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by applecrazy 22d ago
what do you mean? amazon maintains a ton of open source projects, including a pure FOSS version of Elasticsearch called Opensearch
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by applecrazy 5mo ago
well apparently Dario did the same thing with Mythos - ethics for the big AI labs is mainly posturing
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by applecrazy 1y ago
this is so rampant but they know they have a captive market (in many places, only uber or lyft are an option) so they abuse their position
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by applecrazy 1y ago
are they usually not? is there no industry standard concept of an escalation manager?
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by applecrazy 2y ago
> 2.3 SDE could do that, but i don't get 6. a 24/7 operation needs 2FTE and 1 PTE per shift, and there are three shifts. having the team constantly on call is a recipe for having them quit. sure, you could run this with the bar
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by applecrazy 2y ago
That’s how macOS permissions work. File access for apps is gated behind “special” folder access (like Documents/Downloads/etc, and “full disk access” which is anywhere beyond the common user directories)
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by applecrazy 2y ago
> Most places take after hours paging pretty seriously. LOL i wish
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Training a bot on my own messages for fun and chaos(adibytes.dev)
2 points by applecrazy 2y ago|0 comments
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by applecrazy 2y ago
A "tell" in this case is domain-specific terminology to denote a behavior that provides information that the person may have been trying to keep secret. I believe the term comes from poker: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by applecrazy 2y ago
I imagine that is to compete with ChatGPT, which began doing the same.
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by applecrazy 3y ago
non competes are not enforceable in california and a few other US states iirc, although if there were to ever be an IP lawsuit, it would be a war of attrition (with odds highly stacked against the engineer)
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by applecrazy 3y ago
minor nit: there are no dedicated SREs at amazon. but your point stands otherwise
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by applecrazy 3y ago
Amazon does this a lot in their “customer obsession” management strategy. In their terms, the mechanism to make this happen is called a “PR/FAQ”[1], and the core idea is that if you can’t express your idea in terms of a customer-focuse
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by applecrazy 3y ago
> If Apple were truly acting in their users best interest, they would want their users to have encrypted and fast communication with all devices, through an open protocol or otherwise. yeah that protocol exists. it’s called RCS and it is
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by applecrazy 3y ago
this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices
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by applecrazy 3y ago
Flagship public schools in some states can approach $40k in costs if you don’t qualify for aid: https://admission.ucla.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees
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by applecrazy 3y ago
Cool product, but I'm actually concerned about privacy using a tool like FakeSpot. Their privacy policy is extremely broad and includes handing over purchase history and search history on shopping websites to the extension authors: &gt
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by applecrazy 4y ago
> provably wrong How so? I don't see any examples of top talent being fired (barring the scuffles at Twitter, but that isn't FAANG). Most people on my LinkedIn feed being let go are new grads or middle management who ostensibly
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by applecrazy 4y ago
I would make the argument that top talent wasn’t the contingent that was laid off.
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by applecrazy 4y ago
Just because you don’t understand the knob doesn’t mean it’s voodoo or proprietary. LMs of every kind can incorporate temperature into their next-token inference and it’s a common term when describing models like these: https://a
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by applecrazy 4y ago
Asking to ask[1]. This appears a lot in the communities I’m in (mainly university student groups) and it’s probably the most annoying thing to see in my opinion. [1]: https://dontasktoask.com/
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by applecrazy 4y ago
There is an "Increase Contrast" option in Settings for visually-impaired users.
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StemRoller: Musical stem creator based on Demucs(stemroller.com)
1 points by applecrazy 4y ago|0 comments
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by applecrazy 4y ago
That's terrifying and I hope this isn't a default.
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by applecrazy 4y ago
Any TV is stupid if you don’t connect it to the Internet.
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by applecrazy 4y ago
This article has a lot of accusations and little evidence, so I’m not inclined to believe the author just yet.
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by applecrazy 4y ago
Reminds me a lot of https://lifeat.io/ . No affiliation.
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by applecrazy 4y ago
> This is why I use cash as much as possible - to delay that day. A big thing discouraging me from using cash is how suspicious people are of you when you pay in cash. I've definitely gotten weird looks from cashiers when doing so,
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by applecrazy 5y ago
What if the walk/stand zones are swapped every so often?
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by applecrazy 5y ago
It is actually not currently OSS, although the creators have indicated interest in open-sourcing parts of it in the past.

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