alxhill

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by alxhill 3mo ago
How will they ensure they continue working or train replacements if their parent company no longer employs or pays them? What's to stop them leaving the country?
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by alxhill 6mo ago
They are _not_ hosting UK government data in the US. They offer on-premise and self-managed cloud offerings, which are often used where data sovereignty is important. Additionally, customers often manage access control - including for Palan
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by alxhill 1y ago
The commenters below are confusing two things - Rust binaries can be dynamically linked, but because Rust doesn’t have a stable ABI you can’t do this across compiler versions the way you would with C. So in practice, everything is staticall
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by alxhill 2y ago
zsh has been the default on macOS for a while now so it's pretty commonly used
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by alxhill 2y ago
For what it's worth, a friend of mine is a lawyer in a well-known hedge fund and he gets access to their funds too (funds that would not otherwise be accessible without making a substantially larger investment I believe).
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by alxhill 3y ago
Sure, but most modern OSes would inform the user when the WiFi connection dies - so there's something happening on the CPU too.
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by alxhill 3y ago
This is false and represents a poor understanding of how these models work - they do abstract concepts and no you can't trivially get training images out.
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by alxhill 4y ago
On the other hand, Facebook went from about 4,000 employees to over 70,000 in the same time period, so given how much Apple's business has grown in the last decade (when they released the iPhone 5) it seems pretty impressive that they
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by alxhill 4y ago
How is that different with LLMs versus badly-written human generated content? Most clickbait/SEO articles are as poorly researched as they come, and shouldn't be assumed to be accurate anyway.
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by alxhill 4y ago
> Anybody who lost their sense of taste or smell took months to recover that. Loss of smell or taste is almost 50% for Covid prior to Omicron. Even with Omicron, it's about 20%. And yet, in more anecdata, everyone I know who had tas
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by alxhill 4y ago
I think the complexity arrives when the 14-year-old asks the follow up question "why?"
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by alxhill 4y ago
So there's a bunch of existing intermediaries, which is bad, and to fix that we're going to add the exact same set of intermediaries, but on top of bitcoin, which means its good?
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by alxhill 4y ago
Germany has reference pricing for their drugs system and doesn't seem to have a supply issue. Genuine question, is there something that makes you think that wouldn't be true for the US?
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by alxhill 4y ago
Today you could do this with a copy of Photoshop, but in practice this isn't really a concern for most people. What makes you think it'll be different with deepfakes?
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by alxhill 4y ago
Yeah, I really do find this kind of attitude strange. If it's not safe now, it never will be. Guess a large portion of society is still waiting for COVID to be "over", as if the virus will magically disappear.
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by alxhill 5y ago
It's harder but very much possible to switch company on an H1B visa - my partner did this recently and while there's a bunch of legal work and waiting around, for tech companies it's all just part of the process.
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by alxhill 5y ago
I think it's reasonable for Apple to assume that if you kept the old charger, you also had the old cable for it which would also work with the new iPhone.
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by alxhill 7y ago
Doesn't the example of a florida company just using real pictures suggest this isn't such a big change? "We can't trust that the picture represents a real person's opinion" was true before, and it's true n
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by alxhill 7y ago
That's...what the article proposes, so yes?
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by alxhill 8y ago
I like this idea too. Sadly I doubt regulators would go for it without substantial modification - all lie-flat beds have to be in the upright position for take-off and landing at the moment, for example.
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by alxhill 9y ago
Whilst it's certainly valuable to make people aware of the limitations of the security systems we use, this shouldn't really come as a surpre. If someone is close enough and motivated enough to take a high-res photo of your face j
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Scaling product design with Blueprint(medium.com)
3 points by alxhill 10y ago|0 comments
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by alxhill 12y ago
Unless it's a new feature, the UE4 UI does not render at retina resolution - certainly looks pretty pixelated on my rMBP.
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs (2013)(strikemag.org)
2 points by alxhill 12y ago|0 comments
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Dreamweaver CS3 crashes with files that are exactly 8KB in size(forums.adobe.com)
105 points by alxhill 12y ago|23 comments
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Dave S Test PID(google.com)
2 points by alxhill 13y ago|0 comments
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by alxhill 13y ago
This is an awesome idea. I live in the UK and often find products available in America that have exorbitant shipping fees or are impossible to buy over here. (e.g this TV http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-
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A Catfish Stole My Identity(row-k.tumblr.com)
61 points by alxhill 13y ago|41 comments
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by alxhill 13y ago
This is exactly what I've done with KeyRemap4MacBook. It has built in options for switching around numbers and symbols, as well as changing {} and []. Makes so much more sense for a programmer, and you can make multiple sets of options
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Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets(theguardian.com)
31 points by alxhill 13y ago|2 comments

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