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by pevey 2y ago
A side note about my perspective: I studied economics as an undergrad at a time when the Northwestern "pure rationalism" school of thought completely dominated. Some of the conclusions from purely mathematical models built high o
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by pevey 2y ago
This is a non-fiction piece, not really a news story. So not everyone's cup of tea. Joan Didion style. I enjoyed it. I would summarize it as not being about AI per se. It's nominally about "rationalism," or the incli
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by pevey 2y ago
And then the software would never be widely adopted. FOSS is what it is and the dynamics around it haven't really changed. What has changed is people wanting the rapid adoption rate possible from being FOSS without actually... being FO
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by pevey 2y ago
https://archive.ph/4yLNR
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by pevey 2y ago
You can also use webhooks to deploy with each GitHub push. The advantage over GitHub actions is you don’t have to store any secrets on GitHub or with integrators like Vercel. Just send a payload to your own endpoint each time a commit is ma
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by pevey 3y ago
Larry Summers has a track record of not believing in market failures, just market opportunities for private interests. Economists vary vastly in their belief systems, and economics is more politics than science, no matter how much math the
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by pevey 3y ago
This doesn’t seem like a real fix for the issue. This brings the number of spoofable sites way down from all MC users to just those who send mail through CF. But it is still a big vulnerability. For any domain that is using mailchannels thr
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by pevey 3y ago
This might be the impression on first glance because it uses the word "state." But keep reading, and its much more akin to what Solid is doing. In fact, the new docs openly credit the work Solid's team is doing. They also
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by pevey 3y ago
At any given level, people in startups tend to have more actual power/authority, with fewer or no processes or procedures already in place to slow them down. This is part of why startups are effective at building/changing things,
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by pevey 3y ago
I used to think info about whether an account exists should not be leaked in the password reset flow, and I designed sites this way, but then someone pointed out that in practice a hacker would then just move to the account sign up flow to
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by pevey 3y ago
I work a lot with startups/small companies, but not necessarily tech savvy ones. They have a hard time understanding at first why they are so targeted with phishing attempts. Often times, leadership comes from big roles at larger comp
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by pevey 3y ago
React borrowed these concepts from Solid, SvelteKit, and Remix. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s pushing things forward. (And by forward, I mean, yes, also a little backward. We had server-side dominance with php, etc., then
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by pevey 3y ago
A quote of interest: "When offering a generative AI product, you may need to tell customers whether and the extent to which the training data includes copyrighted or otherwise protected material."
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Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI(ftc.gov)
1 points by pevey 3y ago|1 comments
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by pevey 3y ago
I'm not saying this is acceptable in any way... But there IS something you can try to get resolved fairly quickly if it ever happens again. Be sure to claim domain ownership in the Google search console. If there is a flag of some sor
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by pevey 3y ago
I get that there are pros and cons of different licenses, and reasonable people my disagree, but this is the first time that occurred to them? This far down the road? No one forced them to be open source. They did it for certain benefits.
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by pevey 3y ago
Quite possibly a very fair point. I don't use Terraform or Spacelift or care at all about these particular companies. I DO care about open source, and I care about BSLs and CLAs and the dilution of what open source actually means. L
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by pevey 3y ago
> It’s also worth remembering that Terraform itself is built on top of multiple open source libraries and an open source ecosystem. Without the volunteer work of hundreds of unpaid individuals, HashiCorp products would not be successful,
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by pevey 3y ago
Yes Both And also the more mundane reason that an extra hoop to jump through is unnecessary and does more harm than good.
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by pevey 3y ago
If that is the standard, only homeopathic stuff should be available OTC. No [side] effects at all. :)
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by pevey 3y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess you have never been prescribed BCP. No, no one explains it. They expect you to read the instructions, which is not an unreasonable expectation.
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by pevey 3y ago
Oral contraceptives do have side effects, including effects on mental health. Sometimes the effects seem to be positive. Often, they are quite negative. These effects are not taken seriously/acknowledged by the vast majority of medic
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by pevey 3y ago
How does the pill being prescribed by a doctor help this? Do you think doctors are actually explaining this to patients? They are not. They don't have time. The PE firms who own them won't let them take the time.
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by pevey 3y ago
That is ridiculous. It's not like a doctor properly screens you for cancer before prescribing BCP. It's all about gatekeeping. It's not about health.
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by pevey 3y ago
Your take on the first two points is not uncommon and just underscores why academia is broken. The research being produced today is often of zero or negative value. Your take on the last point is not so different from mine. I think you mi
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by pevey 3y ago
> Most academics won’t falsify data — from a pragmatic perspective, that’s their career on the line In my experience, this is absolutely not true. I mostly only have first-hand observations in the economics, finance, and marketing disci
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by pevey 3y ago
The “glitch” in most ransomeware and AP fraud attacks is an employee clicking on something or believing something they shouldn’t have. LinkedIn facilitates this, because it makes it easy to understand the org chart of a company and target n
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by pevey 3y ago
I was coming here to say the same thing. It's really amazing that they used their own domain name to receive the payload from this malware analytics code. Possibilities are (1) all of the people associated with this company are not r
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NYC is sinking due to the weight of its skyscrapers(theguardian.com)
14 points by pevey 3y ago|2 comments
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by pevey 3y ago
In the US, truthfulness of a statement is an affirmative defense to libel/defamation, but believe it or not, that is not the case everywhere. Specifically, it is not the case in the UK.

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