Spivak

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by Spivak 12d ago
Which means the issuer has to be involved in every attestation and you aren't allowed to own/control your private key. The government shouldn't know if/how many times I use my ID—you would be essentially building a count
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by Spivak 13d ago
Yes? Users often prefer a nice GUI but CMSs are effectively what you describe and run the majority of content oriented sites. Static site generators are just the dev-centric version of that. The more common situation is that you're gen
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by Spivak 13d ago
Okay so that's no excuse for whoever is providing your internet, coax can deliver 800+ Mbps no problem. And if you are actually saying you only get DSL through a phone line in London then holy shit I would be busting down the door of
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by Spivak 13d ago
It comes down the web browser being used for two different use cases and two camps arguing past one another. Documents vs Programs The parent is rightfully pointing out that most websites are documents and have no need for client side rende
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by Spivak 14d ago
Because the "in schools" changes the calculus massively. You see a similar reaction to banning phones and personal computers while in school. Kids can still access and use AI outside of school meaning the enforcement is entirely o
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by Spivak 14d ago
What's surprising about this is that you can get the bullshit machine to produce correct externally validate citations. It's not particularly hard either—it's one of the first things you build when you give an LLM access to a
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by Spivak 20d ago
I mean I get the sentiment but Rust won't save you against division by zero, it'll just panic at runtime like every other language.
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by Spivak 21d ago
I mean this reminds me of Firebase v1 and FoundationDB I think both of which have a favorable reputation for quality in both design and implementation. I do think there's something to be said for being forced to code against what opera
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by Spivak 1mo ago
This is a great example of outages looking different from the perspective of the operator vs the user. Because there's many shards the blast radius of failure is contained to a small subset of users but for those users it's an out
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by Spivak 1mo ago
You're trying to solve with technology a problem that lives in the abstract human world. Even the simplest possible case, you make a physical unique object that you define as conferring ownership to the person who possesses or controls
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by Spivak 1mo ago
I feel like none of the replies are really cutting to the core of what the problem with your logic actually is—because your way of thinking is incredibly common in tech since it's what we do all day. The fallacy is scale invariance,
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by Spivak 1mo ago
Films having a moral lesson for the audience is a weird thing to criticize when it's been done since time immortal—it's exceptional when a story doesn't have one. The fact that your cutoff is 2016 I think says more about what
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by Spivak 5mo ago
These kinds of comments are so confusing to me, is the work you do day to day really so trivial that you can be wholesale replaced by an LLM?
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by Spivak 5mo ago
We must have a very different view of the world because in my neck of the woods companies are desperate for senior talent. And it's become even harder to find seniors now that everyone has access to a machine that can create the appear
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I mean certbot handles the just issue me a cert via DNS-01 and I'll do the rest flow just fine. Massive overkill of a program for just that use-case but it's been humming along for me for years at this point. What's the selli
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Do you see yourself taking over httpcore as well as it's likely to have the same maintainership problem? It would certainly instill more confidence that this is a serious fork. This certainly wouldn't be the first time an author o
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Well, the reason for all the fragmentation is because the Python stdlib doesn't have the core building blocks for an async http or http2 client in the way requests could build on urllib. The h11, h2, httpcore stack is probably the clo
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I think Flock is just a symptom of the underlying tech becoming so cheap that "just blanket the city in cameras" starts to sound like a viable solution when police rely so heavily on camera footage. I don't think it's a
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I don't think Sotomayor's dissent is particularly convincing because you need a new law that hasn't been yet been invalidated for each instance of retaliation against journalists or general 1A violations. And plugging this lo
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I consider it to be the same as the state having to provide for your food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare while you're imprisoned. The state took away your ability to provide those things for yourself and so now it's their job
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I would agree with you if the state took up the responsibility of driving people with suspended licenses around or making public transportation reliable enough for employment. But they don't and so we're stuck with this as the com
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I think your expected outcome is actually the desired one, to kill shrinkflation in favor of actual price increases. When the measures are all the same you can compare apples to apples across different businesses.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Forget cheating, we get entirely fake people applying for our positions.
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by Spivak 6mo ago
They don't get unsupervised internet access, there's always a supervising adult in between the child and the internet. For the child's devices it's the parent who has access to parental control software which will restri
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by Spivak 6mo ago
They added an optional date of birth field to a user directory. Are you mad at LDAP for contributing to the surveillance state? Folks have absolutely lost the plot on this one. These laws are stupid, this implementation is fine. Be mad at y
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Looks like you'll be able to pause them indefinitely with the new update so we'll see if this prediction comes true. Most computers will spend their entire life never once exposed to the public internet, the firewall does still wo
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by Spivak 6mo ago
Why? Inheritance taxes are kinda stupid anyway, you already taxed it when it went to the parents, taxing again when moving those assets to next of kin is double dipping. I can understand step up being considered unfair but the alternative i
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by Spivak 6mo ago
The value of SOC2 is that it does take some experience to be able to plausibly fake the evidence which weeds out people that truly have no idea what they're doing. It also provides a blueprint of the stuff you should be doing if you
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by Spivak 6mo ago
I suppose inability for you to sell and inability for customers to buy are technically different but the end result ends up being the same. If you need to access that market then they have leverage over you to force compliance with their la
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by Spivak 6mo ago
And then there's the theory that the man is also the biblical antichrist which I think fits the prophecy reasonably well. Revelations has some pretty specific details that match up which I find quite entertaining.

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