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by agilob 2y ago
My comment from 2 months ago saying: >FBI should go after OpenAI and Sam Altman the same way they went after Aaron Swartz. Should now be expanded to: FBI should go after OpenAI, Sam Altman and Meta the same way they went after Aaron Swar
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by agilob 2y ago
But we don't know if ISP aren't double charging them for the ads traffic. If they slow down traffic of some ad providers, it's end users who suffer
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by agilob 2y ago
> cannot turn off videos in a browser But ublock, VPN and DNS blockers are available on mobile
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by agilob 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/technology/net-neutrality...
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by agilob 2y ago
precedent? This is already a common practice. Since early 2010s ISPs were doing it in USA [1] and trying to lower net neutrality standards in Europe to do it [2]. That's how the whole net neutrality debate started in US https:/&#
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by agilob 2y ago
>I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Remember when in 2013, 2015 and in 2020 Facebook was caught faking/inflating ad-view numbers so they would charge their customers more? Now AI viewin
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by agilob 2y ago
>proud Black queer momma It's first time I hear about it, why is "Black" capitalised in that profile name?
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by agilob 2y ago
>Most code does not live for a long time. Sure, and here I am in a third company doing cloud migration and changing our default DB from MySQL to SQL server. The pain is real, 2 year long roadmap is now 5 years longer roadmap. All because
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by agilob 2y ago
Dead internet isn't a theory anymore, it's a product.
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by agilob 2y ago
>Why do they even need this data? They sell it of course.
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by agilob 2y ago
It's quite generic, because his target audience is what it is, but the sentence means the CT metrics were ok and no fault was visible in state reported to the engineers.
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by agilob 2y ago
click on the settings icon to change to English https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-vo...
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by agilob 2y ago
>a lot of access to the modern "highly connected" cars they are making The systems for this are super complex, we (software engineers) build absolutely huge and complex systems for everything. Lots of functionality is often for
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by agilob 2y ago
I like the wording here: >rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the vehicle itself. Because as we know Teslas and Cybertrucks don't randomly self-ignite https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-third-documented-te
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by agilob 2y ago
But don't visit McDonalds in the following days
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by agilob 2y ago
We have lots of trees in the area, it was said not to get close to bird poops and avoid contact with water where birds pollute.
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by agilob 2y ago
Back around 2007-2009 there was a risk of bird flu in central Europe. We had a local ban on washing cars except in fully automated car washes, it wasn't controversial at all. We just went along with it.
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by agilob 2y ago
the metric is in CPU cycles, not IOPS
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by agilob 2y ago
One interesting fact is that for one release of SQLite the team worked on lots of micro-optimisations that resulted in speed up of even 50% https://sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-faster-t...
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by agilob 2y ago
>But, unlike most databases, SQLite has a single writer model. As opposed to Redis (mentioned one line above the quote) which also is single-threaded?
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What if we didn't know we had a problem? And now it's "ooooh it's better now".
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On top of that I don't think it's fair to say it's 10x faster when it btree was tested only on integer index primary key column. Benchmarks with that bold statements should include short string (1-16 chars maybe) and UUID ind
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by agilob 2y ago
Check this list out: 1994 Top 50 Movies https://www.imdb.com/list/ls076329509/ You can recognise every of these movies by title Here TOP 50 movies list has no title from big streaming services: https://
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by agilob 2y ago
>Every app has a different design, almost every design is optimized based on your activity on said app, with each app trying to make you do different things in uniquely annoying ways Two ways that instantly hit me with Google is: 1. In G
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by agilob 2y ago
MS admitting their artificial "intelligence" is too stupid to understand tables, not even 20 hours after HN discussed how are developers preparing for AI to takeover our jobs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by agilob 2y ago
No, math is major part of writing good code, but when was the last time you've seen somebody put effort into writing O(n) algorithm? 99% of programming is "import sort from sort; sort.sortThisReallyQuick". Programming is most
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by agilob 2y ago
LLMs aren't supposed to do basic math, but be chat agents. Wolfram Alpha can't do chat.
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by agilob 2y ago
> (including, it seems, the jacket) Just 2 days ago, the police reported they found his backpack with jacket inside and a veterinary gun nearby... now he had the same jacket, backpack and another unlicenced gun with him. His eyebrows and
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by agilob 2y ago
What you're missing here (and all the media copy-pasting the review) is that the review is a quote from reddit.com/r/climate https://old.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/10j1le5/has_anyone...
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The wealth gap in 2012 US is larger than it was in pre-revolution France. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/us-inco...

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