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by acdha 4mo ago
I cancelled my Instagram account when they added those terms in the early 2010s. At the time it was mostly photographers reading them and closing accounts but it wasn’t exactly a secret.
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by acdha 4mo ago
Thanks to barratry the one developed in the 90s was pulled from the market on spurious grounds: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/ The good news is that there’s a promising new one in the pipeline b
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by acdha 4mo ago
New is heavily solar, yes, but there’s still too much natural gas and the administration is deeply committed to returning the investment fossil fuel companies made in the president’s campaign so I wouldn’t bet on that continuing. What’s mor
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by acdha 4mo ago
The problem is that we don’t correctly price pollution: it’d be one thing if this boom meant acres of solar panels and wind turbines getting greenlit but in practice it means keeping some dirty plants online and building out new pollution c
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by acdha 4mo ago
More electricity than water around here—rates going up gets everyone’s attention—but there’s nothing supposedly about the water use: data centers don’t consume the water permanently but they still put stress on systems which weren’t designe
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by acdha 4mo ago
Maybe it’s not as much cheaper but it’s cheaper than gas anywhere in the country.
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> You got stuck in a ditch in the middle of nowhere at night, you loss all of your battery getting out of it, and now you are stuck. I find it interesting how you’re presenting that incredibly unlikely scenario as a serious objection to
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by acdha 4mo ago
Don’t forget senior management salivating about laying you off.
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by acdha 4mo ago
This is has been significantly overstated my entire life - people making this claim always point to the women’s studies faculty and don’t mention how many engineering, Econ, law, etc. faculty are more conservative — but it more deeply misse
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by acdha 4mo ago
Oracle, no question. They were so much better at executing competently.
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I’m sure it was a combination of factors. One thing to remember back then was that Apple’s position was far more tenuous than now - Microsoft owned the desktop and server market, and the established phone companies were deeply entrenched wi
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by acdha 4mo ago
Biden was elected _after_ Trump broke the deal so it's unclear why you think that tells us anything about what would have happened had the United States honored the treaty.
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by acdha 4mo ago
Adobe has always been like this, too. They squandered an enormous marketshare with Flash because the alternative would've been spending a couple million on QA and they managed to unite all of the browser manufacturers in agreement that
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by acdha 4mo ago
The parser is broken. The CSS standard says that parsers MUST ignore properties they don't recognize.
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by acdha 4mo ago
Look, I like Rust and ported every bit of C I used to it a decade ago but this is not a compelling argument. The coreutils rewrite is an existence proof that the typing system doesn’t motivate this class of error and a moment’s thought woul
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by acdha 4mo ago
My point about coreutils was that they’re rarely used in situations where an attacker can provide arbitrary input - it’s more like race conditions with code already running on the same system trying to escalate access – so what you need to
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by acdha 4mo ago
EVs have been better for ~90% of the driving most people do for a decade, but a lot of people held back because they fixated on things like epic road trips or needing to haul many sheets of plywood. What a price shock does is force people t
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by acdha 4mo ago
People who accept the reality of climate change have been calling for that since the return to office push started. Unfortunately, they don’t have a multi-billion dollar marketing budget like the fossil fuel industry or the political partie
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by acdha 4mo ago
coreutils was a category error: they took a set of tools which were not very exposed to memory safety errors and rewrote them in a language which does nothing to prevent the kind of logic errors coreutils has suffered from (mostly races aro
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by acdha 4mo ago
They bought Doubleclick and turned into an ad company. They haven’t launched a good or popular product since.
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by acdha 4mo ago
You have to remember that most companies _chose_ to setup DEI programs: it was a routine recommendation from lawyers because it gave them a string defense in lawsuits — the next time some manager abuses their position, they can cut that per
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by acdha 4mo ago
That’s a rather stunning comparison: racism is a problem because it’s unfairly treating sentient beings but a pile of linear algebra is not even sentient, much less your peer. That’s part of why I used the term: “agent” isn’t current becaus
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by acdha 4mo ago
Also the merits of documentation and specs. It’s been eye-opening to see the subset of developers who were almost disdainful about writing documentation for their colleagues but are now tripping over themselves to do so for their clanker.
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by acdha 4mo ago
Who said it was? My point was simply that if you’re doing something like getting data in and out of a SQL database using web forms, you can avoid a ton of overhead and deliver a better user experience without using an SPA, and of course the
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by acdha 4mo ago
It can be really difficult for people with screen readers: focus jumps, inconsistent update flow, too many or not enough announcements, etc. People just want to live their lives, not have to threaten 508 to be able to pay their cable bill a
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by acdha 4mo ago
I miss being able to talk about business more, too, but a lot of people who grew up in the Obama-era tech boom seemed to have a blind spot about how much this macro stuff affects everything we do. The big money is both piling into a small n
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by acdha 4mo ago
This is especially true because so much of that data comes from outside of your organization. I receive Google Calendar invites from scammers a couple of times a week and those show up in my invitation list just like anything else. If LLMs
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by acdha 4mo ago
I used to think that was true but I now think it’s only true for very interaction-heavy apps: if you have hundreds of interactions on a page over many minutes, using an SPA is amortized across a lot of time, but if it’s something you could
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by acdha 4mo ago
> I think agents are scary and complicated and dangerous enough that it is genuinely scary to give an agent an instruction like go buy this ticket These ones also seem really weird because the baseline is most often someone using the iOS
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by acdha 4mo ago
Don’t forget Google search and Copilot giving you wrong answers. The first time someone gets graded poorly or called out at work for obviously not checking what they sent tends to reframe their perspective.

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