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zapkyeskrill··on Beauty in DVD Menus
Got to question the reasoning behind Fastplay. If it was "Designed to make their DVDs more accessible, especially to children potentially unable to manage the remote" are those really the target audience for "it often plays trailers before the feature presentation"?
zapkyeskrill··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
And they can stay private and isolated to that foreign country. Everyone happy
zapkyeskrill··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
This is worth stating explicitly.
zapkyeskrill··on GPT-6 Astra
Of course, but "capital" is no stranger to risk management. I'm sure we'll see some spectacular failures, but most will handle this just fine.
zapkyeskrill··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Run those things as an electron app? Add on analytics, location tracking and data exfil and you'll be fairly close
zapkyeskrill··on Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?
And most of the time savings gained from all this is blown on grind clicking "social media" so net effect is, yes, close to zero (or in more modern terms, not 100x, not 10x, but 1x at most).
zapkyeskrill··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
The most dangerous prompt - "save the planet"
zapkyeskrill··on Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
Of course. Think of the chil... no, it's a matter of natio... no. Hrm .. well we have nothing to hide! Same as you, yet you keep your doors locked and bank account hidden!
zapkyeskrill··on Qwen 3.8
How does this explain open weights? They could easily take the same closed route like their American friends
zapkyeskrill··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
It's good that it (they?) identified the smoking gun, and a fact that changed everything
zapkyeskrill··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Degrees, very funny.
zapkyeskrill··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
But everyone knows, by experience, what 3300 individual roughly one pound bags of sugar weighs and what sort of force is needed to hold it up. Mid sized car is ambiguous, and nobody saw anybody hold that up (seeing hulk doesn't count)
zapkyeskrill··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Is it? Or does it just make it multi dimensional? As in, prompt now need to anticipate there being a monitor and instruct that one too, indirectly.
zapkyeskrill··on GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM
I'll take Windows95 on 3.5" floppy discs please. Thank you.
zapkyeskrill··on The 100k whys of AI
Is tweaking a temperature of the model not a thing anymore?
zapkyeskrill··on US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
If you replace 100 then that's 800k/mo spend. Would that do?
zapkyeskrill··on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan
I'm confused .. how is shipment from Japan to Australia half way around the world?
zapkyeskrill··on The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
Guess they don't need to wear baseball caps or sunglasses when flying looking directly at the sun
zapkyeskrill··on SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
Oh shyte, I use (and have used) these for a long time. Guess everything is classes as AI nowadays just yield and use it (everyone thinks you do anyway)
zapkyeskrill··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
Maybe gH could, accidentally, 40x for a few minutes globally and eradicate the beast?
zapkyeskrill··on Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
Any easy way to make this usable on mobile? In portrait mode things are unreadable, zoom and scrolling do not work. Landscape is even worse as everything is out of view (and zoom/scroll do not work).
zapkyeskrill··on Recover Apple Keychain
Good information to have. I was surprised by step 2 though (rm login.keychain-db). How can you be absolutely sure it doesn't contain anything important and you won't need it later?

I'd probably opt for a more defensive action here and just rename it (like the original reset did).

zapkyeskrill··on How I write software with LLMs
What's the point of writing this? In a few weeks a new model will come out and make your current work pattern obsolete (a process described in the post itself)
zapkyeskrill··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
Isn't an issue yet.
zapkyeskrill··on Trump's firing of the U.S. government archivist is far worse than it might seem
There was an opportunity after his first term and nothing came of it. His actions were indicative enough and yet he's back again. People are asleep at the wheel and won't wake up until they crash, at which point it's usually too late. And if by some miracle they survive without being severely handicapped for the rest of their life they don't learn and repeat the mistake a few years down the line!
zapkyeskrill··on Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
It's live version of Micro Machines! Nice work
zapkyeskrill··on A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)
2025 and it still works, even on mobile
zapkyeskrill··on OpenAI O3-Mini
Yes, but who will comment then and on what?
zapkyeskrill··on Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal?
Sure, but no matter how many async request you accept you still only have 50k items available. You also presumably take people's money, having them input their personal and card information so not waiting for real response means what? Thank you for your money and the data, we'll be in touch soon; pinky promise?
zapkyeskrill··on Composable SQL
If you're creating fake tables for your solution, couldn't you then also create a fake table books(title) to satisfy the first problem statement?
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