joshspankit

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by joshspankit 2mo ago
I believe we’re all struggling with the downstream effects of the attention economy that’s fed by leveraged debt. Online, the most money being made is by people who get attention. The making is not just secondary, in many cases it’s a calcu
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by joshspankit 2mo ago
The tricky part about “layer 2 sarcasm” is that it has a tendency to inspire exactly the wrong people in to making it true
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by joshspankit 2mo ago
Honestly, I’ve never donated bc “keeping Wikipedia up” could be a solved problem by now. Not just cheaper processing and bandwidth costs, but p2p hosting, etc. Every time I see that ad, I say to myself “it should not be that expensive”. Now
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by joshspankit 2mo ago
Fuzzy is usually faster. Grab the fuzzy results then exact match within them, no second index needed
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by joshspankit 2mo ago
Worst part is I understand that fuzzy search is faster, and the easy next step is fuzzy search > exactly match in the results > only show those (or at least show them first) Elasticsearch has been a plague for users who already know w
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by joshspankit 2mo ago
“NAS” itself is an enshitification
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
Super cool and seems to have a depth of historical knowledge I’m shocked to see that LORD can’t be used because of licensing. Legally I know that’s how it is, but it Just Feels Wrong(tm) that a popular game based on 9600baud phone modems is
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
Indeed. Vital to the solution yes, but if it was all that was needed then the surveillance systems would have been dismantled and prevented each time enough people became aware. The fact that we are here now is it’s own evidence
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
I’d even say that YouTube autoplay is “watching TV”
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
You’ve missed the point: each addition can (and likely will, based on history) be the way to bring more patents into the market. It rarely has anything to do with objective quality (except in the marketing)
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
Any chance you’ll be adding diarization of known speakers? For example: from audio samples tagged with names
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
Through all this I kept wondering (and excuse the question if it is inappropriate): what’s the benefit of a transcription of the sounds since the ideal is a 1:1 IPA representation to audio recording and neither is itself a translation? Isn’
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
You may be underestimating the desire to earn through differentiation. Assuming the product companies accept the plateau on resolution (I agree it’s likely), there are many ways to exploit the other stuff. Colour space, tacling each type of
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
Definitely curious about the breakdown of data-broker relationship for each link in the chain. Unencrypted data is easy to store and share so it’s reasonable to assume that even the most stringent privacy policy for an IoT device is essenti
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
This has always been true to some extent: some have used weaponized security tools against competitors. It comes with legal risks (as it does with AI) but overall it doesn’t really improve the security baseline unless those holes are made
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
It’s systematic “6-12 mo to shaky profitability + ability to quickly iterate” is a business that has a good chance of surviving while “However long it takes to be fully secure” is a business that is not only rigid but needs massive up-front
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by joshspankit 3mo ago
The current reigning social script is that drone enthusiasts are piloting all the drones. I know this will change as articles like this come out but for now the police are in a very convenient bubble of essentially undetectable surveillance
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
Palantir helps everyone fight everyone
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
As someone with a long-time interest in Tim Ferriss I’d say he’ll probably go most places he’s invited out of pure curiosity. He’s also attended TED and has been in many VC spaces so it’s not surprising that someone (maybe even Thiel himsel
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
I’d like some confirmation if possible, but my gut says the general internet (and therefore the training data) probably has a lot of sloppy Python code along with a lot of sloppy writing about Python whereas Phoenix has majority good code a
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
What I mean can be shown with an example: Let’s say first that we know (some) users will inevitably agree to let malware compromise their system, no matter the popup or protections A compromised system that’s transparent: - Has only one way
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
For a long time, I’ve believed that the actual solution is to make the system transparent enough that a compromised system is obvious. Imagine playing hide and go seek in the salt flats
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
Downvoters: I’m curious why
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
Devs and other people who have seen behind the scenes at large companies know that most security is at best shaky and mostly hand-waved It’s not even really the fault of the people who pushed for these setups, it’s a seemingly simple busine
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by joshspankit 4mo ago
You attempted to create a deterministic test for an N-dimensional non-deterministic output
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by joshspankit 5mo ago
> I also suspect the intense vibrations have a similar effect… My gut says that there are some interesting discoveries waiting around the intersections of frequency of vibration, individual resonant frequency, and duration
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by joshspankit 5mo ago
Someone really needs to properly do the science on this I (presumably like the majority) assumed that sleep apnea was at least partially caused by weight gain, but if there is weight gain caused by sleep apnea it’s going to give doctors som
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by joshspankit 5mo ago
Underrated question Personally, when I have not slept well and need to be productive in a day, I’m much more likely to want to load up on sugar and unhealthy food
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by joshspankit 5mo ago
> It's not even quite clear what the article argues against. I think it can be summed up as “average CPU utilization, which is the common and intuitive first check doesn’t tell you the real story” I would also suggest that these are
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by joshspankit 5mo ago
You might be interested to learn exactly how fast some listen to screen readers, and how many overlapping sounds can be successfully navigated

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