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by jpollock 2y ago
It's important to get the analogies close. The bookstore isn't the same. It would be if the book had a QR code on the back labeled "guaranteed cheaper here" - not just the UPC/ISBN. The customer is choosing to price
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by jpollock 2y ago
Except there is that competition for high compensation workers. I'm proof of it. I was imported from New Zealand to the US to take a job at a wage an American wasn't willing to accept. That it was $160k/yr doesn't change
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by jpollock 2y ago
Authorize Payment results in the Hold. The diagram is representing a standard Auth + Capture credit card flow. Capture contains the final transaction amount and can either be higher or lower than the Authorized amount. The odd thing is the
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by jpollock 2y ago
I'm confused, why does the Trip Service talk to the issuer to place a hold? I would have expected the Payment Service to mediate all that. Particularly since "Place Hold" is another way of saying "Authorize Payment"
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by jpollock 2y ago
In New Zealand, a fixed rate mortgage is very much linked to the bond. If you repay early, what happens depends on what has happened to the interest rate - there is an early repayment penalty if the interest rate drops. https://w
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by jpollock 2y ago
I haven't gotten that far in the post, but won't owners usually take a salary?
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by jpollock 2y ago
I enjoy working with interns, you can see them learn and they are always making new mistakes. I get a return on the effort of training them. They might even convert into full time employees and take some of my workload. I don't get tha
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by jpollock 2y ago
Northern Telecom - 2013 Alcatel-Lucent - 2016 (Bell Labs/AT&T Technologies/Western Electric)
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by jpollock 2y ago
By "code architecture" I mean the packaging of their client libraries. This attack demonstrates that they should be tightly focused and have minimal downstream dependencies. I don't have any experience with systemd, but typic
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by jpollock 2y ago
The complaint is that the code architecture of systemd results in security problems for their _customers_. The inclusion of a library to send notifications shouldn't have external dependencies, it shouldn't need them. The library
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by jpollock 2y ago
People blame systemd for making the liblzma problem larger than it should have been. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=171227941117852&w=2 "Liblzma ends up dynamically linked to sshd because of a systemd-rela
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by jpollock 2y ago
People saying “no, you can’t do that” is why open source software exists.
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by jpollock 2y ago
A criminal background check is more investigation than is currently done. That’s usually only done for multi-year visas.
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by jpollock 2y ago
I'm confused by the change from a schema view of the world into an API view of the world. Isn't it still implemented as a foreign key?
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by jpollock 3y ago
Personal devices should _never_ be used for work. That allows the line between self-owned work and employer-owned work to be thin/non-existent. That can make it a lot easier for your employer to own your personal projects. Don't d
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by jpollock 3y ago
The GP might not be exclusively talking about copyright. They might also be talking about how Air Canada lost a lawsuit about whether or not they needed to honor their chatbot's hallucinations. https://www.theguardian.com&#x
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by jpollock 3y ago
If someone just sold an asset and are reporting $400k in income, doesn't that mean they received $4 million in cash in the sale?
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by jpollock 3y ago
Up front, I have zero knowledge of Diablo Canyon, so this is a general comment... If you've got a site with a certain risk of disaster and you extend a plant's useful life past the initial design lifetime, the risks may no longer
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by jpollock 3y ago
Swatters don't call 911, they call the non-emergency lines.
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by jpollock 3y ago
Whenever I use print for debugging I end up running the code many, many times. Each time I add another print statement. "Here1", "Here2", "Here3 %s %s %s"... If I break out the debugger, I run the code once.
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by jpollock 3y ago
The police in Canada have a long history of poor interactions with aboriginal peoples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths#:~:t... . Now called "Starlight Tours" https://www.theg
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by jpollock 3y ago
Lots of companies end up with their own internal tooling. They have their own build systems, packaging systems, release systems, version control, programming languages, configuration languages, everything. Some even have their own editors.
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by jpollock 3y ago
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/ford/mustang-mach-e/phot... Looks like the Mach-E
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by jpollock 3y ago
Assuming good intent... If you were testing that a 3rd party detector could protect the system from an insider (writers submitting ai generated articles), you would create a profile. Since it is the holidays, it's _really_ easy to forg
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by jpollock 3y ago
aa.com.tr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadolu_Agency "is a state-run[1][2] news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.[3]" The original source might be better? https://jackpoulson.substack.com
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by jpollock 3y ago
This seems to be the definitions. There are some exclusions for foreign owned outlets. news business means an individual or entity that operates a news outlet in Canada. (entreprise de nouvelles) news content means content — in any for
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by jpollock 3y ago
If it goes wrong, they crash and you lose two planes and several hundred people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbQ9LXZwJ78
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by jpollock 3y ago
I wonder what their employment contracts state? Are they allowed to work for vendors or clients?
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by jpollock 3y ago
I thought I saw somewhere that OpenAI was looking at their own chip project? [1] If Altman had been working in parallel to form a startup, that would have raised conflict of interest problems. [1] https://www.reuters.com/tec
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by jpollock 3y ago
About the SMS verification, it depends on the goal. If the goal is to verify a phone number, you can't trust the _sender's_ address in the phone network. So, you can't trust the address in the "From" on an SMS or th

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