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anenefan
·6 घंटे पहले·discuss
Queenslander here and not a term I've noticed myself, bar one commercial on tv that used an animated meerkat, other than that not a big consumer of buying much or booking things online, though I'd understand if I saw it tagged to something where one time pricing event might sprawl ... subscription stuff, nah not happening.
anenefan
·24 घंटे पहले·discuss
I have not struck MP35N afaik before, and interesting to see its use in commercial settings, and even available as bolts and nuts. Certainly not fun to machine [1]

It's hard to know just how much stronger this new processing of the alloy is than other common high strength alloys, as they list compressive yield and not tensile yield strength ... that's if the person writing didn't get the two terms confused.

As a note, I use duckduckgo and smirked somewhat at its search assist results for the few efforts to find the compressive yield of Bisalloy 400 (something I've had to drill) - checking out the listed sources it was clear it had mistakenly used the tensile yield ...

As an illustration for the differences, I found a page [2] for 4140 alloy and similar yield strengths. 4140 is reasonably workable, drilling isn't the greatest amount of effort either before it's tempered and annealed.

[1] https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/milling-mp3...

[2] https://amesweb.info/Materials/Steel-Tensile-Yield-Strength-...
anenefan
·कल·discuss
Interesting for products where the resulting alloy just needs machining - lathing, milling, drilling etc, but more interesting will be what processes will be needed to weld or form such alloyed metals.
anenefan
·परसों·discuss
I don't code as such any more, but the obvious two reasons I see is that coders would avoid it is for copyright issues as well as, since one doesn't know what the llm was trained on, for not unwittingly [1] introducing a crafty not yet known to the public exploit.

[1] Assuming that if LLMs were that good, all code would presently be double checked and exploits and back doors will shortly coming to an end - unless the reason it hasn't is a marketing issue.
anenefan
·4 दिन पहले·discuss
The plan to stop under 16 kids along with issues stemming from it in Australia from accessing social media areas that were using algorithms to target kids has been coveted by a couple if not more camps of thought.

The two mains ones I see are:

There are those who see making it against the law as a simple means to:

   fundamentally resolve legal issues stemming from any serious incident that plays out, fights, stabbings, abductions etc.
   
   Either gives parents of less than obedient kids the necessary excuse to, by whatever reasonable means, to stop their children wasting the mornings, school time, afternoons and nights, on social media OR a necessary impetus on parents to ensure their kids are / know how to be safe online.

   The algorithms that social media refused to remove from the last few years are reduced to being meaningless apart from being the same means to identify youngsters ... so instead of being referred to some other diet or BS area, the account can be flagged to be locked with a show cause.
There are those who see it as a means to an end to require real identity for any social media, landing eventually needing extra personal verification details - age, living address etc.

   There was already a camp which wanted [1] to bring in verification for social media accounts, especially after a prominent incident in the US involving a somewhat anonymous user ... 
   
   (iirc) the person the govt at the time 2021 early 2022  brought in to work on bringing ID required for social media use ... is the same who was asked / tasked to bring in the under 16 legislation.  

   Believe that just like google couldn't tell a completely obvious spam site back in the 10's,  social media can't use those concerning or problematic algorithms to deduce an account in Australia might be a youngster.
Most phone plans in Australia require a form of identification which typically only adults have like a drivers licence, their own Australian medical card number, etc, so it's something parents themselves set up or crafty young kids work around it by gaining access to the relevant details.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/governmen...

Edit hour later: typo bring not being
anenefan
·5 दिन पहले·discuss
Well lets hope it their goals are achieved and better the world slowly moves to what should be a safer nuclear choice - thorium [1]

[1] The company is developing the world's first subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium nuclear reactor.
anenefan
·7 दिन पहले·discuss
Just curious - were able to see my previous reply? If not, have you set your profile to see dead posts?
anenefan
·8 दिन पहले·discuss
Just a test reply to see if followup replies are dead but not obvious to the user who posted ... as it seems to be with my last reply here.

OK my previous reply was made dead without myself being able to see it's dead ... I guess copying the dead reply to quote it is probably the issue ... I'd suggest tommy needs to email staff to sort out their dead posts.

I would also guess if I repost my own text that I replied with will also get the comment flagged and silently dead.

It was to say good to see not a simple grouping of user agents and rather thorough analysis.
anenefan
·9 दिन पहले·discuss
Oh I think the powers that be at reddit have worked out even converting a small percentage of the lurkers into members will be quite beneficial. Once a member there's a higher likelihood the new member will engage and consume more - thus more ad revenue or eventually choose to move over to ad free subscription.

As for creating a wall though, reddit is very large and has a huge mass of users, but eventually some of the users will move to other areas more tolerant and less interested in capitalising their comments, users which are more interested in sharing their pearls of wisdom or hard gained knowledge with all of the web.

As to a similar situation to Netflix's actions - There's a difference though IMO between a limited amount of choices to consume new tv series and movies vs yet another forum like area ... If one wants to watch a new series or movie, one has to make a choice how that's done ... if an area on the web becomes less than desirable to visit that doesn't have anything unique, there's honestly no absolute need to include it and continue to consume elsewhere, like a tv series that's going down hill fast, for many there's a point they stop and watch something else. So there's no real choice apart from consequential things like evaluating how important a thread from such a place might be that turns up in a search engine if one is looking for answers or whether to engage where a thread from the walled area has been linked, with anything more than superficial banter in such threads outside of the walled site.
anenefan
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
Reddit IMHO, is well known for how crafty they are for ensuring once someone is banned, it's quite difficult to get around it. Thus I'm fairly confident they can pick the difference between requests from one IP landing on a particular thread by way of search engine or some other area and going on to explore comments from a couple of the users and other subsequent threads over a few minutes ... to that of a process to scrape a great number of threads at a great rate.

