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jfarina··on Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
It's awkwardly phrased and doesn't really say what it intends to (though, the meaning is obvious after reading it a second or third time).

As for it being imprecise, it doesn't talk about any specific software that has any compatibility issues. It dismisses the topic out of hand.

jfarina··on I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
WHile this is cool, I can't imagine that this provides a universal fit. It seems like they did a lot to tailor it to their dog.
jfarina··on Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds
Maybe because poor diet has been linked to alzheimers?
jfarina··on Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
More complicated than when? You used to have kids because you needed more hands to work the farm and a good number of them died young.
jfarina··on Claude Skills
Why are you asking them to cite something for that statement? Are you questioning whether it's the foundation for intelligence or whether LLMS understand goals and consequences?
jfarina··on Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
That's not relevant to the comment you replied to.
jfarina··on Fastvlm: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models
What strategy is that?
jfarina··on I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won
They're abolished as long as you can afford the lawyers to fight an underfunded government agency indefinitely.
jfarina··on How University Students Use Claude
If they can perform well without reviewing the material, that's a problem with either the performance measure or the material.

And not watching lectures is not the same as not reviewing the material. I generally prefer textbooks and working through proofs or practice problems by hand. If I listen to someone describe something technical I zone out too quickly. The only exception seems to be if I'm able to work ahead enough that the lecture feels like review. Then I'm able to engage.

jfarina··on Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction
Can you rebrand a species? Drinking vomitoria sounds less than appetizing.
jfarina··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
Is that what a corporate lawyer would say?
jfarina··on An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content
I disagree that attackers aren't sophisticated enough to use modified tools. There are entire work campuses dedicated to committing fraud. There's also state sponsored subterfuge. There's no reason to think that bad actors are intrinsically unsophisticated.
jfarina··on Why DeepSeek had to be open source
They outlined the methodology. They didn't publish their code or the training set.
jfarina··on Boeing workers vote to strike
Boeing. It's literally the post.
jfarina··on LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
It does if you work in data science/machine learning.
jfarina··on Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly)
IDK. I think sometimes people lean into the idiosyncrasies of their own ADHD. I have ADHD, but I get sucked into writing code because it lets me focus in a way that dishes and laundry do not.
jfarina··on Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google
I don't know about that. Even with a company like Google, 12 years is a long time. What if the responsible attorney retired? I've never worked in a legal setting, but I could imagine that causing their work being reevaluated for cost effectiveness.
jfarina··on Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs
It sounds like it can expedite the interpretation of the APIs documentation.
jfarina··on PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
Calling the internet private and anonymous is wishful thinking. Data is constantly owned, bought and sold.
jfarina··on Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
Vacation payouts shouldn't be relevant. They are earned while working, so they are compensation from the period when you worked.

Unless, of course, you are trying to collect during a period that is scheduled as a vacation? That could create problems.

jfarina··on Why I stopped using an external monitor
Where did you find a laptop with a fifteen foot screen?
jfarina··on A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview
How could you ever interview anywhere if you couldn't provide details of the projects that you worked on?
jfarina··on Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm
Can you work in a paired setting?
jfarina··on Facebook approved paid ads inciting violence against the Rohingya
That doesn't seem unreasonable in any way shape or form.

If they're capable of launching the platform in every language, they're capable of moderating it in every language.

jfarina··on Dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time
sooooo....dollar signs? Exclamation points? What would you pick?
jfarina··on Scikit-Learn Version 1.0
Numpy has a better api than pandas if we're strictly talking about vectors and arrays.

Pandas indexing makes sense once you get it, but it does seem to require a lot more words than equivalent statements in R.

My primary language is python, but I have been picking up some R.

jfarina··on Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux
I wonder if they use movies and tv; recordings where the script is already available.
jfarina··on Apple CEO Impressed by Remote Work, Sees Permanent Changes
I don't know. This sort of thing happens during in-person meetings too, to an extant. Then again, all of my calls are in the same geographic area.
jfarina··on Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
Why isn't that believable?
jfarina··on Ask HN: Has your handwriting suffered from years on the keyboard?
I've been reading off a computer screen since I was 5. I'm so used to type, I can barely read cursive.