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by _jal 3y ago
> Expressiveness is a really hard skill that take years to master It is worse than that. Being good at expressive, self-documenting code correlates with strong communication skills and empathy. So programmers who get good at it tend to i
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by _jal 3y ago
Nation-states are not people. The people running the nation of which I'm a citizen have interests that are not fully aligned with my personal interests, and to the extent that the nation itself can be said to have interests, those are
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by _jal 3y ago
Yep. I also personally managed to drop out of both high school and college.
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by _jal 3y ago
We are heavy postgres users, and we do both SOC2 and a more stringent audit demanded by our corporate parent. Lots of roles, lots of RLS, encrypted media, additional column-level encryption for some specific things for not great reasons). T
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by _jal 3y ago
That's fine if you want a bucket of bits instead of a database. You can even make it easier by making one big table with an ID and blob, and just serialize | encrypt state to the DB. Easy-peasy. If you want to use the "R" in
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by _jal 3y ago
I won't say "small town anywhere", that's probably not true. But also true of small town Tennessee. "Everybody knew" the sheriff took kickbacks from the bootleggers (it was, and still is, a dry county), and pro
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by _jal 3y ago
They're also using LLMs to write articles. I don't understand why they think I or anyone else won't just skip the part where they lard it up with ads and just talk to the robot directly.
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by _jal 3y ago
I came in to my current gig as the first devops hire. We were a lot smaller then. 8 years on, I'm managing an infrastructure team alongside ops and devops teams. We also draw lines a little differently; infrastructure manages core ser
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by _jal 3y ago
The better question is at what level customers start treating service employees like real human beings.
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by _jal 3y ago
Same reason you see so many never-gonna-happen startups in the Valley. There are two rules to remember in markets like this: (1) If things keep happening, someone is getting paid. (2) If you look around the table can't can't spot
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by _jal 3y ago
I still don't know what a "power user" is supposed to be, after seeing the term for like 30 years. Seems to describe a range from "able to leap tall spreadsheets in a single bound" to "the person in the office
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by _jal 3y ago
> What exactly is the rush here to come out with results right now?! Well, the work is happening right now . You seem to want to make it sound like impatient kids being unreasonable or something, which is a ridiculous read. It is more a
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by _jal 3y ago
> To be fair, no one in the us has a grant to replicate something that came out this week And yet researchers in other countries managed to find the money this week. That would seem to point to a real relative weakness that's worth
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by _jal 3y ago
That doesn't describe the process. We're not talking about the privatization of a previously public space, it is closer to a long running bait-and-switch con. If the telephone were invented today, we'd be listening to ads ins
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by _jal 3y ago
Just to underline this, after years of plague, war and uncertainty, I think this is a great, positive thing, whatever happens. I'm annoyed with someone I was talking to about this, who either can't or won't stop ranting about
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by _jal 3y ago
If you default to js off, you'll spot them quickly. I generally just head to the next site on my list/search results.
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by _jal 3y ago
> They are the way they are because of the various incentives, organizational politics Congrats, you just provided a description of "power structures". Now you know. > Rather than declaring them part of a fascist plot Especi
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by _jal 3y ago
I don't see why they can't offer the same to humans, at least as an option. There are a few sites I impersonate Googlebot to, they're much more usable that way.
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by _jal 3y ago
Heard. FF is the least irritating of a bad lot. I'd really like a "programmer's build" or something, with knobs for this stuff - FF used to be better about exposing them in preferences, even if it was a bit obscure. I ca
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by _jal 3y ago
Amazon is at least as awful. I cancelled Prime about a year ago - delivery sucks at my location with their logistics and I just don't want to deal with it. I still occasionally order some things that are hard to find elsewhere, I just
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by _jal 3y ago
If people in positions of power fail to avoid the appearance of impropriety, they erode faith in the system. That leads to very real corruption, even if the original acts were ethical. And from a practical standpoint, any honest politician
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by _jal 3y ago
The original assertion is ambiguous - we can't determine if the GP meant that their cat operates a printing press that outputs currency, or that the cat itself outputs currency. Honestly, I'd be pretty interested either way.
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by _jal 3y ago
This is what you get when you let an advertising/surveillance oligopolist design your privacy permissions.
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by _jal 3y ago
Xitter has moved from offering 50% off ad purchases of $250k a couple months ago to threatening removal of "gold checks" from companies that don't spend $1k. That is not the strategy of a healthy advertising-driven company. I
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by _jal 3y ago
Yeah, same here. For my purposes, Mastodon is superior to what Twitter was at its peak. I only look at Xitter for Ukraine news - that community hasn't migrated elsewhere. But that's mostly on third-party pages, I don't log in
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by _jal 3y ago
"I would rather scold people than read for comprehension" is, well, sadly typical HN any year.
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by _jal 3y ago
By making Linux less attractive to me.
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by _jal 3y ago
Personally I'm much more annoyed by taking control of how I partition my fucking drives. Yes, I know why. IBMHat makes me like FreeBSD more with every power grab.
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by _jal 3y ago
Yep. That's why I just leave a brick on the brake pedal. Infinite range!
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by _jal 3y ago
> I’m just curious - Some people are committed to open source. - Some people want to play with/learn/modify the technology, not just use it instrumentally. - Some people want to play with these models without the surveillance t

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