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by bloppe 2y ago
Apple has completely lost their credibility with me every time they use "privacy & security" as an excuse to exploit their users. Does anybody actually know what Meta is asking for in these cases?
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by bloppe 2y ago
I can't actually tell what you're saying. Postgres doesn't have a timestampltz. Only timestamptz. Oracle has both, but their timestampltz behaves like Postgres' timestamptz, and their timestamptz behaves the way the auth
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by bloppe 2y ago
> There’s a variant of this advice which you’re more likely to hear from the PostgreSQL faithful: use TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE or its convenient alias timestamptz. This stores the exact value in UTC and sounds like it might store the ti
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by bloppe 2y ago
I love it when AI bros quantify AI's helpfulness like this
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by bloppe 2y ago
If we're talking military only, then you have to look at defense budgets, not GDP. The US defense budget is still much bigger than China's and Russia's combined, even after controlling for PPP. By "what a country can acc
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by bloppe 2y ago
True, my comment was ignoring the fact that America's per-capita GDP is higher even after controlling for PPP. People can move for a lot of reasons. Having a much more transparent and predictable justice system is also one of them. For
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by bloppe 2y ago
PPP matters on an individual level, but not at all on a national level. GDP at market exchange rates is what actually matters in terms of what a country can accomplish on the world stage. And even on an individual level, PPP struggles with
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by bloppe 2y ago
You seem to be implying that 80% of com/net domains are used for cybercrime, which is not a sound conclusion from those numbers. You're confusing "percent of all domains" with "percent of crime domains". You ca
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by bloppe 2y ago
My hunch is that price and picture quality make up at least 90% of the purchase criteria for most people, so as a manufacturer you'd better be optimizing primarily for those. Has anybody here ever chosen "smarts" at the expen
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by bloppe 2y ago
There's an easy fix to this. Just use a bit of the savings from your ad-subsidized TV to buy a Chromecast. The continuous HDMI input makes it look like the TV is never idle (so it can't show ads), and when the Chromecast itself is
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by bloppe 2y ago
I'm excited to see the outcomes. Hats off to Australia for engaging in this experiment. One unique aspect of social media, as opposed to, say, porn, is it's reliance on network effects. Sure, maybe 25% of kids will use a VPN and l
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by bloppe 2y ago
This describes the exact purpose of the law: to stop letting kids use those sites. My very strict uncle was adamant that my cousins stay off Facebook when they were kids. They got on anyway. When he eventually found out, it was a bad situat
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by bloppe 2y ago
But think of the shareholders!
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by bloppe 2y ago
Doctors, firemen and cops are obvious examples, but I've called plumbers at 2am because of a burst pipe flooding the basement. I've called locksmiths well past closing time due to lockout. I've called landlords at all hours f
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by bloppe 2y ago
There's no differences between a monopoly and an open standard when it comes to breaking users. They both would rather not for the same reasons
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by bloppe 2y ago
First, it's important to keep a clear view of what's actually for sale here. Chromium is an open source project that already forms the basis of other browsers (most prominently Edge and Brave) and does not include all the weird Go
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by bloppe 2y ago
Am I the only one left happily using Firefox? You know, the only "major" browser that doesn't seem to have these conflicts of interest?
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by bloppe 2y ago
We've never had a President that so many top generals, high-ranking Republican party officials, family members, and countless other close associates and former partners have all said is fundamentally unfit for office. This isn't j
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by bloppe 2y ago
There's a difference between an issue being introduced and being noticed.
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by bloppe 2y ago
I agree that this is a mistake the Democrats are making. But focusing on that distracts from a more fundamental problem. Thomas Jefferson famously said that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite for successful democracy. We've b
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by bloppe 2y ago
> you can have LLMs create reasonable code changes, with automatic review / iteration etc. Nobody who takes code health and sustainability seriously wants to hear this. You absolutely do not want to be in a position where something
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by bloppe 2y ago
That's anthropomorphized AGI. There's no reason to think AGI would share our evolution-derived proclivities like wanting to live, wanting to rest, wanting respect, etc. Unless of course we train it that way.
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by bloppe 2y ago
I agree that Harris dropped the ball on some of her messaging, but it's weird to dwell on that when Trump's messaging is a bunch of psychotic hallucinations. Also I'm talking about the point I was originally making. I guess p
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by bloppe 2y ago
The point is this: when Trump says the economy is doing badly, he's objectively lying. I know people who are making more money than they've ever made who still think the economy is in bad shape and Trump will somehow make it bette
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by bloppe 2y ago
This isn't about an individual. It's about America's economy, which is broadly doing very well. I never claimed it's universally doing well for every single person. That's statistically impossible. Inflation can com
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by bloppe 2y ago
Sounds like the mining bust is a big factor, which isn't exactly representative of the whole economy. Also sounds like you're not in the US so none of my stats are relevant to you.
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by bloppe 2y ago
They go further. That's why I linked to median real income. It's exactly the stat that matters: looking at the actual person in the middle of the pack (not the mean, which is distorted by outliers) and controlling for inflation us
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by bloppe 2y ago
There's a balance to strike between convenience and robustness. Even a legal identity can be stolen, and countries have broad authority to regulate national TLDs and could make owning one just as robust as owning property. The core of
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by bloppe 2y ago
Ya I'd say the key is lexical scoping and strong typing. C has those. Python and Ruby have neither.
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by bloppe 2y ago
This is actually also a lie (at least in America). Real income (after adjusting for inflation) has been rising at the median [1]. The bottom quintile got reamed by Covid but have been the biggest beneficiaries of inflation [2] (which tends

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