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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Apologies, must have got the maths wrong somewhere in the middle, but anyone who has ever had a medical scan will know that 2 minutes is laughable. Realistically, a 60 second scan is going to take ~10 mins minimum, and will operate 8 hours
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
The scans take 60 seconds, but at their stated numbers each machine would need to do a scan every 30 seconds 24/7. At this point I stopped reading because I don't have time to parse slop.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Hide My Email is fundamentally broken in two major ways: 1. Services those emails are used with cannot unilaterally send email to them. They must pre-register how they will send email to them, which breaks services with third-party relation
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
"investors" really over-sells who these people are. They're people with gambling apps on their phones who think SpaceX is great because of Musk's politics.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
AI hype is full of bad total addressable market hypotheses. There just isn't $26T of money to buy this stuff. Patrick Mackenzie, at the time at Stripe, about 10 years ago, talked about how Stripe's growth depended on growing the a
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
> Epubcheck does basic CSS checking of course, but it can’t validate CSS against a renderer which is fundamentally broken! But isn't that kind of the point of epubcheck? It's surely not intended to validate all of CSS, it'
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
And this is why I said that I'm not going to change your mind. The gender bias is clear in individual experience and data, all it takes is talking to women (or people of colour, or whatever under represented group you want) to see it.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
Not at all. A good faith discussion in the right forum is fine. That's not what the memo was. It ignored the evidence we have that there is systemic bias, it relied on tired and debunked tropes, and has explicit goals about preservin
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
It is, but I think it's hard to explain to folks who have only used the Git/GitHub model – I know, I've been that person not really getting it. I think what's missed is two things: - In the Phabricator/Gerrit model
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
In isolation, it's a very naive, oblivious, and incurious stance. Taken alongside the rest of the content, it's a rejection of the idea that there is systemic bias, and much of his memo is dedicated to ways in which that bias can
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
"Build a completely greenroom, open source AWS" – $700 This is engineering theatre (pun intended). The amount of hubris here is exceptional, the author doesn't even know that it's "clean room" rather than &quot
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
No, I read the memo. What I was not doing is taking him at his word that he "values diversity and inclusion", I was reading his actual words and the sexist dogwhistles. Stating acceptance does not absolve other intolerance. We mus
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
I'm saying it will change with market forces. In the US renting your router is the norm, it'll stick, and I'm sure it was a US based team that thought this would be a good idea. In some other countries it'll never get of
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
I suspect this will change, or not roll out in many places, or users will get the choice between up-front or rental. Router rental isn't tolerated by the market in the UK or AU from what I've seen.
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
What a joke. Must make it pretty easy to poison a session, you don't need to persuade the model about anything, just trigger its security controls, ideally after as much context as possible, but before it has generated any useful outpu
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by danpalmer 4mo ago
This is a good point – because pentesting is entirely legitimate work, and security testing is a necessary and legitimate part of every day software engineering. The problem is that the model can't tell the difference between doing it
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
I use WhatsApp for almost all my communication with family and friends. I'm also happy to pay for things that improve my experience. ...but it's unclear what this subscription would give me. The announcement has no real details, t
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
They could, but this isn't discussed in the blog post. The post is about literal fraud, which has a very different recourse for the merchant.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
This is just fraud. "Friendly fraud" is accidental or with the correct intentions – such as the customer not recognising the charge and charging back.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
In the UK as a startup we found buying Silicon Valley SaaS tools to be a bit different sometimes in similar ways. Europe, even the UK, prices tech startup significantly lower than the US (a colleague once said that in the US you get funding
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Fair point, I hadn't considered this, but wouldn't they just disallow it? Like, I use a VSCode fork at work, but the enforced extensions store backend is based on an allowlist and extensions need reviewing to be available there.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
Why does a company in GitHub's place allow employees to install random VSCode extensions?! That seems grossly irresponsible.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
> In here it sounds like this is a client to a third party service. It's not, Micro.blog is a service made and run by the author.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
> Apple also wanted more explicit terms of service and privacy policy links, so I cluttered up our welcome screen with more buttons. This sort of starts from the perspective that a privacy policy is not important, and I get why people mi
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
7 minutes from bug filing to account restoration. This shouldn't have happened in the first place, but that's an excellent response time from the support team.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
I had good experiences with their support, and bad experiences with AWS support. tldr: YMMV.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
FWIW, centralising on a single harness in Antigravity seems like a great idea.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
> It's strange such a big corp can't even afford to have proper support team Railway say they are in touch with that support team.
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by danpalmer 5mo ago
I bet there's an aspect of normalisation here too. Tesla Solar Roofs were all about looks, all about not looking like you had solar panels, but as the world warms up (pun intended) to solar, having visible panels is less of a concern,

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