veunes

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by veunes 15d ago
Data minimization becomes a lot less abstract once every unnecessary record on disk has an actual dollar value attached to the risk
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by veunes 15d ago
Yeah, the irony is that every extra signal added to make verification "safer" also becomes another extremely valuable thing to steal when the verifier gets breached
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by veunes 15d ago
Regulatory retention is a valid reason for some of this data to exist. It isn't a blanket justification for every intermediary in the verification chain to retain its own permanent copy. If anything, that makes minimizing the number of
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by veunes 15d ago
Yeah, this is the part I don't get either. Verification should produce a yes/no result, not a permanent archive of everyone's identity documents
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by veunes 17d ago
Definitely needs the traditional banana for scale, although in this case the banana might occupy half the cafe (just a joke, sorry (just in case))
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by veunes 17d ago
Wow, these are excellent. I clicked for the miniature craft and ended up staying for the tiny mouse drama
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by veunes 17d ago
The tiny newspaper and individually assembled tulips got me. There is a strange amount of joy in details that almost nobody will ever notice unless they stop and look closely.
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by veunes 19d ago
That is fascinating. The parakeets are basically providing an early warning system, and the dogs have figured out enough of their "language" to subscribe to it.
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by veunes 19d ago
What gets me is that it is not just "crows remember faces". Apparently the information can outlive the original encounter entirely. You can end up on the neighborhood crow blacklist without some of the crows ever having met you be
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by veunes 19d ago
That would explain why they sometimes seem perfectly relaxed until you look directly at them
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by veunes 19d ago
The iPad reflection trick is hilarious. You are basically observing him observing you while carefully pretending not to observe him.
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by veunes 23d ago
AI definitely lowers the cost of building these, but I think Ciechanowski's real contribution is upstream of the code. Knowing what to visualize and how to make interaction teach something rather than just look impressive is the rare p
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by veunes 23d ago
This is probably the healthiest way to use stylistic imitation: treat it as scaffolding, then figure out why it works and throw the scaffolding away
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by veunes 27d ago
I find these stories way more interesting than polished "history of computing" summaries
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by veunes 27d ago
I read the "now" as pure marketing. It creates a little sense of "this just got better" even if there was never actually a Tetris-less version on shelves
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by veunes 27d ago
The mystery isn't why Tetris was valuable though. It's why it was only mentioned on a sticker instead of being part of the original packaging
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by veunes 27d ago
Funny how much risk management is hidden in something as mundane as a sticker
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by veunes 27d ago
Sure, but then you're buying an e-bike. The interesting part of this thing, at least to me, is that it doesn't permanently turn your bike into one
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by veunes 1mo ago
I can see one audience: someone with a bike they already like who only occasionally needs assistance and wants the whole thing removable
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by veunes 1mo ago
The strange part is that they already have wireless communication in the system, so adding a simple handlebar remote doesn't seem like a huge engineering leap
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by veunes 1mo ago
$2k makes sense only if the bike underneath it is valuable enough that you specifically want to keep riding that bike
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by veunes 1mo ago
Wet-weather performance in particular seems like the thing I'd want to see independently tested
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by veunes 1mo ago
I kind of like this. Not because it's necessarily the best way to electrify a bike, but because it's removable enough that your bike can still just be... a bike
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by veunes 1mo ago
And I think the missing piece is what prevents this new workflow from eventually turning back into the same productivity ouroboros
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by veunes 1mo ago
I'm not sure "keep AI out of hobbies" quite works either. With young kids, reducing the activation energy can be the difference between doing a project and never doing it at all.
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by veunes 1mo ago
There are tasks where AI genuinely removes tedious work and then there are tasks where the tedious or uncomfortable part is actually the thinking you needed to do
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by veunes 1mo ago
This sounds like one of those cases where the opposition may be right about the project and still wrong about the mechanism
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by veunes 1mo ago
If the city thinks data centers are incompatible with certain areas, it should encode that through zoning, permitting, utility pricing, noise limits, etc.
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by veunes 1mo ago
A data center can be a much quieter neighbor than a warehouse or shopping center. The catch is that most of its impact is pushed into less visible systems
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by veunes 1mo ago
Maybe, but "this would probably have been fine five years ago" is not a very reassuring standard. The physical impact matters more than whether the racks are running email servers or training models.

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