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721.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Makes sense if you are a criminal.
722.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Even "just smtp" isn't trivial.
723.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Although there's a search box, a few test queries suggests that most (all?) of the material is scanned paper documents that haven't been OCR'ed and therefore the search function is useless.
724.
Epstein(justice.gov)
5 points by dboreham 10mo ago|1 comments
725.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Always consider rate limiting if you deploy a public endpoint. Always require authentication to perform resource-consuming and/or privacy leaking requests. (Requiring authentication makes rate limiting more practical since even a distr
726.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.
727.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Legislators aren't interested in actual expertise. They only need to know what each constituency wants and how much money they have.
728.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Kind of like open source software.
729.
by dboreham 10mo ago
0.02/wo: formal methods are just "fancy tests". Of course tests are good to have, and fancy tests even better. I've found that humans are pretty terrible on average at creating tests (perhaps it would be more accurate to
730.
by dboreham 10mo ago
And this is why you can't have a system where people can opt out of paying for healthcare.
731.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Hasn't this been known for decades?
732.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Point of order: dirt goes in your dump trailer, hauled of course by your truck.
733.
by dboreham 10mo ago
I live in a place where people drive either trucks or subarus. There are plenty of alternatives to subaru with high clearance (basically any small suv). People buy them because they work well in snow and well...everyone has them. Easy to se
734.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Present day EVs don't take that long to charge (basically the time to go to the bathroom and check email), but they don't have enough parallelism so at a busy location you can end up waiting for an open charger. There are orders o
735.
by dboreham 10mo ago
There are loads of Rivian in southwest Montana. No idea why. Way way more than Teslas.
736.
by dboreham 10mo ago
> Should we have started taxing tractors? Tractors are taxed in Montana. We have a "business equipment tax" that works roughly like the tax on cars, but applies to assets that don't drive on the public highway such as trac
737.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Or perhaps there will arise a new kind of external service provider that delivers customized SaaS services to those same users, using AI. There's no reason the work has to go back to the internal IT people who were fired long ago.
738.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Present day AI is a box that has these properties: a human has to create its inputs; a human has to verify its outputs; a human has to create the next input based on the last output. Extremely useful for sure, but this is not the kind of bo
739.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Perhaps because the 40 million units rely on an expensive back-end service that isn't covered by monthly fees to users?
740.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Apart from all the other answers here: an external entity knowing the relative creation time for two different accounts, or just that the two accounts were created close in time to each other can represent a meaningful information leak.
741.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Hmm. I noted this paradox here several weeks ago.
742.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Typically they're overprovisioning through prior experience. In the past something fell over because it didn't have enough memory. So they gave it more. That practice stuck in the brain-model. Perhaps it's no longer valid, bu
743.
by dboreham 10mo ago
A tool that claims to solve a clearly unsolvable problem!
744.
by dboreham 10mo ago
1. Introduce it to the code base (tell it: we're going to work on this project, project does X is written in language Y). Ask it to look at the project to familiarize. 2. Tell it you want to refactor the code to achieve goal Z. Tell it
745.
by dboreham 10mo ago
That the president can pardon any criminal providing no justification is preposterous nonsense. Much reform is needed.
746.
by dboreham 10mo ago
For completeness: Billy Connolly was also a banjo player.
747.
by dboreham 10mo ago
> they once swapped out a cable that was a few feet longer than the older cable and that's why the latency increased That was not why. Possibly the cable made a difference (had an open circuit that made the NICs back down to a lower
748.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Agree. Using a container to build the source that is then packaged as a "binary" in the resulting container always seemed odd to me. imho we should have stuck with the old ways : build the product on a regular computer. That outpu
749.
by dboreham 10mo ago
Even more impressive is that it's something like 20 years old, and was basically the way it is now 20 years ago.
750.
by dboreham 11mo ago
Shouldn't OpenAI be paying Disney?

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