indymike

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by indymike 3y ago
How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? This whole thing is: 1. Doing long term damage to search position for Reddit content. Results, short and long term reduction in SEO generated traffic, fewer ad clicks, lo
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by indymike 3y ago
> I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. I just quit Facebook, not all social media. On my phone, I have three Telegram groups (one tracks the war, the other is my family, the other is
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by indymike 3y ago
> These days "open source" is virtue signaling and expected "to be cool". That people then grump about not being paid shows that they are not particularly interested in the concept of open source. Most of the time whe
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by indymike 3y ago
> It needed to handle extreme load (hundreds of millions of participants in some cases). I can see extreme loads being valuable for an A/B test of a pipeline change or something that needs that load... but for the kinds of A/B
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by indymike 3y ago
> Align incentives to create simple, reliable software. This is the way.
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by indymike 3y ago
> This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus Having quit Facebook and quit smoking in my life, I can say with 100% certainty that quitting social media is a lot easier.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Edit: You'll never get all the kids to leave the class loving CS, but you can usually get all of them to leave the class not feeling frustrated by it. I wish more teachers would understand this.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Also most people don’t really care about the API/3rd party app thing. It doesn’t impact them and it looks from the outside like a bunch of dorks with no lives getting worked up over nothing. This may be a case where certain people
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by indymike 3y ago
> LLMs, in my opinion, are on average better at writing copy than humans. The question is, do you want an AI writing the brief and doing the research that is going to be given to an administrator who is going to decide if you are denied
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by indymike 3y ago
> when it comes to Github If MS did something super sketchy with Github, I suspect there would be an almost cambrian explosion of new tools to do with Github does.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Military applications are a small subset Military applications are a tiny subset of evil that can be done with intelligence, artificial or otherwise. So much of the global economy is based on IP, and AI appears to be good at appropriat
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by indymike 3y ago
> I for the life of me can't figure out why they are charging so much money for the API They are discontinuing the API, except for a small number of customers willing (maybe) to pay their price for the API.
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by indymike 3y ago
This one was not John Dvorak's best predictions, and he really should have seen this one coming. The PC was a general purpose device that replaced a whole office full of fairly expensive specialty devices (word processor, fax, teletype
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by indymike 3y ago
As a patient, I feel like HIPAA has been used by care providers to bully me into giving away my rights and data on pain of not getting care. It's a train wreck.
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by indymike 3y ago
Not really, any website can implement a url scheme that makes url params unneeded. You see this all the time with SEO friendly stuff where mysite.com/cool-product/details is displaying the same thing that mysite.com/product&#
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by indymike 3y ago
Maybe. For the past few years I've had the pattern of making is so we can permalinks that carry all the parameters in the database... so if you click on https://mysite.com/uDFOD it might display the same thing that ht
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by indymike 3y ago
Get ready for everything to be a redirect. mysite.com/aZdi instead of mysite.com/invitation/?uid=1234
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by indymike 3y ago
It breaks the web. There are literally no real rules on how you use them, so you have a lot of things that will be confused with tracking (gclid,clickid,campaign, etc). Even stuff that was originally tracking gets re-used. I've worked
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by indymike 3y ago
Claiming a trademark.
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by indymike 3y ago
> One day, I got bored and decided to actually read every single study. Nothing is more entertaining than the meeting after a business presentation where someone fact checks the reference after the power point. When we have vendor presen
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by indymike 3y ago
The smarter producers will focus on building sets of images that feature common thematic elements. For example, using the same models in business situations. Or using the same style backgrounds with different subjects (people or vehicles).
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by indymike 3y ago
I'm not sure that is the case... I've used Shutterstock and Adobe Stock in the past two weeks and both times, it took about 3-4 minutes to find something I liked, and 10 sec (subscription) to 1 minute (non subscription) go through
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by indymike 3y ago
Is there some connection between Nvidia and Admiral Hopper's family that makes it ok to appropriate her identity for their product?
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by indymike 3y ago
> You can say you're okay with the bullshit, but "we just want reddit but without the bad stuff" doesn't work. The bad stuff is baked in. The concatenation of niche content markets that Reddit grew on is giving way to
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by indymike 3y ago
The rule is trying to prevent commercial entities from having access to the IPR process. The EFF sees this as a threat to civil liberties in the digital world... From the EFF's About Us page: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is
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by indymike 3y ago
My wife is my best friend (and hopefully, the reverse is true). That's the only way I can think of marriage working in the long run anyway.
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by indymike 3y ago
The real threat is systematic violation of legal and Constitutional rights & protections. That is very different than a law enforcement agency that occasionally overreaches. The threat is the overreach.
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by indymike 3y ago
> That ssh into moving cars is really scary. I guess an engineer can do a lot in that session if he wants. It all depends exactly what the engineer is SSHing into. A bash shell with root access? BAD. A shell with only monitoring and diag
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by indymike 3y ago
People will tolerate a lot of dysfunction for money. When being paid, they'll probably even be willing to say good things, even though that's not what they really think. When you take away the money, they are going to share their
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by indymike 3y ago
Reason for failure: Ordering takes longer with QR than saying: I'd like a double bacon cheesburger, extra bacon, lettuce and tomato on the side with a side of fries and medium sprite in a large cup.

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