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by gtowey 25d ago
Indeed. Especially since we know that they know that they reserve the worst of it for face to face conversation and nothing gets recorded and it's all for the sake of maintaining plausible deniability. When asked about their private
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by gtowey 25d ago
I know about discovery. I have a hard time believing that Meta is being perfectly transparent or comprehensive in what they disclose to the prosecution.
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by gtowey 25d ago
The antidote to that would be for Meta to reveal all their internal communications. But they'll never do that because their own words and actions are likely far more damning than any story the DOJ could weave. The trend I have noticed
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by gtowey 26d ago
I'm leaning against the user flagging model of content moderation because it keeps the incentive for bad actors to try to game the system. Bad content, even briefly included can still do a lot of damage. It's like spam email -- e
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by gtowey 26d ago
Isn't that kind of the point though? We don't need 100 years of video uploads every day. We need fewer, higher quality videos. If 90% of those were likely to get rejected, such as all the low-effort AI spam videos generated to
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by gtowey 26d ago
I'm increasingly thinking that the only solution may be to have a search index with human editorial control. As much as I think Google deserves scorn for how badly they have made the search experience on the web, we have to remember th
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by gtowey 26d ago
It's almost like what we really need is someone to simply index the sites that have the actual primary sources so we can search them and find them quickly! /s
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by gtowey 26d ago
We could have both. The "save" button just becomes a pointer to a specific point in the revision history, the same way we already have that with git.
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by gtowey 1mo ago
No, I think they mean that it used to take a giant lab full of specialists with lots of funding to do lots of damage before. Now, the worry is a lone nut in a basement with no money could pull off an act of bio terrorism.
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by gtowey 1mo ago
Yes, but on whom does it work? Does it work because you're taking advantage of a group of people who are extremely vulnerable to manipulation? People who already struggle with impulse control, who are prone to making bad financial deci
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by gtowey 1mo ago
"This time it's different" is also a refrain we've heard with every new bubble. It shouldn't be surprising that some people want to take a measured, skeptical approach. Even if it means they are slightly behind the
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by gtowey 1mo ago
Kudos to the author for taking responsibility and doing the ethical thing here.
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by gtowey 1mo ago
It's not the whole story. The biggest change is actually the internal rules for how downtime was reported, it wasn't actually such a large change in the actual reliability then.
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by gtowey 1mo ago
> If they don't want to make a movie properly, why make it at all? Hollywood moves have little to do with art or even entrainment for that matter. They are simply revenue generating machines. Rich people invest in a movie production
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by gtowey 1mo ago
Back in the days of spinning rust, we had RAID controller cards with batteries, so that if someone pulled the plug, there would be enough power to keep the drives going until any buffered writes were completed. I certainly wouldn't min
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by gtowey 1mo ago
I would expect to have a method that explicitly stops program execution immediately without further side effects. An unresolved promise that causes other code to be skipped while program execution continues after the block is, well, unint
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by gtowey 1mo ago
Solar harvest time.
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by gtowey 2mo ago
Finally isn't bullet proof. If you execute a promise in a try block and it happens to end without resolving, the finally block will be never be executed. Fun stuff.
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by gtowey 2mo ago
I'm a native English speaker and before your comment, I never noticed that palette, pallet, and palate are different words!
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by gtowey 2mo ago
> And the barriers are far more social, organizational and political than they are technical. At the core it's even more of an economic barrier which isn't even unique to capitalism. I recall an article talking about why the Ro
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by gtowey 2mo ago
The thing is, I'm not even against it. The point of the sarcasm was to say that the most massive projects on which everything is built are in C-flavored languages so the claim that it's not fit for large projects is absurd. And to
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by gtowey 2mo ago
We call them blunders mostly because the solutions are so well known. In contrast, the last company I worked for did everything in typescript and the amount of problems caused by code that blocked the main event loop was staggering. And at
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by gtowey 2mo ago
I'll await your Rust ports of Windows, Linux and MacOS then. This isn't really a fair take. Keep in mind that C/C++ has been the backbone of the most important software in the world since the 1970s. At that time we didn&#x27
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by gtowey 2mo ago
The thing is we have a lot of models which make very accurate predictions most of the time, which are useful for doing some impressive science. But we have no accepted theory of what is actually happening behind the math. What we have is th
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by gtowey 2mo ago
Right, and currently we are limited by how many teams of people can get together to run campaigns like this. Now imagine that LLM agents make this possible for nearly anyone. One person could have a dozen of these trying to make money off o
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by gtowey 2mo ago
> Cosmos DB's engine translated Gremlin queries into .NET code, enforcing a set of restrictions designed to prevent queries from reaching beyond Gremlin operations. These restrictions, however, didn't sufficiently account for .
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by gtowey 2mo ago
> “I’ve got four bottles of something that I take twice a week sitting here,” Callaghan said. Profits are up! A smashing success!
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by gtowey 2mo ago
Interesting perspective and I don't disagree. Though on one hand engineering has always been about building the bridge that barely stands. On the other hand it often feels like we are not even close to designing bridges in modern tech
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by gtowey 2mo ago
For instance, carefully choosing regions close together to show transaction commit times which are not horrible. But if your region distribution is not ideal...
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by gtowey 2mo ago
I literally just wrote a blog post which explains the kind of problem they're trying to solve and why any solution is just choosing where the pain is. https://gtowey.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-are-databases-so-h

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