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by delish 22d ago
An example of deterioration: Jeff Goldblum's 30 second "Presenting three easy steps to the internet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjY0xsoozs8 And now when you want to set up a fresh Mac it's a parade
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by delish 23d ago
Patrick McKenzie rebuts this here: (podcast) https://open.spotify.com/episode/2E2KRPcDvh1LcRw5bIsBms or here (article): https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-car... The intuitio
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by delish 25d ago
I'm open to correction on which rule to cite, or whether to cite a rule: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Picking: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website for
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by delish 1mo ago
I'm interested in the social-proof mechanisms we'll need to have for AI-assisted "serious projects" (where a database is a "serious project"). Third-party audits like https://jepsen.io/ are an
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by delish 1mo ago
Indeed. You can remedy your uncertainty by looking for evidence. Some is provided on the website. Some on Mastodon, on the community's reception of this: https://mastodon.social/@dnanian@mas.to/117018254826752338
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by delish 1mo ago
I agree with the logic of your comment, and to the extent that you're writing advice to Shirt Pocket and to other developers, I have no dispute. > In this case, all I have to go off [...] Well if you're looking for evidence tha
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by delish 4mo ago
The critic I see most frequently on the unprofitability of AI is Ed Zitron. I am sincerely curious if he shorted Facebook's, Amazon's, or Google's stocks. Or if he's in index funds which have tech stocks like those. For
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by delish 4mo ago
The difference between say a think tank and an advocacy organization like "reclaimthenet.org" is a think tank hopefully feels obligated to think about, and pitch, a solution to the identified problem (spam calls). Obviously reclai
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by delish 4mo ago
I'd be curious why user NaOH chose to submit this. I'll offer a justification: it is notable that a car company lists all (I assume?) its past products, giving equal visual weight to the F50 (lauded today) and Mondial 8 (not laude
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by delish 6mo ago
I point to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. >Comments should get more thoughtful and substantiv
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by delish 6mo ago
Those are all situationally-valid criticisms, but I've long thought the ability to have smartphones' cameras cryptographically sign photos is good when available. The use case is demonstrating a photo wasn't doctored, and tha
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by delish 7mo ago
The cynical take is: the AI doesn't know you-the-blog-post-author made TimescaleDB unless you tell it!
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by delish 7mo ago
In terms of that example: they should link to how they got those numbers, and it should state the benchmark used, the machines used, what they controlled for etc.
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by delish 7mo ago
Apart from the style of the prose, which is my subjective evaluation: This blog post is "a view from nowhere." Tiger Data is a company that sells postgres in some way (don't know, but it doesn't matter for the following)
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by delish 8mo ago
The font color implies this comment is downvoted, but I earnestly encourage readers to take very seriously the difference in SLOs and SLAs between high-cost vendors like AWS and GCP and low-cost vendors like DigitalOcean. Read their docs; d
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by delish 9mo ago
Alternative introduction: https://pbc.gov/mousercise/ Palm Beach County Library's Web 1.0 introduction to using the mouse. I enjoyed clicking.
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Mousing Around: Mousercise(pbc.gov)
3 points by delish 9mo ago|1 comments
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by delish 10mo ago
Posting a quick TL;DW. A minute into the video Chuck Moore says that Windows updates (on 11 and 10) have caused colorForth to crash, with Chuck thinking it's a graphical problem. I may comment more, but I wanted to post this because I
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by delish 1y ago
Related: Oxide's podcast, "Whither CockroachDB," which reflects on experience with postgres at Joyent, then the choice to use cockroach in response to prior experiences with postgres. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by delish 2y ago
As the complaint says on page 4: https://rippling2.imgix.net/Complaint.pdf Deel was founded in 2019 and, in Rippling's opinion, began competing with Rippling in 2022.
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by delish 2y ago
We need a different word than "hallucinate" or "bullshit" because the LLM is executing the same functionality when it _gets_ the correct answer or incorrect. It doesn't _know_ the correct answer in either case.
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by delish 2y ago
It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase. I haven't paid attention to these kinds of optional disclosures. Never thought about it but were I asked I would have said these are advertisements. I don't dis
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by delish 2y ago
>I don't want to fill out your contact form Yes -- and companies or governments don't want to be _contacted_ by you. It's a cost to them. The median "contact us for a sales quote" form is clearer and has less fri
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by delish 2y ago
Thank you! Will look!
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by delish 2y ago
I pay for Youtube Premium, which uses third-party cookies to not show ads on embedded videos. https://privacysandbox.com talks about advertising, but not "logged in elsewhere" functionality. Does Youtube or Google have
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by delish 3y ago
Transfer fees and title fees equally affect any buyer and any seller in the long run, don't they? >Further contemplate how those implications are different for different potential buyers and sellers of that same property at the same
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by delish 3y ago
I'll try to invoke Cunningham's Law by saying: Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market. I think the above is true, but I'd welcome counterexamples. So, the way to depress housing prices is to build more houses. _Mo
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by delish 3y ago
This is not the answer to your question, but it is what HN has to say about submitting paywalled links: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html >Are paywalls ok? >It's ok to post stories from sites with paywall
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by delish 3y ago
To the commenters saying, "So what?" I would suggest thinking of instances other than distant political targets. I in fact searched for "chloroform" because I wanted to read the Wikipedia page. Imagine I'm accused o
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by delish 3y ago
For the record, the Dilbert comic[0] whence "here's a nickel, kid" mentions Unix, not Linux. macOS is a certified Unix. Accordingly, Macs c/o Unix have been used to perform real work for decades. Even so Don Norman, Appl

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