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eat commented on "AI-first" is the new Return To Office anildash.com//2025/04/19/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

Illniyar · 4 months ago

"An average LLM won't even know that Drake's favorite MIME type is application/pdf"

Is this seeding for future AI models? If I ask chatGPT a year from now what is drake's favorite Mime type would it confidently say "application/PDF"

eat · 4 months ago

You can see this on perplexity now ;)

eat commented on Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain? · Posted by u/govideo

eat · 6 months ago

DNS enumeration (brute force) with a good wordlist, zone transfer, or leaking the name through a certificate served when accessing your host via IP address are all possibilities.

The name "userfileupload" is far from not-obvious, so that would be my guess.

eat commented on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021) time.com/6092844/peter-th... · Posted by u/zfg

moduspol · 6 months ago

They didn't start doing it in 2024.

Also, at least in the US, it's the side that spent a lot less money that won. Just like in 2016.

Besides, having money is only one form of influence. One might also have influence from a massive federal bureaucracy, legacy media, Hollywood, academia, workers' unions, and other places.

eat · 6 months ago

> Also, at least in the US, it's the side that spent a lot less money that won. Just like in 2016.

I'm sorry, which side purchased Twitter?

eat commented on Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet zetier.com/speedrunners-a... · Posted by u/chc4

eat · 6 months ago

The important distinction, and where the comparison might fall short as the job-advertisement purpose of this post, is motivation. Speedrunners enjoy games because games are fun. Speedrunners get to actually use these vulnerabilities in a way that is meaningful in their lives, whereas vulnerability researchers typically don't.

This is an observation about cyber security in general, but in my experience, bug hunting and reverse engineering require a lot of tenacity at a level that writing software and other areas of IT do not. I think tenacity is a difficult thing to summon if your only tangible motivation is a salary, the target software is intrinsically boring, and you know that you'll be rewarded whether or not you find the bugs.

eat commented on 404: Job Not Found – Chronicles from the Post Apocalyptic Job Market in 2025 medium.com/@404to200/log-... · Posted by u/obsidianecho

eat · 7 months ago

Forgive me if, in the current political climate, I feel a very large amount of skepticism at an opening paragraph where an anonymous woman of color expresses that she's always had it easy in the tech industry because of "DEI".

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duxup · 7 months ago

It's hard not to think the rule of law in the US is slowly being eroded and SCOTUS to some extent empowered Trump & Co to act at will with no sense that they ever could be held responsible for their actions.

eat · 7 months ago

Slowly?

eat commented on Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024 cnn.com/2023/10/14/busine... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord

beowulfey · 2 years ago

It probably marks the beginning of the end for the medium though

eat · 2 years ago

To me it looks more like a continuation of the decline of brick and mortar retail. Even if I want to watch films on blue-ray, why would I ever want to drive to a Best Buy to purchase them?

eat commented on Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over sfchronicle.com/bayarea/a... · Posted by u/subharmonicon

eat · 2 years ago

Wow, how disruptive!

eat commented on TSMC Arizona chip plant will be a paperweight 9to5mac.com/2023/09/11/ts... · Posted by u/ironyman

jmpman · 2 years ago

I’ve heard that the problem isn’t the lack of skilled engineers in AZ, but the union trades. At Intel they have to prepare the location for an electrical pull three days ahead of time. The pull must be between 9am and 4pm, M-F. I expect the unions are making similar demands at TSMC, and the Taiwanese, just like every other American business owner are pissed. However the Taiwanese think that bringing over people to do the trade work themselves is going to improve the pace. That’s going to result in a plant which will be continuously sabotaged by the unions. What really needs to happen is the AZ Democratic Governor (or the two Democratic senators) need to step in and negotiate with the Unions. She probably doesn’t realize this is the most important issue in the state right now, and that she can make a difference.

eat · 2 years ago

Yes you're probably right. The governor of Arizona doesn't realize what the most important issue in her state is right now, but you do.

eat commented on Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months thedriven.io/2023/07/03/t... · Posted by u/resolutebat

qwerpy · 2 years ago

Really interesting the almost universally negative replies to this. From the class of people who gush about whatever latest shiny device Apple put out. Is it jealousy? Or politically motivated?

eat · 2 years ago

The only thing motivated here is your implication that the answer must be one of these two reductive answers, while so many commenters have given very reasonable and valid reasons for their opinion.