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by elisbce 1y ago
Yeah, blame the victims for not protecting themselves enough. How familiar.
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by elisbce 2y ago
Yes, it is messy when you want your MySQL databases to be mission critical in production, e.g. handling a large amount of customer data. Historically MySQL's High Availability architecture has a lot of design and implementation issues
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by elisbce 2y ago
I wrote an app tracking my location using the latest SwiftUI and SwiftData and the performance is so bad to the point it starts to stall the UI after just a few hundred data points. Apparently the magic of SwiftData + SwiftUI is only useful
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by elisbce 2y ago
So they have no problems with Microsoft, Meta, Blackrock, Berkshire, Exxon/Chevron, but Google.
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by elisbce 2y ago
I had custom servers banned randomly in the ballpark of 100 GB / day, but your mileage may vary.
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by elisbce 2y ago
I'm sure they have monitoring services to detect banned IPs and rotate on new IPs. However, in my experience, the most popular VPN providers are actually not specialized in evading GFW despite what they claim. During sensitive periods
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by elisbce 2y ago
Yes, depends on a lot of factors like provider (different telecoms have different network settings/policies), location (GFW is multi-tiered with at least provincial boundaries, certain cities/provinces might have tighter control&#
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by elisbce 2y ago
Unfortunately it's not gonna work. The GFW periodically disturbs/resets any persistent or large-enough traffic to IPs outside of China and bans them. That's why even if you have the best obfuscation protocol (like setting u
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by elisbce 2y ago
I don't understand why people are just mad about OpenAI for their pioneering work towards AGI as if they are the only one who has skin in this game. OpenAI, Google, NVidia, MS, Meta, almost all the AI researchers who publish meaningful
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by elisbce 2y ago
Braun is the only shaver brand that I can confidently get a smooth clean shave without getting rashes or pulled beard. Esp. their series 9 which cuts even curly beard perfectly. This says a lot about their engineering design superiority.
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by elisbce 3y ago
The real reason why we can't easily replicate Twitter/Facebook/Google is because we don't have the distributed storage/caching/logging/data processing/serving/job scheduling/... infrastructu
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by elisbce 3y ago
Ads suck. But you know what's worse than Ads? Selfish people. If Google, YouTube and everywhere else starts asking you to pay high subscription fees for using their services, are you willing/going to pay? You looked up information
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by elisbce 3y ago
Seems these guys never learn from the Python 2 -> 3 mess. GIL to NoGIL is even worse. Most changes from Python 2 to 3 are syntactic, but GIL to NoGIL could require a complete redesign and rewrite. Either it takes another 10+ years migrat
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by elisbce 3y ago
The first sentence already raises a big red flag. "This paper examines the way of thinking and limitations of physicists regarding the phenomenon of superconductivity". Stop these ridiculous presumptuous claims about "limitat
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by elisbce 3y ago
History always repeats itself. Anytime a potential groundbreaking result is announced with one or some of the following characteristics, more likely than not something fishy or problematic ensues. 1. Paper submitted hastily without all auth
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by elisbce 3y ago
Victimless crime? Smoking causes 8 millions death per year, 1 million for non-smokers around smokers. Alcohols causes 3 million deaths per year. They kill more people than COVID. That's not counting the disease and other crimes caused
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by elisbce 3y ago
The biggest issue I had with plot libraries is that they don't work out of the box for millions of data points. Last time I was doing a data science project, I tried all of the major plotting libraries and none of them works well beyon
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by elisbce 3y ago
You know what's dumb? Pulling a "black-owned" racial card every time there is anything happening, even if the rules have nothing to do with race.
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by elisbce 3y ago
It is an adversarial game. The hackers could plant fake victims as monitors for police activities. This is an important reason why the police can't disclose to the victims that they were hacked or how they were hacked. However, I think
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by elisbce 3y ago
This is so fun, although it is super grainy. Is it because you cannot run the generation at higher res in time?
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by elisbce 4y ago
Let me give you a real data point of what happened at a leading social network company. One of the early hires was fired after a few months on the job, and the company agreed to not only vest him, but FULLY ACCELERATED, 4 years. Of course l
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by elisbce 4y ago
View anything as a price to the company. This is a lesson you pay to not identify the problem and fire them early. Putting generosity aside, as an early startup, you cannot afford legal battles and ex-early-employee badmouthing you afterwar
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by elisbce 4y ago
If one day the next-gen avatars are so realistic, would you say the same? The whole point of VR/AR/MR is to push the boundaries of immersive virtual worlds that eventually reach or even exceed the realism of the physical world. 20
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by elisbce 4y ago
The dilemma is that although there are recommendations like fast.ai to get your hands dirty quickly into ML/DL, none of the good AI researchers and practitioners got there via these quick tutorials. They got there via rigorous linear
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by elisbce 4y ago
So Uber is the culprit behind the lack of public transportation and infrastructure development? Lol...In 2006 when I came to the US, the train between LA and SF took 13 hours. Today in 2022, 18 years later, it still takes 13 hours.
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by elisbce 4y ago
Cookie banner alone has probably done more harm in terms of wasted human life than anything else combined. 4.66 billion active internet users, 92% of which are web users, spending 5 secs per day on clicking all cookies allowed. That's
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by elisbce 4y ago
This is far from a great engineering interview question, let alone the best. 1. This question is heavily biased towards specific software experience and familiarity with the domain and tooling, while at the same time too shallow in terms of
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by elisbce 5y ago
1. There are people who are more sociable and more likely to thrive working with other people in person, while some other type of people are more introverted, sensitive and dislike human interactions. 2. There are companies/work enviro
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by elisbce 5y ago
Company Policy: No metamating with your metamates in your metaverse.
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by elisbce 5y ago
Are you talking about Google Lens? It is right there at the end of the search bar on the Google App

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