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marvel_boy··on CrowdStrike offers partners $10 vouchers to say sorry – and they don't work
Well, the Crowdstrike EULA (https://www.crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/) is crystal clear. No lialbility for the company. So get the voucher, it is all you can get.
marvel_boy··on GLP-1 Drugs Like Wegovy, Ozempic Potentially Linked to Blinding Disease
The condition, known as non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), causes sudden blindness due to a lack of blood flow to the optic nerve.
marvel_boy··on EU commision answer to question regarding online video game discontinuantion
Basically the don't answer the question at all. EU style.
marvel_boy··on What does the London NHS hospitals data theft mean for patients?
Qilin stole information relating to 300m interactions with the NHS, which could be used in future scams
marvel_boy··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
Nope
marvel_boy··on In highly connected networks, there's always a loop
> ing the Data Encryption Standard method (DES), which is a widely-used method of data encryption.

No, it is not. Today AES is preferred.

marvel_boy··on Understanding SSL Certificate Chains: A Simple Guide
Thanks for this tool! Is the other fantastic tool (IPnet. https://github.com/nicanorflavier/ipnet) available for mac?
marvel_boy··on A short history of styled text on the Mac: TeachText to TextEdit and RTF
What version of RTF uses actually Apple, somebody knows it?
marvel_boy··on Ask HN: Why are people so mean in the open source community? (about xz again)
Are you serious? Complaining about needing a zillion steps to compile equals "to be mean"?
marvel_boy··on Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?
Cause China sees the war as inevitable. With all this overcapacity, the industrial production can be converted in militar output. Simply as that.
marvel_boy··on Ask HN: What is the project that you are most excited about today?
Tokamak -SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly
marvel_boy··on Modern SQLite: Generated Columns
Thanks for this blog "Moder SQL". I am trying to catch up with the last capabilities of sqlite, and man there are a lot of new things !
marvel_boy··on Art Thoughtz: Post-Structuralism [video]
lol this is the clean version. Can't imagine the other one.
marvel_boy··on SauLM-7B: Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law
"Other organizations are similarly optimistic about the utility of AI assistance"

Oh yes, wait when the AI start to hallucinate throwing non-existent precedents.

marvel_boy··on Is the Netherlands becoming a narco-state? (2019)
Not only Netherlands, other countries are the same.
marvel_boy··on Tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
"This why people hate on crypto" Exactly
marvel_boy··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
Yes, just writing down the word-translation pair is not useful at all. To add a little context helps, for example use app , like Linguee or similar ,that adds phrases when then context makes sense.
marvel_boy··on Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims
Miele, it also is "expensive". On the long term is the cheaper option.
marvel_boy··on Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
20.000 rows is a joke for SQLite (and for any database).
marvel_boy··on 6-MSITC in wasabi increases memory by 18% in over 60s
Could you elaborate?
marvel_boy··on Tutanota is now Tuta
Can confirm, it is a terrible experience and waste of time.
marvel_boy··on EU corporate tax proposal would hit Ireland hardest
They have other ones. Too many politicians involved.
marvel_boy··on Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
Curiously the share value of COKE has not plunged today. (+0.21% as we speak)
marvel_boy··on CS25 Stanford Seminar – Introduction to Transformers with Andrej Karpathy
Sound is horrendous, impossible to follow. Could somebody point to a decent Transformers introduction?
marvel_boy··on Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
"But that “really means nothing for what’s already in the environment,” De Miranda says. Mitigating against exposure is tricky, she adds, because, unlike with pesticides, underground TCE locations aren’t always documented."

Really disturbing.

marvel_boy··on Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf]
Yes, indeed. Too late to edit.
marvel_boy··on Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf]
Written 53 years ago, if only Shannon experimented predicting next word instead of next letter....
marvel_boy··on Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020
" Often overshadowed by newer and flashier database management systems, many overlook the continued innovation and evolution of SQLite."

Absolutely, the last improvements of sqlite are just incredible.

marvel_boy··on Apple passwords deserve an app
Any link to the port of Cooca to Windows?
marvel_boy··on Show HN: Open AI is not Open – A browser extension
That's not the definition of open. Nobody is saying the tech is not useful. Of course is useful ! but is not open as the boast.
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