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by jzl 1mo ago
I've heard multiple times directly from Apple employees that there is no way to login to iCloud on your work machine using a company-controlled account. Many people create new Apple ID's which they only use while working there, bu
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by jzl 3mo ago
Stale news. Mozilla introduced a new solution for certificate revocation that solves nearly all the problems with old methods. While it hasn't really taken off outside of Firefox, that's mostly because Google and Apple haven'
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by jzl 5mo ago
Yep, my mom (still alive) remembers seeing many interviews with Civil War vets when she was a kid in the 40's.
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by jzl 5mo ago
Is there really that much liquidity in these bets? Polymarket is just a broker right? So people are putting up tens of millions cumulatively on the other side of these random bets?
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by jzl 6mo ago
Why victim blame him for removing the phone number? He had a logical reason for doing so, and with Google supporting many forms of authentication it's perfectly reasonable to think that removing one wouldn't jeopardize the other m
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by jzl 8mo ago
Does the 30% cut only apply to patrons who subscribe within the app? I’m assuming yes, but just checking since I haven’t seen confirmation of this.
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by jzl 1y ago
I don’t think any of these are “obvious” lies. Maybe meta offered someone a $75M package and it got reported as $100M. So they can say with a straight face that the reporting is “false”, yet they never countered with any details. You’re ign
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by jzl 1y ago
It’s debatable that it was debunked. There was squirrelly wording about some specific claims. One person was reported to have been offered a package worth a billion dollars, which even if exaggerated was probably not exaggerated by 10x. T
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by jzl 1y ago
“From Eternity To Here” by Sean Carroll has some nice discussions of it. He can be a bit much at times and could stand to have better editing (the book is 25% too long), but he does have some of the most approachable modern writing on physi
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by jzl 1y ago
Ugh, I couldn’t disagree more. Sure, LLMs can generate some really nice introductory summaries of topics. But, so far at least, they can’t even hold a candle to brilliantly written books and long form articles. Consider the classic book Cos
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by jzl 2y ago
Minor quibble with the linked complaint: the GPL doesn’t require you to post source code, it just requires that you have to provide it when asked, and only to people using your software. (But you’re not allowed to restrict anything they d
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by jzl 2y ago
Yay, someone posted it before I had to. This skit is 25 years old now!
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by jzl 2y ago
Fine tuning is a pretty broad concept and is mostly orthogonal to religious beliefs.
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by jzl 2y ago
On the topic of perfectly crafted depictions of scale in the Universe, I love this one: https://youtu.be/vcJHHU9upyE
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by jzl 2y ago
Search YouTube for “universe fine tuning.” Then come back here in a few years when you’ve gotten through everything. :)
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by jzl 2y ago
Interesting thanks. I hadn’t seen it elsewhere myself but I could see how it’s taken off. OP’s article almost gets there, but never says that specifically. Rather it says “c is not a property of light, it’s a property of the universe.”
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by jzl 2y ago
I’ll steal a line from a superb YouTube physics channel (Arvin Ash): it’s not the speed of light, it’s the speed of causality. And the universe must have a finite speed of causality. Without even getting into math and physics, you can int
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by jzl 2y ago
Same here! But a friend just texted me they can see it. Internet routing snafu right now, maybe? UPDATE: yep, works if I turn on a vpn. And works over cellular. But my ISP can't route to it at all. Either DNS is returning a bad IP in s
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by jzl 2y ago
I think this may have borrowed liberally from Corridor Crew’s video about the same topic earlier in 2019: https://youtu.be/b3_Abb2Vqnc
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by jzl 2y ago
Apologies, I somehow missed the memo three years ago that Audible turned on in-app purchases(1). I was thinking of the pre-2021 policy. I’m still pretty sure that if an app has zero financial interactions at all in the App Store that Apple
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by jzl 2y ago
I strongly suspect Patreon is playing fast and loose with the wording here. Note they say “if creators on Patreon disable transactions…” but not “if Patreon were to disable all transactions.” I’m pretty sure they could still go the Audible
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by jzl 2y ago
Right but just because they said it doesn’t mean they’re not playing fast and loose with the messaging. I’ve never heard of a single app where the off-app billing affected the inclusion of the app in the store. I mean maybe it’s true but th
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by jzl 2y ago
Yes but then they get to charge a commission for anyone following the link.
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by jzl 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I think you’re misinterpreting it. They could remove all billing from the iOS app just like eg Audible does. But I’m guessing they don’t want to. Patreon is looking out for themselves, not their creators or subscribe
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by jzl 2y ago
This post has some info but seems more from a customer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003390
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by jzl 2y ago
I scanned all responses to see if someone had posted this link! One of the great blog posts about the intersection between computer science and humanity. Item 40 is the best one. Of course, the majority of items on this list will create pro
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by jzl 2y ago
LLMs remind me of a tweet I saw years ago. Paraphrasing: “Before Google, you asked your best friend’s big brother about stuff and repeated his wrong info about it for 20 years.”
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by jzl 2y ago
One of the best channels on YouTube.
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by jzl 3y ago
There are some people, most notably the actress Marilou Henner, who remember and can instantly recall everything they did every day of their life, by date. It’s astounding. More info here: https://youtu.be/hpTCZ-hO6iI
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by jzl 3y ago
Watch this video, it has more fleshed out details of the probable cause of the miscommunication: https://youtu.be/XhRYqvCAX_k

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