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He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up with Him(nytimes.com)
5 points by hodgesrm 9mo ago|2 comments
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
At the University of Michigan many moons ago CTA stood for Central Tripping Authority, a largely imaginary collective devoted to taking hallucinogens. (Regularly.) There was CTA graffiti all over East Quadrangle dormitory when I lived there
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
WSJ reporting on toxic fumes in aircraft has been excellent. There was a previous article in September that highlighted the problem. [0] Problems like these make the value of good reporting obvious. If you want to be a muckraker this is a g
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
> In my experience, humans respond incredibly poorly to traffic lights being out. My purely anectodotal experience is that the response is variable and culturally dependent. Americans tend to treat any intersections with a downed stoplig
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
My company hires remote staff worldwide. We use Deel and Remote and normally include time zone rather than location if it's relevant. There are countries where we don't hire for geopolitical reasons like China. Having staff in tho
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
> It seems like they are building a complex distributed system to solve a problem that is better solved by tar -cvf That doesn't work on Parquet or anything compressed. In real-time analytics you want to load small files quickly int
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
Or understand what it's doing internally. I used to dislike Oracle User Group presentations because it seemed as if most people were just guessing what the database was doing under the covers. MySQL presentations on the other hand (a)
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
Austen's command of language and empathy for her characters is second to none. I love the hook at the end of this passage from Pride and Prejudice. ``And of this place,'' thought she, ``I might have been mistress! With t
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
That sounds like a line Raymond Chandler would have used. His turn of phrase is also delightful.
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
> I was visiting Jane Austen's House Museum last year and it always gives me pleasure to see how wildly popular her work remains. I have believed for a long time that Austen is broadly popular because her works deal with issues of h
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
IBM is turning into a real player for enterprise data. They have a very long history of data related products and their portfolio is starting to look interesting again, especially if it includes Kafka and the Confluent cloud service. I just
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
> For your own personal sake, you may be selfishly wishing it’s as few people as possible. Eventually they’ll outlaw VPNs too and by then you’ll have little recourse. You can’t hide behind them forever, deeper change is needed. It does n
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
Marketing network security products is usually hard. Not any more. The practical effect of these so-called protection laws is to break shit across the entire Internet.
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
Hmm, maybe there's a simple legislative fix for this problem. Basically vendors that want to make you "rent" devices would have to allow termination for convenience at any time by customer including repayment of any fees paid
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
We like that you like to measure things. That's why I bought your book.
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
I'm planning to turn the VPN off when I don't need it. Mullvad is nice because you can just put money on the meter when you are traveling to locations that make it necessary.
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
I should mention that what pushed me over the edge was discovering that the FP problem was [among other things] triggered by a user comment that was then suppressed. However, it had a helpful message that I could solve the problem by upload
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Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
98 points by hodgesrm 10mo ago|89 comments
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
Not just trademarks! I can also picture Jason Statham getting pretty bent out of shape about GPL violations.
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by hodgesrm 10mo ago
> the real problems come if AI does work. Exactly. For example, what happens to open source projects where developers don't have access to the latest proprietary dev tools? Or, what happens to projects like Spring if AI tools can
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by hodgesrm 11mo ago
> I love hummingbirds. Same here! We see them practically every day where I live - no feeder necessary, just flowers in bloom, preferably red[dish] ones. Hummingbirds would be my favorite birds of all, except for the existence of owls.
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by hodgesrm 11mo ago
> I base my paragraph on their choice of abandoning PostgreSQL and adopting ClickHouse(Bocharov 2018). The whole post is a great overview on trying to process data fast, without a single line on how to garantee its logical correctness&#x
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by hodgesrm 11mo ago
Yes, they avoid streets too. That's one of the reasons that San Francisco shopping around Union Square has collapsed. [0] There were other reasons like COVID as well. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/san-franciscos-u
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by hodgesrm 11mo ago
I use public transit (mostly SF BART) on a regular basis. It's not a matter of "don't want," it's a matter of public safety. People won't use public transit if they have to deal with mentally ill people or huck
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by hodgesrm 11mo ago
Oog. It’s puns like this that make people doubt freedom of speech.
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by hodgesrm 11mo ago
For another interesting mix of new and ancient, check out the Serdica metro station in Sofia, Bulgaria. [0] It's fully inside an excavated Roman-era ruin. Very cool! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdika_Metro_
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Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI(theverge.com)
9 points by hodgesrm 1y ago|1 comments
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> Clickhouse cloud now has compute/compute that addresses that but open source users' don't. Altinity is addressing this with Project Antalya builds. We have extended open source ClickHouse with stateless swarm clusters to
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
> It's way worse in post-social algos than anything that's come before By what standard? Judged by outcomes it's hard for me to see that the effects will be worse than historical events like the French Revolution or the Ki
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by hodgesrm 1y ago
This. It looks like one of the keys to maintaining open source is to ensure OSS developers have access to capable models. In the best of worlds, LLM vendors would recognize that open source software is the commons that feeds their models an

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