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by maxbond 1y ago
Friends don't let friends run random untrusted code from the Internet. All code is presumed hostile until proven otherwise, even generated code. Giving an LLM write access to a production database is malpractice. On a long enough timel
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by maxbond 1y ago
I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't suggest the name "vibe check." (The name doesn't bother me personally, for whatever that's worth.)
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by maxbond 1y ago
That was ten years ago, there have been tons of really objectionable games on Steam in recent years. Eg I just checked and the game where you roleplay as Kyle Rittenhouse shooting protestors is still on Steam. Per Wikipedia: > [ Hatred ]
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by maxbond 1y ago
I think that for better or worse Valve is genuinely committed to lassies faire moderation, they have historically been very hesitant to remove really heinous games. I don't think they're using this as cover.
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by maxbond 1y ago
I mean I wouldn't do business with them, I think the supplements industry is infrastructure for grifters, quacks, and pyramid schemes to fleece the desperate, but what's the problem for Visa? Is it a brand safety thing? My presump
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by maxbond 1y ago
Why do payment processors do stuff like this? Is there some regulation that requires them to? I get that they don't want to process fraudulent transactions, but I'd think the response to a higher percentage of fraud from some indu
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by maxbond 1y ago
I think these words are useful because they convey a feeling of disenchantment people are experiencing with technology. "You say this is progress, but the experience keeps getting shittier. You say this model's output is the next
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by maxbond 1y ago
I think the causality is flipped here, when you carefully consider a problem the result is often very clean and clear code. The clarity in your thinking is reflected in the code and it's structure. But writing clean and clear code in t
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by maxbond 1y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536459 There's a very small new development here, which is just that the BBC emailed the regulator, and the regulator confirmed that they didn't believe there was a
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Boeing fuel switches safe, regulator says after Air India crash(bbc.com)
2 points by maxbond 1y ago|1 comments
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by maxbond 1y ago
Python's asyncio is single threaded. If you didn't send them into a different thread, the entire event loop would block, and it would degenerate to a fully synchronous single threaded program with additional overhead.
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by maxbond 1y ago
I think it's bizarre and incorrect to think of social interactions online and in person as fundamentally different. I think this idea that only technologists understand or care is patronizing.
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by maxbond 1y ago
I've never met someone who thinks social media is an unalloyed good. I also don't see how you can simultaneously argue they're aware of it and okay with it, but also their position is founded in their ignorance.
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by maxbond 1y ago
> JumpCrisscross I'm aware. > [What] is your opinion I don't feel the need to repeat myself, but you may refer to this comment, and if you have specific questions I'm happy to answer them. https://news.ycombi
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by maxbond 1y ago
I had not noticed that, I will keep an eye out.
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by maxbond 1y ago
The meandering and hyper detailed style was nostalgic to me. Maybe I'm misremembering but I feel like this style was a lot more common 15+ years ago. I wouldn't dream of including this much detail now, and I don't think my w
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by maxbond 1y ago
Of course they do. I never said otherwise. You can know about a downside to doing something, still decide to do it, and still publicly say that there shouldn't be that downside. That doesn't even make you a hypocrite. Sometimes I
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by maxbond 1y ago
You're deploying a recent disaster, that killed scores of people, as evidence that people want something done when it isn't appropriate - and you aren't even willing to take a stance on whether what was done was appropriate?
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by maxbond 1y ago
The 2021 incident is why we know it was a bad decision. They had 4 years of warning. Extreme weather is going to continue becoming more common. Texas is going to continue to face extreme weather. If they don't prepare, people are going
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by maxbond 1y ago
That's good advice, which is irrelevant to the discussion of why people feel the way they do. I don't think we actually disagree on anything. I think you understand what I'm saying but would prefer to use my comments as a l
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by maxbond 1y ago
Let's say you get a notification from Facebook that an ex liked a post of yours from a year ago. Were they authorized to do that? Sure. Is that creepy? Most people would find that creepy. Everyone knows you could read every post that
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by maxbond 1y ago
It is considered rude to listen to other people's conversations in public. While it's wise not to say anything in public that shouldn't be overheard, that doesn't mean it isn't rude to eavesdrop. It's not a mor
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by maxbond 1y ago
Entire solar masses being lost to gravitational waves, like the voltage drop across a resistor, is a humbling prospect.
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by maxbond 1y ago
People want the benefits of interacting in public without the cost of being scrutinized and manipulated. When they post in public, they are not, in their minds, giving people permission to cyberstalk them and build out a profile. Legally, i
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by maxbond 1y ago
Didn't worry, they'll find this comment and stick you at an okay booth, provide okay service, and pretend not to recognize you next time you come in. It'll be perfect.
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by maxbond 1y ago
That was a bad decision. They had major problems during the winter of 2021 too. It's all well to talk about tradeoffs but clearly Texas has under prepared for major weather events and it's getting people killed (not to single them
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by maxbond 1y ago
I didn't find one about generative AI, but I suppose this is it: To the extent allowed by applicable law: - Google is liable only for its breaches of these terms or applicable service-specific additional terms - Google is
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by maxbond 1y ago
This doesn't really matter but it does occur to me that you can't really reasonably debate where the Fibonacci sequence starts, because if it started at 2, then 1 wouldn't be a Fibonacci number. But indeed, it's not only
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by maxbond 1y ago
(Using a thin wrapper like this to add safety is called the newtype pattern, if anyone wants to know.)
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by maxbond 1y ago
Absolutely, Postgres is fantastic but LISTEN/NOTIFY is it's weakest feature. It's convenient, it has the potential to open up compelling use cases, it very nearly works, but has all these nasty limitations and rough edges tha

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