Alex3917

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by Alex3917 1y ago
> What’s stopping a similar crisis that 23andMe customers faced where their genetic data along with their identifying information getting sold to the highest bidder if you ever become insolvent? Nucleus employee here. Nucleus is a medica
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> But then at the end it added a "Fun fact" that unicode actually does have a seahorse emoji, and proceeded to melt down in the usual way. To be fair, most developers I’ve worked with will have a meltdown if I try to start a co
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by Alex3917 1y ago
There is at least one service that scrapes and archives the DKIM keys of popular websites.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
More common than needing stitches? That’s hard to believe.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> It’s still the best measure we have, though you should obviously know that LDL measured while on statins is lower than it would be normally. I'm not a doctor, but doesn't LDL basically just prevent the body from healing damag
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by Alex3917 1y ago
Seems like a reasonable policy. Given that the most talented tech workers, the ones the H1-B visas are designed to make it easier bring to the U.S., are getting $100M+ signing bonuses right now, a $100k/yr fee seems pretty trivial in c
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by Alex3917 1y ago
Given that AI has made repeatedly pulling the lever on the world's biggest digital slot machine feel like building a valuable software business, is it really any wonder that a lot of the younger founders who are raising seed rounds are
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> Next.js is easily the worst technology I've ever used. To be fair, this is partly on the kind of people who use it. E.g. if you're trying to build something that's intended to last for 10+ years but you don't think
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by Alex3917 1y ago
Really just one major breaking refactor in 13 years, and that is partly because not only have we learned a ton, but browsers themselves have changed dramatically. I'm not going to say it was perfectly handled, but they also didn't
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> I find it a tough sell to add another 20 years to life expectancy 20 years would be difficult, but 10 or so years would be very attainable.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
em dashes are for denoting emphasis, whereas en dashes are for connecting compound words or phrases.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> I'm more talking about the particular contrastive structure. But that's one of the main uses of emdashes, for signaling that the second half of the sentence is more important than the first half. If you Ctrl-F for emdashes on
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> I can't stop seeing the LLM verbiage everywhere I look. emdashes have been pretty popular among net native folks for the last 20+ years, e.g. if you were to look back at the most popular Kuro5hin stories from ~2001 - 2005, you&#x2
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by Alex3917 1y ago
I mean with LLMs you just copy-paste in the input format of your new CMS and then upload your export file. Even if it only took 15 minutes before, it now takes 0 minutes.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
At least with LLMs, we can just write a query to migrate the export to whatever target format we want. The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
I have no doubt that it wasn't vc profitable, but my assumption (without any inside info) is that the real issue is that they were using some hacked up version of Movable Type that they couldn't upgrade. It's frustrating thou
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by Alex3917 1y ago
This. Claims of a universal antiviral are as old as western medicine itself. Literally the only reason anyone knows what the Hippocratic oath is is because Hippocrates was already famous at the time for promoting elderberry as the universal
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> From that perspective a one person unicorn is very feasible if we think about it as building a network effect monopoly. To build a one person unicorn, the main thing you need is an arbitrage opportunity for getting users that is unattr
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by Alex3917 1y ago
When using it to write code, what I'm seeing so far is that it's spending less effort trying to reason about how to solve problems from first principles, and more effort just blatantly stealing everything it can from open source p
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The Enshittification of Tech Jobs(doctorow.medium.com)
10 points by Alex3917 1y ago|0 comments
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> A decent case of Python 4.0? I definitely agree with this eventually, but for now why not just let developers set `dynamic=False` on objects and make it opt in? This is how Google handles breaking Angular upgrades, and in practice it w
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> This is exactly the reason why Computer Vision approaches for parsing PDFs works so well in the real world. One of the biggest benefits of PDFs though is that they can contain invisible data. E.g. the spec allows me to embed cryptograp
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> Everyone is still guessing. This isn't actually true, as the article points out; there is actually tons of empirical research.
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by Alex3917 1y ago
If you think about all the software you use or interact with on a daily basis, the median one is probably around 30 years old. The issue isn't that skills are becoming less valuable, it's that folks have attention spans that are t
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by Alex3917 1y ago
Yeah unfortunately they are tricky to get rid of once you have them. In theory I can forward the email from one account to another, but in practice it's hard to think through all the weird security issues that might arise from doing so
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Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page(imgur.com)
207 points by Alex3917 1y ago|49 comments
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by Alex3917 1y ago
I don't remember the exact details, but it basically involved something along the lines of: 1) Loop through a list of permissions in a for list 2) After the loop block, check if the user had a certain permission. The line of code perfo
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by Alex3917 1y ago
> `for i in range(5): ...` will leave `i` bound to 4 after the loop. reply This "feature" was responsible for one of the worst security issues I've seen in my career. I love Python, but the scope leakage is a mess. (And ye
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by Alex3917 1y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a reason why you are using ELO proper, rather than one of the ELO variants that doesn't make assumptions about the distribution of results? E.g.: https://github.com/pfmonville/whole_histo
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by Alex3917 1y ago
The ambient soundscapes of Burial's self-titled album have some similarities to the sonic soundscapes of pet sounds.

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