aloe_falsa

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by aloe_falsa 3mo ago
> The original claim, as I understand it, is basically this: you can’t be an honest actor in a dishonest system. Right, but, taken to its logical conclusion, you cannot earn any amount of money honestly at all, because you'll always
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by aloe_falsa 3mo ago
I don't know which FAANGs you have experience with, but the companies and teams I worked for were very numbers- and impact-oriented. No amount of posturing and politics would help you at performance review if you couldn't show tha
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by aloe_falsa 1y ago
> the uniqueness of your starter is defined by the local climate, local flour, and the way you feed it to keep it alive. The weather in Greece is much warmer... There's actually a word for this: terroir - https://en.wik
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
As someone who knows English and is learning German, the words "Handy" for smartphone, or "Beamer" for overhead projector, or "Oldtimer" for classic car all sound very out of place. Even hearing "das Baby&
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
That's exactly what ruined it for me. The few apparent survivors of the human race are huddled in a tin can, running out of resources - fade to black - and suddenly, by divine providence and author fiat, everything is fine. It kills th
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
GPL defines the “source code” of a work as the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. If Meta released a petabyte of raw training data, would that really be easier to extend and adapt (as opposed to fine-tuning the weigh
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel “Ship Breaker” deserves a mention here. It’s set in Paolo’s dystopian solarpunk universe, where old tankers are cut up to extract the last tons of fossil fuels from their hold, and it really emphasises how dangerous
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
> Property that is used by the public should be owned by the public. Not sure why that follows, or how it would avoid the tragedy of the commons, or why we should act as if that’s already the case. That all aside, how would you feel abou
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
> absolute bare minimum Doing the bare minimum for a "Meets Expectations" rating after performance review and calibrations still means working a lot and delivering on the projects you've committed to, drafting design docum
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
Not an umlaut, a diaeresis - it shows that the letter has its own sound (unlike the word "coop", for example). You'd generally use it for proper nouns (like Brontë or Boötes) and rare loanwords - it doesn't seem very use
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by aloe_falsa 2y ago
Not sure about police officers, but the other professions you named have to complete graduate or post-graduate studies in their field, pass a formal examination, maybe publish a few peer-reviewed papers while architects build a portfolio -
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
Technically true, just as if you replace Meta with Amazon, Google Cloud, Etsy, eBay, the local city council, etc. If you don't have a diversified, multi-market, preferably international presence, you're not viable in the long term
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
Funnily enough, "MMAcevedo" doesn't break my suspension of disbelief, while "Clippy" does, hard - even though it tries to stay grounded in reality and drown you in quotes and references.
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
The Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos had a $40M salary in 2022, which is definitely too much money. However, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the company's $31 billion revenue. So I'm pretty sure the streaming services are charg
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
So there are two different things here: you're talking about building an individual profile for someone and including their home address as part of it, and I meant tailoring the ads to the IP address location, regardless of the user id
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
Does anyone have any specific details on the ban, maybe a link to the legal document? The article seems to use "personalized advertising" and "behavioral advertising" interchangeably, and also mentions that using locatio
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
A good starting point for that would be http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html#adv - or maybe, if you're interested in the prose more than the scaffolding, https://www.ifarchive.org&#x
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
It's refreshingly earnest and twee, and always technical and to the point (as opposed to other vacuous and rambling bloggers). Also, it's reassuring to see someone say "I don't know this"/"I'm not sur
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
> Only four nations have successfully landed on the moon, the U.S., Russia, China and India. Correction: the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, and India.
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
The telescope could have been invented thousands of years ago - ancient Egyptians could polish lenses. Ditto for the sextant, optical telegraph, the printing press... > It would be fun to imagine Antiquity with many modern inventions in
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
On a similar note: the P and V semaphore operation names are very intuitive, because passering means "pass" and vrijgave means "release" in Dutch, as clearly noted by Edsger Dijkstra.
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
BofA is Bank of America. VDI is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
The Bitcoin whitepaper, probably.
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
> no-one at Meta noticed that the payload also included 'what deductions that person was eligible for' I wouldn't expect anyone at Meta to actually look at unencrypted user pixel payloads. Seems like an easy way to lose yo
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
> One of my colleagues was moved to tears by a GPT-4-generated letter of condolence to a relative who had recently received a devastating medical diagnosis. Nice to know that Theodore Twombly's job from the movie "Her" has
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
> What does Microsoft really get? Maybe in the beginning, telemetry was the real answer, from whichever developers didn’t opt out. This is beside the main point of the article, but: as a developer, it's true telemetry is critical fo
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
* The 49 euro ticket is a digital offer, e.g. I bought it online on the BVG (Berlin transport authority) website via Google Pay. * How did you manage to buy a Hamburg to Berlin ticket for 400 EUR? The most expensive 1st-class high-speed rai
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by aloe_falsa 3y ago
Considering I straight up was not able to get a therapist appointment in my city or outskirts, sign me the f** up. The first company that tunes the model for this and offers a good UX (maybe with a voice interface) will make millions. Also,
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by aloe_falsa 4y ago
Their "pay later" function is an interest-free loan, so not sure you can call them loan sharks. If you meant that the loans with missed payments get sent to collections and the customers' credit score takes a hit — isn't
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by aloe_falsa 4y ago
> The trend of removing colour from something and calling it an improvement. In photography, in film, everywhere. I honestly prefer Greek statues without the (original) paint: https://i.imgur.com/hF5zzp4.jpg

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