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by 015a 2y ago
Its not ok to over-moderate against jokes, especially when you can't even point to the guideline that was broken here (though, I'm sure you could take any comment from anyone and find at least one guideline that was broken. Every
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This meme does not miss [1]. > There is a global resource shortage. > Authoritarian state on the other side of the planet controls it. > US is finished. > American farmer in the middle of nowhere US discovers the largest supply
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by 015a 2y ago
Apple and Google's app store policies have destroyed billions in potential market capitalization of both large and small companies alike, and have measurably negatively impacted the national security of the west by destroying the resil
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by 015a 2y ago
I'm not as sure about that; products like Wordpress have an amplification effect with their users. The average person who uses Wordpress doesn't just have one Wordpress site; they have dozens to thousands, because they're act
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Ultimately: It can take some time for community notes to correct misinfo posts; by the time community notes gets to it, the firehose has ten more misinfo posts community notes needs to fix, the people who saw the original post rarely see th
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by 015a 2y ago
Execution matters. Microsoft was best-positioned to reap the widespread, mobile-enabled transformation of personal computing. They didn't, and today with the discontinuation of the Surface Duo, they have literally zero strategy in mobi
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by 015a 2y ago
I think it is concerning that every single Apple Intelligence feature they've shipped thus far has been not just mediocre; but bad. Being last to the party is a very normal Apple thing; quality and Doing The Right Thing takes time. Ann
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"Look, humans will adapt to the ever-increasing and accelerating nightmares we invent. They always have before. Technology isn't inherently evil, its how it is used that can be evil, its not our fault that we make it so accessible
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by 015a 2y ago
I've honestly only experienced the opposite; their captcha is reasonably easy to bypass, and I've successfully automated access to a few sites "protected" by the Cloudflare captcha (behind a VPN, no less). > I use a h
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by 015a 2y ago
As global birthrates decline, as they are, nations which can consistently and willingly integrate immigrants have a huge cultural superpower. America does this better than any nation; we're the only nation on the planet that someone ca
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Sure, but that may simply be the NAICS code for all of Amazon, not the specific division that is doing the hiring.
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by 015a 2y ago
The reality that I observe with H1Bs among a couple of my friends who are here on one is: They are paid less, they dislike their jobs, and they feel a tremendous inability to find a new one. H1Bs are figuratively a policy disconcertingly si
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by 015a 2y ago
I help run a medium-sized web forum. We started noticing this earlier this year, as many sites have. We blocked them for a bit, but more recently I deployed a change which routes bots which self-identify with a bot user-agent to a much more
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by 015a 2y ago
At the end of the day, Spotify's north-star metric is average dollars of cost per minute of audio consumed; and to get that metric as low as possible. That's why they push podcasts so hard (and why they aren't in a separate a
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by 015a 2y ago
Spotify would probably argue that Apple has control of the OS, so they can surface all of their apps, pre-install them, whereas Spotify has more pressure to leverage their existing install base by bundling everything into one. I would bet e
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by 015a 2y ago
"Making fewer mistakes" implies that there's a framework within which the agent operates where its performance can be quickly judged as correct or incorrect. But, computers have already automated many tasks and roles in compa
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I feel that one challenge this comparison space has is: Self-driving cars haven't made the leap yet to replace humans. In other words, saying AGI will arrive like self-driving cars have arrived is incorrectly concluding that self-drivi
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I feel the important piece to remember with VO2Max estimation is: Its an estimation. Its significant figures [1]; reporting the value to one or more decimal places communicates a level of confidence inappropriate for how inaccurate these es
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IMO the biggest reason why the Apple Watch is oftentimes interpreted as an "unserious" exercise smartwatch is actually quite simple: The display & lack of physical buttons makes it difficult to interface with in the variety of
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by 015a 2y ago
That only works if the share target is using the same password manager. If you asked most people "what password manager do you use" they would give you a blank stare; but sadly, the answer is rarely "I'm not using one&qu
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by 015a 2y ago
Yes, if you're both using the same password manager. But, while you live in Silicon Valley bubbleland, most people don't. The world's most popular password manager is Excel; and sadly it does not support sharing passkeys (or,
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by 015a 2y ago
What if the passkey was generated on Windows and you're trying to sign in to iOS?
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by 015a 2y ago
That's why I very specifically said: Passkeys solve problems that corporations have, by moving the problems on to consumers. Our industry was done writing reliable, quality software years ago, so it shouldn't come as any surprise
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by 015a 2y ago
Many services which support passkeys do not support multiple passkeys. The big ones have figured out that we need support for multiple, but sadly just like with Yubikeys not everyone got the message on that. But, its like I said: You have z
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iCloud Passwords is not built-in to Windows, so users have to know to install it. Most don't. Most iPhone users don't know they're using iCloud Passwords. In fact, many aren't (because it is oftentimes toggled off in set
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by 015a 2y ago
Not built in. The number of Windows users who use Proton Pass is a rounding error toward zero.
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by 015a 2y ago
I don't, but yes; many seriously actually believe this is why the industry is moving to passkeys. It isn't logical, it isn't reasonable, but these are your customers.
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by 015a 2y ago
I agree; - if your response to LLMs taking over is "they're bad and its not going to happen" i think you've basically chosen to flip a coin, and that's fine, you might be right (personally I do think this take is ri
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by 015a 2y ago
The software industry has zero concept of how much pain and suffering passkeys are going to cause the average person, almost entirely because the average American has an iPhone and a Windows laptop and there's literally nothing built
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by 015a 2y ago
Its a lot harder to share the passkey for e.g. your Netflix account among friends.

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