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New comment by knowitnone in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

knowitnone — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:17:35 +0000

there is lots of welfare fraud. if you think money should just be handed out without question then you start handing your money out first.

New comment by knowitnone in "The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that's safe for kids to use"

knowitnone — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:12:20 +0000

a pair of scissors costs $10

New comment by knowitnone in "Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)"

knowitnone — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:30:11 +0000

"these microseconds add up to real latency"

While I love Ruby, if performance is your main motiviation, you would not be using a scripting language.

New comment by knowitnone in "RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor"

knowitnone — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:50:59 +0000

why can't they be both photographer and coder?

New comment by knowitnone in "Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry"

knowitnone — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:26:37 +0000

you saw the video - it bobs its head and records all your activities and audio to send back to HQ.

New comment by knowitnone in "Firefox is fine. The people running it are not"

knowitnone — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:10:10 +0000

Google sabotage firefox performance deliberately

New comment by knowitnone in "Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own"

knowitnone — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:09:17 +0000

"Google cloned Linux kernel, claimed as own." Link?

New comment by knowitnone in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

knowitnone — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:41:53 +0000

One has exposed GPIOs for devs to play with. If you just want a basic computer, N100s are great.

New comment by knowitnone in "Is anybody using this private key?"

knowitnone — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:39:35 +0000

Generate and send it every possible key

New comment by knowitnone in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

knowitnone — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:37:40 +0000

so you're willing to pay for it?

New comment by knowitnone in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

knowitnone — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:36:19 +0000

this can just be flooded with fake data making it useless

New comment by knowitnone in "The story of Max, a real programmer"

knowitnone — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:59:15 +0000

Comparing Go to PHP is like comparing C to Assembly

New comment by knowitnone in "Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling"

knowitnone — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:57:26 +0000

power consumption is worst than compressor system

New comment by knowitnone in "Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling"

knowitnone — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:24:43 +0000

that's an idea but would you not have to power each one which then destroys efficiency anyway

New comment by knowitnone in "Huawei releases an open weight model trained on Huawei Ascend GPUs"

knowitnone — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:33:41 +0000

I doubt the Chinese ever care about licensing so I would not care about following their license

New comment by knowitnone in "A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life"

knowitnone — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:55:00 +0000

HP has 0 incentive to give old laptops new life if they don't profit from it. People who buy used laptops are already doing so. Yes, there are somes risks but if the computer boots up, perhaps run a few performance tests, then it's good. A used laptop is $100 - $500, not $2000 - $10000 and it most likely is not sold multiple times because after teh second owner, it's likely already too old, too slow, and not supported (Microsoft). I was a seller of used laptops.

New comment by knowitnone in "Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT"

knowitnone — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:28:48 +0000

there is plenty of automation to be done. Last company I was with claimed to be a "tech company" which they kind of are but their internal tech stack was junk and automation was just as bad (at least in the unit I was with). AI certainly won't do anything about that unless a person told it exactly what and how to automate.

New comment by knowitnone in "Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features"

knowitnone — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:17:02 +0000

Is this a law in Japan or common curtoeusy? IN the West, the law is if you are in public, there is no expectation of privacy.

New comment by knowitnone in "US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law"

knowitnone — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:30:08 +0000

as I've said before, if you block legal porn sites, people will find other ways of getting porn which will expose them to and prolierate illegal porn. This is not a good law.

New comment by knowitnone in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

knowitnone — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:04:09 +0000

only because the US is soft on crime - so soft that drugs that were illegal are no longer illegal