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- Comment on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun 4 days ago:
Similar here. The “you need to read through page 95 by Thursday” for years ruined it for me. For over a decade after leaving school whenever I’d try to read something I’d just obsess over the page numbers and how long until a chapter break. It’s only very recently I’ve managed to get mostly past that and actually been able to get into what I’m reading.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 6 days ago:
There are absolutely laptops with fingerprint sensors.
I’d say the main reason it’s more common in phones than computers is because of the different markets. Phones are mostly consumer purchases, the business market is smaller and the software is more locked down so you can rely on a software disable better sufficing for those cases. Laptops are increasingly dominated by business use cases. Businesses have IT groups that care about security who would prefer models without biometrics.
Secondarily, you login to your phone a lot more often than laptops so the convenience factor is less impactful for laptops. So people don’t consider the fingerprint sensor a mandatory requirement as much as with phones.
- Comment on Factorio Friday Facts #409 - Diminishing beacons 1 week ago:
Not what I was expecting. “Diminishing” made me think that the new effect of the beacons would cover a larger area but diminish as distance to the building increases
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No.
The page you link has the foundation’s leadership structure. He’s a cochair on the board with 8 total people. The board is a degree removed from day to day operations of the foundation. He’d have to convince the board to then convince the executives.
That transaction would then show up in their financial statements, which are audited and publicly posted on that website. Meaning using the foundation’s money for something like a private jet would become public knowledge within a couple years and would do irreparable harm to the foundation’s reputation.
- Comment on what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ? 3 weeks ago:
A retiree. Aka boomer.
- Comment on kingdom come: deliverance II reveal 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been meaning to finish the first one. Is there combat in that game? I just remember picking flowers for hours.
- Comment on New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video] 3 weeks ago:
It’s like they’re intentionally going for creepy as fuck
- Comment on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism 3 weeks ago:
Damn that comment section is a prime example of why I don’t have a HN account.
- Comment on How my morning is going... 3 weeks ago:
Well get a lamp then, discover. Sheesh.
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 4 weeks ago:
We got Mario Kart 8 and Let’s Go Pikachu for my son (the Switch is for his birthday)
- Comment on OpenTofu Response to HashiCorp's Cease and Desist Letter 4 weeks ago:
It’s open source fork of terraform. It’s a tool for setting up cloud infrastructure in a way that can go into source control.
- Comment on "Volkswagen" detects when your tests are being run in a CI server 4 weeks ago:
The repo was made 9 years ago and abandoned 6 years ago. I wouldn’t read too much into it reflecting today
- Comment on Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting 4 weeks ago:
How about haptic feedback combined with spellcheck so it’s literally harder to typo.
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 4 weeks ago:
Where can I get a prescription for this “poverty”?
- Comment on New Seafloor Map Only 25% Done, with 6 Years to Go 5 weeks ago:
Hopefully the beginning of the end of those stupid sayings like “we have explored more of space than our own oceans”
- Comment on Detecting a tracker pixel/image in email 1 month ago:
Mailjet’s documentation indicates they use an explicit pixel image for tracking email open status and that can be turned on or off in account settings. However it also indicates they put all images included in an email template through the same infrastructure as tracking links. So most likely they record the view but whether that usage data is retained and available to the gov agency is hard to say without making an account with Mailjet and testing.
- Comment on Detecting a tracker pixel/image in email 1 month ago:
Given the post is about tracking via an image I thought you were making a joke by asking for the post as an image 😆
- Comment on Helpful infographic 2 months ago:
For the overlap of “circles” and “things that overlap” I would have gone with the Olympic rings rather than eclipses.
- Comment on Dressed to kill (my heart) 2 months ago:
Your wife is delectable.
- Comment on When you see it, and when you see the other it. 2 months ago:
Neat, it’s a real book
- Comment on Start our what now? 2 months ago:
Like the club from Dusk Till Dawn.
- Comment on How do CAPTCHAs work without giving you a challenge task? 2 months ago:
Rather than try to unilaterally deprecate and replace CAPTCHA with a single alternative, we built a platform to test many alternatives and rotate new challenges in and out as they become more or less effective.
With Turnstile, we adapt the actual challenge outcome to the individual visitor or browser. First, we run a series of small non-interactive JavaScript challenges gathering more signals about the visitor/browser environment. Those challenges include, proof-of-work, proof-of-space, probing for web APIs, and various other challenges for detecting browser-quirks and human behavior. As a result, we can fine-tune the difficulty of the challenge to the specific request and avoid ever showing a visual puzzle to a user.
Turnstile also includes machine learning models that detect common features of end visitors who were able to pass a challenge before. The computational hardness of those initial challenges may vary by visitor, but is targeted to run fast.
developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/
TL;DR A bunch of heuristics that are hard to spoof. Fun side effect of this method is that if you spoof your user agent, you’ll often end up locked out in a loop. Lack of a captcha fallback is obnoxious.
- Comment on Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits 2 months ago:
log(3^9)÷log(2) is 14.26. So ya, 15 bits for a naive encoding. Amazes me they wrote a whole blog post for such a trivial thing. Doesn’t seem like their intent was trying to be educational for those new to base math or CS.
- Comment on Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer 2 months ago:
Tiny Tina not having Ash’s voice just feels so wrong.
- Comment on Immediately 2 months ago:
But he’s the only one :(
- Comment on On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? 2 months ago:
The ability to learn from other people without needing the same first hand experience is a hallmark of intelligence. It’s one of the things about our species that allowed us to develop past just being yet another animal in the wild. Education is largely based on that principle; your history teacher didn’t experience the horrors of trench warfare firsthand.
So I wouldn’t call social media insanity so much as potentially addictive, which can cause you to overindulge in those behaviours. Admittedly addiction can feel like insanity when you’re in the throes of it.
- Comment on This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 2 months ago:
LOVE NEEDS ASS ???