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tiagobraw··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
Interesting. Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.1 Lite kind of got it right, but when I ask the model directly, they say they don't know. I'm curious how the tool is doing the correlation.
tiagobraw··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
for google you are just a paying product
tiagobraw··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
just realized google auth cloud sync was enabled in my device even though Ive never explicitly enabled…

so thanks for the advice!

tiagobraw··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Something can be dishonest without being illegal.
tiagobraw··on Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language
fun fact, last year I had a contractor come to my house. He was a very nice guy. After he was done we were talking and it turned out he was terry’s brother… He told me a lot of stories about him and his life, mental health and death. Pretty sad and interesting..
tiagobraw··on Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)
I still have my first recorded CD from 94 early 95 with a beta version of windows 95 plus some other utilities from the time, it still reads fine.
tiagobraw··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
also known as database
tiagobraw··on Brazilian vote counting (real time)
they seize random voting machines from polling sessions and input a known amount of votes for each candidate and match them with the ending totals. (just one kind of audit they do)
tiagobraw··on I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content
I also own a samsung smart tv and hate the ad in the source screen, but more infuriating is their tv app always reappearing in the source menu as the first option… I always delete it but after a while there it is again..

also, it’s very ironic that I got a samsung ad on this site…

tiagobraw··on The problem with Bitcoin miners
I think he meant that if the price of 1 bitcoin rise, the energy cost of mining 1 bitcoin should also rise in proportion
tiagobraw··on Amazon Board Approves 20-for-1 Stock Split, $10B Share Repurchase
sec form https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/0...
tiagobraw··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
> but as someone without children

this is a huge factor that influences almost every other decision he listed there: - living with roommates or renting a cheap apartment - not wanting to buy an apartment - having the time to do side hustles - even changing career paths is challenging when you have a family to take care of - saving the majority of his annual compensation

I don’t want to say his advices are bad, just keep in mind that it’s not applicable to everyone

tiagobraw··on Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma
no, it probably won't cause a massive pump... For every seller there's a buyer.. who would be in the other side of the trade if tether is deemed worthless?

A more probable scenario is that trading pairs against USDT will just get halted.

tiagobraw··on Crypto Wash Trading
also fees can be nonexistent for big customers, which are likely to engage in such things
tiagobraw··on The metaverse is bullshit
suprised that no one is talking about neosvr[1], even though I don't use it I definitely can see the appeal.

They have metaverse in their name. Their avatar system is beyond phenomenal and they keep adding new things [2].

[1] https://neos.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXdgnQ0cEKU

tiagobraw··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
used to love pixel phones, my first smartphone was a google nexus and had one until pixe 2.

Then one day I needed Google support for hardware… It was terrible. Just to contact them was multiile multi hour wait calls until I could get it RMAd and had to stay a week without a phone… then I switched to iphone and guess what, it has the same apps… except I know if something happens with my phone I can just take it to a apple store and have it checked right away

tiagobraw··on Ads are impersonating government websites in Google results, despite ban
I hate that there is no easy way to block or report a bad ad on google… don’t like that 30 minute ad in a 5 minutes video? too bad… don’t like that adult content ad on the middle of your daughter video? too bad.. not that you can use a different platform anyway
tiagobraw··on Talent Is Largely a Myth
“talent is just pursued interest” Bob Ross
tiagobraw··on Microsoft 365 Outage
build a home vpn with self signed certificates
tiagobraw··on Microsoft Flight Simulator maps entire globe with AI
also this one https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395084/microsoft-flight...
tiagobraw··on Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
yeap, there goes my changes of having an Oculus (never had a facebook account and won't)... Guess one less option then...
tiagobraw··on Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
I had issues with my pixel 2 and pixel 3, both of them were poorly handled by Google support...

I was a terrible critic of apple but now I own an iPhone just because I am fairly certain that I will be better treated if something happens and there's an actual physical store.

I just don't trust Google hardware anymore.

tiagobraw··on CMU Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Bots
why don't Twitter require a capcha before tweeting? it would reduce the number of bots by a large factor...

it could also have a way for legitimate bots to be registered and easily identified as such

tiagobraw··on Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content
what could go wrong with this approach
tiagobraw··on Alone in the Dark
I loved this game when I was young. I finally had access to three floppy disks and tried in my 286, only to be frustrated that my CGA monochrome monitor was not supported...

I would play at my friend's house... good times

tiagobraw··on Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses
most of these Twitter accounts are parody accounts, Amazon has the embassador program but don't believe in every thing you read on Twitter
tiagobraw··on KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B
oh, that brings good memories. I was webdesigner back then (is that still a thing?) and used PSP exclusively.

Never got a hold of PS to this day.

tiagobraw··on Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout (2016)
I also have this problem and to make thing worse my windows not cannot install upgrades anymore. There's one bad upgrade that fails to install and rollback just to try again in the next boot, entering a reboot loop.

I had to disable upgrades and I don't really want to format my already configured OS soon.

tiagobraw··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
Libra is the portuguese word for pound sterling
tiagobraw··on IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
I tried it with the first phrase on the page "This service uses linguistic analysis to detect joy, fear, sadness, anger, analytical, confident and tentative tones found in text."

response: Fear: A response to impending danger. It is a survival mechanism that is a reaction to some negative stimulus. It may be a mild caution or an extreme phobia.

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