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by fardo 1y ago
This feels like it should be a non-controversy. Even being uncharitable, a big off-by-default checkbox saying “make this discoverable in web searches” is roughly as explicit as you can possibly make this feature textually, assuming your use
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by fardo 1y ago
I assume that he means "rather than pushing up each individual container for a project, it could take something like a compose file over a list of underlying containers, and push them all up to the endpoint."
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by fardo 2y ago
They have a lot of ways they could’ve built trust without a full negative burden: which of them, if any, are they doing? Open sourcing of their watch word and recording features specifically, so people can self-verify it does what it says a
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by fardo 2y ago
Aspersions aside, the content’s actually typically pretty involved and has a lot to speak for itself, it’s not low-effort content that one would typically associate with AI. Laid bare, it’s generally a variety comedy show of a human host an
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by fardo 2y ago
I think this optimism is extremely misplaced, as I think things are likely to get substantially less evenly distributed. It seems more likely we'll have a future where indies more successfully drown each other out in a sea of noise, wh
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by fardo 2y ago
One of the best sonic games ever made, sonic mania, wasn’t made in-house by sonic team, but a handful of fans making fanwork. Sega’s choice to treat their fanwork seriously and make them second-party developers rather than shutting them dow
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by fardo 2y ago
The author’s right about storytelling from day one, but then immediately throws cold water on the idea by saying it would have been a bad fit for this project. This feels in error, as the big value of seeking feedback and results early and
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by fardo 2y ago
It shouldn’t be surprising that a country with a war economy has a higher first derivative at producing material, the question of import is 1. What is the difference between absolute quantities comparing against all relevant players, 2. How
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by fardo 2y ago
In an era of massive scale companies and giant projects, it's fascinating how often it feels like most of the success of a project or company's big successes ultimately hinge on the actions of a few key individuals in the right pl
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by fardo 2y ago
> What is the problem with long lived certs? Privilege escalation and Dev Ops rot. Long-lived certs often get compromised when privilege escalations happen and someone gets access to an account or computer that has private keys on it. On
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by fardo 2y ago
> define more competitive markets - Is it even possible? Yes it is, and I am using it in the traditional sense of "Sellers vying to make their offerings more compelling so consumers prefer them to alternatives". A more competit
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by fardo 2y ago
>has it ever existed? This question being written as singular suggests to me you’re conflating some combination of education as a concept, education in America, and education in Europe. I see this as muddled thinking, they each have thei
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by fardo 2y ago
This is non-responsive to my point. Pointing out that paid universities like Corinthian in a grossly distorted market predictably are not very competitive offerings, or that good offerings can nevertheless still exist in heavily distorted m
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by fardo 2y ago
Simpler isn’t always preferable: note that the key feature from the consumer perspective in that system is > you pay no matter what Meaning if it’s assumed “despite learning little, you still will be able to pay for it”, there’s no longe
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by fardo 2y ago
Nice, this problem is isomorphic to the probability/graph theory problem “hunters and rabbits” from Matousek’s discrete math textbook, except with the slight modification that instead of “n hunters with perfect accuracy each randomly a
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by fardo 2y ago
>First of all, we're talking about pre-IPO startups, so you can't just sell the stock This is often but not universally true - about 40% of companies allow you to do so, and about 40% of those that allow you to do so allow thos
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by fardo 2y ago
Actual equity is hard cash, options are a potentiality of cash. As the company with equity, any calls you’re selling are guaranteed covered, which hedges against downside loss of having given away equity and it exploding in value. Calls als
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by fardo 2y ago
The CRT requirement has pleasantly eroded recently. A kickstarter a few years back for the Sinden light gun [1] realized that by using webcams, some quick image processing and perspective transforms, you could make a light gun work anywhere
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by fardo 2y ago
Pixar badly lost its edge by getting complacent. Somewhere after cars, 3D animation competition started breaking past pixar’s moat that no one else could make a 3D movie look quite as good, and somewhere after Toy Story 3, it became clear t
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by fardo 2y ago
Usually shortcuts are good for lock-in because besides being useful, they get you used to certain workflows. For example, excel has a useful shortcut where "CTRL + ;" inputs today's date, and "CTRL + SHIFT + ;" inpu
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by fardo 2y ago
This bodes poorly for the future of SO. One of the reasons that Quora today is absolutely unusable is that it no longer is a curated discussion between internet users and knowledgeable people, but AI spamming the site with swarms of low-qua
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by fardo 2y ago
I would. Most modern systems of education have their roots in 1748, and either are derived from or inspired by reforms to the Prussian educational system to guarantee free and compulsory elementary school education between the ages of 5 and
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by fardo 2y ago
> On-the-job observations done by someone with way more experience This feels like it puts a potential hard cap on quality growth by discouraging mixups or experimentation that might improve education, but wouldn’t please an old-guard fo
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by fardo 2y ago
I wouldn’t discount the reputational and long-term danger for the school of potentially losing “peak reach school” status, which this change may be symptomatic of. Harvard has long been the beneficiary of a reputation of “if you get in, you
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by fardo 2y ago
I think it's three things: 1. The hangover in tech caused by post-Covid overhiring and layoffs, as well as negative sentiment surrounding inflation over the last year feels like it's ending or at least calming down - somewhere bet
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by fardo 2y ago
There’s a tension between the common belief that “when private citizens are able to vote privately, it protects their ability to vote their conscience, rather than allowing some third party to explicitly buy votes or bully someone into voti
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by fardo 2y ago
>The writers have only ten seconds to persuade the reader Sometimes they get barely even get one sentence: The article cutting to a paywall after the very first line feels accidentally prescient.
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by fardo 2y ago
I think there’s a tension between the tinkerer, blogger and hobbyist side of the field, and anonymous 9–to-5 workhorse line of business programming in this discussion. The core reason everyone uses it seems to me to be essentially the same
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by fardo 3y ago
I feel like some of the fault rests in car authentication tech being downright antiquated by having a “whoever has keys is driver” policy. We wouldn’t accept, in any corporate environment, a computer system where the only form of authentica
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by fardo 3y ago
I think part of the disdain is people’s recognition of Google’s inability to make and maintain new products. Separate from recent poor generations, I’d be reluctant to use any Google AI, as if for some reason I’d liked it, the odds are too

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