so your comments are automatically hidden. I don't think there's anything you can do about it but I'd want to know.

I feel comfortable telling you because most of your content isn't inflammatory, so I fear you might have been wrongly filtered out.

TheNorthman··on AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB
> and after the first year YOU as the consumer have to prove that this fault existed when the goods were delivered.

You have to make it probable, which is very different from proving. A rule favoring consumers, something like "there isn't an excess of scratches" is sufficient in most cases, where the alternative would require an excessive cost in further analysis (read: all electronics).

> If you import the component from outside the EU the law doesn't even apply, as you have formed a contract with a trader not bound by this law.

The seller is advertising _and_ shipping his product to the EU, therefor he is bound by its laws. He even features specific advise to EU consumers.

> But in this case it's all irrelevant because the item sold is basically a spare-part

This is just nonsense. It's sold direct to consumers, it's a consumer product.

TheNorthman··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
More than one thing can be bad
TheNorthman··on W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
> You might be able to torrent any show or movie in high quality with a private tracker, but it's hard to come by 4K HDR content just hanging out for free these days.

Even if that's the case, that's not an issue of DRM, that's an issue of distribution.

It's also just flat out not true. Sure, some of the 4k HDR content might originate from PTP/BTN/scene/w.e., but it's readily available on e.g. RARBG.

TheNorthman··on Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%
you got me, i used a swear word and for that i profusely apologize. it wont happen again
TheNorthman··on Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%
that is extremely toxic and misleading. how the fuck is that allowed?
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