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by foobiekr 2y ago
The lazy version of that, which I recommend, is always deny the first answer. Usually I deny for some obvious reason, but sometimes I just say "isn't that wrong?"
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by foobiekr 2y ago
I don't know your life circumstances, but as I am slightly beyond 25 YOE, it has been over two decades since I found myself job shopping, just job choosing. There's no way I'd be working my current job and also doing whatever
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by foobiekr 2y ago
What senior person wants to do this?
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by foobiekr 2y ago
ML is swarmed with people and security mostly doesn’t pay Here’s an alternate piece of advice: find a new job and take the job that pays the most money. Repeat. True joy is getting to where you don’t need to work. The moment you are there y
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by foobiekr 2y ago
It's no mystery, AI has attracted tons of grifters trying to cash out before the bubble pops, and investors aren't really good at filtering.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gu... Abstract: No.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
"Lowercase symbols are private to the package they are declared at" This isn't magic, it's just a clever convention.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... it's interesting to consider the implications of Taleb's essay in light of the companies trying to make globally inoffensive LLMs.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Different optimization choices.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Do your bike tires wear out? Where does the material go?
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Sadly, this no longer really applies. Programmers today do absolutely grotesque things unimaginable to Knuth of that era. One look at any modern pipeline that converts to and from JSON a dozen times, sometimes even inside the same process b
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Honestly, that's absolutely crazy.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Exactly right and well said.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Nobody expects a model file to be code thrat executes whatever.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
"Snowflake internal staff do not have access to read customer data" Do engineers in Snowflake have access to production systems?
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Exactly, how is an SE privileged enough to cause a problem? Or for the activities to go unnoticed? Like I would be very humiliated to have a system under my care that had this problem.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
The average user does not have JavaScript turned off. Plain http sites are a risk to their users.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
There's some irony in the fact that people will ignore this license in exactly the same way Mistral and all the other LLM guys ignore the copyright and licensing on the works they ingest.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
There's also a pretty useful criminal application of listening in on people without them knowing.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
The bigger issue is that a malicious interceptor could inject javascript. The site may not use javascript, but the users almost certainly have it turned on, and accessing a non-https site means that any man in the middle can inject maliciou
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by foobiekr 2y ago
How do you know they are inert? The ingredients are mostly unstudied and unregulated.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
That issue isn’t a dnssec problem, it’s that Let’s Encrypt was not familiar with the route hijacking threat model. It was pointed out early to them and they ignored it.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
The threat model of plain http is about the user (and injected content) and not the server. Plain http is a threat to users. Has it really been so many years since people used to do tcp injections and walk around coffee shops or whatever re
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by foobiekr 2y ago
Series A does not require $1M/year. That's just for low-tier stuff.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
I’ve never understood the notion that YC is a good deal on the seed. Traditional series a VC, which I did, was far more capital for the same eventual percentage. You’re going to do a venture round. If 125k or whatever is significant to you,
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by foobiekr 2y ago
This insight is more familiarly stated as: take an existing budget line item do not try and combine line items do not cross operational boundaries in the customer
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by foobiekr 2y ago
A rare exception but also an exception in many, many ways, and a sort of hilarious situation that the UX people who use it almost exclusively produce terrible, dumbed down interfaces.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
The final sentence is very sad. Fuck Alzheimer’s.
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by foobiekr 2y ago
I think it’s actually that designers as a group feel like they should not have to understand the product they are designing. This is why the modern uis are so minimal and lacking in features for people who actually use the product in a way
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by foobiekr 2y ago
You remember mushrooms after.

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