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by chefandy 3y ago
wtf is any other algorithmic output? Data. It's not automatically equivalent to some human behavior because it mimics it.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Not saying this necessarily applies to you, but I reckon anyone that thinks midjourney is capable of creating art by generating custom stylized imagery should take pause before saying chat bots are incapable of being social.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yes. We seem to be going full-speed ahead towards relying on computer systems subject to, essentially, social engineering attacks. It brings a tear of joy to the 2600-reading teenaged cyberpunk still bouncing around somewhere in my psyche.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Their fraud detection algorithms are specifically looking for small, localized, per-transaction events with few data points as well as overall patterns-- I doubt it would be that straightforward. It might not mean you'd be targeted, bu
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by chefandy 3y ago
I would need to hear that from someone who actually works in a CC company fraud department because I don't think it's that straightforward. I've had MC transactions declined on a card I use for everyday purchases at two store
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by chefandy 3y ago
Curious: Why would you use ed over ex, or vi for that matter?
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by chefandy 3y ago
Seems to me that when you turn it into data, it pretty much all becomes "something you know." If a credit card required biometric authentication to make credit card transactions and a vendor stored my biometric signature in a data
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Now instead of acquiring N numbers, the hacker needs to acquire N+3 (or N+4) numbers This seems almost as reductive as suggesting my mechanic should keep her customers' key(k) in their cars(c) in her parking lot because instead
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by chefandy 3y ago
Beneficial processes without sanity checks become dogma.
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by chefandy 3y ago
No hard numbers, but I reckon that wouldn't scale well most dev organizations.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Common practices do not equate to widespread approval. Most developers don't like electron-- even the ones that build with them much of the time-- but they're everywhere. Designers' opinions are no more generalizable than dev
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by chefandy 3y ago
It's bad, but to me it seems like at least some notoriously bad ones are making incremental changes.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Not sure. Something doesn't need a solution to be a problem, and pointing it out in a crowd of people gleefully patting themselves on the back about making the problem worse every day is a worthwhile pursuit. It's sacrilegious to
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by chefandy 3y ago
Adjacent point based on your comment: I want to emphasize that this is not a difference in understanding between the rich in the traditional sense and the poor in the traditional sense, at least in the US. I know people with significant
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by chefandy 3y ago
It is happening. But I'm more concerned by the enshittification of life for everybody working in a field that just heard the starting pistol for the race to the bottom. Dollar sign eyed executives will happily take that shitty version
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by chefandy 3y ago
Makes sense. I worked a bit with Java years ago, but never with GUI stuff. Most of what I remember about it was drowning in boilerplate and being really good for coordinating a lot of developers around a big well-organized codebase. I proba
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by chefandy 3y ago
> I seem to be on a website where nobody can picture doing anything without taking money from someone else. And by the way, I'm not remotely capitalist, but I don't have the privilege of expecting the rest of the world to ope
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by chefandy 3y ago
I'm betting you haven't actually had to make decisions like this in a role where you were responsible for getting the most out of a limited set of resources. It doesn't even have to be commercial: even in well-funded non-prof
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah the architecture for electron is absurd, but it's important to not relegate UI flexibility to mere aesthetics. For most of my career, I was a back-end web developer, but more recently I've done a lot of interface design after
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by chefandy 3y ago
I think that anyone who recommends Electron to a young developer interested in learning native application GUI programming should be slapped. It's the wrong tool for a specific job. That's a pretty niche use case to judge overall
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by chefandy 3y ago
If you only care about the best technical solution, and don't care about economics, then you almost, by definition, only care about what existing FOSS users are doing, and I don't find that scope limitation useful in any way. I lo
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by chefandy 3y ago
Java FX seems better than swing, but it's an external dependency now though, isn't it? I thought it got removed from the jdk a few years ago.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Reread what I wrote. I'm not saying they're sane technical decisions and I'm definitely not saying that electron is an objectively good architecture for user-facing apps, and I'm definitely not saying that profit is a
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by chefandy 3y ago
You postulate that I said that, which is wrong. > IT shouldn't be a default, but if it's that or nothing-- as it often is when it comes down to limited resources-- I think it's better than nothing. Sometimes it is. Some
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by chefandy 3y ago
Java is great for making huge well-organized codebases with a lot of developers, especially if you've got good tooling support or a rich ecosystem of existing code to work with. Outside of that... If it was a good development ecosystem
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by chefandy 3y ago
Worse for users than nothing? IT shouldn't be a default, but if it's that or nothing-- as it often is when it comes down to limited resources-- I think it's better than nothing. If you're looking to make a useful tool fo
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by chefandy 3y ago
People like to shit on tools like Electron, but there's a reason they're popular. If you need to reach a broad audience with a native tool, using heavy-handed web-based plumbing is a bigger win for Linux users than supporting only
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by chefandy 3y ago
That's what people who gained their technical competence in a CL environment always think: we're always most productive in the interfaces we are familiar with. I'll agree that most technically competent people probably prefer
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by chefandy 3y ago
> I don't see all the millions of very, very bad games killing the PC or mobile platforms Firstly, unlike a PC or phone, an Atari 2600 isn't useful without games. Secondly, without ubiquitous reviews freely available on the ne
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by chefandy 3y ago
Also having a formal GD background, I tend to do the same... Trying get things like type polished enough for proper design work without using a graphical editor is a fool's errand. Depending on the use case, I often end up using the re

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