JoshTriplett

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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> These responses seem to me to make it abundantly clear who's telling the truth here. I wonder who this fools. Anyone who just reads headlines, if the lie gets around to more headlines than the truth does.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> Can you explain the difficulty in engineering a search apparatus over a corpus of text data? My guess: "If we ever imply that's possible, people might start asking questions about all the other work we've ripped off, s
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
We can work on multiple things at once. Defeatism doesn't solve anything. We just have a lot of work to do in many different areas.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
What evidence, short of an actual apocalypse happening, would invalidate that belief of yours?
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
Please don't. I find such services obnoxious , especially when they aggressively log you back out. Chasing down a link in your email is much slower than having your password manager fill in the long unique random password and hittin
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> How do you prevent credential stuffing attacks? CAPTCHAs don't work anymore , at this point. AI can trivially solve them. Rate-limit the number of attempts, test accounts against known-password lists like HIBP, and support 2FA.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
In the context of a company doing something like this, intent does not matter in the slightest.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
Excellent. Sign me up, instantly . Would buy on launch day.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> I think it's usually not malice, it's incompetence. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, and should be treated accordingly.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> If they go out of business the world can move on with substantial improvement to quality of life. Goals: build a company such that people don't think the world would be better off if you don't exist.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
Literally my current computer monitor, but no, does not work as a living room TV. (Also, would not recommend as a monitor; aggressive ABL and persistent messages about turning off for maintenance.) When I said 55+ I was talking about the wh
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
That would be lovely. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, nobody sells (for instance) high-quality 65"+ OLED non-"smart" TVs. "dumb TV" options are limited to older display technology.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> Weirdly, the response from the rustc side (IIRC we also talked with one of the devs of wasm component on discord a bit) has contained a lot of (paraphrasing) "in retrospect we think wasm32-unknown-unknown target was designed badly
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
There is subtext to my argument, namely that you're the one standing in front of the bus, and trying to pull the rest of us in front of the bus, while shouting at the people standing safely out of the road. I'll continue to reje
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
HN can't put you in jail. Freedom of association and freedom of speech go hand in hand. You can say whatever you like. You should not be arrested for it. People may choose not to associate with you, or not to do business with you, or n
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
You seem to be not picking up on the subtext here. Others are, though.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
Yes, it is. But the important question is, which person is the one standing in front of the bus ?
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> We shouldn't look to the black market as cost discovery for these vulnerabilities We absolutely should. One of the points of bug bounties is to discourage people from selling to the black market.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> What happens when you run out of banks There are many, many banks and credit unions out there. Not all of them treat customer service as less important than whatever optimization they were trying to do.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> A few years ago I got an "Ok" TV, sold in Germany, house-brand of Saturn/Mediamarkt. I'm guessing this is probably on par with Sceptre TVs in the US. > My next purchase is gonna be a projector, so I hope those al
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> I happened to walk past a branch of my bank, and remembered my debit card is playing up due to wear-and-tear, so I popped in to order a replacement. I made the request and the first response was "do you have our banking app, you c
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
It's no longer possible to buy any non-low-end TV that is not smart. "Vote with your wallet" doesn't help you much if there aren't any good candidates to vote for.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
Among other things, it's less about searching the web , and more about reliably surfacing your history and bookmarks and already open tabs .
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
That's a trademark issue, not a copyright issue.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> I do cringe when people insist on "an + h" where the h is in fact invariably pronounced, as in "an historic occasion". Some people do in fact say "istoric", which seems largely like an affectation.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
And cigarette companies wouldn't have manipulated the levels of nicotine in their cigarettes if it didn't work.
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> He points out the value of introspection, which the literary culture has in spades, but the scientific culture utterly lacks. I think you're drastically overgeneralizing. There exist many scientists who think about the impact and
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Which he described as "solving the AI alignment problem".
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
Some UK speakers pronounce "H" as "haitch" (with a non-silent leading 'h'), not "aitch". Which leads to "a haitch tee ...". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Name
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by JoshTriplett 1mo ago
> Funny tidbit: "missile" used to be an adjective, "a missile weapon" = "a weapon than can be sent/thrown". Related bit of comedy: > Note also that the correct term for 'a missile to be deployed

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