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by alkonaut 1y ago
Once it reaches the highest court, it will set precedent. So there is no real difference in the end it just takes more time because no precedent is set in a lower court.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Can't some shady legal firm now just dig out who is in the exact same situation as this user, and sue on behalf of them, keeping (say) 10%? I'd be happy to let them. But in the end this kind of thing shouldn't be regulated by
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Similarly, I call Java programs "Object Oriented programs" despite Alan Kays protests that it isn't at all what Object Orientation was described as in early papers. The sad truth is that it's the less widely used concept
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by alkonaut 1y ago
So the question is: after I orphaned a commit how do I _truly_ make sure it's not visible anywhere on github? Is there no way short of contacting customer support to GC a repo? Shouldn't this just basically be a button on the repo
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I agree with most of this. Writing code is one of the easy bits of Software Development. Writing the specifications about what to write is hard. Once you can specify what to create, and do it well, then actually creating it is quite cheap.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I don't believe these are causally connected to any significant degree until I see any evidence for it.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I don’t see how that applies to be honest. The default has changed to html a long time ago and that’s what people expect. What would be great would be if clients detected when I send an email with only text and just chose to format it as pl
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by alkonaut 1y ago
You’ll need to hope I can guess it. But in most orgs this isn’t a problem. My guess is nearly all email is within an organization where no one chooses mail programs. If you send a plain text email you’ll likely get one in response. But the
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Making more than a completely negligible group of people change tools - or even the settings of their tools - is what’s a lost cause. The easiest way for this crusade to succeed would be to take aim at Outlook and Gmail and try to make them
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Hard no. Use whatever format and formatting your recipient wants. What they want is just a function of what client they use. If you are in an Outlook organization then just do whatever outlook does. If you send to an external recipient you’
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by alkonaut 1y ago
WYSIWYG doesn't necessarily mean you are limited to using some designer and can't edit code. It's enough (and better) to have a live preview, than a full designer. It just means you see live what the code does, at the point w
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I suppose it may be related to the overall "looser" grip on who exists, and what counts as collateral. If I "default" on a loan, the lender is still pretty safe to get back most or all of it, since any loan is secured by
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Does anyone else live in a place where there isn't a visible "score" for how valuable you are, but rather only a "credit check" for how risky you are, which is performed if you apply for new credit (buying anything
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I have used HA quite a bit and been burned. I think in the choice between graphical "no code" or "low code" and yaml, I choose yaml. But to do imperative logic there is just one useful way: a proper programming language.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I'm sure there's no amount of ads or social media that will rot your brain faster than trying to do programming in YAML.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Thanks. Autocrat jokes basically writing themselves at this point.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Yes I was primarily thinking about regime survival in Washington, not Teheran.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Iran doesn’t have air superiority (you probably misread which countries’ regime I meant…)
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Bombing government military infrastructure (not terrorist cells or similar) is as clear as it gets. If this isn’t an act of war then nothing is. And that’s a terrifying thought because that means a single person can start a war without co
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by alkonaut 1y ago
There are 3 lead characters in this tragedy of a play. And what they have in common is that all 3 try to cling to power because the alternative is prison (at best).
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by alkonaut 1y ago
The lack of appetite in the US didn’t stop this. And the lack of appetite among normal Iranians won’t matter much. War is better for regime survival than peace. This is a country ruled by a very scared elite that isn’t held accountable for
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by alkonaut 1y ago
It’s turtles all the way down
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Yes, I mean "having both capabilities" at all. It shouldn't.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
As I understood it, it makes a difference between R&D on one hand, and "maintenance" on the other hand. This has resulted in that my US corporate overlords are shifting maintenance work to the US (better for taxes) and doing g
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Without having given this much thought, my base assumption would be that I wouldn’t allow an LLM to communicate with the outside world in any capacity at the same time as it has access to any sensitive data. With this simple restriction (co
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Depends on their stance on the issue but individuals don’t necessarily share the views of their employers. WaPo is by no means worst here. But their omission of Adblock in this article means they can’t be credible.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I don’t know, isn’t ”AI” more a family of technologies like neural networks etc? Facial recognition using such tech is and was always AI, while adaptive cruise control using a single distance sensor and PID regulation is just normalcontrol”
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Getting privacy advice from an adtech funded outlet sounds like reading democracy advice from the Chinese ruling party or vegetarianism advice from lions to be honest. It might be correct-and-incomplete but they just have no credibility on
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by alkonaut 1y ago
That people ask for it doesn’t make it a good idea. Even if it’s a good idea and people asked for it that doesn’t mean people used it because they might not know about it. Is the feature prominent or intuitive enough? Should it be described
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Not having this info means you pay for unnecessary features, get bugs fixed slower, pay for expensive surveys or user studies etc. Sending it in and wasting some cpu/network may be the cheapest option. Because users are paying for it o

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