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by kenferry 5mo ago
> No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams. What's the theory on this? It seems to be
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by kenferry 5mo ago
This has existed since the first version, except it needs to be signed with a valid apple cert. A .pkpass file is a zipped directory that has a json file and some assets. There's no need to have a more limited version, a pass is alread
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by kenferry 5mo ago
I imagine you're saying the capital return program is a mistake because they should reinvest the money in R&D etc. I think the issue is there's diminishing returns to spending, and in some cases it can be outright negative. Fo
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by kenferry 5mo ago
I think you can reframe this and better understand the point these mathematicians are making. The vast, vast majority of mathematics DOES use infinities. That's the standard perspective. The question is whether there is good, interesti
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by kenferry 6mo ago
Well, if you're asking if apple execs use that setting, the answer is probably that they don't. I think the issue is that there are SO many piled up little features everywhere that SOMEone is using that keeping everything working
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by kenferry 6mo ago
Yeah, I mean it's true to an extent, I agree. As scientific research though it's not very well thought out. A grant agency would not fund this. There's too much potential for causing harm and it's not clear what benefit
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by kenferry 6mo ago
This kind of thing must be SO frustrating to people struggling to get by in the world. "We gave AI $100k that it will almost certainly squander, yolo!! Hopefully it doesn't abuse people too badly in the process." I… guess the
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by kenferry 6mo ago
You're talking about funeral costs; the author generalizes _a_lot_ from funeral costs to "kinship societies are bad". That's the leap the comment you're replying to is discussing.
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by kenferry 6mo ago
The factual material about funeral spending costs is very interesting, but when it gets into "Kinship societies are wealth-destroying societies" it seems rather… unsupported? That's a sweeping statement that actually requires
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by kenferry 6mo ago
There's a ton of sanitization of attachments. It just isn't foolproof. On iOS messages attachments are decoded in a separate, heavily restricted and sandboxed process, and the decoded sanitized results are sent back to the UI proc
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by kenferry 7mo ago
Hm, I wonder. I've done some work in this sort of area before, though not literally on a malloc. Yes you very much want to be careful, but ultimately it's the tests that give you confidence. Pound the heck out of it in multithread
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by kenferry 7mo ago
Oh yeah? Like when inflation numbers were very high under Biden? Please give specifics. Otherwise this is just grouchiness.
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by kenferry 7mo ago
The author wants to say that atms are a stand in for in person banking experience, while the iPhone changes the paradigm entirely. Why? Seems like basically the same paradigm to me, I can just do it without going anywhere.
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by kenferry 7mo ago
…why would you assume that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis... Coal, with any available technology, is more polluting than any renewable energy source. Full life cycle including plant insta
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by kenferry 7mo ago
Is HN being astroturfed? What’s up with all these pro-coal comments?
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by kenferry 8mo ago
This kind of mental model only works if you think of things as made huge shadowy blobs, not people. dyld has one principal author, who would 100% quit and go to the press if he was told (by who?) to insert a back door. The whole org is comp
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by kenferry 9mo ago
The part I do not understand is why you then DO buy MAHA. Why is completely making things up better? If you think nutritional science is too unreliable, I can see that perspective. The conclusion then should be “I don’t know” not “trust the
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by kenferry 9mo ago
Er, how does putting your faith in literally vibes (MAHA) follow. Just complete rejection of expertise and science.
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by kenferry 9mo ago
I agree with you re: abstraction - one of the author's only points where I didn't totally agree. But also worth noting that whenever you make an abstraction you run the risk that it's NOT going to turn out increase clarity an
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by kenferry 9mo ago
The bigger hit than performance is usually user experience quality and “write once debug everywhere”.
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by kenferry 9mo ago
Seems like engagement bait or a thought exercise more than a realistic project. > "But I need to debug!" > Do you debug JVM bytecode? V8's internals? No. You debug at your abstraction layer. If that layer is natural lan
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by kenferry 10mo ago
Wow. The people who set this up are obnoxious. It’s just spamming all the most important people it can think of? I wouldn’t appreciate such a note from an ai process, so why do they think rob pike would. They’ve clearly bought too much into
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by kenferry 10mo ago
Uh, yeah, he clearly would prefer it didn’t exist even if he was compensated.
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by kenferry 1y ago
Well, that’s because you don’t use it I guess! I basically only swipe back. This aligns web pages with iOS nav stacks.
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by kenferry 1y ago
Modern marketing emails, yes… not emails written as correspondence. I don't think this post is talking about marketing emails.
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by kenferry 1y ago
Their point is the reverse. Forcing standardization and interop is obviously good for interop, but it's bad for companies trying to innovate, because it ties their hands. The moment apple ships a v1 they have to ship an API, and then t
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by kenferry 1y ago
The communal house scene in San Francisco isn't predominantly women.
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by kenferry 2y ago
Are AirPods limited to the Bluetooth spec though? I think they extend it.
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by kenferry 2y ago
You know… I'm grateful that they moved quickly and decisively to bridge businesses through that time. We'd all be worse off without this having happened. I'm willing to accept a certain amount of waste for the importance of s
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by kenferry 2y ago
That's an efficient market theory, and it's extremely optimistic about how real people work.

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