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by HillRat 3y ago
The actual specification ( https://atproto.com/guides/overview ) is relatively compact and quite readable.
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by HillRat 3y ago
Yeah, until the mid '00s you would run your db directly to raw disk devices, both in order to optimize the use of larger contiguous disk regions (disk drives were slow in those days!) and, crucially, because if/when your server
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by HillRat 3y ago
I once asked one of my oil majors clients why they hadn’t invested in nonconventionals, and he offhandedly replied, “We don’t understand why fracking works, and we don’t invest in anything where we don’t understand the downhole dynamics.” B
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by HillRat 3y ago
It's interesting but not yet compelling -- there just isn't enough data to support such an explosive claim, but there's enough to at least warrant further investigation. (My skepticism is somewhat heightened by the fact that
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by HillRat 3y ago
The Spry Fox fact pattern is distinguishable, I think, given that the defendant had access to privileged IP and had been negotiating to port the app before creating the knockoff after negotiations fell apart.
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by HillRat 3y ago
Creating a deepfake marketplace trading in celebrity and private-person identities is ... quite the choice to make, legally (and ethically) speaking.
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by HillRat 3y ago
You have to recall the context in which those provisions were passed: coming out of the Civil War, you had both Union and Confederate bonds and other public debts used to finance the war. Amongst the other conditions upon which the rebellio
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by HillRat 3y ago
Not totally sure this is eventually going to survive a Twiqbal appellate review, and even then it's hard for me to buy the judge's "first step" harm analysis here. I'd love to see the bar for private antitrust suits
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Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite(github.com)
354 points by HillRat 3y ago|233 comments
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by HillRat 3y ago
“Theoretically” only in the sense that most people won’t do it (since the data isn’t easily available, and you’d need to figure out who you were benchmarking against before requesting it), so the practical effect may be negligible.
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by HillRat 3y ago
In general, salaries are “hygiene factors” for retention — you lose people by underpaying, but you don’t in most cases improve retention by overpaying. There’s an interesting wrinkle in Finland in that income tax payer data are considered p
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by HillRat 3y ago
Although most of Musk's cost savings have been as surgically-precise as Leatherface with DTs, Twitter did ink a very bad fixed-cost contract with GCP that left them with a lot of unused cloud capacity that was being overpaid for. Shu
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by HillRat 3y ago
Yes, the current generally-but-not-universally-accepted standard is "hybrid encryption" (not the same "hybrid" as KEM/DEM, though you'd generally use hybrid encryption with a hybrid KEM/DEM cryptosystem),
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by HillRat 3y ago
Bluesky has more modest goals, so it hasn't siphoned away a huge number of users, but -- purely anecdotally -- it's picked up a lot of the high-profile, high-volume, wide-distribution posters, such as dril or, more recently, a lar
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by HillRat 3y ago
Well, a few hours ago I would have said “stable but sinking,” but now that Musk is moving to a mandatory subscription (for anti-bot reasons) I guess we can downgrade to “unstable and sinking.”
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by HillRat 3y ago
bsky probably holds the most promise, but the platform’s going through some Eternal September growth pains right now, and it’s not clear what will emerge once federation is baked in. Nonetheless, most of my Twitter subgraphs have migrated o
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by HillRat 3y ago
I think we're pretty much out of interesting things to say about post-acquisition Twitter (Twixtter?); it seems to have settled into a stable state of lower expenditures counterbalanced by a smaller userbase and significantly reduced a
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by HillRat 3y ago
Everyone's in "show your profits" mode, as befitting a mature market with smaller growth potential relative to the last few decades. Some of what we're talking about here is just what happens when a company tries to use
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by HillRat 3y ago
Apologies for not seeing this earlier; faced with an unfavorable ruling (and, I believe, the UCC coming into force in DC around that time, which surely couldn't have helped their position), the store dropped its attempts to repossess t
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by HillRat 3y ago
[M]onkeying with the business model doesn't just mildly irritate prospective customers, it can and does throw off years of planning for thousands of people per company. This, very much so. Unity made two cardinal sins: creating a pri
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by HillRat 3y ago
I'd argue that what Unity needs is someone who's got a background in enterprise software, because selling to game developers is very different than selling games. No one with (successful) executive experience in enterprise softw
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TikTok proposes giving US govt control over moderation, software, security(techdirt.com)
14 points by HillRat 3y ago|8 comments
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by HillRat 3y ago
Those attorneys who blindly used ChatGPT to generate a brief regarding MC99 liability (a field they had no experience in) are a good example, I think. Of course, in that case opposing counsel started looking at the cites and quickly had que
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by HillRat 3y ago
This case is a good example of the limits -- it's been held that once USCG begins an operation, they fall under "good Samaritan" requirements, which means (roughly) that they can't make things worse; and, if things get
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by HillRat 3y ago
There's an outstanding conflict between statutory law (which codifies a duty to rescue on all mariners) and case law (which has generally found that neither private nor public actors have a duty to assist), but once USCG has essentiall
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by HillRat 3y ago
The article characterizes him as a "moderate Republican," which is an endangered political class in the state. His core constituency is probably your median "social moderate/fiscal conservative/anti-labor" CxO
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by HillRat 3y ago
He's got a reputation for being particularly brutal on workers -- this is the guy who was, after all, responsible for Amazon's warehouse and logistics conditions, including working with GC Zapolsky to go after unionization and wor
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by HillRat 3y ago
Corporate mythmaking extols the cheap desks Bezos et al would construct out of sawhorses and reclaimed doors. IIRC -- or at least, as I was told -- they actually tried to mass-produce "door desks" when they first moved into their
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by HillRat 3y ago
Nope, because shrinkage is an expense against inventory in the accounting books; fundamentally, it's a "tax" on your COGS to get to your revenue. Overreporting losses is just a bit of financial kabuki to shift underperformanc
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by HillRat 3y ago
Both the parent article and this one seem to omit the first several seconds of the video, which shows what looks like dissipating smoke clouds above the plane; the woman filming it mentions hearing two explosions and seems to think it'

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