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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I’ve had to deal with Bilt [0]. In case you’re not aware, they have a “feature” called Instant Link that automatically pulls ALL of your personal and sensitive financial data from financial institutions, including your credit card acc
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Because Null Is Not An Option (TypeScript `Maybe`/`Result` Library)(github.com)
2 points by jay-barronville 2y ago|0 comments
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> How do you audit that the issuer is printing coins backed 1-to-1 by USD reserves? You’re asking the wrong question, since DAI isn’t backed 1:1 by USD reserves like fiat-backed stablecoins ( e.g. , USDC). It’s a decentralized crypto-col
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> A fool their money are soon parted. You mind elaborating and substantiating your claim? Stablecoins are, in fact, a different class of crypto, and in my experience, actually VERY useful. I’ve owned some DAI for years now, and unlike yo
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> […] in reality if you're not a Chinese dissident living abroad, then OpenAI is much more dangerous to you than the CCP. Correct. I laugh a little every time I hear some folks immediately push the “Big Bad China is just trying to s
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
By the time I realized that, it was too late.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> When you use the term "open-source" in this context, what do you mean? The code for its implementation is literally available on GitHub [0] under the Apache License 2.0. [0]: https://github.com/twitter/co
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> The claim that the president was a Russian spy was never made afaik. But if you have evidence of a fact checker saying this, I’d appreciate it. I didn’t save the links, so no, I don’t have evidence ready to show you, and it’s not like
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Well the most mainstream "news" source Fox news had to pay out almost a billion dollars for dis-information […] The case in question did NOT go to trial, so your claim isn’t entirely correct, but yes, all mainstream “news” ou
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Community notes are just opinions of random people on internet. No. Community Notes is an open-source peer review-like system but designed in a way to limit bias: When sets of note contributors (the peers in this case) who normally str
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
Time is a valuable resource. This doesn’t simply boil down to one’s abilities—for most of us, opportunity cost is an important factor. If I’m just trying to get some value out of some data, why waste time playing web developer, fighting CSS
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
Ha. You said exactly what was on my mind.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
That was an excellent report and a really decent technical explanation. Good to see how quickly OpenWrt (one of my favorite open-source projects) fixed and addressed this vulnerability!
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
This project looks really cool! Unfortunately, there’s just way too much magic involved. In my humble opinion, C is simply not the language for this level of magic—extreme use of macros (and hidden behavior in general) is how you end up wit
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
How could something be so relatable? It’s this type of foolishness that has turned me so trigger-happy with that “X” button. I close tabs so quickly nowadays that I sometimes forget why I even visited a website in the first place, and I usu
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I usually approach “inclusivity”-driven work with a massive amount of skepticism, but as a black man with highly coiled hair, I have to admit I’m very impressed by this research and work. I used to be really into gaming when I was younger,
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> […] [Obama] is the only US president in modern history to explicitly authorize the assassination of a US citizen without a trial Just one of the many things Obama did that upsets me so much. The precedent he set with that is criminal.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I mean, most of C just compiles as C++ and does the right thing. In my experience, unless you’re strictly talking about header files (which I’m assuming you’re not), C code compiling via C++ compilers is usually hit or miss and highly
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
VC’s maybe? A friend in VC once told me that a number of his firm’s deals were discovered via Product Hunt. That was a while ago though (probably 2-3 years ago), so I’m not sure if that’s still the case.
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I appreciate the Cosmopolitan project, but these exaggerated claims of superiority are usually a pretty bad red flag. In general, I agree with your sentiment, but Justine is simply a different beast. She does tend to use hyperbolic lan
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
This is so fun. I love it. Well done!
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> I generally wrap my radios inside of the label for this reason. Is there a reason not to do that? Actually, I think this is the best way to deal with all inputs that have labels—a small number of issues and edge cases (such as the
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
I’m with you on this. As much as I love the many benefits of working from home—especially as a dad—I find the work experience to be hit or miss, often feeling low-quality. You used to be able to have real connections with colleagues, but no
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Parents with their first child often have unrealistic expectations of development milestones. This is a great point. There were several instances when either me or my wife (or both of us) thought something was wrong with our baby, unti
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
As a dad of a toddler myself, my heart goes out to you. I can only imagine the range of emotions you must be experiencing, and I can see your love and concern for your son shine through your post. My only advice to you would be to make sure
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
Instead of building their GPU support atop CUDA/NVIDIA [0], I’m wondering why they didn’t instead go with WebGPU [1] via something like wgpu [2]. Using wgpu, they could offer cross-platform compatibility across several graphics API’s,
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Israel paid an American lawyer for advice on how best to skirt some pesky American laws. Pesky American laws? You mean the law meant to prevent unknown foreign influence in our country? That’s what you describe as pesky? > By the lo
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Hacked Docs Reveal Israeli Plan to Evade U.S. Foreign Agent Law(leefang.com)
16 points by jay-barronville 2y ago|5 comments
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by jay-barronville 2y ago
> Say they go bankrupt and an ad-tech data broker buys their assets. Now DraftKings can laser focus their ads to folks genetically predisposed to addiction. Excellent example, but yikes!

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