LunaSea

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by LunaSea 3y ago
Indeed, if it's a one-time only, account creation or long duration authentication system, spam bots reusing said account afterwards would be an issue. I guess that "always on" verification or short duration authentication cou
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Since Graviton3 still isn't available in most regions, especially on the RDS side, I'm really not holding my breath.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
I have been thinking about this exact question (how to verify that a user is a human) and I still don't have a good answer for it. At least not in a non-dystopian way. Sam Altmann's WorldCoin tries to achieve this using retina sca
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> Their argument, the main one, is also that consent should be freely given but if one choice is behind a paywall while the other isn't then the choice isn't freely given. How is it not? Aren't you free to not use the solu
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by LunaSea 3y ago
One of NOYB's arguments is that cost is too high and thus excludes lower classes unable to pay for the subscription. I don't see how making the user's only choice be to pay this subscription is a solution to that problem?
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> It is not obvious how to find a better way to filter. An open exam process where anyone can take the test and receive a diploma for each individual class. A bit like how professional certifications work. That way, no matter the way you
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Problems I encountered with polar was that the immutability meant that copies of the dataframe were generated and not cleaned up fast enough.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Are you not getting OutOfMemory erros? We are in the same scenario (querying lots of Parquet files in S3) and we noticed that DuckDB quickly crashes with OOMs in environments with a few gigs of RAM. Setting the memory limit setting or the d
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Thanks for answering the question. So it seems that it takes 80 years for the American government to do something about it. Well past the golden age of profit of the tobacco industry. Now please explain to me again how this is the justice s
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Ten years on and I still don't understand the point of WebAssembly. The tech is insanely complex and well done. I'm just not sure about the problem it's trying to solve.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
How long after the dangers of smoking were known? Aren't these same companies owners of large vaping brands now btw?
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by LunaSea 3y ago
America suddenly suying after Monsanto was bought by a European company, Bayer. What a coincidence!
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Couldn't you say the same about undersea pipeline which did get attacked?
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Good ole cartel oriented programming
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Calling them clowns would be an insult to clowns.
856.
by LunaSea 3y ago
It's a legal requirement
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by LunaSea 3y ago
You will be able to store the data but no query it. Vector indexes are very large, almost the size of the original data, and that needs to fit into the database memory ideally.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> It is literally Amazon’s business to offer pricing at equal to or better than their competitors. For their own products they can. For third-party items, Amazon is free to lower their margin.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
The usual racket
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by LunaSea 3y ago
We used to split logs into two buckets at work, one containing parsable log lines that used the expected format and schema and then the rest in the second one. That way we could centralise all logs and detect different kinds of failures, li
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> I think you have a flawed conception of how fines are supposed to work… Fine amounts are not related to company revenue but it gives you an idea of the impact it might have on the company and the sentencing differences when we are talk
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> Honeywell was recently fined for FCPA violations. They were fined a third of what Alstom while having double the revenue. This only happened because both Brazil and Algeria got involved. > I don't see it as overreach that the U
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> US companies are also sued and fined in the US for breaking these laws. Could you give me some examples? Also, US suing EU companies for things happening in developing countries is a mind blowing overreach of US territorial jurisdictio
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> Only one of those was bought by an American company Yes, the operation failed in the case of Airbus because they were smart enough to raise the issue themselves in the UK to avoid being sued in the US. Alstom was bought by GE and Techn
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Sure: Airbus, Alstom and Technip are a few examples. They were usually sued for corruption in developing countries to obtain contracts. They were however sued in the US even though they are not headquartered there, had to pay huge fines tha
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Not if you need to produce a new light bulb
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by LunaSea 3y ago
Simply a tit-for-tat for all the EU companies that were sued in the US the last ten or fifteen years.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
And then completely lost the plot and has been behind Chrome for the last ten years.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
The advantage of pg_vector is that you don't need a second, specialised database and you also don't need to synchronise data. It makes much more operational sense to use pg_vector if your use case can be implemented tha way.
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by LunaSea 3y ago
> Yes. I assumed that most people on this website understand the inherent value in abstract thiking and broadly applicable problem solving techniques. This absolutely doesn't match what is thought in elementary and secondary schools

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