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by efitz 1y ago
For fraud related risk they should still be considered a common carriers but may adjust rates for certain types of transactions or businesses, if, in good faith and backed by empirical data, they can demonstrate the monetary risk to the car
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by efitz 1y ago
We need Congress to make a law here in the US that businesses involved in facilitating financial transactions in the United States are considered “common carriers” and must not discriminate against, cancel or disadvantage any customer or l
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by efitz 1y ago
> More than half of Helsinki’s streets now have speed limits of 30 km/h. Fifty years ago, the majority were limited to 50 km/h For us metric-impaired, 30 km/h ~ 19 mph. In the United States, school zones with children pr
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by efitz 1y ago
I don’t get the sense that Ground News is trying to influence what news stories I select; I think they are presenting metadata that allow me to look at the story from my preferred frame of reference and from the opposing frame of reference.
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by efitz 1y ago
A lot of people are unable to see their own political bias; they look at BBC or Fox News and see “unbiased true reporting”. I highly suggest using Ground News (ground.news) for a week or a month as your sole portal into news stories, and th
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by efitz 1y ago
There’s very little empirical evidence correlating tipping with better service.
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by efitz 1y ago
And if you have some kind of special case or something, the LLM will usually comment it when it writes it, but you can also just tell it to do so. The docs don’t rot because you can throw them away and have the LLM recreate them at any time
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by efitz 1y ago
You can have the LLM generate whatever context you need- documentation, developers guide, design patterns, whatever. You can have it do this, at the time you create the app, or later (I have done this for other peoples code I found on GitH
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by efitz 1y ago
If you vibe coded it, why can’t you vibe support it? I think the whole premise of the article is wrong because it compares apples to oranges, assuming that you’re going to maintain “vibe code” in a traditional way.
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by efitz 1y ago
+1000. There are always trade-offs for architectural decisions.
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by efitz 1y ago
I missed the word “laptop” in the title at first glance and thought this was a “I taught my toddler to code” article.
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by efitz 1y ago
They’re just kicking the can down the road. What will people do on December 4, 292277026596, at 15:30:07 UTC?
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by efitz 1y ago
Not true, see answer above. Block the domain name or IP addresses of the DoH server.
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by efitz 1y ago
DNS over https depends on the ability to resolve the DoH hostname via DNS, which is blockable via PiHole, or depend on a set of static IPs, which can be blocked by your favorite firewall.
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by efitz 1y ago
Two thoughts: 1. Try using pi-hole to block those particular endpoints via making DNS resolution fail; see if it still works if it can’t access the telemetry endpoints. 2. Their ridiculous tracking, disregard of the user preference to not s
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by efitz 1y ago
Nobody pre-reads documents except in the course of writing the document, so the 20min focus time (I’ve seen this go to 40min sometimes) is really a blessing. And it’s not just “management wisdom”- it’s “intentional culture”. I felt that Ama
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by efitz 1y ago
I do not think that allowing people to sue gun companies for not having an external safety is a good way to accomplish the goal, if the goal is actual safety. If the consumer protection bureau of a state wants to make an external safety a r
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by efitz 1y ago
The issue here is a question of whether the product is defective. The various legislation passed to protect firearm manufacturers against nuisance “defective product” lawsuits in the specific case where the product functioned as intended a
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by efitz 1y ago
When I start a nontrivial coding task with AI, I added a “context” directory, instructions in the tool prompts how to use the files in that directory, and then I spent a couple hours using a thinking chat AI to generate the documentation I
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by efitz 1y ago
Any corporation whose business is financial in nature and focused on facilitating commerce- banks, payment processors, and everything else- should be required to function as a common carrier. They should be allowed to alter prices to adjus
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by efitz 1y ago
Doesn’t Canada have a lemon law? Most US states have a law that says if you have to bring a new car in 3 times for the same issue in the first X months of ownership, that they have to accept a return and refund you, or give you a new one.
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by efitz 1y ago
I know it’s off topic, but it reminded me that translators like to put in Easter eggs, or at least they used to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ericfitz/i-a...
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by efitz 1y ago
All abstractions break down. The more the e difference in in expressivity or complexity between the abstraction and whatever it abstracts, the faster it breaks down.
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by efitz 1y ago
This seems like a neat idea that is 20 years too late.
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by efitz 1y ago
I think one of the indicators of of declining quality is the unwillingness to support products (beyond initial installation support), and that the unwillingness to make products supportable. Did it break after two years? Make it so inconve
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by efitz 1y ago
That’s very insightful, thank you. I agree that denial is not an approach that’s likely to be productive.
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by efitz 1y ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about what AI means about being human. Not about apocalypses or sentience or taking our jobs, but about “what is a human” and “what is the value of a human”. All my life I’ve taken for granted that your value is
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by efitz 1y ago
I once read an article that said basically that some ads were targeted at people who had already bought the product, to prevent regret for paying a premium price. The example given was TV commercials for BMW cars but I can see that applyin
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by efitz 1y ago
Not necessarily, because (1) the “wild” viruses would still exist and evolve, competing with treatments and maybe learning to leverage them, and (2) bad people use science too.
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by efitz 1y ago
And just like that, I never did business with Delta again. Amazon tried something similar[1] and the experience still gets mentioned in on-boarding Most people don’t mind pricing that is based on scarcity or demand but recoil at the idea of

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