lolinder

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by lolinder 2y ago
Do you have any references that describe this behavior? That sounds like exactly the kind of thing that could conceal a backdoor of the sort this seems to be warning about.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Fewer, sure, but not none. 5-10 people per evening isn't bad, and that's pretty typical for a nice evening in each of those neighborhoods.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I like that this family found a way to make do without any third place at all, just occupying the sidewalk and roadside. But I'm sure it would be a lot more comfortable if they had at least a shady patch of grass! Exactly. This is
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by lolinder 2y ago
I am not on meds—my dad is on Adderall but has had some pretty serious side effects so I've been avoiding it for now. Mostly it's changed my attitude towards myself. I'm naturally a strong perfectionist, which doesn't co
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Suburbs often have physical constraints with the way houses are laid out making this "stoop coffee" approach more difficult, if anything. Houses laid out in a way that you're more likely to drink your coffee on your back
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm sure you're right that it's more than just it being in the training data, but that it's in the training data means that you can't draw any conclusions about general mathematical ability using just this as a benc
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Of course, they could have been lying at that point, in order to gain interest I suppose , but they were pretty outspoken about that idea at least in the beginning. We're talking about Sam Altman here. Of course he was lying from
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yes. Identifying it as just part of being human doesn't explain at all why I, in particular, am regularly incapacitated by these things, and it's the sense of incapacity that causes the shame. You can absolutely rephrase "tha
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by lolinder 2y ago
I think it's particularly common to see that with people who discover their ADHD in adulthood, and there are a lot of us now that awareness has been raised in recent years. I went my whole life thinking that I was broken. I had intense
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The “LinkedIn influencer” only came to existence in the past 5-6 years The "influencer" in its modern incarnation is only 5-6 years old in general [0]. The culture has shifted dramatically and just creating a new platform isn
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by lolinder 2y ago
They're referring to this story from a few years back: Latin as She is Spoke: How Classicists Tricked Themselves Jan 2022 (171 points, 191 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30124101
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The most important thing going on for them is they have network effect. Yes, and the network effect is both what they have going for them and what causes the weird dynamics that make it so awful. I honestly don't think you can hav
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, that's not happening. Summarily burning down bridges is a great way to stop people from mooching off you, but that's because they now know they can't rely on you to be a stable foundation. If they can't trust us
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by lolinder 2y ago
The funny thing is that if you listen to Trump and the MAGA folks, they explicitly do not believe that the world would be screwed without the US and USD, and further do not believe that the US should care if they were. Trump's whole sc
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by lolinder 2y ago
> at every place I've worked you could get a starting point idea of who the top devs were by looking at overall code commits. This works for Junior through Senior level roles, but it falls apart quickly when you have Staff+ roles in
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I think the xz backdoor did not work on NixOS because its unusual non FHS-compliant filesystem structure. Right, but this is not part of the security model, it's an incidental attribute of the OS that's there for other reason
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, it's a good blog post in part because it gets into the details of how it was possible that this vulnerability made it into NixOS, which purports to solve the problem. Also, I'm not a NixOS critic either: I'm writing t
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by lolinder 2y ago
Note that NixOS and reproducible builds did not detect the xz backdoor, and in fact NixOS shipped the malicious builds of xz (though they didn't do anything because the malware didn't target NixOS): > I am a NixOS developer a
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by lolinder 2y ago
Pro tip: if you don't comment on a spam post and just flag it, it gets flagged dead and people without showdead won't even see it at all (not even as [flagged]). Once you comment on it it sticks around even after being flagged, wh
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by lolinder 2y ago
But Meta specifically says they took precautions to not do that, and in every client I've seen the only thing they would have to do is make sure a single checkbox which is prominently visible on the main download modal isn't check
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Bulk downloading is often done with BitTorrent, the file-sharing protocol popular with pirates for its anonymity, and downloading with BitTorrent typically involves uploading to other users simultaneously. Isn't this a twofold mis
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Also, China isn't rural Alaska, it is a centralized authoritarian surveillance state and not the kind of place one can go off the grid and raise a family. Through some combination of state propaganda (their own and China's) a
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by lolinder 2y ago
If you have an argument to make, make it. This isn't a classroom and you're not an instructor, assigning homework to people who disagree with you isn't an effective argumentation technique.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Your first sentence is totally unnecessary and relies on an uncharitable reading of what they said. It's entirely possible that they knew that a goal of the project was to treat every discrepancy as a bug and were indicating that they
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yes, this. SV and similar are even more extreme, but if you take all software engineers across the country and compare to the nationwide workforce, we make double the median. That may not be a fair comparison to the extent that software dev
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I usually choose a license based on the practice of a community. Also, if you make the choice of copy-left in a world or copy-free is king, you are just isolating yourself from others. Often in big projects, you cannot alone, and the d
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by lolinder 2y ago
No idea, we'd need someone from Korea to clarify what the expectations are here, the news story just assumes that you know why it would matter.
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by lolinder 2y ago
It has the free part but not the high salary part.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Open Source is just the free-but-profitable trend that OP is talking about taken to the limit. It's software that developers make for free and release for free—most often under a license that requires nothing but attribution. Then a no
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by lolinder 2y ago
Your last sentence is inaccurate, though: there's a broad understanding that only the absolute top performers will make money on music and everyone else will make an amount that rounds down to nothing. Software stands out in that even

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