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pinkcan··on Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
Where should they be, and why?
pinkcan··on Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp
lisp is from the 60s

python is from 91

pinkcan··on A Tradecraft Primer (2009)
virustotal says it's good: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/48fe6cd5ef2cb9779db5bf16...
pinkcan··on A Tradecraft Primer (2009)
Wouldn't that be too obvious, wouldn't it be better to plan bogus info elsewhere, especially for and org capable of doing so?

Wouldn't it be dangerous to publish bogus info that can be picked up by nationals and allies, especially since it is branded?

pinkcan··on A Tradecraft Primer (2009)
I think it's fine like this as it facilitates people finding other docs in their collections.

Without understanding OPs reason to share this link it's hard to make a call on that.

pinkcan··on A Tradecraft Primer (2009)
It says in the PDF: 2009
pinkcan··on A Tradecraft Primer (2009)
I understand this document is from 2009, not secret, and probably contains information known elsewhere.

Still, what is the intent of the CIA in publishing this on the open web? I assume they would be able to distribute this to US nationals even in other orgs through internal networks.

pinkcan··on Grocery Mergers? Not So Good
AFAIK these are also weird orgs of the cooperative type. Each having over 2 million members probably helps keep the prices sane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migros

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_(Switzerland)

pinkcan··on Teenage Engineering OP-1: The micro synth with massive impact
it's a toy targeted at people with enough disposable income to afford it

i own one, it's setting in a shelf

pinkcan··on Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
what do you use the cpu cores for on a threadripper, is it work that any of the other computing units available on this chip can do?
pinkcan··on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
every half year or so I remember centrifuge, and get a little sad they didn't write more about it
pinkcan··on Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung
lol, don't be naive

bart is only being made public because openai did a thing

pinkcan··on The transition from logins to cryptographic passkeys is getting messy
It's a ceremony, it's ego stroking.
pinkcan··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
it's no longer a native app
pinkcan··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
cold water, but it gets warmer over time
pinkcan··on We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
ChatGPT scales better than "demagogues", so it does have more than a "little practical difference".
pinkcan··on March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
there was a bug on our codebase...
pinkcan··on ChatGPT Plugins
It's called ART - Automatic multi-step Reasoning and Tool-use

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09014

pinkcan··on OpenAI to discontinue support for the Codex API
seriously? you're being disingenuous

codex being in beta meant it was improving, not that it'd vanish overnight.

it's not about "getting what they pay for," it's about showing some respect to users who trusted the service.

pinkcan··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
if you really wanted to write about it, you could have just avoided referring to the corp name at all, tos and ndas, and just write about the technical details of this script. you could even have done so under a throwaway.
pinkcan··on Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes
uk is not in the eu anymore?
pinkcan··on I hate Hackathons
I'm worried about the author. Who forced them?
pinkcan··on Paul Buchheit says Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption
yea ok, but what happens when chatgpt can search for you?
pinkcan··on Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts
the fact it is being done to people who are being laid off shows it's not just a retention mechanism
pinkcan··on Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?
meh, you're writing comes of as defensive

if you still have money tied up in crypto you can still try and sell it

pinkcan··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
docker compose is like using cheat codes
pinkcan··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
iOS "focus" and "screen time" features
pinkcan··on I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
reader mode?
pinkcan··on Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)
for proper context you'd have to look at the repo has it was when the tweets went out

https://github.com/harthur/replace/tree/431b1e183a4bd43046af...

but it doesn't matter as those tweets are trash, specially coming from other OSS devs

pinkcan··on Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)
"rewrite in Rust for no good reason"

`sudo` just had an array-out-of-bounds CVE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-4399...

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