charles_kaw

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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Thrift seems to have a really nice solution of providing only types that eventually break down into scalars. And only for exchanging data - it doesn't dare prescribe the rest of that. I liked working with it.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> Anybody else experiencing an attitude change? I had serious anxiety a few years ago about this, and ended up in Acceptance. I'm not happy ending up here, but I figure I got about 30 years left. That's pretty good, I'll t
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
It doesn't change that this is basic logic. One yields less information than the other, and you didn't grasp that. Sorry if I came off as condescending. I don't really see a point in continuing this conversation.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Secret societies have an air of mystique around them, but often they're just social clubs with extra steps. People are social creatures, and having something to belong to is healthy for most!
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
I uninstalled most apps from my phone, and turned notifications off on the rest. If it's not a DM, I don't want to see it. My quality of life has improved.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
I worked with the fraud team implementing the security for a real time data ingestion pipeline at a major bank partner. I am a bit more informed on this than the average hn poster :) It's literally less information versus directly lett
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
A bland, useless message is less information than cussing someone out and calling them a fraudster.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Credit Karma has a platform for running models against their dataset, and appears to buy everyone's daily data from Equifax. Also, Intuit is much more than a tax company now.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
I read it more as "using uncertainty" is a dark pattern and to stop it even if it's accurate. 10% of users a company with that many is a pretty significant impact to people. I reread the article again, and it seems to me it w
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>The FTC alleges that the company used claims that consumers were pre-approved and had ’90 per cent odds’ to entice them to apply for offers that, in many instances, they ultimately did not qualify for. I believe CK has inside views to t
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
They have something like 2000 employees now.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> they posted a Ruby on Rails directory structure as proof of hacking them but the company does not have Ruby code I think it's extremely suspicious, but often times breaches like this aren't through the core platform itself. F
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> There might be fewer use cases for it now There are massive use cases for it, but not at the people level. Low latency tasks such as edge AI classification, IOT interaction, and game streaming are all currently limited to WiFi only. &g
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
It's not in the general, constant sense that you have to worry about, but rather in specific applications. When you're out in public, "they" will have 3-meter-accuracy, more than enough. But when you're in stores, a
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity Basically, it only takes a few pointed datapoints to deanonymize a person. They are weaponizing this concept.
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
The root of this investigation was the EFF. If you make tech money, you can toss $50 their way without any hesitation. https://supporters.eff.org/donate You'll get some cool swag and, more importantly, ensure that they
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>This isn't a discussion about housing availability Down-talking dense, quickly built housing because you don't like how it looks IS making it about housing availability. Those buildings were built to quickly get people housing
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
This is such a short-sighed headline, because it's baiting people into snarkily answering "last week". The reality is that the vast majority of people don't drive more than 150 miles a day except on rare occasions. And,
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
I suppose it took a bunch of innovations to make it more usable over that past thirty years, though. - vastly improved software - much better accuracy and integration with "custom" words (such as contact book addresses) - bigger s
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
Just because facebook (a soulless ghoul amalgamation trapped in the vortex of a billionaire p-zombie) took shots at tiktok (also a shit company), doesn't absolve tiktok of real, actual harm. This is whataboutism, although I always do a
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>I can see how a court Wild and unbased speculation. In fact, there have been lawsuits around de-platforming that haven't gone well for the plaintiff - I can't imagine a more cut and dry scenario would make it easier :) >Sur
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>Im not sure you read or understand the links correctly so let me clarify. I did in fact. >Sure we could split hairs That is literally, LITERALLY the whole point of if they are "flaunting rules" or not. You said they were fl
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
You seem to be using "cancels" in a very loose sense. When you're talking about actions of these providers, and their duties/responsibilities, some precision is required. These companies are allowed to end a business re
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
>Why not... be nice and helpful? Because there are rules around this stuff. Rules designed to maintain integrity of dns and trust in the system. They can't flaunt the rules, and if they did, they'd be at risk of losing accredit
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> You're really going out of your way to crap on me. I want to know why? Your behavior here only reinforces my point. I don't feel that getting into a flame war on HN is productive or good. It apparently needs repeating (and th
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
> I never paid Heroku a dime and, after everything has shaken out, I don’t know why I would start now. Well, that's the problem, isn't it? They provided a valuable service to lots of people on their own dime, and saw no reward
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
You're attributing motivations to my actions that don't exist. This exchange wouldn't be happening if you'd only just "constantly posted news". There is a reason you're in various retro computing facebook
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
My issue with you is that you post abusively at people in retro computing groups. You have told me to kill myself and I have seen you tell people to f** themselves with a chainsaw. You have the good sense to delete it afterwards, but the da
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
I have long believed that there is a huge market for some sort of rudimentary TI-style CAS system, with a caveat. Something that works on embedded arm devices, but is screen aware enough to be ported to a desktop. If you include bluetooth i
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by charles_kaw 4y ago
They can still wreck havok on your system, although doing general package uninstalls on windows is a relatively stable activity. It's an extremely modular OS and it's designed to handle many combinations. That said, Windows 11 has

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