Yes I've experienced some very cunning web operators that make mirroring their site really really hard ... it then usually takes some hard determination to work out what is needed to accomplish a successful mirror attempt.

Authorisation just means reddit account details will be added to various sites that, often for free, provide account / password that work atm for those who only want to look at one little old thing without having to make their own account ... so the next thing would be then profiling ... which then takes the whole point of why bother unless the account making process is just a means to deploy scripts that are tracking or some other process ;)

> but you have to understand you are the least valuable user on Reddit's platform ...

Yes along with the other few hundred news sites that all think they are so important they demand yearly subscription from me for access to their site to view at most a couple of articles a year.

As for how important to reddit I personally am - lol. It is though the absence of a number of read only users that will change things ... if at all for the moment. Lurkers though often share interesting threads which could result in other people taking an interest and subsequently engaging. Many people have navigated to old.reddit as it works, unlike the current www.reddit format, doubly so for myself as I cut trackers and various APIS that were not doing the right thing, and reddit's script to display comments displays ... none, nothing, nada, though I do see the OP question / comment.
anenefan
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
Interesting but sadly not forward thinking enough for Australia least where a handful of months it would be beneficial to pipe cool water or cool a room as well. I have viewed [1] [2] (source) and don't see any additional options to redirect any cooled air or water.

There other thing is adoption of such units would be restricted to power grids with very stable power supplies, ie not more regional areas where induction motors are not dying every few years due to grid power failure mode - unless one has decided to bite the bullet and stabilise with solar / battery arrangement.

[1] https://plumbingconnection.com.au/panasonic-releases-co%E2%8...

[2] https://www.panasonic.com/au/corporate/news/articles/panason...
anenefan
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
That's unfortunate. Rather than using rate limiting or access control over a singular user which would have significant different usage to say scrappers ... I'm not making an account ... I guess I won't be visiting old.reddit threads ... the new makeover reddit moved to, never played well with my browser but died almost entirely some time ago one when I added one of the many PII scrapping trackers to my deny list -- maybe they'll give up on their usage of including a PII tracker ...
anenefan
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
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anenefan
·12 दिन पहले·discuss
There's no mention of the level of humidity / dew point ... it makes a world of difference as to selecting the best case scenario cooling approach.

Low humidity near body heat temps upwards- sitting in front of a floor fan (not a device that there's an idea of air being moved) blasting air relies on sweating a lot and drinking plenty of fluids. Ceiling fans in rooms I've worked in seem to have a very limited effect. Setting up something more permanent, evaporative cooling is probably better for environment if implemented at scale.

Higher humidity temperatures - there's a point in moisture saturation in the air that even floor fans blasting away won't do much if the air is at body temperature or higher.

Older houses even in Australia are often not set up to be thermally efficient enough to use AC or units are too noisy for neighbours (this is changing with split systems which seem to be quieter) - but temporarily when I've needed to, I've set up an AC internally with a large container to catch the moisture, insulating as best I can a small room space to cool that I can both work and throw down a small mattress to sleep on, while venting the hot exhaust air into another room or hallway that is open to the outside hot air - just ensure nothing heat sensitive is in the room.

Edit: typo throw
anenefan
·14 दिन पहले·discuss
The relevant non functional links should be listed in the comments. The OP was complaining they were not able to include links directly. I'm not sure about [1] [2] [3] in the main post but the show hn [A] or [B] thread should afaik have not been an issue.

[A] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947229

[B] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228411

[1] https://docx-editor.dev/

[2] https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-js-editor

[3] https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor

Edit for additional show hn thread
anenefan
·14 दिन पहले·discuss
This link should be enough to work out the relevant links. [1]

I would guess that they have lost access to a resource lately ... I've read there's a lot of that going around atm.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=thisisjedr
anenefan
·14 दिन पहले·discuss
IANAL but I'd say it is going to depend on your country's digital security laws. Personally I'd be letting them know the story is going to end up in some technical IT rag and their third party vendor runs the risk of being named and shamed for such a simple hack in this day and age.
anenefan
·15 दिन पहले·discuss
Yeah that's quite sad - if only for the lost art of critical thinking. It may be more wishful thinking than accepting a bleaker truth.

The problem with AI answers however IMO, the main difference is if Susie Blowpipe or Phil Dither are being quoted saying or claiming something that's once more complete horse shit ... chances are there will be those who'll have questioned the credibility of any such nonsense - in other words such wild claims won't be in a vacuum and good search results would probably bear that out. Rubbish being flung out by an AI search though, some people have got used to operating without a decent search engine and will just walk away with a summary rather than visit the sources to ensure credibility. Of course some people readily believe complete bunk if it reaffirms any preconceived notions.
anenefan
·15 दिन पहले·discuss
Yes it was a hoax better explained IMO at [1] that intended to poison the parrots ... and given there's a result even for a short time, it shows the idea that giving up on human vetted information for AI can come with consequences.

It's funny for the story is almost believable ...

Obviously LLMs will start scraping r/poisonai for correlation purposes.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-hoax-political-figures-rabies-1...
anenefan
·15 दिन पहले·discuss
I'm curious if you're just tracking browser user agent, fingerprinting or some other method? For instance would someone using a tool to spider your site, would it be classed as an attack?