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by _jal 3y ago
Yeah, they play this game enough that I simply question fucking everything. They will explain every single line item in a way that I can map back to a timeline, or they will take it off. This has to be done in person, where they can't
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by _jal 3y ago
Worse that old network gear is technically incompetent business partners. Speaking in very general terms, let's just say that we've had to maintain an extremely locked down machine running a version of sshd from about a decade ago
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by _jal 3y ago
> The loss of ad revenue isn’t a consequence of downtime or losing staff Firing the Trust and Safety team had a huge impact on advertising - that's why big brands find Xitter so toxic. It is certainly also true that Musk's... e
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by _jal 3y ago
There's a reason for that. If civilian PTSD were more widely acknowledged, insurance would be paying out more and people would want employers to do something about high-stress jobs. > Top of the list: train drivers. I rather suspect
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by _jal 3y ago
Necessary but not sufficient. Also, don't confuse empathy and sympathy - you need to extinguish the latter, but the former is incredibly important to your ability to play suckers.
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by _jal 3y ago
Funny, I read this just recently. https://adrianco.medium.com/signs-that-its-time-to-leave-a-c...
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by _jal 3y ago
That was his excuse for eviscerating (not paying for) T&S. Since that decision cannot have been wrong, community notes must be working as intended.
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by _jal 3y ago
> their histrionics won’t change Boeing’s incumbency You seem to entirely miss the possibility that this has nothing to do with "punishing" anyone, and that people simply don't want to stress out about dying during their f
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by _jal 3y ago
I don't know that they could. We're talking about Boeing, they're the sort of MBA hive that's embarrassed to have to employ engineers.
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by _jal 3y ago
Do we know it doesn't cheat? We know the range estimates used to (?) be gamed[1], I don't see why this part wouldn't be, too. [1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-ba...
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by _jal 3y ago
Other folks have mentioned several other reasons, I'll just mention screen tech. My first monitor (bought in '93) was a 640x480 pixel 13" CRT screen. (And that was expensive - the Mac Classic had 512 × 342 mono, pretty compar
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by _jal 3y ago
If we're going to blame the victims, at least do it right - the mistake was submitting sensitive information to a gross, sketchy outfit like 23andMe. Much like Uber, self-enshitification was obviously the "???" part of the un
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by _jal 3y ago
The examples were chosen by the author to make a point precisely because they are well known. But every single copyright holder with their works online (which includes you and me) has the same legal rights as the NYT or Disney. Naturally so
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by _jal 3y ago
I can't tell if this is typical hn pedantry or genuine misunderstanding, so I'll point out that I was not referring to "some entity named Simone", I was referring to the particular Simone in this very comment thread, for
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by _jal 3y ago
When does Simone become something else?
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by _jal 3y ago
Yep, me too. I worked at Sybase at the time, and installed it to use a beta PowerBuilder to (try to) build some internal tools. Granted, I in my early 20s and far less experienced with this stuff, but found PB utterly incomprehensible. Unix
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by _jal 3y ago
...you just found one and talked to him.
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by _jal 3y ago
You're right that it is in-group signaling[1]. But it is also socializing. Comparative-opinion jawboning passes time and serves as a social learning mechanism as well as an assortive signifier. That sort of thing is also, by volume, a
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by _jal 3y ago
> I think it is time for all status-chasers You're more or less just telling people they should socialize less. Get back to me once you've convinced people to stop arguing Ford vs. Chevy or Dodgers vs. Giants or Makita vs. Dewa
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by _jal 3y ago
There's a "polite society" thing going on. Briefly, something like: 1) Ycombinator could not tolerate HN becoming a site known for sharing IP-law-violating content. And the people who come here by and large are smart and soci
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by _jal 3y ago
I guess we're down to music, movies and microcode.
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by _jal 3y ago
I hope this results in OpenAI's code being released to everyone. This is way more important to humanity's future than any single software company. If OpenAI goes under, a dozen other outfits can replace them.
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by _jal 3y ago
Dunno about you, but my takeaway is that asking "how much space does X occupy" on a modern filesystem is a poorly specified question. Which means that there isn't a single answer. Which means that software should not try to r
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by _jal 3y ago
Maybe that works for pure entertainment. I buy a lot of books, including a lot of nonfiction. I care quite a bit about the author. There's a lot of garbage out there with just flat wrong information. One of the few things you have to g
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by _jal 3y ago
> Who says it isn't? Me. And, I believe, the vast majority of other humans who have given it any thought. > They don't? Why not? If you feel that way, you must also believe I have the right to display whatever I want on your
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by _jal 3y ago
I loved TechShop while it lasted, it was so great. They were two blocks away from me, I could treat it almost like "my shop", just walking over to do small tasks as I worked around the house. But as others noted, it is not an attr
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by _jal 3y ago
Just wait until they find out that you can smell and taste with things other than your nose and mouth. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130710-how-our-organs-s...
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by _jal 3y ago
Lambda Calculus -> Lorena Bobbitt was 4 degrees. I feel like the existence of pages like "List of notable people from Buffalo, NY" are sort of cheating this sort of thing.
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by _jal 3y ago
Just to be clear, you are saying that no collection of images can ever contain any CSAM, ever [1]. If some activity might run the risk of including it, that activity must be stopped. Is that correct? If so, why are you not calling for the i
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by _jal 3y ago
So is key management, key exchange and discovery, revocation, etc. That stuff is very hard to get right within a single app. Now do it across mutually-antagonistic companies with incentives to not cooperate.

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