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by efitz 3y ago
I’ll be honest. I really liked the BlueSky idea and was an early adopter. But I deleted the app last week when you announced your Trust & Safety team, or at least hired a new leader for it. In my mind (and many other people), “Trust a
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by efitz 3y ago
The document ("What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic") linked from the article was IMO even more interesting than the article: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-
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by efitz 3y ago
This list is pretty awesome and the work is impressive. I wonder what percentage of applications break or have such slow performance that they become unusable, when this set of mitigations is enabled.
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by efitz 3y ago
I think that impostor syndrome is inextricably linked with Dunning-Kruger. I believe that impostor syndrome is a lack of overconfidence in one's abilities- that implies that you have the ability to assess competence and to assess the s
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by efitz 3y ago
I gave up self hosting most stuff years ago because I was worried about the impact to my family if I passed unexpectedly. I still have a lot of home automation but I’ve specifically selected equipment that “fails normal” - the smart stuff l
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by efitz 3y ago
No but I can probably pronounce the words. Reminds me of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator: https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?si=CzO1LM1d4k9f-I14
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by efitz 3y ago
AWS assigns these individually, and customers can’t influence the ID that they get. For access control purposes I see no valid use case for wildcards there. Sharding on account ID might make sense if someone has a large number of them, b
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by efitz 3y ago
That's the part that surprised me as well; it doesn't seem like a field that should be eligible for anything other than an exact match. I am unable to conceive of a use case for pattern matching account IDs.
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by efitz 3y ago
In a cloud, massive outages are the rare events, and technically easy to report. Small outages happen all the time, and are difficult to report accurately. I think AWS has pivoted to trying to report status in each individual customer'
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by efitz 3y ago
Reporting status externally is hard. I worked at a cloud provider and while we had very detailed metrics about how our systems were functioning, it was difficult to distill that information in a way that customers would understand if they
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by efitz 3y ago
It's not optics. It's regulatory intervention: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCAK-23V838-3395.pdf I think the recall is dumb. If you are not paying attention and have an accident, then you
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by efitz 3y ago
This is kind of like Forth in concept only much less useful.
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by efitz 3y ago
There are some who believe that meetings never accomplish anything. If those people are in positions of power in an organization, there will be tension with people who use meetings effectively to coordinate, communicate and drive decision
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by efitz 3y ago
There are several different things going on in that poll, but nothing specifically points at propaganda as a cause of loss of trust. For public companies, the loss is likely just observable behavior - higher prices, worse service, etc. - an
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by efitz 3y ago
I want it to work in all the shells, which is why I want the functionality inside the tools themselves.
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by efitz 3y ago
Didn't that happen with XML and web services? We survived that one.
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by efitz 3y ago
Thank you for the link. It still would be great built in functionality for the tools themselves.
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by efitz 3y ago
What I really want is all the shell commands to have an object (e.g. json) output mode. Then all my "glue" between tools becomes less bespoke and more standardized, e.g. jq. Instead of analyzing output to build weird grep and aw
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by efitz 3y ago
If it's Python, is it really a new tool? The big problem is that bash is more or less portable (almost everything has bash in the box). They need to start convincing distros to include and/or default xonsh, to really make it wort
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by efitz 3y ago
Why downvote? This happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783355
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by efitz 3y ago
Just curious: what about this comment made it worthy of downvoting?
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by efitz 3y ago
And if the battery is damaged it will cost $40k to replace.
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by efitz 3y ago
The problem with opinions is not that they are good or bad, it’s how difficult they are to change. Other people who are unwilling to change “bad” opinions in the face of contradictory evidence is easily observed. If you find yourself neve
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by efitz 3y ago
Analogies are decorative writings, not arguments.
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by efitz 3y ago
I don't think that the patent should be allowed to be ended early; the fee is paid to keep the patent protection in place.
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by efitz 3y ago
No, the fee should be exponential, to keep people from keeping technology out of the public domain longer than necessary. For example, maybe the fee is $10000 for the first year. This doesn't come close to recouping the cost of a sing
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by efitz 3y ago
The whole reason that we’re having such a disagreement on moderation is that moderation has been weaponized for political purposes. This has happened over and over - Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, even here (try posting a sk
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by efitz 3y ago
The lay definition of sentience involves the ability to respond to stimuli, as you point out, but people involved with animal rights activism use the term sentience to refer to the capacity to suffer, which implies a sense of self. Intellig
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by efitz 3y ago
We know that octopuses and many other animals are intelligent. We don't know for certain if anything nonhuman is sentient. Scientists and activist groups have been designing frameworks for sentience and tests to measure it. This pape
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by efitz 3y ago
Not farmed, but hunted, and not chimpanzees, but monkeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_meat (aka bush meat).

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