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by dilap 5y ago
I think avianlyric is suggesting Apple didn't have a choice, and that US gov is compelling them to add the CSAM features. Which seems likely to me. † Really "CSAM", since there's no way to verify nor ensure it's onl
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by dilap 5y ago
should've called it the iphone (lambda f: f(f))(lambda y: lambda f: f(lambda n: y(y)(f)(n)))(lambda f: lambda n: f(n-1) + f(n-2) if n > 2 else 1)(7)
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by dilap 5y ago
I mean, that's basically what happened to Brendan Eich. And now Mozilla is headed towards irrelevence, Firefox is in sharp decline, and Amazon is in danger of taking over Rust. Call it the paradox of the paradox of intolerance -- intol
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by dilap 5y ago
Exhibit A: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504693/ Exhibit B: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3076650/
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by dilap 5y ago
I really enjoyed Stephen Wolfram's mini-bio of her. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-t... I very much recoginized from that that she had the attitude and experience of a "progra
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by dilap 5y ago
Right; not an expert in the topic, but it seems to make sense that super low interest rates + the fed actively buying morgtage-backed securities would pump up housing prices. (Indeed, I think propping up asset prices is the idea? Though I&#
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by dilap 5y ago
No kids yet; appreciate the comment -- your perspective + the sibling comment make me think my concern was probably unwarranted.
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by dilap 5y ago
I don't think it does anything to help in the fight against COVID, but it does highlight potential unanticipated adverse effects of COVID mitigation measures -- e.g., what's going to be the impact on the immune systems of kids tha
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by dilap 5y ago
I'll disagree with you on this. A collection of anecdotes absolutely is data. It may have more (and unknown) sample bias than you'd like, but it is real data. Just because something happens outside the context of a formal study do
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by dilap 5y ago
I think this part of the reason why long tweet threads are so popular. It encourages a writing style that makes things feel concise.
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by dilap 5y ago
I personally remember around that time that watching a video was pretty hit-or-miss, but YouTube always seemed to work. I've also heard that they focused on supporting the max possible number of codecs for upload, so uploaders were les
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by dilap 5y ago
Yes, I experienced this on mostly-meat diet -- much less urge to drink, and when I did drink, it wasn't nearly as much fun. Which was simultaneously nice & kind of a bummer. :-)
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by dilap 5y ago
> To programmers from other languages, such as C or C++, the concept of pointers to dynamically extensible arrays seems like a perfectly decent idea that surely should exist and work in Go. Ah, I would beg to differ! You should never be
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by dilap 5y ago
so what happens if kids in lockdown now (e.g. australia) grow up w/o exposure to the common cold? is it suddenly going to become a big deal for them later in life?
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by dilap 5y ago
Damn, this is so cool. I can tell I'm going to be sucked back into to trying linux yet again...
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by dilap 5y ago
And of course the site will just get worse and worse, but continue onward, because its value is in the audience, and it takes a lot to screw up that momentum. (What a blessing that HN isn't run to make a profit.)
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by dilap 5y ago
At the risk of sucking the fun out of a pretty funny joke, I think the underlying subtext is that established projects are failing to "grow up" -- i.e., that established, depended-on projects are hiding under the shield shield of
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by dilap 5y ago
I'm not sure about the allegations, but this certainly does not match my experience -- I have seen an incredibly diverse set of people in my FYP feed. (I wish YouTube had content discovery like TikTok -- YouTube seems to always want to
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by dilap 5y ago
Confusingly, it's a completely different use of the word "hash" See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing The goal of a perceptual hash is to generate a number that will be the same for
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by dilap 5y ago
Looking at human faces greatly enriches our sense of connection to the people around us. I feel much more isolated when everyone is wearing masks.
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by dilap 5y ago
Yeah, you expect it from Google and MS; Apple was the one tech giant that promised to value your privacy, so now that they've turned on that, there are no mainstream options left. Hence the strong dismay. (Honestly Apple probably doesn
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by dilap 5y ago
A Linux phone would be good, but not sufficient. Once things like Apple is doing become normalized, the next step becomes making it illegal to distribute or use software that doesn't do it. So running your Linux phone will be illegal
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by dilap 5y ago
Web is different; he was talking about email. Maybe I should go watch the clip again, but I remember it as seeming quite transparently untrue. Anyway, it's not surprising to me that Apple is not living up to its lofty rhetoric around p
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by dilap 5y ago
There was a funny, tiny thing that happened a few years back that made me think Tim Cook is a liar. It was back when Apple had just introduced the (now-abandoned) Force Touch feature (i.e., pressure sensitive touch, since abandoned, since i
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by dilap 5y ago
smoking on a plane sounds like simultaneously the most wonderful and most terrible thing ever similarly it was amazing to smoke in bars, but it's great to not have smoke filled bars
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by dilap 5y ago
I think that's overstating. To be sure some real tech challenges in distributing work horizontally, but I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race research.
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by dilap 5y ago
YMMV, but I find that by talking with a person and solving problems with them I get a much better sense of their abilities than by just reading resumes or listening to recommendations.
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by dilap 5y ago
Not sure I'd want to work somewhere that didn't do tech interviews (or something equivalent, e.g. project).
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by dilap 5y ago
It's definitely unintuitive for newcomers. And I think arguably modifying working-directory files vs. modifying .git/HEAD are distinct things (though at this point I also find using checkout for everything to be pretty intuitive).
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by dilap 5y ago
So caveat, I've never actually used an ECS system, but I've read about the pattern, and I would say it definitely seems better suited to the kind of situation you're describing than interfaces (or inheritence). (I would say i

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