ethanrutherford

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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
This makes me feel physically ill. It's like something straight out of a sci-fi dystopia, how did this get approved? Who determined that reinjecting biological activity into a human brain is definitely not some form of reanimation? If
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
It's 100% recycling, if the alternative was just "throw away the excess". For all practical purposes, recycling just means "repurposing material that you would have otherwise sent to a landfill".
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
The issue with "At the right price", is that your minima (what's enough to filter the spam) and maxima (what are legitimate contributors willing to put up with) can be on the wrong side of each other. The "right price&qu
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
> Everybody is not you Perfect example of a non-sequitur. Irrespective of whether or not the statement is true, it has no bearing on the veracity of the original claim: that in the current market, the majority of workers simply do not ha
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
It's not a communication problem, it's a scale problem. An AI could spit out dozens more massive PRs in less time than it takes you to even evaluate whether or not the current one is AI.
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
So you agree. Unless you're using some definition of "reviewing" which somehow doesn't involve "reading and understanding".
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
Statistically speaking, most codebases are brownfield. Without joining a startup, working on a greenfield project is actually a pretty rare treat. And deleting code is wonderful . I'd go as far as to say lines removed is more often th
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by ethanrutherford 4mo ago
That you're only just "learning" that these things are true is a damning admission. And to fix your bad analogy, it's more like "hey maybe we shouldn't be allowing f1 street races through school zones".
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
Basing what you consider important to know solely on "what can make me money" is a very self-sabotage way to live life.
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
I would personally argue that it's a lot easier to say something definitely isn't x, with confidence, than to say it definitely is . I definitely don't know what the surface of jupiter looks like, but I can pretty confiden
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
Finding something funny doesn't necessarily imply you endorse the behavior, believe it to be harmless fun, or even that you don't feel sorry for the victim. There's entire categories of entertainment media that use "unfo
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
Maybe you will read it carefully every single time (and to be clear, I doubt even that) but for the majority of users this will only lead to increasing the already excessive amount of decision-fatigue they deal with when interacting with so
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
Not exactly. It's not a "new" attack vector, any software which was malicious would have already been able to attack when you first gave it permission (a prerequisite for this sticky permission issue). If you had downloaded a
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
It's pretty shortsighted, bordering on intentionally obtuse, to insinuate that the only person that benefits from solving the support problem is the person on support.. Take the example of automatic backups others brought up in this th
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
Hyperbole is a thing that exists. It is also rare that anyone says anything that is meant to be taken 100% literally.
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
No, because the limitation is not money. More money does not magically make the humans in the profession be able to handle higher case-loads, nor magically produce new lawyers and judges. The bottleneck is time that each case takes to be pr
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
"what do you mean there's no more sheep in my field? There's hundreds of wolves!"
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
the EFF didn't move from political neutral. The right just moved more right.
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
It's pretty damn simple actually. Their target audience by and large doesn't use twitter anymore, either.
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by ethanrutherford 5mo ago
claiming there was rampant "censorship of conservative opinions" is about as honest as claiming that the Romans were being persecuted by first century christians.
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by ethanrutherford 6mo ago
By definition, it is exactly a law. It's known as business law. The ToS is a business contract which you must agree to if you wish to use the service. Violating terms of service is literally a breach of contract.
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by ethanrutherford 6mo ago
... A tool that had code which explicitly enables and advertises the ability to violate those terms of service.
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by ethanrutherford 6mo ago
it is neither being delisted, nor was it requested to be. As far as rights holders exercising their rights, this is about the most collaborative way it could have gone. Not every rights holder is a John Carmack.
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by ethanrutherford 6mo ago
Counterpoint: these patches are used specifically for slow, controlled absorption of the medication in order to provide symptom relief over long durations. And even then, many drug patches use microneedles to overcome the skin's natura
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by ethanrutherford 6mo ago
The "squatting" part of "bucket squatting" is a bit of a misnomer here. The attack vector is actually in the opposite direction. 1. You set up an aws bucket with some name (any name whatsoever). 2. You have code that rea
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by ethanrutherford 6mo ago
I'm not sure what would be "pseudo-science" about it, but it is as legit as it can be. Reconstruction of a face from a skull is possible, but the goal is not to create an image that's indistinguishable from a hypothetica
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by ethanrutherford 7mo ago
The number one porn site on the internet does not take a credit card to access.
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by ethanrutherford 7mo ago
"If the prisoners did not like their prison, they would change it"
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by ethanrutherford 7mo ago
If that browser engine is safari, I have to seriously question the validity of that final sentence. The fact that safari refuses to support modern features and is forced on ios devices makes it even worse.
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by ethanrutherford 8mo ago
Always hated apple for their putrid business practices. Add this to the pile.

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