thomascgalvin

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by thomascgalvin 2mo ago
This is a layer on top of normal security, so this isn't a matter of compromising the "brain" instead of RBAC, etc, but in addition to . Attribute-based access control is already a thing. User X logs in the US East between
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by thomascgalvin 2mo ago
Ah yes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that famous election security wing of the US Government
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by thomascgalvin 2mo ago
> A compiler will "correctly" process input into unintuitive output, but that's not always what the user intended Importantly, this behavior is deterministic. If the compiler takes your code and spits out something you did
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by thomascgalvin 2mo ago
Forced arbitration seems to be legally enforceable, and I don't see why this would be any different, but IANAL
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by thomascgalvin 3mo ago
> Our entire small team thumbs up a PR before it's merged unless there's a big rush on it, and this gives everyone on the team a rough idea of the state of the codebase at any given time. There's no being blindsided like &
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by thomascgalvin 3mo ago
> I got some people who mentioned an Acronym (the project they supported "for years") and asked them to define it, and they couldn't. That could be a valid test, but I do a lot of government contracting, and that industr
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by thomascgalvin 3mo ago
This site certainly makes some interesting usability choices. When the page loads, the article takes up about 25% of the screen, on the bottom right. It's basically in the exact place I wouldn't look for the content I loaded the p
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by thomascgalvin 3mo ago
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
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by thomascgalvin 4mo ago
They love programs that benefit them, and hate programs that benefit the "wrong" people. Also, the definition of "wrong people" is very easy to guess.
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by thomascgalvin 4mo ago
You're asking a question that only applies to rational actors. Corporations exist for one purpose: to get as much money as possible. Side concerns, which can range from "not destroying the environment" or "not destroying
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by thomascgalvin 4mo ago
People like Altman and Musk are saying that Universal Basic Income will be necessary once AI has fully automated away most jobs, but at the same time they aggressively fight against any kind of tax policy that would allow UBI to function. I
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by thomascgalvin 4mo ago
Nothing about this screams LLM; it's very clearly a riff on Just fucking use HTML and Just Fucking Use Postgres https://justfuckingusehtml.com/ https://www.justfuckingusepostgres.com/
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by thomascgalvin 4mo ago
I like go, but a lot of little things stop me from loving it. Like, enums. I get a lot out of the box when I use an enum in Java or Kotlin. Converting to/from a String is trivial. Type safety ... exists. I can do that in Go, but I have
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by thomascgalvin 4mo ago
> and what iphone model do these americans have? A smartphone is not an optional component of modern life. You need a smartphone to apply for many minimum wage jobs now
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by thomascgalvin 6mo ago
Peptides can have very powerful effects. Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) is a peptide, and it's probably the most exciting pharmaceutical in a generation. There are also peptides that seem to have similar effects as regular exercise;
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by thomascgalvin 6mo ago
This is a preview of what's to come, but not in the way people think. Oracle has dumped billions of dollars into AI, and planned to be the source of choice to build out AI data centers. They've taken on more debt in the past two y
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by thomascgalvin 6mo ago
I had to check if it was April Fool's Day
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by thomascgalvin 6mo ago
Anecdotally, I haven't seen any real improvement from the AI tools I leverage. They're all good-ish at what they do, but all still lie occasionally, and all need babysitting. I also wonder how much of the jump in early 2025 comes
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by thomascgalvin 8mo ago
This is what the internet was supposed to be
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by thomascgalvin 8mo ago
I am baffled that a site called "grub street" believes anyone is going to subscribe to their newsletter after zero free articles.
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by thomascgalvin 8mo ago
I'm not an expert in digital footprint-hiding, but it's probably a good idea to replace / remove the SIM card as well. A factory reset will leave data laying around, just not accessible through "normal" means.
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by thomascgalvin 8mo ago
> I have a hot take that MAHA is a modern eugenics movement The right wing in America isn't trying to improve the population, they're grifting and hoping that 1. they won't face the same consequences as their supporters, b
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by thomascgalvin 8mo ago
There is a massive difference between requiring scientifically, medically proven vaccines that have demonstrably ended terrible diseases that once absolutely ravaged our population, and requiring anybody to follow the "health recommend
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by thomascgalvin 8mo ago
The anti-vax movement was built entirely on a foundation of fraud [1]. That leaves us with two main categories of people who are anti-vaccination: 1. People who are ignorant 2. People who are using anti-vax propaganda for some kind of gain
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by thomascgalvin 9mo ago
Not OP: sure, just bookmark it
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by thomascgalvin 10mo ago
"Justice is hard, we'd rather have authoritarian power."
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by thomascgalvin 10mo ago
I have a pixel watch, and my main use for it is setting reminders, like "reminder 3pm put the laundry in the dryer". It's worked fine since the day I bought it. Last week, they pushed an update that broke all of the features
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by thomascgalvin 10mo ago
Their incentive structure doesn't lead to longevity. Nobody gets promoted for keeping a product alive, they get promoted for shipping something new. That's why we're on version 37 of whatever their chat client is called now.
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by thomascgalvin 10mo ago
This is beautiful
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by thomascgalvin 10mo ago
Full Self Driving determines that it is about to strike two pedestrians, one wearing a Tesla tshirt, the other carrying a keyfob to a Chevy Volt. FSD can only save one of them. Which does it choose ... /s

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