danShumway

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by danShumway 2y ago
"It doesn't matter what the market effect was, only that Google engineers meant well" is certainly an argument, but it both contradicts the question you originally asked (are customers better off), and also (to be blunt) is a
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by danShumway 2y ago
This is somewhat begging the question. It assumes that: A) this is a unified model for how queer people talk about gender. B) the term "cisgender" does anything at all to advance it. And C) that it causes harm. without providing a
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by danShumway 2y ago
Think even bigger, why not reinvent the wheel every time every product is developed? Why have a common platform for anything? If you think about it, what value is there in all these companies using the same roads to ship products? Can'
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by danShumway 2y ago
> The point of products is to provide value to customers. This is idealistic, the point of a product is to provide value to the company . And competition is not a by-product that exists by accident, it is the mechanism through which w
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by danShumway 2y ago
Is there a reason why Google can't get its users to install the extension and approve the permission for that API? I would theorize the reason Google doesn't go through that process is that it's unrealistic to expect users en
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by danShumway 2y ago
"All they're doing is making their product better." "Making your product better by privileging your own domains in the browser is the anti-competitive part." "Come on, it's not like it's making their
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by danShumway 3y ago
The implications of this in the article are mainly focused on the ethics, but at least where the copyright is concerned there is no problem with this -- Midjourney Images are not copyrightable, and it doesn't seem like there's any
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by danShumway 3y ago
> Like I said it's quite difficult to find information about this stuff. Quite honestly, I don't think it is. I'm not an expert on this, I'm using the same search engines you're using. I'm able to find stuff
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by danShumway 3y ago
> So they put up a banner after these laws went into effect, only in states affected. My original point was where were their banners during the last 20 years? No, your original point was, and I am literally quoting you here: > They sh
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by danShumway 3y ago
I could link you to a few (I think Bootstrap adopted BEM at some point, Material Design Lite I think uses a variant of it), but I can't recommend them with confidence because generally I don't use extensive style frameworks when I
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by danShumway 3y ago
Okay, we are on the same page then -- sorry. Yep, I generally agree with this.
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by danShumway 3y ago
> I meant the concept that when you e.g. apply the style "color: blue;" to an element, all child elements get the same style unless you override it. This is the first thing you've said so far that I would push back against
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by danShumway 3y ago
> I think cascading is just a bad default I'm again semi-inclined to agree, I just don't think I'd say it as forcefully; more that cascading styles tends to have a lot of downsides that people aren't familiar with and
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by danShumway 3y ago
Sure, but the idea with BEM is that you generally don't have situations where the result of that algorithm is confusing or unexpected. Or at least that's been my experience, even on large codebases. I generally don't run into
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by danShumway 3y ago
I'm inclined to semi-agree with this, although I'm not sure I'd be quite as adamant about it myself. But I do generally think that CSS is taught in a way that encourages some bad practice around cascade/inheritance. I
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by danShumway 3y ago
> Where exactly have they put forward a proposal? Literally a banner ad in front of Utah users, the exact thing you asked for ( https://kslnewsradio.com/2003298/adult-website-pornhub-block... ): > "Please co
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by danShumway 3y ago
KeepassXC too, and I think Strongbox(?) is trying to support interop with 3rd-parties -- if anyone from Strongbox is around, you should add support for Proton Pass's format. That's been the encouraging part in this -- 3rd-party pa
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by danShumway 3y ago
Thanks for writing this, I've been complaining and trying to get attention on this problem for somewhere close to a year and I feel like with so much of the completely uncritical coverage of passkeys I was disconnected from reality or
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by danShumway 3y ago
1Password does not support platform export/import. It works on multiple OSes -- that's not what ProtonPass is talking about here. They're talking about moving passkeys between services -- ie moving passkeys from 1Password int
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by danShumway 3y ago
It's not clear to me that "platform-authenticator-bound" passkeys are a real thing. I've actually talked to someone behind the upcoming portability standard, and their standard allows for arbitrary export (encrypted, but
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by danShumway 3y ago
> the companies doing the check can just not store information about the check, regardless of whether they are required to delete it. Seriously? By that logic the bills themselves are orthogonal to porn, since sites can just institute ID
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by danShumway 3y ago
> They're orthogonal issues because you can address one [...] independently. We can have very strict data protection laws and also have strict id checking for regulated industries. We can not have secure ID checking without data pro
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by danShumway 3y ago
> I don't think security professionals are lying. I think "security professional" is a meaningless descriptor like "thought leader" that one applies to themselves You don't believe that people who study secu
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by danShumway 3y ago
> Sure, there are multiple laws. The ones I've read all seem similar enough to me on the points people bring up. The laws are template laws, but do occasionally differ in important ways. You've mentioned before that Texas inclu
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by danShumway 3y ago
I don't think this subthread is about the US, but just as a sidenote on the US, Project 2025 directly calls for porn to be made illegal and for attacking Internet providers and companies like Cloudflare that enable its access ( https:&
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by danShumway 3y ago
> If the law contradicts a requirement that you made up, and does not itself contain that requirement, then why would you presume that it has that requirement? First off, always good to be clear that there are multiple laws here, even if
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by danShumway 3y ago
> Good thing these laws specifically ban them from storing that information that they don't want to store. Well... companies. They don't ban government agencies from retaining that data if they get access to it. But ignore that
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by danShumway 3y ago
The thing is, a confident smart person who isn’t an expert in anything, who DOES have access to resources to check their answers is still not someone I want doing my taxes. The only way that an LLM doing my taxes for me is useful is if I
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by danShumway 3y ago
I was surprised the first time I learned that Python will actually refuse to compile: def fibonacci(n): return n because it knows that the Fibonacci sequence doesn't work that way. It's a fantastic language.
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by danShumway 3y ago
> Treat an LLM as a confident smart person who isn’t an expert in anything, and doesn’t have access to resources to check their answer (unless you give it access). Sure, but I don't want that person helping me with my taxes. Like, t

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