krotton

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by krotton 11mo ago
I remember trying "call <my wife's name as in my contacts>" a few years ago and Google Assistant cheerfully responding with "calling <first Google search hit with the same name>, doctor". I couldn't
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by krotton 1y ago
My current company uses Slack as the main messaging app, while still using Teams as part of the Microsoft package, for its integrations with Outlook and conference hardware and software. And this is a recurring pattern I've seen in oth
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by krotton 5y ago
Well, you're dangerously wrong in simply assuming it's not smallpox, having zero evidence for your thesis.
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by krotton 6y ago
There's no Trump and dem opposition in the rest of the world, yet lockdowns have still been applied. US internal politics really is not the only reason why things happen.
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by krotton 6y ago
It does. If the employees of the company have a coherent stance on something, that's exactly what the company's stance is.
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by krotton 6y ago
How could you ever trust an employer who cuts salaries, but awards themselves a bonus?
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by krotton 7y ago
I think the problem is more complex here, as these are usually not in-house marketing people who have willingly chosen to market cigarettes, but rather people working for external marketing agencies for whom promoting Philip Morris' pr
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by krotton 8y ago
I use TiddlyWiki ( https://tiddlywiki.com ). It's brilliantly simple to set up (doesn't require a database for example), has a small but nice plugin ecosystem with things like Markdown support, etc.
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by krotton 8y ago
We do teach kids not to talk to strangers in the street and consider it quite important, I think. What's so much different about teaching them how not to get robbed on-line? It's not about being a good consumer, but about minding
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by krotton 8y ago
Well, the cow is a tad worse off than before...
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by krotton 8y ago
> abstraction isn't something telling you how you should act, but instead something telling you how you should react? A little bit OT: I don't think acting and reacting are separate things in the real world. We're always o
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by krotton 8y ago
PayPal (linked to my credit card as well) is #2 for me. Most of the time I use instant transfer services (there are quite a lot of them in Poland, integrated with most banks in the region). My favourite one is Blik (founded mainly by the bi
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by krotton 8y ago
They wrote about it here (The Problem section): https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/
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by krotton 8y ago
> Also, credit cards are already very convenient and near universally accepted. It's hard to compete with that. Oh, come on. Maybe it's a US thing, but credit card is the last but one (just before a manual transfer) payment met
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by krotton 8y ago
I had exactly one issue with a macOS upgrade - when they introduced APFS. The upgrade process has failed in the middle with an FS-related error, but AFAIR it resolved itself after rebooting and retrying. For comparison, Windows 10 and vario
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by krotton 8y ago
And interior of the ISS :). Thanks, that was a fantastic journey!
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by krotton 8y ago
Actually they did (in 2005) try to slip a vote on software patents in by scheduling it for an "Agriculture and Fishery" meeting. Luckily, they failed. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005&#x2F
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by krotton 8y ago
You're joking here, but a politician in Poland, when asked about how shall a popular link sharing platform (wykop.pl) deal with submissions, of which there are 100k / hour in peak times, actually suggested that "users should
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by krotton 8y ago
Nobody comes even close to understanding the full complexity and effects of what they're doing or saying. I guess we could say that each one of us is more or less rational, but treating it as a binary feature would be hard to defen
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by krotton 8y ago
I like the pun ;).
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by krotton 8y ago
Given knowledge that the CEO is a male, assuming the relationship is with a female is simply based on statistics.
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by krotton 8y ago
We use kind of a tiny in-house PPL for document analysis at https://scanye.io/ . We haven't open-sourced it though.
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by krotton 8y ago
No, it's not. Unless used very sparingly, it makes for a shitty user experience. I'd risk a guess that the average user doesn't have any problem with aggregate, anonymized data being collected for statistical and debugging pu
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by krotton 8y ago
Which was possible because Microsoft decided to use Core Foundation APIs for sorting instead of their own implementation for spreadsheet data. Or maybe it's not for spreadsheet data, but just their custom file picker or something?
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by krotton 8y ago
I think you may have chosen risky colors, given the Crimea conflict is still quite fresh ;).
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by krotton 8y ago
Publically funded TV is prone to become a propaganda tube of the government. In some cases it already has (in Poland for example). Relying on it as the only news source would be silly (relying on a single news source in general is usually s
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by krotton 8y ago
With some potentially unreadable documentation. Spoken language is not less important than programming languages (and interestingly, from my experience, there seems to be at least some correlation between caring about either).
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Summary of limited GitLab credentials exposed in an internal logging system(about.gitlab.com)
2 points by krotton 8y ago|0 comments
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by krotton 9y ago
I guess the parent meant val as synonymous to final var, i.e. immutable.
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by krotton 9y ago
...or Node.js nowadays, so three, I guess. Elm nicely abstracts over JS interoperability with a mechanism called ports: https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/javascript.html

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