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by brap 3y ago
Well... yeah, kind of. I guess some parts that are missing are having a schema for the CMD part, and being able to easily generate APIs for various languages from that schema
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by brap 3y ago
Just some random brain dump: Why limit to ML models? Perhaps we can (should?) have some universal package hub, where you can package and push a "thing" from any language, and then pull and use it from any other language. With some
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by brap 3y ago
And what will these fine gentlemen do when I take out my gun and kindly refuse their offer? Better yet, what will the state do when the neighboring country, armed with F35s, decides it’s time to take their land?
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by brap 3y ago
What’s the pattern you’re referring to? I’m curious how these infra projects keep AWS/GCP from killing them
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by brap 3y ago
I’m surprised it didn’t mention vendor lock-in, which is definitely a selling point for open source.
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by brap 3y ago
I would be very curious to see how a police force which has no credible threat of violence can operate. "You're going to jail" - "No" "Now you're going to jail for even longer!" - "Mak
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by brap 3y ago
I think you’re being naive if you think NSO isn’t related to Israeli gov (in the same manner Lockheed Martin is related to US gov). Having said that, I think you’re unjustly being downvoted. I agree that there’s often a strong bias against
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by brap 3y ago
Do the cops not need guns to put you behind bars?
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by brap 3y ago
I don't understand the question. Are you asking how they came to be, or are you saying they're not?
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by brap 3y ago
I'm not downplaying cyber weapons, but I would argue that conventional weapons have caused significantly more damage to innocent people over the last few years than any exploit. Deaths in the hundreds of thousands, easily, not to men
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by brap 3y ago
I want to point out how odd it is that no one cares about international weapons exports, except when talking about cyber weapons. USA is the #1 arms exporter in the world, and its top 3 clients are dictators[0] (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait)
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by brap 3y ago
In this case the killer is also the investigator. "So I asked the store owner if he sold me the knife (wink), he didn't hear my question (wink), and so I guess I have no choice but to close this investigation. No more questions.&q
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by brap 3y ago
To anyone developing libraries: please, for the love of god, just put a damn code snippet right at the top. A simple hello world would do. If you're pitching me something, show it to me. People don't have to dig around to see what
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by brap 3y ago
Imagine how much worse this could have been, if the audience members were somehow completely anonymized Edit: this is not some hot take on anonymity on the web
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by brap 3y ago
Interesting, thanks. Do you manage the DB yourself or do you sync it to customers' existing DBs? Does this play nicely with pg_graphq?
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by brap 3y ago
Unrelated to the article, but I gotta say I just learned about Sequin from this link, and it seems very cool! But, I can't think of a use-case for it. Can you please explain the value-add?
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by brap 3y ago
You’re right, but this is not what I mean by privatizing. In this scenario you described, the government has a monopoly and you as a citizen don’t get to opt-out or switch to the competition. You will pay for whatever garbage service they p
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by brap 3y ago
Yet for some reason Europeans feel so strongly against privitization of public services
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by brap 3y ago
It’s good that they made it not turing complete but they should probably also force an upper bound on law complexity
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by brap 3y ago
> "The city teams only know how to use Excel, just make it like Excel." With those expectations, sooner or later someone would have said "hey wait a minute, why isn't this like Excel? Excel knows how to do X, but this
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by brap 3y ago
Project requirements are never fixed, they’re always evolving. It was only a matter of time before users would’ve complained about features being missing/broken, especially since what they’re used to is Excel and this was meant to repl
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by brap 3y ago
> He simply couldn’t believe that I’d written a full spreadsheet engine that ran in the browser. I can't believe it either, and I don't mean this in a good way. Apache POI lets you run headless Excel. You import and interact wi
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by brap 3y ago
I mean classical autocomplete, the ones we have on our phones that give us one word as a time (on iOs you get 3 options to choose from)
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by brap 3y ago
With everyone talking about LLMs being glorified autocomplete, I actually would like to see how well they perform as autocomplete. Because most built-in ones are pretty bad.
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by brap 3y ago
I have a messy drawer where I dump all of this stuff. It’s basically write-only, once I throw something in there I know I’ll never look for it again. For digital stuff it’s mostly the same idea. If it’s email (which is almost always the cas
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by brap 3y ago
You assume that your goals are aligned with the company’s goals. They’re not. There is no “problem”, it’s all working as intended. From the company’s point of view, they actually are doing the right thing. They’re making money (which, I’d
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by brap 3y ago
iOS is the gold standard IMO. Apps are sandboxed, can only interact with the outside world via APIs (that the user needs to approve), one click uninstall and it’s all gone without a trace (at least in theory). Love it.
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by brap 3y ago
I usually say things like “please be extremely succinct. Response should be one sentence at most”. “Sure! I will try to be succinct. [4 paragraphs]”
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by brap 3y ago
I think the last thing people want is a voice assistant that babbles on and on forever when asked a simple question. I really hope that when they release something, the responses will be 5% of the endless stream of words ChatGPT & other
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by brap 3y ago
I saw it somewhere as one of the next milestones, can't find it now but didn't look too much

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