The Tyranny of the Marginal User — Don’t mess with a genius (2010) — and Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

Issue #1255 — September 15, 2023

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The Tyranny of the Marginal User nothinghuman.substack.com \| points: 740 \| comments: 419

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Don’t mess with a genius (2010) shreevatsa.wordpress.com \| points: 524 \| comments: 129

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Don’t use Discord as your Q&A forum kraktoos.com \| points: 483 \| comments: 305

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PostgreSQL 16 postgresql.org \| points: 476 \| comments: 65

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How mobile apps illegally share personal data noyb.eu \| points: 436 \| comments: 277

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Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts arstechnica.com \| points: 371 \| comments: 258

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When MFA isn’t MFA, or how we got phished retool.com \| points: 363 \| comments: 263

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Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates blog.google \| points: 347 \| comments: 210

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How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch? ipapi.is \| points: 342 \| comments: 126

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Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship tails.net \| points: 337 \| comments: 152

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Solar patrickcollison.com \| points: 252 \| comments: 190

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So You’ve Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine impromptugames.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 134

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Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap wiki.xfce.org \| points: 230 \| comments: 211

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Arm IPO to kick off today theregister.com \| points: 212 \| comments: 138

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Hutter Prize for compressing human knowledge prize.hutter1.net \| points: 204 \| comments: 195

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Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes nature.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 152

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RPG in a Box: A grid-based, voxel-style game engine built on Godot rpginabox.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 21

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Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries science.org \| points: 184 \| comments: 167

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A Comprehensive Guide for Building Rag-Based LLM Applications github.com \| points: 160 \| comments: 41

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Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag smithsonianmag.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 47

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