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by cwyers 2y ago
Why are you framing this in such a way that treats one party as having agency and the other party as being immovable? The US is not banning TikTok, they are posing stipulations towards its use and you believe the CCP when they say they won&
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by cwyers 2y ago
I feel like if TikTok didn't want this to happen, they should have not had their CEO commit perjury in front of Congress. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tikt...
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by cwyers 3y ago
Hug-of-death happened and there's only three comments
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by cwyers 3y ago
Commoditize your complements: https://gwern.net/complement If Databricks makes their money off model serving and doesn't care whose model you use, they are incentivized to help the open models be competitive with the c
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by cwyers 3y ago
Governments in other countries have come to a different view, and it's for Apple to determine how worth it is for them to conform to the view come to by the representatives of the EU citizens versus catering to markets with other regul
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by cwyers 4y ago
The thing is that the short term is much easier to predict what you're going to need and where the value is, and in the long term you might not even work on this codebase anymore. Lot of incentives to get things done in the short term.
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by cwyers 4y ago
Atlanta Braves | Analytics Engineer | Remote | https://atlantabravesmlb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/AtlantaBraves... The Atlanta Braves are looking for an analytics engineer to join Baseball Development Analytics. Baseball Develo
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by cwyers 4y ago
I believe what the post you're replying to is implying is, there's a ton of C++ code in the world that isn't going to be ported to Rust, and someone is going to have to fix all of those bugs in C++ code already in the wild. S
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by cwyers 4y ago
`Electron (formerly atom-shell)` This made me laugh. Is there anyone in 2022 who doesn't know what Electron is, but does know about atom-shell?
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by cwyers 4y ago
I think some of the early Venture Bros. eps were too.
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by cwyers 5y ago
Atlanta Braves | Analytics Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE Baseball Development Analytics is devoted to using advanced technologies and big data to deliver insights into how our players can become better athletes and develop skills that will
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by cwyers 5y ago
TL;DR it's a sales pitch for Proofpoint. Absolutely no interesting content whatsoever.
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by cwyers 5y ago
Well, to be fair, she also calls for using Python for intro programming classes, not Java.
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by cwyers 5y ago
Except Microsoft doesn't offer WSL-based hosting, and they currently don't offer their own Linux distro. This is a complement to their Azure business, basically.
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by cwyers 5y ago
> IE4 came out at a time when Microsoft considered Netscape an existential threat. IE4 was really the last nail in the coffin. It was actually way better/faster than NS. By the time IE6 came around, there was no imminent threat to W
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by cwyers 5y ago
Okay, but how far down the stack does it go? If you are working at Cisco, should you be similarly horrified that human trafficking is being arranged using your company's routers? If you work at a Tier 1 Internet carrier, should you be
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by cwyers 5y ago
Okay, but Moxie has actually produced a secure and usable messaging system, based on his stance. Have any of the people who disagree with him gone ahead and produced something that proves their viewpoint?
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by cwyers 5y ago
"Spartans can't be 80% slaves because the Spartans didn't consider their slaves to be Spartans" is perhaps a linguistic truth, but it requires an absurd literalism to keep banging that drum instead of understanding that
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by cwyers 5y ago
> Coinbase is not a bank and doesn’t have to play by these rules. Which is why this whole thing is such bullshit. Coinbase: Hey, SEC, we're just giving you a heads-up that we're going to start doing something that's not in
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by cwyers 5y ago
It's not a silly response. The thing about IRC is that there's channels, and you chat with people in those channels. The deal with Twitter is you both publish and subscribe to short messages, but there's no enforcement of rec
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by cwyers 5y ago
I mean, assuming you don't drown.
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by cwyers 5y ago
> To me, the ability to automate the use of a tool is a massive force multiplier which the cli is built for. To other people, the ease of use of a gui is preferable to googling for cli syntax or reading man pages. RStudio is an IDE and I
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by cwyers 5y ago
The article advocates for long polling of endpoints.
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by cwyers 5y ago
Yeah. Quitting vim has the most trafficked Stack Overflow page: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping... "Most people don't know how to use vim and emacs" is both incredi
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by cwyers 5y ago
There's a ton of off-patent medicines. You can't do large-scale trials for all of them, there literally aren't enough COVID patients to do a large-scale trial for every off-patent medicine that exists. You have to have some s
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by cwyers 5y ago
How is this a long con? It's two years. According to the indictments he was being extradited for, that's _not the longest con John McAfee has been involved in_.
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by cwyers 5y ago
I mean, they're posting in this thread right now. Maybe it's not a lot of them by percentage, but they're certainly vocal right now.
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by cwyers 5y ago
Well, seeing as 2019 is when he fled the US to avoid prosecution for tax fraud, it's not like it took a lot of foresight to say "hrm, maybe the US government will catch me."
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by cwyers 5y ago
The article's premise is that people want to buy gold and Bitcoin because they are both stores of value and they're bearer assets, which means that you don't need a third party to store them for you. That seems... somewhat su
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by cwyers 5y ago
If you feel like the only thing preventing you from understanding the security risks of executing a piece of Javascript in Chrome is the parts of the source that are used only in Chrome and not in Chromium, you have a very high opinion of y

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