Vinnl

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by Vinnl 8mo ago
That's cool and all, but them investing $1,100 and two weeks of one engineer's time doesn't yet give me confidence that they're in this for the long haul. It'll be interesting to see how long the long tail of remain
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
I'm actually surprised that this is the only hit I get when I search these comments for "matrix".
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
You'd almost wonder if there wouldn't be more to it.
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
Ah yeah, I remember that. General point still stands: in terms of the lived experience of developers, `var` is essentially deprecated.
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
One question I have, that perhaps you might be able to answer (though I see you've gotten too many replies to this comment already): I'm aware of a number of such systems being developed, and "is over 18" is always the e
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
> It also bans jailbreaking/rooting your device, and requires GooglePlay Services/IOS equivalent be installed to "prevent tampering". IIRC that was only for a prototype or reference implementation.
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
I kinda like the way JS evolved into a modern language, where essentially ~everyone uses a linter that e.g. prevents the use of `var`. Sure, it's technically still in the language, but it's almost never used anymore. (Assuming tra
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
Ah yes, robots_georg.txt.
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Dutch regulators block access to Polymarket over illegal gambling(nltimes.nl)
3 points by Vinnl 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
No that's fair, I was wondering whether to look up a fully accurate definition (ironically), but figured it didn't really matter for the point that people use it to mean what it sounds like, instead of what it was defined like. An
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
A fun one I recently encountered: I was asked to estimate the number of story points a ticket would take, using "1 story point equals 1 day of work, so if e.g. you need 7 days of work, that would be 7 story points". Not sure what
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
"Enshittification" caught on, but also sounds like it just means "turned to shit" (rather than: companies run at a loss to capture the market with a good product, then once they do, turn the product to shit to extract as
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Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Vinnl 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
I think that that's the Deep Web.
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
IIRC, the goal was for Fluent to have a convertor or something to be able to work with MessageFormat 2.0, but I don't quite remember where I heard that. My approach has just been to stick to Fluent for now.
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
Yeah it's actually MessageFormat 2 [1] that's very informed by Fluent's design I believe; I think that comparison is to "normal" MessageFormat. [1] https://messageformat.unicode.org/
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
Yes, Fluent informed much of the design of MessageFormat. See this FOSDEM talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/mozilla_intme...
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
This post shows a lot of the challenges with localisation, that many seemingly simple tools don't have an answer to: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/fluent-1-0-a-localization-... (Fluent informed much of th
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
There's plenty of difference within English accents as well. I'll generally classify any of them as English, I think. That said, when I use the term British accent, I do usually mean English, I think. Sorry. Also sorry for all the
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
Yeah that's why it's hard to prove. However, it does show that infrastructure experts who actually care about safety (and have achieved the safety numbers to support it) reach for a lot of other measures before they do helmet mand
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts
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Euronews: How Europe's broadcaster became an influence network(euractiv.com)
6 points by Vinnl 8mo ago|0 comments
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
As a software engineer who's had to interact with Discord only a handful of times, I had no idea when other people could hear me or where I had to click to find people I was looking for.
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by Vinnl 8mo ago
Can't resist taking this bait, but I feel like the consensus is pretty much that as an individual, choosing to wear a helmet will make you safer, and as a society, mandating bike helmets (and other measures that will cause people to us
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
It sounds to me like the goal there is to spell out everything you don't want the agent to make assumptions about. If you let the agent make the plan, it'll still make those assumptions for you.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
FWIW, NLNet is distributing EU funds, not Dutch funds. That said, the Dutch government is collaborating with La Suite (fr) and OpenDesk (de): https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
> People always will want the fastest, best, easiest setup method When there are no other downsides, sure. But when the frontier companies start tightening the thumbscrews, price will influence what people consider good enough.
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
As I understand it, it's not all of it in Solvinity's hands; I think it's mostly infrastructure. Still, apparently it's not a matter of pushing a button to migrate off of that infrastructure.
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The Netherlands rethinks its US tech addiction(politico.eu)
29 points by Vinnl 9mo ago|5 comments
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by Vinnl 9mo ago
All they'd learn that way is that that phone number has a Signal account, when it was registered, and when it was last active. In other words, it doesn't tell them whether it's part of a given Signal group. (See https:/

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