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by brookst 5mo ago
There must be a term for this fallacy. “I’d rather survive 100% of the time in situations that happen 0.01% of the time than survive 99.9999@ of the time in situations that arise 99.99% of the time”
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by brookst 5mo ago
Agree that Google does a much better job of pulling in latest road and business info, even in the US, even in California, even in Cupertino. But if you’re not going to some brand new addeess on a road that didn’t exist six months ago, Apple
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by brookst 5mo ago
Wait so if a third party took away a feature you use, would that be “theft”? Like if your ISP is down when you want to watch a movie? It’s wrong for sure, but I’m vicariously embarrassed for those who want to define everything they don’t li
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by brookst 5mo ago
I am really not convinced that Linux is intentionally bad at marketing so as to ensure that they aren’t overwhelmed with users, all in the name of providing great support.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Hence my point of “if they’re doing this, they are likely making other emotional, anti-shareholder decisions”
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by brookst 5mo ago
But this isn’t reputation management. This is retribution for past affronts. This action in no way retroactively protects them from what was said.
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by brookst 5mo ago
It’s basically a fuck you to the shareholders. Hey we’ve got this dead asset someone will pay for but we won’t sell because they were mean to us. Any exec who operates that way should be shown the door ASAP as they are likely doing similar
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by brookst 5mo ago
Thanks for updating the age-old complaint about the printing press.
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by brookst 5mo ago
Are those different from the risks of reading about diabetes on Reddit or using Google?
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by brookst 5mo ago
Wait, how would limiting a great tool to 0.1% of the TAM demonstrate caring for humans? Are you picturing them running a lottery for who’s allowed to use it, or an auction? And with the loss of scale economies, it would have to be much more
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by brookst 5mo ago
Yeah I’m so tired of rhetorical games people play. It’s a shitty business practice, it is deceptive and possibly false advertising, it may be violation of a contract and / consumer production laws, but removal of a software feature is
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by brookst 5mo ago
That’s why proper using LLMs on large python codebases establish coding standards docs and tests. Turning the LLM loose is chaos, but having clear arch and naming and other standards can get pretty consistent results.
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by brookst 6mo ago
> you should return to mindless consumption I’ve never seen this Louis guy but those sure sound like the words of a drama and outrage enthusiast.
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by brookst 6mo ago
PAT is Privacy Pass.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Not following. The demand for architects is gated by the cost of building. And the metaphor is that all if us who used to be carpenters can be architects, in the software sense. Maybe some people don’t want to be, but it is still a very tho
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by brookst 6mo ago
Are transistors more impressive than compilers then? And presumably accounting is more impressive than transistors? I’m not sure I can get behind the “foundations are necessarily more impressive than edifices” view..
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by brookst 6mo ago
Tools don’t eliminate work, they abstract and amplify work. Those who miss this point are doomed to become the folks who say “back in my day we walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways”. The map isn’t the territory; thinking about wha
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by brookst 6mo ago
Look at Apple’s PAT: the website knows the service that did the attestation, but not the user. The service knows the user, but not the website. If you controlled both you can link the user, but otherwise you can’t.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Agreed on all counts. Apple’s hedge with Intel makes a ton of sense, especially if they continue to pay a premium for first dibs on a significant chunk of TSMC’s newest nodes. So far Apple has been aggressive about stopping production of ol
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by brookst 6mo ago
Nvidia’s chips aren’t usually on the latest nodes. The M5 is in N3P, Blackwell is N4P. M6 is expected to be on an N2 node while Rubin is N3P. I don’t think Nvidia even has an N2 chip announced, could be wrong through.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Certainly an aspect; would you rather negotiate with a supplier who has more power, or less power? But it’s likely not a one-dimensional decision. Supply chain diversification, China / Taiwan, Intel having established US fabs, on and o
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by brookst 6mo ago
It’s a fair point, but there is a significant difference between investment in infrastructure and education versus just supporting states that are intentionally degrading their infrastructure and education. Upwards spiral versus downwards.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Yep. Thank God we fund school IT so generously, so everyone from Harvard to small state colleges has an absolute top notch IT department, dedicated to best practices, fully resourced to do BC/DR planning and dry runs. This could be a r
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by brookst 6mo ago
No concerns about privacy or regulatory considerations that might vary by jurisdiction? Just yolo it and deal with breech later?
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by brookst 6mo ago
Though in a case like this attackers would likely revoke (or publish) the private key.
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by brookst 6mo ago
This administration literally told congress that it has a right to bomb Iran again without congressional oversight specifically because there's a cease fire in place. I wish I was kidding. https://www.bbc.com/news/
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by brookst 6mo ago
Pretty much every tool is far more powerful for those who understand the job it does.
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by brookst 6mo ago
“Officials knew in advance and helped or actively decided not to interfere” is NOT nearly the same thing as “Banksy’s team used social engineering to blend in and go unquestioned”. The claim was that they had government assistance doing the
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by brookst 6mo ago
Ah, so it’s not so much “nobody asked for this”, it is more “this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”. Also fair, just a different thing.
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by brookst 6mo ago
So you want to ship technical means that prohibit companies from shipping products that limit what you can do with them? It’s kind of self-defeating, isn’t it? Why would I adopt your standard when it limits what I can build?

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