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by benregenspan 10d ago
Parler was "ripped off the Internet" because it was delisted from app stores and dropped by AWS for violating their ToS due to having (If I remember correctly) approximately zero content moderation, which is not really compatible
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by benregenspan 12d ago
That part seems to qualify as an unsolved problem. But could anyone have taken the scanned data (or the GIF file) and used it to open a bank account in your friend's name? That seems like the main issue that is genuinely solved by corr
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by benregenspan 17d ago
Private entities get to use whatever name they want. In this case, there is the option to use the longstanding name that matches the one used by the other neighboring territory. Or to have a wait period after the name is changed unilaterall
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by benregenspan 23d ago
Being overly trained on comments in documentation could be one of the reasons why Claude models write frustrating comments (which often manifest as written justifications of how the code satisfies the prompt). A comment in a tutorial is goi
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by benregenspan 1mo ago
> Ben-Gvir is loathed by 90% of Israeli society...Trump still has 33% approval Maybe that 90% number is for Tel Aviv. In national polls, they both have roughly the same approval rating.
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by benregenspan 2mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but this seems unlikely. Federal law prohibits "false advertisement" which is understood to include misleading advertisements. Regulators can and do restrict certain types of commercial speech, and this kind of
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by benregenspan 2mo ago
> So if Elon decided to sell all his shares today (and likely destroy his companies in the process), he'd shoot to the top of the list? What's the point in that It looks like the methodology involves subtracting the founder&#x2
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by benregenspan 3mo ago
There is a whole area of research on this. Prosecutors have significant discretion around charging and (suggested) sentence, and this allows bias to creep in. I've heard people debate the quality of specific research on the size of the
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by benregenspan 3mo ago
I'd love for Google to figure out something comparable for the Drive API (currently it's not possible to grant read/write access to a single folder; you need to grant access to the entire drive!): https://issuetrac
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by benregenspan 4mo ago
Well FWIW, all of my attempts to short have generated losses.
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by benregenspan 4mo ago
Is the "Jia Tan" XZ Utils compromise not a good example? That relied on code snuck into a release that was not in source. (It was caught before being promoted into a stable Debian release, yes, but this sort of relied on a happy a
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by benregenspan 5mo ago
The first octet of the IP it resolves to is "192", maybe someone implemented the check for private/internal range wrong and is only looking for that.
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by benregenspan 6mo ago
What I'm wondering is if this requires sending the full list of extensions straight to a server (as opposed to a more privacy-protecting approach like generating some type of hash clientside)? Based on their privacy policy, it looks li
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by benregenspan 6mo ago
I think the point is that some of the extra words OP is complaining about aren't needless. It's on the writer to know their audience, but it's also asking a lot to tune a message in a PR review to the one particular person wh
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by benregenspan 7mo ago
It seems like the goal of the default configuration is preventing script injection while being otherwise very permissive. Basically, "safer than innerHTML, even when used very lazily". But I would expect guidance to evolve saying
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by benregenspan 7mo ago
This is what I'd say about someone who sold their extension today , but I don't think this business model was nearly as well-known 15 years ago.
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by benregenspan 7mo ago
> being the type of slurry that pre-AI was easily avoided by staying off of LinkedIn This is why I'm rarely fully confident when judging whether or not something was written by AI. The "It's not this. It's that"
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by benregenspan 8mo ago
It's mystifying. A relative showed me a heavily AI-generated video claiming a Tesla wheelchair was coming (self-driving of course, with a sub-$800 price tag). I tried to Google it to quickly debunk and got an AI Overview confidently st
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by benregenspan 8mo ago
I think they meant it has much larger % share of pickup market in Europe vs US, not necessarily higher absolute number of sales ( https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/feu/en/news/2025/02... )
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by benregenspan 8mo ago
For anyone who takes doing their taxes seriously, this is a nightmare. Every pint ordered involves a capital gain (or loss) for the buyer. At a certain point you're doing enough accounting that you might as well be running the bar your
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by benregenspan 9mo ago
> Pop-ups are back, and they’re worse than ever The article opens with a screenshot of genuine pop-ups, and they are clearly so much worse than the (still annoying) modals presented later in the article. In the past, sites spawned a mess
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by benregenspan 9mo ago
Because the natural order of things is wild shih tzus hunting down cows?
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by benregenspan 9mo ago
It seems like their pet food business (where they were competing with input-intensive meat products) could genuinely have been sustainable, if they hadn't taken so much time to figure out that competing on livestock feed is hopeless.
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by benregenspan 9mo ago
They might be the "wrong" oil companies. (In the case of Empire Wind, the administration is probably at best indifferent about screwing over the Norwegian state oil company.)
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by benregenspan 9mo ago
Having seen similar patterns play out at other companies, I'm curious about the organizational dynamics involved. Was there a larger dev team at the time you adopted microservices? Was there thinking involved like "we have 10 team
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by benregenspan 10mo ago
How would this apply to, say, public libraries?
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by benregenspan 10mo ago
This is a good example, because a "freeway" is free at point of use, but obviously understood to not be free of construction and maintenance cost. It is called "freeway" because "free-to-drive-on highway" would
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by benregenspan 10mo ago
I wouldn't call using the most commonly accepted (and concise) terminology a "sales ploy". If you want every service to be accompanied by a wordy explanation of how it works, then every article would need to mention that the
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by benregenspan 10mo ago
"Need" is a strong word. But I think the point is that if you expect wildly spikey traffic/don't want the site to go down if it receives a very sudden influx of requests, going static is a very good answer, much cheaper
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by benregenspan 10mo ago
> At the peak of its attack, the AI made thousands of requests, often multiple per second—an attack speed that would have been, for human hackers, simply impossible to match. This part is pretty hype-y. Old-fashioned deterministic web ap

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