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by bgentry 2y ago
The TV show Silicon Valley lampooned all these ideas a decade ago. The weird thing I’ve noticed is that when Bay Area tech people watch that show, they don’t seem to understand that they’re being made fun of. They think they’re being celeb
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by bgentry 2y ago
Ben Thompson has been covering Intel’s precarious position for over a decade (well before the market finally realized it) and the latest update is not looking good: Intel’s is technically on pace to achieve the five nodes in four years Gel
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River UI as a packaged Go module(riverqueue.com)
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by bgentry 2y ago
I actually just re-read that whole thread earlier this evening for unrelated reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508000 In short, the Go module proxy causes an excessive traffic volume on git VCS sources with fr
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by bgentry 2y ago
River ( https://riverqueue.com ) is a Postgres background job engine written in Go, which also has insert only clients in other languages. Currently we have these for Ruby and Python: https://github.com/riverqueu
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by bgentry 2y ago
Thank you! I'm not sure how this didn't come up in what I felt was a pretty comprehensive round of Google searching, but it looks like a fantastic option. If only they had free allotment or something <$20/mo for a small nu
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by bgentry 2y ago
I understand this change might be a large undertaking to implement across the entire API, and although it would be good to do everywhere, it’s primarily just the send email API that needs it.
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by bgentry 2y ago
Having recently adopted Resend and skimmed a bunch of different email APIs, I'm still waiting to find a single provider whose API supports Stripe-style idempotency [1] so that I can guarantee I don't send the same email through th
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by bgentry 2y ago
Resend is also built on top of SES, and yet it's an extra layer of hosted services on top of it. So this is actually a self-hosted alternative to i.e. the functionality that Resend offers, even though there are still other underlying d
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by bgentry 2y ago
It seems like the author already went above and beyond to try to get this resolved through the proper channels. Why did it take an HN front page post to get it actually looked into? It does not inspire confidence in your service.
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by bgentry 2y ago
I remember that post and I’ve read it a few times, thank you for it! I was already working on River at the time but it was refreshing to see the case made so strongly by another person who gets it. - Blake, co-author of riverqueue.com &#x2F
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by bgentry 2y ago
> But a small subset of mostly right-wing reactionaries If you look at the photo of the protestors in the article or research the groups stated to be involved, it seems pretty unlikely that these individuals are "right-wing". T
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by bgentry 2y ago
Do you have evidence that this voice actor was billing herself as a Scarlett Johansson impersonator or anything of that sort?
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by bgentry 2y ago
Fairly sure I understand the public details about this situation. We have at least one newspaper that has reviewed recordings or footage from the voice actor and confirmed that the OpenAI voice is a direct match for her actual regular speak
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by bgentry 2y ago
What if I look like a famous actor/actress or model? Should I not be allowed to act or model professionally? Or if I sound like a famous singer, should I not be allowed to sing for profit? What if my paintings have a similar style to a
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by bgentry 2y ago
That’s a lower court within the 9th circuit, bound by the appellate court’s precedent.
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by bgentry 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. I completely disagree with their rationale and decision but it’s good to know about the precedent here. I’d be completely on Ford’s side here too! I would not be surprised to see that precedent overturned at some point b
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by bgentry 2y ago
I'm not familiar with the specific laws that are relevant here, but I have trouble buying the argument that this constitutes a "likeness" when Johansson was in no way involved in its creation, other than by providing inspirat
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by bgentry 2y ago
I don't actually see an ethical issue with this situation, unless the voice was specifically trained using clips of Scarlett Johansson's actual voice. I should have some say over how my actual voice is used. If I am a public figur
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by bgentry 2y ago
I'm also in Austin and laughing a bit at these results. It seems like the dataset cuts off after 2020 while trying to illustrate that winters haven't gotten very cold lately, and that is the reason we've been changed to a dif
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by bgentry 2y ago
Also, recommending to normal people that they should use their iPhone in Lockdown Mode (as this article does) is terrible advice. It comes with some significant tradeoffs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
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by bgentry 2y ago
It's partly what happens when such important rules are determined by who is appointed at an executive agency, rather than requiring an act of Congress. The former can be trivially gamed by the party in power after each election, wherea
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by bgentry 2y ago
I was fortunate to be able to watch Stainless evolve while at Mux when we were evaluating it to replace open source & homegrown generators. Alex & team were incredibly responsive to feedback throughout, and the product improved quic
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by bgentry 3y ago
TikTok is not being "banned" by this bill. It's being prohibited from being owned by a "foreign adversary" (a defined term in US Code), with the threat of being banned from app stores and hosting providers if not di
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by bgentry 3y ago
You should probably look into it then! I have numerous Matter window/door sensors and switchable outlets connected to both HASS and HomeKit and they're working very well. I've never used a vendor's app for any of them.
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by bgentry 3y ago
This feature is not really about protecting your device from being stolen. It's about protecting your iCloud account and everything on your device from being compromised when somebody has stolen your device and also has your phone&#x
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by bgentry 3y ago
In Spotify’s case I would wager it has more to do with them not having a core group of empowered and capable iOS engineers. Their app still doesn’t support AirPlay 2 many years after it was introduced, a feature that solo developers like Ma
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by bgentry 3y ago
The patent was not claiming this was a maintenance issue. They were pointing out that if there were indeed a hidden exit door here that it would still require maintenance, which is why there wasn’t actually a hidden exit door here. Instead
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by bgentry 3y ago
The BBC article notes that this section of fuselage can optionally include an extra emergency exit, but that Alaska does not select that option. Still, it may be constructed with a false opening the same size as the exit door which could ha
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by bgentry 3y ago
Unless you have a tankless water heater and no lead pipes in your house, in which case it’s fine to use the hot water from the tankless water heater for food / coffee / tea. At least that’s my understanding.

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