ben_jones

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by ben_jones 2y ago
“Vote with your wallet”
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Because eventually premium users will get ads too as we are seeing with many other streaming services. First it’s pay, no ads. Then it’s higher tier for no ads. Then it’s higher tier no ads but watch a trailer at the beginning. Then it’s hi
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> but it's the industry standard. I strongly disagree with this statement. Even at the most bubbly of Silicon Valley events you will not see kubernetes for a smaller deployment be an industry standard. It’s ok to make architectural
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by ben_jones 3y ago
> I wish audit tools and corporate policies are smart The ball is in the court of the enterprise purchaser mandating the auditing company and they don’t give a ** if your dev team has to hot swap a yaml parsing library
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Firebase attracts teams that don’t have the experience to stand up a traditional database - which at this point is a much lower bar thanks to tools like RDS. That is a giant strobing red light of a warning for what security expectations sho
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Before Apple/Android CarPlay/auto drivers would get the equivalent of a refrigerator magnet and stick their phone to the center dash. By comparison a larger resolution and UI restrictions on controls and apps make this outcome saf
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Let’s be honest how aware were British citizens of events in Bengal under wartime censorship?
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by ben_jones 3y ago
I’m glad this exists but would caution extensibility as the most important thing for devs to consider when picking there “ORM” stack especially in terse Golang. For that I use squirrel which uses the builder pattern to compose sql strings.
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by ben_jones 3y ago
> I can’t want for them to use AI to remaster Star Trek Next Gen (and other old sci-fi) into 4K. This kind of application hurts nobody. If the remaster only improves video and audio fidelity sure. But they may also swap out characters, p
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Call of Duty updates are 200gb regardless of pre existing installs. It’s absurd.
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by ben_jones 3y ago
> both will have similar policies outside The foreign, domestic, and economic policies of both potential presidents are different. Are you really arguing that they have negligible differences?
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Future generations checking the vault after WW3: “Wow they SUCKED at writing code!”
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by ben_jones 3y ago
> I personally know people who will jump on remote work only to st around watching netflix all day In office work is prone to the same difficulty in different forms. You don’t think people were alt-tabbing in the office? Taking really lo
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Popularity is an anti feature at the gym. Working adults have limited windows to workout and so once a gym gets affordable like 24hr fitness where seasonal sales at Costco make it VERY cheap it becomes a gym you might not actually want to w
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by ben_jones 3y ago
You know... I understand people "want" to drink coffee and all. (Not me) But the older I get, the more I realize this habit isn't necessary. It's not beneficial to society, and if someone feels the need for coffee, they
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Reminds me of how US-based twitch streamers now need to call their local police department to inform them that there is a risk of Swatting. I guess we need to give advance notice to traffic spikes if that is an abnormal historical occurrenc
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Yeah Cruise has been killing lately
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by ben_jones 3y ago
It could mean multiple things. My guess is they used vendor specific services that don’t translate as well as the basic build blocks like vanilla S3/ec2
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Companies are probing the boundaries of what is and isn’t acceptable for AI. Sports illustrated recently used AI generated avatars to publish AI written articles as if they were written by real people. They didn’t announce it they just did
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by ben_jones 3y ago
It’s more like data storage needs are not one size fits all so it’s better left to the user who best knows their storage needs.
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by ben_jones 3y ago
But what if your car doesn’t have the latest emojiset or social sharing functionality within the notes app?
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by ben_jones 3y ago
If we can continue to figure out basic needs better like housing and healthcare then it may not always be the case that one must sacrifice progeny for economic progress. Hell just high speed rail could encourage populating less desirable ar
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Wait wouldn’t a drone hitting a person or a ceiling fixture and then crashing into a person be really dangerous? Like they’re fixing workplace culture by careening rotary aircraft around the room?
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by ben_jones 3y ago
~10 years from now we’re going to have better data on chronic THC consumption and after being a heavy user I’m pretty confident it’s going to shock a lot of people with negative externalities. Tip for getting off weed - start by lowering th
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by ben_jones 3y ago
You’ve been very thorough with physical/biological variables which would suggest maybe psychological factors could be impacting you. Do you have a high amount of ambient stress in your life? Existential fears? Past traumas? Unfulfilled
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by ben_jones 3y ago
And a fresh wave of undergrads will take their place. CS programs have ramped way up though and will probably over saturate the market.
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Seriously there is incredibly easy access via twitter, /r/combatfootage, whatsapp, and others to Hamas and Russian atrocities to any teen with a passing interest in global affairs. And arguably they SHOULD be exposed to this conte
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by ben_jones 3y ago
Affirm, Klarna, and other services for deferred payment are just credit card debt in a different form. They’re used to encourage impulse buys like expensive event tickets. Seriously go to an expensive event like the Cowboys v 49ers game or
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by ben_jones 3y ago
A horrifying human experience is living in a war zone. It’s not having to move to a different bart car or endure a pan handler requesting money.

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