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by jefftk 3y ago
The issue is account hijacking, and it's a matter of tradeoffs: the more relaxed your login process is the more unhappy ex-users you'll have losing their accounts to hackers (mostly reused passwords getting leaked), while the stri
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Seems like losing the hardware token device can be a disaster? If you only have one, yes. But I'd recommend: * Get three tokens * Keep one on you, one at home, and one somewhere else * Maintain a list of every site you've r
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> maybe the crowd that uses Emacs is mostly also the crowd that would be against utilizing LLMs? I think a bigger problem is that the crowd that uses emacs is just small. Less than 5% of developers use it, and fewer than that use it as
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My guess is that there is a bit of telephone and/or exaggeration involved, and the kernel of truth if thare a small number of extremely old machines in operation. (But they do not handle the bulk of the production.) If you were able to
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by jefftk 3y ago
One way to approximate thisb intuitively: braking distance is approximately quadratic in speed. 100^2/70^2 is ~2, so the faster car will need about twice as far to stop. Since we know this car slows down from 70 to 0 in the given dista
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> Your grains, rice, cereals beans were probably made on a machine from the 1800's. Yep all the big brands. I don't see how that could work: the population is far larger than it was then, so our consumption of those must be u
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by jefftk 3y ago
Thanks! I misunderstood the headline, and thought it was saying that despite covid rents are still higher than the pre-2020 baseline, when actually it's saying that rents are still lower (in nominal terms, and so strongly so in real t
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[EDIT: I misunderstood; see below] That doesn't sound right: US-wide inflation since 2019 is less than 30% (more like 19%), in which case I don't see how to square your claim with the article's headline.
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Unlike in the real world, when it's sonor extremely difficult to prove that you have never seen a given a copyrighted work, is sort of questions seems quite practical to resolve here? Keeping complete records of what went into training
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Any other extensions?
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Are you sure? It looks fine in Safari to me: https://imgur.com/a/lHTYmfL
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That would be a surprising thing to lie about!
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> I’ve seen stats that somewhere between 30-50% of all twins are born through IVF. So technically not a huge surprise on that result. It sounds like you think this was an IVF pregnancy? But Scott says it wasn't: https:/&#x2
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The Snoo worked very well for us with baby #3 (#1 and #2 were before it was released). I'm optimistic that we will continue to make progress in this area and find something that works for a larger fraction of babies!
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> Is it laziness that stops publishers from shipping targeted ads from their own servers, inlined in the content in a way that cannot be distinguished from article images or text? No, it's about fraud. With your proposal advertis
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It's pretty hard to do online ads without tracking because of how easy fraud is online. With newspaper, TV, and radio we put a bunch of effort into measuring the size of the audience, but those methods are far easier to subvert online
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by jefftk 3y ago
It would be very easy for link aggregators and search engines categorize sites as ad-supported or not: load the page in a browser (which these sites often already do) with an ad blocker extension and see if it identifies anything. But my g
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by jefftk 3y ago
The privacy sandbox APIs are all designed so that they can be used by any ad tech company. Google doesn't have privileged access to them. (Disclosure: until 1.5y ago I worked at Google, including on things related to the privacy sandb
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by jefftk 3y ago
There is value from seeing which result a user apparently likes best, which lets you train your search engine better. But Google already has a ton of this and the marginal contribution from Firefox users must be minimal. Instead, probably a
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Firefox has been funded by selling the default search engine for decades, including when it had 30% market share.
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Sorry, I'm claiming they would lose their primary source of funding in the sense that the next time the contract came up for bid no one would want it.
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And, yet, if Firefox decided to ship an ad blocker on by default they would lose their primary source of funding.
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> Diablo Canyon was built in 1981 More relevantly, if you're talking about the age of the design, construction started in 1968.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Installing $4B of solar and $2B of batteries will result in 20-40 years of carbon-free electricity This doesn't mean anything without specifying the amount of generation. Would that give you 18TWh [1] over the year? [1] https:
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by jefftk 3y ago
2020 was also peak lockdown, which probably means more time watching anything relative to 2023
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Unless you're claiming people have become more greedy recently this can't be an explanation.
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If the value of Figma has fallen by more than $1B since they signed the deal (which I think it probably has) then passing up $1B to get out of the deal is not nuts, especially considering the regulatory opposition. Though it depends more on
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by jefftk 3y ago
Cast iron does wash differently from other things, but in my experience it's less work. Most of my cooking is on cast iron, and when I'm done I rinse it under the tap, rubbing a bit with a scrubber if food is stuck to it. I don&
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True viral growth is exponential: each of your users gets you N>1 additional users, and so the growth of your userbase is proportional to your current scale. Superlinear but subexponential growth can still be pretty impressive, though, e
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It's a radio call sign: K because it's West of the Mississippi River, UT for the University of Texas, and three letters because the license dates to 1925 before the FCC completely moved to four letters.

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