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by bjt 2y ago
Rye wraps uv now. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/15/rye-grows-with-uv/
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by bjt 2y ago
Factors that I see from the article that are driving up shopping costs/delays: 1. Unexpected problems in key canals. (Houthi attacks on the Suez route and drought on the Panama route.) 2. Possibly some market manipulation by carriers.
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by bjt 2y ago
We did a book club on this at work a few years back. I found it extremely repetitive.
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by bjt 2y ago
You're not just "picking a startup". That early, you're also a big factor in whether it succeeds. Betting on yourself is different than buying a lottery ticket. (Maybe just as irrational for a lot of people, but still
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by bjt 2y ago
I don't think it works if we're narrowly focused just on wages, but I don't know why that has to be the only focus. If we as a society want to support people having a baseline quality of life, then let's pay for it toge
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by bjt 3y ago
It's about deterrence. Imagine you're considering committing a crime. You're looking at the upside and the downside. The equation on the downside looks like this: risk = size of punishment * probability of being caught. So
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by bjt 3y ago
Selection effect here. Plenty of old houses weren't built to last. You just don't see them anymore because they're gone.
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by bjt 3y ago
That's a really weird argument. Copyright is a legal system created by the Constitution and statutes and administrative rules. It cares about whether you are "copying", and it cares about whether you're creating things
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by bjt 3y ago
From the article: > Last September, the US Copyright Review Board decided that an image generated using Midjourney’s software could not be copyright due to how it was produced.
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by bjt 3y ago
> It's the job of a regulatory body to reduce risk. Sure, and the parent comment's point was that there's a line where further risk reduction doesn't make sense anymore. The agency doesn't have the right incenti
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by bjt 3y ago
There are more options than just "ban" and "don't ban". You could pass a law imposing strict liability all the way up the supply chain, up to and including the importers. If a worker gets sick, they could sue for da
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by bjt 3y ago
If you know which type of uuid you have (v1, v4, etc) then you can take a look at how many bits of randomness it has, how many total items you have, and compute the probability of a collision if you just take a subset of the bits and use th
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by bjt 3y ago
I think the most important place to start is appreciating the distinction between authentication ("is the person trying to use my application really the person they say they are?", abbreviated "authn") and authorization
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by bjt 3y ago
> something fun or more interesting I think that's the key point really. For someone with even a mild interest in this stuff, the task of running ethernet cables is very approachable and feasible. At that point the time spent on i
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by bjt 3y ago
I remember at the time there was a "Silicon Valley rides to the rescue" subtext. Though a Silicon Valley person myself, that rubs me the wrong way. I appreciate the author resisting that framing, and admitting that on that first
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by bjt 3y ago
Potentially valid concerns, but not what copyright law was designed to address. Mazda can easily prohibit their own customers from doing this kind of thing in their terms of service if they want.
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by bjt 3y ago
It's a balance. If you get too specific then your laws quickly become outdated as technology and society evolve. Or you miss corner cases by not enumerating every little scenario. So there are different tiers to deal with this. - Con
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by bjt 3y ago
At least in the US, it's not the drafters' intent that matters, but the intent of the legislators who voted on it. (Legislators actually have lawmaking power. Drafters are usually unelected staff or even lobbyists.) When a statu
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by bjt 3y ago
Books are one example on the spectrum of types of content here. They're not enough on their own. A book is a poor source for an in-depth look at pending legislation, for example. Essays, short stories, deep investigative news stories
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by bjt 3y ago
Though I'm no fan of the LDS church's dominance in Utah politics, your assessment of their stance on the environment seems off base. Example: This recent donation of agricultural water rights that they owned, to divert the water i
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by bjt 3y ago
It's a good point but also not that cut and dry. Chrome started as Webkit, which forked from KHTML, which was part of the very open source KDE. Has Google benefitted more from other people's open source contributions, or have we b
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by bjt 3y ago
At a startup, the employees are also shareholders.
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by bjt 3y ago
I'd add the biggest risk of over-engineering: Building the wrong thing. Very often, the needs we anticipate end up not being realized.
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by bjt 3y ago
> I can't imagine any state or religion banning caffeine. Coffee and tea have been banned for practicing Mormons for a long time. Caffeinated soda was kind of an "extra credit" ban for decades until the church more recent
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by bjt 3y ago
It invented an answer for something that AWS actually can't do right now. https://imgur.com/a/0IYZ2WV
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by bjt 3y ago
By comparison, here's the top 50 country songs on Spotify, where users pick for themselves what they want to listen to instead of having radio stations pick for them. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7
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by bjt 3y ago
Does Craig still come around here? This sentence was beautifully meta, whether intentionally or not: > If ship a typo in a blog post, you can easily fix it.
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by bjt 3y ago
The output isn't the only infringement, arguably. You could also argue (and I expect good lawyers will), that the numeric representation of the artist's works inside the model is already an infringing copy. (Just like the JPEG b
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by bjt 3y ago
How is that relevant to the topic here?
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by bjt 3y ago
While I think he's right, I wonder if that might still be a tradeoff worth making. Or at least, a sane person could argue that it is. Competition between universities for rankings skews a lot of what happens in higher ed. The sta

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