eropple

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by eropple 4mo ago
As someone who has no legal duty to advocate in your best interest, I think you should keep posting about your intent to damage the platform-holder whose terms of service you are contravening.
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by eropple 2y ago
Yup--electric performance vehicles are unreal when you first give one a try. I test drove a Ford Lightning this week and it is ridiculous what a 7,000-lb vehicle can do with that powertrain (to the point where honestly maybe it should req
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by eropple 2y ago
That all sounds great until you're dealing with deepfakes that come from a country without an extradition treaty?
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by eropple 2y ago
FWIW I think that's more the core count than anything. I have a M1 Max as a personal machine and an M3 Max at work and while the M3 Max is definitely faster, it isn't world-beating.
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by eropple 2y ago
> People have had adequate food for quite long and not grown fat. That's revisionist, both in terms of "for quite long" (food insecurity was common in America until about World War II, and massive food surplus availabl
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by eropple 2y ago
> advertising (= cheating dumb people out of their consumer dollars) Advertising absolutely works on you regardless of how smart or educated you are. How it has to work to do that can change, but the idea that advertising only impact
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by eropple 2y ago
The mobile web application worked about as well as it does today from at least my join date of April 27, 2023. As for performance on my iPhone 15, on a 5G (not 5GUW) network, it loads in a second and a half; I just checked. I have some comp
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by eropple 2y ago
bsky.app works absolutely fine in a web browser and I use it instead of the mobile application. (It's React Native, so they push a build to the web.)
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by eropple 2y ago
Because most have left, either retired or disassociated from Trump and his movement. Trump's running as hard as he can (which isn't very, he isn't convincing) from the proudly published (and terrifying!) Project 2025 stuff, b
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by eropple 2y ago
Having read the LSP specification, and when I take into account just how many things LSP does , I think a 285-page spec is really tiny. I have specs on my work computer with TMF and CAMARA specs that are nearly 100 pages just to talk about
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by eropple 2y ago
Thanks! It's an interesting place, and I think the technical quality depends pretty heavily on what org you're in. But the quality-of-life is very high and I'm mostly enjoying myself.
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by eropple 2y ago
There are other companies, too. I work at, statistically speaking, Your Phone Company, and they don't pay FAANG money but they certainly pay a lot better than I was doing at startups. Caveat: I don't live in the Bay Area, though
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by eropple 2y ago
This is true, and there's some really cool stuff there, but that's not who most of this is marketed at. Small wonder there's backlash from artists and people who appreciate artists when the stated value proposition is "r
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by eropple 2y ago
So I use WSL2 regularly on Windows, but I don't agree at all that buying a Mac doesn't make sense. WSL2 is great , and Windows 10/11 are fine after doing some cleanup...on a desktop. My experience with Windows on even modern
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by eropple 2y ago
My income depends on no such thing, if anything it depends on reducing complexity where it doesn't provide value, but it's telling that that's the only place your mind goes. And because of that, I think there's not muc
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by eropple 2y ago
...I do know them pretty well, which kind of puts a hole in this kind of snooty nonsense. Because I know the abstractions and what's under them, I don't have to think about it much, because I've internalized what it's
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by eropple 2y ago
> It's fine if you run it at a cloud provider. Setting up a k8s cluster yourself is painful though and at a cloud provider it costs far more than using just bare metal I think it's almost exactly the opposite: I'd rather
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by eropple 2y ago
I wouldn't have put a database on k8s five years ago, but today the options are a lot better for persistent and resilient storage on k8s and there are pretty significant advantages to being able to normalize your deployment platform. I
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by eropple 2y ago
If you can't use a "reasonably priced model" GPU for "a few years", I'm really confused as to what you're doing. I know people still using 1080's and 1080Ti's and playing pretty much anything the
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by eropple 2y ago
> Most interviewers won't be ready to shit talk their employer with this question and will say "nothing." I'm not sure that's really true. I ask, verbatim, "what sucks about this job?" to everyone in
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by eropple 2y ago
Yep, I know about that (and WORDCHARS in zsh, for keyboard navigation). The thing is, though, UUIDs overload the dash character. I don't want dashes to be word characters except for a UUID. (ULID representations also are shorter beca
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by eropple 2y ago
Yup, in a browser you can. In my terminal or my text editor or Slack, I can't.
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by eropple 2y ago
ULID's presentation format is probably better for humans, though. You can double-click-to-highlight a ULID; the standard UUID representation doesn't like this. (You can use ULID's presentational tools with UUIDv7, though.)
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by eropple 2y ago
"Traffic" is a controllable phenomenon, though. We know how to manage it and direct it to achieve our goals. NTSB investigations of road fatalities, given teeth , would radically change how cars interact with one another.
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by eropple 2y ago
> security is necessary for business It's not, though, that's the thing you aren't picking up. Managing risk to the tolerances necessary to make money is necessary for business. That's what's being done. You
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by eropple 2y ago
> You're wrong, defenders are not profit centers. You don't expect the security guard for your office building to generate profit, why would you do so for your digital assets? defenders are like lawyers and hr, they are cost c
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by eropple 2y ago
> We're in 2024, every exec should know better. "Should" doesn't mean much. People respond to incentives. Can you explain the incentive function that exists today in the real world to prioritize the security cost
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by eropple 2y ago
> I'm sorry, but what else are defenders trying to do that isn't defense? This is an uncharitably narrow reading of the post to which you're replying, isn't it? Defenders are trying to ship. To make money to make pa
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by eropple 2y ago
Right, exactly. The 737 MAX mess is bad . But the numbers remain on the side of any cleared-to-fly jetliner, even including that situation, compared to almost any other form of transportation except maybe walking.
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by eropple 2y ago
Perhaps be generous with your reading of the post and consider the 737 MAX's flight record and fatality rate on a per-mile or per-passenger rate to, say, cars in the United States. Because, by the standards of other transportation meth

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