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New comment by midasuni in "CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital"

midasuni — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:34:15 +0000

That’s a shame, I almost always go for GoG whenever possible. Looks like steam then.

New comment by midasuni in "The Layoff"

midasuni — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:14:18 +0000

Might have being going for “passed away”

Managers are people too and will have their own emotions they are dealing with.

New comment by midasuni in "The Layoff"

midasuni — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:11:54 +0000

About a decade ago I was doing a lot of travel for work - 140 plus flights a year over 6 continents level.

I remember watching a film, “Up in the Air”, about a guy who was contest flying from airport to airport to lay people off because the boss was too much of a wimp to do it himself.

I guess even his job isn’t safe from AI.

Sure some will manage to hack with prompt injection attacks, and potentially get compensation, but those attacks will be fixed.

New comment by midasuni in "The Layoff"

midasuni — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:51:20 +0000

A choice of two dystopia - one where your brain is controlled by a computer, the other where you are locked in a room.

New comment by midasuni in "The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen"

midasuni — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:47:28 +0000

I see no evidence that the alleged screaming down wasn’t 30 years ago so “these days” is doing some interesting work

I suspect that “screamed down” is also hyperbole

New comment by midasuni in "The end of Britain's weeks-long general elections"

midasuni — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:33:20 +0000

Mail in on the U.K. is for a wel or two, but the envelope has to arrive by a certain date/time before the election.

The ballot closes at 10pm, counting starts as soon as the boxes arrive. The first places have counted about 50,000 votes and declared the Reilly by 11pm, most finish about 4am, 6 hours in. The final places (which rely on boxes to travel from various islands on ferries or helicopters) can take nearly 24 hours.

New comment by midasuni in "It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU"

midasuni — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:04:52 +0000

> Apple just made their true target crystal clear: they have always been aiming at web capabilities:

Not what Jobs said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vq993Td6ys

Originally there wasn’t an SDK at all.

New comment by midasuni in "The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl"

midasuni — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:22:02 +0000

To be fair his comment was a waste of time

New comment by midasuni in "US safety regulations make it difficult to automakers to add adaptive headlights"

midasuni — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:11:01 +0000

Good. Adaptive headlights are won’t he U.K. and there are many cases when they don’t work and end up blinding people.

New comment by midasuni in "Not all TLDs are Created Equal"

midasuni — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:28:16 +0000

Or because you were born after 1998

New comment by midasuni in "Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones (2020)"

midasuni — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:18:36 +0000

Only when posting their home phone number

New comment by midasuni in "Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:23:52 +0000

Alarm goes off as the car isn’t empty

New comment by midasuni in "How to copy a file between devices? (2022)"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:14:47 +0000

My understanding is that to configure your WireGuard tunnels the tailscale saas layer distributes the keys. If so there’s nothing stopping it distribute a key you don’t control.

New comment by midasuni in "Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:11:56 +0000

That’s been the way in the U.K. for 30 years - power runs into the key, chip in the key of some level of cryptography is used to decode.

New comment by midasuni in "Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:10:27 +0000

I’ve had wireless hire cars. Horrible things, never sure where they key is and tend to come with “features” like automatically locking and setting the alarm if you walk away from the car

New comment by midasuni in "Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:08:44 +0000

I lost the key for my 1997 micra once. no way it was starting without overriding the chip in the key, had to be towed to a dealer to reprogram it.

New comment by midasuni in "Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:38:05 +0000

The U.K. has a system where experts in various fields like medicine and engineering are put in the lawmaking process, in addition to experts in becoming elected (ie raising money and selling non tangible ideas to people)

It’s not perfect of course, but in my opinion it’s better than a fully democratic system.

New comment by midasuni in "Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:42:27 +0000

I’ve been confused occasionally by road situations. Somehow I’ve never managed to drive into a multi-ton object.

New comment by midasuni in "How to copy a file between devices? (2022)"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:44:06 +0000

Don’t you need to have tailscale on the machine (and thus give full access to all your machines to the company) for taildrop to work?

New comment by midasuni in "Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024"

midasuni — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:52:52 +0000

I suspect the argument would be you can’t deep fake in-person interactions