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by ary 1mo ago
Since I can't edit this comment: obviously I mean a Touch-ID sensor.
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by ary 1mo ago
To everyone who is about to pile on regarding the lack of a fingerprint sensor: you know it's not possible, we all know it's not possible, the creator of this project knows it's not possible. What are you adding to the conver
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by ary 4mo ago
There are a number of comments here where people open up about their contrasting experiences of not being a part of a programming community. Those are well addressed, I think, but there is another point to consider. We need to remember th
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by ary 1y ago
So do we want to acknowledge that interest in this is probably driven by the desire to abusively scrape the web for LLM training data? I wouldn’t be surprised if the motivation is focused around bypassing the anti-bot restrictions of Reddit
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by ary 1y ago
This quote comes up often in SJ biographies or anecdotes and they universally attribute it purely to aesthetic concerns. Admittedly the man cared quite a lot about "beauty", but I've always thought this was more about the ca
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by ary 1y ago
> Despite skepticism from Volcker and Buffet, financial innovation has been and will continue to be a massive net positive for humanity. Juxtaposing yourself with Warren Buffet and then hand-waving away his wisdom is probably the reddest
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by ary 1y ago
> … it means delivering the kind of things that are legible to the decision-makers at the company: i.e. visible to your manager, plus 1-3 skip levels, depending on your title. The easiest way to do this is to deliver things that they alr
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by ary 1y ago
“Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.” - http://scripting.com/stories/2012/02/19/hackathonsAreNonsens... As discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609
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by ary 1y ago
Subscribed. All this money I’m saving boycotting spineless American companies is coming in handy. If LWN is worth $16 a month, and it is, then so is The Atlantic, ProPublica, etc. We collectively need to make a habit of financially supporti
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by ary 1y ago
Loading up this thread I knew this kind of response would be here. Like, I was willing to bet money on it. Examples of support people worth $200k+ are abundant, and the business case is the same every time. When you do the work to place a
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by ary 1y ago
Arguing that many humans are stupid or ignorant does not support the idea that an LLM is intelligent. This argument is reductive in that it ignores the many, many diverse signals influencing the part of the brain that controls speech. Compa
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by ary 2y ago
> You might think "something something incentive systems". No. At my big tech job I had the pleasure of interviewing a few programmers who worked for a large healthcare company that engages in regulatory capture. Let me assure
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by ary 2y ago
The realities of the news business are fine, but the realities of the adtech business are not. As a consumer I very much want profiling and targeting to die off. Were the ads run on the web not built on a separate business that attempts to
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by ary 2y ago
Was any regex documentation unclear on this? Some libraries have modes that change the semantics of ^ and $ but I’ve always found their use to be rather clear. It’s the grouping and look ahead/behind modifiers that I’ve always found ha
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by ary 3y ago
I’m a happy, long term Optery user (not affiliated) and they take care of 100% of this for you. https://www.optery.com The Mozilla offering looks somewhat comparable, but I do wonder if they’re going to beat a company which has
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by ary 3y ago
I'll go one step further. RTO mandates are being used to mask how shockingly bad most manager's written communication and critical thinking skills are. When their ability to "manage by walking around" is taken away you v
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by ary 3y ago
> The best optimization is simply shutting things off This is the way. A similar idea has been bouncing around in my mind for a while now. An ideal, turnkey system would do the following: - Execute via Lambda (serverless). - Support auto
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by ary 3y ago
Adding to the already good recommendations on this thread: - Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols ( https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int... ) It covers a broader
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by ary 3y ago
You'll notice I didn't recommend search, or actually anything, as a solution to the problems I mentioned. I think these issues need more research and experimentation before we can arrive at better long term solutions. Also I didn&
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by ary 3y ago
The "Fisher-Price'ing" [1] of the user interface isn't necessarily better in my view. It took the already big and colorful user interface elements and essentially made them bigger. When the video finally gets past the in
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by ary 3y ago
People seem very focused on “should they or shouldn’t they, and why”, which somewhat perplexes me given that there is at least one really good reason for doing this: to create Rosetta Stones for very common pieces of software. To really and
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by ary 3y ago
Per AWS themselves, ECS is Elastic Container Service. The parent comment is almost correct. https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
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by ary 3y ago
How does Source 2 not make it onto this "Market Map"? It's mostly used by Valve and a smaller number of studios than something like Unreal, but it's viable none the less. I suspect it has a much broader user reach than s
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by ary 3y ago
> Although I personally suspect this is correct, the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise, whether right or wrong, including some of the people involved in the research and/or running these companies.
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by ary 3y ago
> remote code execution and "I got around the child lock on this device" are somewhat different in severity You’ll notice that the recipients of both reports responded similarly, with apathy. Perhaps that was the point of juxta
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by ary 3y ago
Why not sell licenses? Perhaps they could have nominal benefits that are low impact on the maintainer, like early access to various things? Maybe foosel doesn't want to run a business, but given the choice between doing what I love and
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by ary 3y ago
"Rich people think thing that got them rich is good for everyone" should be a part of the zeitgeist by now. Individual attention and social learning doesn't "scale", so lets do the thing that does because "that
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by ary 3y ago
> Rewind 15-20 years ago and all the folks who wanted to make a game, their first game, and they want to build an mmo. None of them succeeded. Not 1. The only ones since were from people who knew the ask. Or had a crowdfunded ponzi schem
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by ary 3y ago
They have a YouTube channel and I hope they publish all of the talks after the fact. Should anyone from the conference read this it would be great if paid corporate packages were offered that made the recorded sessions available for downloa
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by ary 3y ago
> At scale, many Terraform state files are better than one. But how do you draw the boundaries and decide which resources belong in which state files? What are the best practices for organizing Terraform state files to maximize reliabili

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