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871.
by bloppe 2y ago
async is a great feature if you use it from square 1. If you start with a legacy codebase using callbacks and try to port it incrementally to async, you're gonna have a bad time. Otherwise, it's definitely a feature
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by bloppe 2y ago
Seems like this hot take is coming with a very specific use case in mind. I could see a company wanting fine grained control over how its employees access their privileged employee accounts. I'm not sure attestation needs to be in the
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by bloppe 2y ago
The whole point of Bitcoin was to not need banks. You can be responsible for your own money. You can use a secure hardware wallet (with backup seed in a secure vault) and not have to worry about FDIC insurance. But most people seem to prefe
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by bloppe 2y ago
Actually, we didn't. It failed and collapsed. What makes you think it was bailed out? To add detail: SVB was a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, a holding company that owned the bank as well as some other things. SVB still exists, but
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by bloppe 2y ago
You can bake security into the platform while still letting power users step over the guard rails. A better analogy than seatbelts would be child locks. Yes, they're great to have. Sure, maybe they should be enabled by default. But you
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by bloppe 2y ago
There is no "accessing the secure enclave". Not even the iOS kernel itself can access the secure enclave. That's the point. It's designed to keep your biometrics and private keys safe even when the entire OS is compromis
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by bloppe 2y ago
The point of this paper is not to claim that LLMs are dumb. It's applying rigor to the notion that they "reason" in a way that's fundamentally non human. They're more like search engines than abstract reasoning mach
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by bloppe 2y ago
> Effort your citizens put into tax collection is 'dead weight', and doesn't contribute to exports etc. Hot take: a lot of tax revenue does contribute to exports etc. The government is spending a lot of money re-digging th
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by bloppe 2y ago
Depends on your audience. Maybe you need to dumb it down for some people sometimes. That's life. I just try to stay in situations where the audience appreciates nuance if I can
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by bloppe 2y ago
Your link examines the purchasing power of "a dollar", not the purchasing power of the average person. Inflation is always supposed to be positive because deflation is far worse for the economy than inflation is. Average wages hav
881.
by bloppe 2y ago
Parody is protected in the US. The Simpsons can get away with a lot of stuff because of it
882.
by bloppe 2y ago
The average real purchasing power in America has been increasing since at least 2010: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-purchasi...
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by bloppe 2y ago
I agree that extreme inequality is generally bad and the value of labor should be higher than the value of capital. But market forces are really important for the functioning of the economy and the welfare of everybody, including low-skille
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by bloppe 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter It's been a pattern in AI research since the 70s. Sure, the current boom is unprecedented, but that doesn't mean there won't be a relative bust. AI winter doesn&
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by bloppe 2y ago
And that's the reason hacking does not exist
886.
by bloppe 2y ago
It's a fundamental tradeoff. And who's affected in each case? The anti-stalking bias degrades the product for people who've bought an AirTag and become victims of theft. It's a limited population. People are unaffected b
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by bloppe 2y ago
Time can only be measured by clocks (oscillatory systems). It's a slippery concept for which humans have a natural, flawed intuition. But if you understand your clock(s) really well, then timekeeping makes perfect sense. There's j
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by bloppe 2y ago
At it's core, UTC is about reconciling 2 different clocks; the Earth (basically represented by UT1) and the Cesium atom (represented by TAI). It's a useful basis for Civil time -- which is naturally political -- because everybody
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by bloppe 2y ago
Well the current plan according to the BIPM is to keep adjusting UTC, but with bigger and less frequent adjustments. I'm predicting they'll change course in a hundred years, as you say, and just give up on leap seconds/minute
890.
by bloppe 2y ago
It has nothing to do with time zones. People can deal with weird time keeping practices, but distributed software systems can become completely borked. It's happened before in all sorts of different ways. Transaction order can get mess
891.
by bloppe 2y ago
I've spent literally hundreds of hours thinking about this, and I've landed on the opinion that TAI should always be the source of truth. It's usually not, because most systems ultimately get their source of truth from the GP
892.
by bloppe 2y ago
That's an interesting approach, but not without pitfalls. You can't just subtract two timestamps to get a time difference, since there may have been one with 2 billion nanoseconds somewhere in between.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Actually, this sort-of describes "smeared UTC", which is used by some computer systems such as Google's NTP servers: https://developers.google.com/time/smear POSIX time does not generally work that way.
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by bloppe 2y ago
It's not a fixed offset from TAI. The offset changes every time there's a leap second. Also, there is no such thing as absolute time, because of relativity. We take pains to account for this by only measuring TAI on the Earth&#x27
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by bloppe 2y ago
Ya, and Unix time decided they could fool people into thinking they had all 3, and as a result, every couple of years, time "jumps backward" by one second. It's hands down the worst option to use as the basis for a computing
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by bloppe 2y ago
Staring down is not equivalent to being blind. Motion sickness occurs when signals from your eyes (like the motion of the world around you), body (like wind on your face) and auricular semicircular canals (organs in your ear that sense acce
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by bloppe 2y ago
If subjectively experiencing a dream were "the whole point" of sleep, that would make it pretty hard to explain why total sleep deprivation is fatal. Clearly there are far more important things going on physiologically during slee
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by bloppe 2y ago
I've seen it happen
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by bloppe 2y ago
If only 1% of Google employees are low performers, that's thousands of people.
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by bloppe 2y ago
Google never rebranded. It's still Google. They just had all these unrelated moonshots like Verily and Waymo that didn't make sense to keep pretending were a part of Google.

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