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by mcherm 3y ago
> another browser engine really isn't needed. 2 is enough. I profoundly disagree with this statement. 2 is too few.
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by mcherm 3y ago
Cached version if the original site is down: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613173521/https://innovatio...
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by mcherm 3y ago
> there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that Which one?
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by mcherm 3y ago
Passkeys do not help track people between sites, but if they are used in places that passwords never were, it might increase tracking within a site. Hacker News, for instance, allows non-logged-in read-only usage. If Hacker News decided tha
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by mcherm 3y ago
Yes, but no one is claiming to have a reliable way to detect AI generated answers. The moderators are asking for the authority to suspend accounts in cases where they DO have evidence it is AI generated.
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by mcherm 3y ago
I really don't think that is what is going on here. So far, all I have heard anyone say is "Behavior occurred which should have been unacceptable regardless of who it happened to. By the way, the optics are particularly bad becaus
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by mcherm 3y ago
The article actually DOES mention that... it's in the equation in the blackboard.
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by mcherm 3y ago
> I've been in the industry coming up on 20 years, and I've never seen a company send someone home after putting in notice of resignation. I have worked at a company that had a blanket policy of always doing this. Let me be cle
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by mcherm 3y ago
No. This is about offering a consumer product, and attempting to disrupt the market for banking services in the US.
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by mcherm 4y ago
Do you have a mailing list I can sign up for to let me know when your product is ready for market?
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by mcherm 4y ago
Having a limit of 5 million files is perfectly reasonable. Failing to document that such a limit exists and refusing to publicly confirm it (which apparently is STILL the case) is extraordinarily poor customer service/communication. Go
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by mcherm 4y ago
> i mean is anyone actually thinking logically about this? My working hypothesis is that some of the people considering this ban are thinking about it logically but with the erroneous idea that China is the China of 40 years ago and they
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by mcherm 4y ago
> Would you consider the entire European Union a minority of the legislators? No, I was referring only to my own legislators (in the US, and not specifically California). Many other places in the world are doing better.
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by mcherm 4y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/978/ (From 2011, I think.)
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by mcherm 4y ago
Because some browser-makers (Firefox at least) believe that the identity of those browsing the web should be protected. Legislators do not believe that. (At least, a majority of legislators do not.)
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by mcherm 4y ago
Not at all. Viewed one way it isn't a problem at all (the user found and fixed the issue). Viewed another way, it is a flaw in the docs for FixedBufferAllocator that it offers a "free()" call but fails to make clear that this
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by mcherm 4y ago
I am one of those who has been harmed. I work at a different bank. The rates charged to banks for FDIC insurance have been based on the assumption that the FDIC would cover depositor losses up to the insured limit. By choosing to cover all
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by mcherm 4y ago
Perhaps you have a different term besides "prisoner" to describe someone who is imprisoned before their trial rather than after. But the parent comment is correct: whatever you call them, these people are not afforded all of the r
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by mcherm 4y ago
> Good accounting is not something you outsource I'm happy to believe you on that point, but can you explain WHY? It appears to me that accounting is the exact type of generalized skill with well-established standards that makes sen
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by mcherm 4y ago
Loaning money to a risky borrower can be practically risk free if the borrower provides collateral. And the deposits in SVB are an excellent example of collateral. They are illiquid, but the funds are being held by the FDIC, which is highly
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by mcherm 4y ago
Well, it might be a good idea, but there is a lot of risk. There is, for example, a risk that the employees get utterly screwed and are never permitted to cash out.
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by mcherm 4y ago
As a bonus, Google would have access to the list of who had blacklisted what sites -- surely that would be useful to them as a signal to detect "SEO spam sites".
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by mcherm 4y ago
Sometimes it is purely paranoia. I have worked at a company that had the policy that any time an employee gave notice that they were leaving, the employee immediately had their access credentials revoked and was walked out of the building b
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by mcherm 4y ago
There are numerous tools, Google Authenticator and Authy for example, that protect against this by securely storing the keys. In fact, I would venture to say that MOST users of authentication apps are using ones that provide a backup in cas
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by mcherm 4y ago
That's absurd. Robots ALREADY do half of our household chores. What do you think a washing machine is? Do you have any idea? Just how much effort used to go into washing? How about a dishwasher -- do you use one of those? How many of y
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by mcherm 4y ago
Hopefully, the negative exposure that couch base receives just from this Hacker News story will outweigh the amount they saved by reneging on their sponsorship, and that will discourage other companies from doing the same in the future.
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by mcherm 4y ago
> seems pretty severe to me It is. We could certainly operate an aviation industry with a lot less regulation and a lot less care for safety. Operated that way, air travel would be noticeably cheaper. But it would also be more dangerous.
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by mcherm 4y ago
Notice that they are not using it as the only means for verifying system. They are using it as an additional check that supplements the extensive regression test suite. The test suite failed in this case because the bug occurred only under
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by mcherm 4y ago
Now THAT is a market failure. Create a company staffed with parents who have a gap in their resumes. Pay them slightly less than market rate. In theory, that should be very profitable. In practice there are too many confounding issues and I
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by mcherm 4y ago
What if a gas station finds that people keep fueling up and then driving off -- the customers don't seem to want to plaster their cars with bumper stickers related to the advertisers who are paying extra to the gas station and they don

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