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by cakeface 3mo ago
More distillation please. This is only good for me.
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by cakeface 3mo ago
I don't think it's right to categorize "no consequences". Leadership made a decision and that decision was bad. This happens all the time, including allocating budget for staff. Any effective organization is going to jud
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by cakeface 3mo ago
The “all human access” is doing work also. Most access will likely be from AI agents.
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Community Letter from Tim [Cook](apple.com)
5 points by cakeface 5mo ago|1 comments
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by cakeface 5mo ago
You used a secret backup test! Truly honored to see the flamingos. We obviously need them all now ;-)
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by cakeface 1y ago
dot-com bubble companies were not good companies. They either built something that was not novel so it could be copied, or had insufficient value to monetize. We'll see the same with current AI. Similar to the invention of the web, AI
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by cakeface 1y ago
I think of certain types of knowledge as one way functions. In order to acquire the knowledge you have to search a huge key space or experience costly elimination of options. Once you know the answer it feels obvious and intuitive. We have
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by cakeface 2y ago
You built a database.
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by cakeface 2y ago
Like air travel and hotel rooms. Even market based approaches like eBay have different prices for the same things. I'm not for dynamic pricing but it's pretty common.
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by cakeface 2y ago
Aren't there wiretapping laws that make recording conversations in certain situations illegal? I love the idea of this type of technology but it seems tricky to deploy from a moral and legal perspective.
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The story of Signature Plastics(kbd.news)
73 points by cakeface 3y ago|14 comments
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by cakeface 3y ago
Tax the billionaires. Tax the vacant real estate holdings at the high end. Tax short term rentals.
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by cakeface 3y ago
I'm generally a proponent of soft limits on almost everything. It's better to hit some artificial cap than to end up chewing away on a transaction forever or crashing some service that can't allocate the memory to deal with i
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by cakeface 4y ago
I suspect your question is rhetorical but I, and quite a few other Marxists, would say yes. Dividends, stock buybacks and other types of profit should be banned.
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by cakeface 4y ago
How is this a workable system!? Why would anyone pay them. This seems like fraud on the part of the phone networks for billing for service that was never provided or should have been provided cheaper.
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by cakeface 4y ago
I am more and more worried that shutting down Twitter is and has been the plan. This is about controlling speech a different way.
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by cakeface 4y ago
Dynamodb is very scalable and effective at keeping operational cost down. It succeeds at it's goals by trading off on lots of things though. As a developer it can feel almost hostile. Adhoc queries are limited almost forcing you to hav
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by cakeface 4y ago
You can see the source code on github https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite Looks to be TypeScript running on node. They have an embedded kiosk browser.
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by cakeface 4y ago
postgres has a version of this preempts idea with default values on columns. postgres will fill in the value at query time without needing to backfill the data. postgres is not a horizontally scalable database like FDB so not a direct compa
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by cakeface 4y ago
In which I run `order by punsafe desc` and immediately regret it.
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by cakeface 4y ago
Tick bites are not mostly avoidable. It is mostly avoidable to have one on you for > 24 hours by checking constantly. Numbers of ticks have increased the past 2 years in my area of NH. I have gotten them walking from my car to the house.
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by cakeface 5y ago
I think holding the citizens of a country responsible for the actions of the government of their country is not completely unreasonable.
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by cakeface 5y ago
Is it possible for me to request that Clearview remove any pictures of myself that they have? I'd like to do that.
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by cakeface 5y ago
As a developer your stack goes all the way down. An issue with a TCP 3 way handshake to your application load balancer is still an issue. An error in the filesystem that results in customer impact is still your responsibility. We can work w
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by cakeface 5y ago
Any recommendations for taming the sea of options? I'm going to buy something and I am not able to research every purchase myself. How can I get a better result than random choice?
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by cakeface 5y ago
What is going on here? And what is Wirecutter union? Also, is anyone else frustrated that Wirecutter went behind a paywall? I thought that the whole point was that they made their money off of affiliate marketing. I was happy to buy things
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by cakeface 6y ago
I think that this is a great point. It's also a little scary when you think about the data sets that exist out there for advertising. Any way that someone targets an ad could be the selection criteria for these efficient wars. My next
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by cakeface 6y ago
OK, can I just take a moment to say that cystic fibrosis sounds absolutely awful and I have a newfound horror of the disease coupled with a whole lot of sympathy for you and others who are living with it. You are heard. I wish you only the
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by cakeface 7y ago
Interest free microloans might be exactly what is needed to keep these businesses viable. The ability to spread out the impact over a year could be critical. This might not be enough, but it's good. Better is better. There are a variet
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by cakeface 7y ago
There is also https://rallyforrestaurants.com/ Great to see people coming up with creative ways to support the restaurant community. These efforts should be critical to keep the business running and take out and delivery wi

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