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by ad_hockey 11mo ago
That actually does happen in Black Mirror, in the episode Fifteen Million Merits. There's a sort of deafening siren that goes off if the characters look away from the ad without paying to skip it.
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
They're an institution in the UK. They're in the arcades at every seaside town, and every kid plays them. Now that I have kids I actually think they're brilliant; for £2 each they taught mine everything they need to know abou
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
A couple of considerations are: - You have to decide whether to bump the entire API version or only the /foo endpoint. The former can be a big deal (and you don't want to do it often), the latter is messy. Especially if you end up
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
Same paper, they're just referencing it: > In 2014, Yuan et al. found that 92% of catastrophic failures in tested distributed systems were triggered by incorrect handling of nonfatal errors.
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
It gets tricky in a distributed system, or I suppose any server process. When the program crashes it just starts up again, and sometimes picks up the same input that caused the crash. Typical example would be processing an event that you ca
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
That decoy pricing trick is not a good strategy. It's very easy to see through, and will seriously annoy whoever you try it on. Somebody once produced a build vs buy analysis for me, and it was so obviously biased towards their preferr
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
Wouldn't that also apply to the spies, if they grew up in the US?
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by ad_hockey 1y ago
It's possible to have data races if you ignore the language conventions[1]. But even then, Go has provided an effective data race detection tool since 1.1: https://go.dev/blog/race-detector I've been using Go
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
It sounds more like a social network than social media, i.e the pre-timeline, pre-algorithm version of Facebook. Back when the content came from people you know rather than people you don't. I really like the idea, it sounds like a ver
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Something I find odd about Uncle Bob's style is the preference for reading and modifying shared state over pure functions that take args. It makes me do a double take when I read a method registerTheCandidateAsPrime() (taken from UB&#x
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Not just Nintendo. The PlayStation 4 controller had that touchpad in the middle that also clicked in to act as a button. I played a lot of games that used it as a button (usually to open a map, or something) and don't remember a single
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Agreed. To stretch the analogy, if I'm just replacing a fence panel or putting up a shelf then I'm not going to get an architect to create a blueprint. I'll know if it's right from the execution. I sometimes work in area
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Lamport's rationale is that after an architect designs a building, the builders may still put electrical sockets in the wrong place and make other mistakes. But that's not a reason to start construction without a plan at all.
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
> If fact checking doesn't necessarily "always work", then you should not call it fact checking. That is already a great reason why Community Notes are better. You can still call it fact checking, just as you can still cal
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
I sort of don't want to get into specific moderation examples, especially with Covid, because so many aspects of Covid are contentious. I'd just point out that this example has nothing to do with third party fact checkers, it was
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
It sounds like you are disagreeing with the concept of facts, but facts do exist. If someone claims that a politician said a particular thing in a speech yesterday, and the politician gave no speech yesterday, then the claim is factually fa
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
I was answering your question. You asked how fact checkers can be fact checked and the answer is like any other job. Fact checking isn't magic, and it's existed for a long time. It's basically what newspaper sub-editors do. &
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
> Indeed, how to fact check the fact checkers? Like any other work, it can be reviewed by supervisors within the company and/or the client (Meta). If a sample of an employee's work shows that they often hide content that isn&#x
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Don't be disheartened, there's room for more than one app in this space! Runna doesn't get everything right. It didn't seem good at adjusting your plan based on performance, if it even tries to do that at all. My first f
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Which is not unreasonable. I had a lot of success with Runna, which is also essentially premium only; you get the first two weeks free, but all running plans are longer than that. Runna is about £100 for the annual subscription.
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
I made that mistake as a new manager by picking up a small but important task in an area I knew well. I thought it would help unblock the team, but I didn't realise I was about to go into three days of back to back meetings. After the
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
Agreed. "Where's my dopamine" is the right way to describe it. As an IC I could find a bug, craft a test that reproduces it, write a fix, see the test go green, see the PR get approved and land... I'd get a little dopami
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by ad_hockey 2y ago
In my experience the distinction between Senior Engineer and Staff Engineer is meaningful, because they do very different jobs. A Senior's work is scoped to one team, reporting to an EM, and they do the usual stuff - work on tickets, r