rightbyte

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by rightbyte 9d ago
> you may as well claim that versions of BASIC with the POKE keyword are low level languages simply because you can POKE machine code directly into memory. The contemporary Basic dialects of that time I could argue were low level languag
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by rightbyte 15d ago
> so you can really see how much their app is conways law The headache of using the shared playlist "Jam" feature and trying to add a song without playing it directly. There is like a separate queue system for "Jam" a
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by rightbyte 15d ago
I would say tech workers have very weak class consciousness and understanding of power structures. Those who care about not ceeding power is a tiny minority compared to say among MDs and lawyers and their guilds/unions.
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by rightbyte 18d ago
"sees the waterfall, then struggles for survival no matter how hopeless the situation seems to be?" You could consider that a variant of the voter's dilemma.
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by rightbyte 19d ago
> The we take the far-left killings like the assassination of the (maybe despicable) Charlie Kirk and the Trump assassination attempts (with a 's') and Luigi Mangione killing a CEO... I have no recollection of any of those perp
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by rightbyte 19d ago
Sure. It probably works better in isolation. But there seemed to be some time lag for a SEO spam sites to climb. Removing the ones that make it would mess up the economics at the time. Like the Stack Overflow mirror sites or like spam phone
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by rightbyte 20d ago
It is not ego tripping. They probably loathe you because you turn the power structures even more in capital's favour by undercutting or overriding them.
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by rightbyte 20d ago
Google could have easily won that fight by blacklisting scrapping spam sites and spam portals. They just didn't. There weren't that many with high ranking. I could filter out most of them in like a week of working normally and jus
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by rightbyte 21d ago
Statistics might be the most eye opening course I took in university. Like, I don't think I understood the concept of distribution before it and regarded an average of measurements as one measurement. I had a very strange concept of av
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by rightbyte 26d ago
Isn't search a strange analogy for how weight terms propagate?
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by rightbyte 26d ago
Even worse it gave the wrong people ideas. Some sort of Poe's law spin off.
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by rightbyte 27d ago
Sounds dictaded.
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by rightbyte 27d ago
The title of the linked article is "and Instagram reels". edit: Oh someone changed the title of the post now too.
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by rightbyte 28d ago
Also I think the marketing post compares removing a test framework (how is that not trivial?) with replacing it with another.
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by rightbyte 29d ago
Why would a company want to leak its processes and workflows to another company in a capitalist system. Seems sloppy and a short sighted transfer of wealth to external stockowners.
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by rightbyte 29d ago
In some sense I would argue that it is the next highest bid that determine the worth. I.e. what the buyer could hope to resell for.
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by rightbyte 29d ago
I think I have to commend you for trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. These expressions are more or less some form of fatalism and when used in political context it is very annoying. Especially when some politicians are working t
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by rightbyte 29d ago
> And way low on the scale of things: every goddamn restaurant since 2024 using AI image gen, meaning you have no goddamn clue what the food you're ordering actually is. Or you do but you know that it's _not_ what is pictured.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
The golden egg factory section drawing made it all very clear. Is Softbank making any money or just dissipating Alibaba gains?
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
I think it is some sort of whataboutism without any regard to proportions. Some people have a really hard time emotionally dealing with systems that occusionally fail.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
I move furniture in one piece if possible to fit the door. The screw inserts and plugs etc wear out fast if reused.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
I think the established word is "class traitors".
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
https://blog.roboflow.com/neuralhash-collision/ Seems like about 3 collisions per 100 million pictures. If everyone have 1000 pictures that is 3 collisions per 100 000 users. Raiding 2 people in my city for made up CSA
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
Apple's CSAM hash filter removing peoples photos (did it notify the police too?) could be an indicator of how false positives on big scale work out.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
There is a big difference between automatic data collection on my habits and local staff recognizing me. The later is nice socialy. The former is to my disadvantage.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
Yes there need to be solidarity between members of unions otherwise it is just some feudal guild society.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
Such recruiting selects for KPI hunters. It is probably bad for an org to select for people that game it rather than doing "what is right". A dice throw and some chitchat would be better recruiting.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
It is different for different users and different at different times. It is probably especially bad with few contacts that write on FB or if you log in like twice a year. Similar confusion on HN comments about SaaS UX arise when there is AB
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
I remember when SMS had a cost per message.
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by rightbyte 1mo ago
An analogy would be automatic raid wait rooms in WoW. Like what is the point of making grinding in games more efficient as you remove the fun and social aspect and the advantage of organizing a party.

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