jrockway

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It's HTTP/2, so has headers and trailers. That's where most people put the metadata.
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> No business on earth will give Debit Card users a discount IKEA has had a debit card discount for at least 10 years.
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Also if you just fire someone, you get to pick who you fire. If people leave because of low morale, you don't get to pick who leaves. It will probably be those most desirable to the outside market, though, which is exactly the opposi
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's strange that you don't think developers have this type of problem. We have to merge Slack threads, email threads, issue tickets, customer escalations, comments in the code, comments on code reviews, etc. and then pick the hi
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I mean, if using googletagmanager makes you mad, wait until you hear about the whole id.me business: https://epic.org/report-id-me-lied-to-the-irs-about-wait-tim... I don't think there is any stipulation that the US go
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by jrockway 3y ago
Love it. Possum plants are the best improvement you can make to your neighborhood.
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Yeah, copyrighting the descriptions seems fair to me. It's not an identifier but rather a creative description of the talk. (I feel like most speakers would want their abstracts distributed far and wide, but obviously AWS feels diffe
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I thought you couldn't copyright facts, like what times certain events are scheduled to be held. The C&Ds on Twitter offer no rationale for the takedown request (i.e. DMCA claims or whatever). It looks like they're just &quot
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I don't think tax law fears complexity. You make a table and there is an entry for "parcel of land with grass taller than 6 inches and containing one or more 1980s automobile with 3 or more tires" right alongside "parki
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by jrockway 3y ago
I got a little nerd sniped by this. I wrote a program that takes an input (/usr/share/dict/words on Debian 12, specifically), and compresses it with gzip and Zstandard, and also expands its binary representation (by rep
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by jrockway 3y ago
To be very cynical, to ensure that only large companies can enter this market. If you're a sole proprietor making a chat app, this fine for filling out a form wrong ruins your life. If you're X, you can ignore it basically conse
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I think companies are. When I worked at Google, I put my bonuses in a deferred compensation plan which was managed by the internal treasury management team. That's the team that tries to make money off of cash that's just sittin
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I totally get why startups would want to be lean during high interest rate times; the next round of funding is never assured, and when money costs 7% a year, it's almost assured to NOT happen. You have to fight for you life under thos
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But all these companies doing layoffs have like 50 billion dollars in cash sitting in their treasuries. Are they routinely borrowing money at the multi-year timescale? My only thought is that they figure they can make more with low-risk i
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by jrockway 3y ago
My feeling is that the trend is largely reversing. People are investing in tech because they're excited about AI. I work at a very large company and we are finally hiring again. I have also heard that Meta is asking some people they
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think it's an FU to them. You can get a much better rate than 4.15% right now, which means they are just using your money to buy those things to the maximum extent possible. Shop around. If you don't want to deal wi
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by jrockway 3y ago
This, I guess, was a minor disaster with the iPhone 15 launch. I bought one the weekend they launched, and the employee told me "don't upgrade to 17.0.1, it breaks transfering from another device; wait for 17.0.2". By the t
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by jrockway 3y ago
> The service has no way to know whether my browser is talking with a hardware token or emulating one It does. It can request that the key do attestation, which involves providing a certificate that proves who the manufacturer is.
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I think people like the hallucinations because they seem like the right answer. Imagine I make an AI assistant. You ask it, "how do I catch the bus into town?" If it replies, "run around in your backyard in a circle, then
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by jrockway 3y ago
I agree with you. People are worried that an AI might say "do a therac-25" but forget that it might also say "don't do a therac-25". I think it's averages out to neutral. Nobody bans Home Depot from selling
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My takeaway from the original article was "how dare Meta release model weights when the safety could be removed so easily", which is evidence that Meta doesn't really care. They are being asked to do the impossible, but with
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I'm a little skeptical of the AI safety field. Nonsense being available in written form is nothing new. If you don't want people to be influenced by propaganda, the only solution is to educate the masses and give them the abilit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 is the classic case study. 6 injuries due to removing hardware interlocks and replacing them with a software interlock implemented with a flag that was set with an increment ins
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I haven't played with the self-hosted LLMs at all yet, but back when Stable Diffusion was brand new I had a ton of fun creating images that lawyers wouldn't want you to create. ("Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump riding a bat
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If compiler warnings were complete sentences, would you worry about burning out your empathy circuits when you suppress the warning? Guys, it's some numbers being multiplied together in a way that sounds like you're talking to a
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The counterargument is that you don't have to worry about the feelings on the other end of the conversation, so you can be as ruthless and evil as you want to accomplish the desired goals. Imagine engaging ChatGPT in a salary negotiat
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This is the first time I've seen the words "Jira" and "speed" in the same sentence.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Requiring a ton of work doesn't really matter one way or the other for copyright. Mowing the lawn is a ton of work. Doing the work doesn't let you prevent other people from mowing their lawn to the same height as yours.
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Yeah, you're using the Internet as Team A in the author's example. You're looking for images of fonts. The people that made those images bought a license to use the font to make images, so it's fine if they share them
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I'm pleased to report that after turning off backups and auto-save files over a decade ago, nothing bad has ever happened.

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