slowdog

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by slowdog 2mo ago
100% agree with this, seems weird to call an engineer “smart” for triggering an API that allows any input but can’t handle it. I also kind of doubt it was an engineer testing vs some much more subtle issue as billing is in line for everythi
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by slowdog 8mo ago
Even still, it's not as much information and doesn't excuse deleting creators work without any warning.
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YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles(old.reddit.com)
40 points by slowdog 8mo ago|17 comments
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by slowdog 1y ago
Not earlier commenter but their username is a reference to “ableton live” which is music production software. Not “able to live” which is just a one letter difference
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by slowdog 1y ago
It’s less that they’re flailing and more that it’s become some sort of lord of the flies culture with senior leaders directly competing with each other to try to take their bite of the pie. The way AWS is structured with strongly owned inde
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by slowdog 1y ago
As a heavy EC2 user who hasn't used ECS, the behavior makes perfect sense as ECS is running on EC2 but unless I sat and thought about it my first instinct would be that AWS would make it "secure by default" on a container lev
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by slowdog 1y ago
It's a reasonable take from the author, but the argument that you shouldn't use a tool you don't understand cuts both ways. Avoiding powerful tools can be just as much of a trap as using them blindly. Like any tool, there&#x2
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by slowdog 1y ago
A lot of what drives feed algorithms are interactions rather than just follows. I imagine it’s one reason why X/Twitter made likes private as they want people to like things for the algorithm but not be judged for their likes.
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by slowdog 3y ago
I think most folks would disagree that the other commenter is on the "extreme" end of the privacy spectrum. It's very context specific. Some ISPs are state specific or even town specific. I agree with my sibling comments, you
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by slowdog 6y ago
While I'm pro right to be forgotten, and do believe HN should allow an account delete. But HN's ethos is to inspire discussion and readability of it. Lack of a delete seems to be by design so that conversations are always readable
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by slowdog 6y ago
You can assuming you do it within their timelimits: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#editde...
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by slowdog 6y ago
I am not a lawyer, but GDPR compliance looks like it doesn't quite apply due to not necessarily being targeted at European citizens https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
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by slowdog 6y ago
Not sure how I’m demanding, just pointing out some differences between how different groups tackle this
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by slowdog 6y ago
This is one of the great parts of America, personal liberties. But simultaneously one of the downsides of the individual > whole scheme, sometimes sacrifices hurt the individual but are good for the whole. Quite the conundrum, once you g
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by slowdog 6y ago
I understand your sentiment and I’m sure you’re well meaning. But Asian Americans are one of the most diverse groups, it’s a huge part of the world and part of the problem is people assuming all Asian Americans are the same personality
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by slowdog 6y ago
Part of the problem is Asians don’t vote as a block, so who will protect them? If for a group of people, votes are split, who will look out for their needs?
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by slowdog 6y ago
It’s not just about top notch students it’s about all of them. If the top can’t make it, who can? It’s also about pushing down one race unfairly
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by slowdog 7y ago
Yeah I want to double down on this, This reads like a personal goodbye that somehow got published here.... probably not for the world
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by slowdog 7y ago
For book suggestions I would suggest the old classic: “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Talks about active listening, and remembering things about others. As for generally not being as narcissistic, I think you’re already on the rig
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by slowdog 7y ago
>is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)? Facebook is big enough to acquire almost any company they want > Can this mean that they are going to? Put aside whether or not it makes sense to acquire dropbox. To me this looks like
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by slowdog 7y ago
Great article, covering something we should probably keep in mind. Higher education is often a needless gatekeeper for keeping those with generational wealth wealthy Often a subtext that I feel is missing here is that in the end people aren
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by slowdog 7y ago
Not sure if you're missing the point of the poster above. Poster is more likely asking whether the education gained in college is actually useful vs the doors opened by having that diploma. If one dropped out of college right before gr
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The ‘It’ Read for Political Insiders, a rare success in the world of local news(nytimes.com)
1 points by slowdog 7y ago|0 comments
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by slowdog 7y ago
Depends on your definition of win. Do you mean perfect game? Be the best? Beat the average player? I think there’s a bunch of vagueness but let’s take “win” to be generally better than humans, I’m not an AI expert but I suspect it’s got mor
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by slowdog 7y ago
How did you come to this conclusion... this is just flaming
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by slowdog 7y ago
Pretty much doubt there'd be much insider knowledge, guessing in 2015 a L4(entry) System engineer is going to be pretty much spending 80% of their time building new regions by hand... Not much really there to learn
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Simplenote getting attacked by bot signup spam, doesn't use email verification(twitter.com)
2 points by slowdog 7y ago|0 comments