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mhuffman
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Don't even need SQLite for the speed up, although SQLite is fast. I routinely get blazing fast p99 latency on local hardware from postgres itself.
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They were likely the ones that invented the phrase.
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1y ago
No ridges on the sides? This could be be trouble!
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1y ago
>Re/ the speed limit, I'm afraid I simply don't understand. Why not just raise the speed limit to 70 instead of having everyone lie? Then do you arrest all people going 71? > I think we would have to define more closely
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>I've said elsewhere the optimal mechanism here is for that money to be paid to the snitcher, from the person who is being turned in. In some cases, which seem like a good idea like corporate malfeasance whistleblowers or government
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>Compliance with the law is a separate issue from the contents of the law. Agree. More of my thought is what happens when everyone is incentivized with money to spy on everyone else? How can you misuse this as a government? How can unscr
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>This is a phenomenal application of how fine-based bounties can be used to rapidly improve compliance with the law. This type of thing can get out of hand quickly. Without me giving controversial examples, just imagine for yourself the
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1y ago
>The incentive is that you could potentially enjoy something briefly and that's the best deal you can get. Many people might say that is a lower incentive than to being able to leave your family better off than they were, or in your
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1y ago
>If you want youtube (or any other platform) to not suck...pay for it. Like Netflix and Amazon Videos?
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>I'll never understand the antagonistic "us vs. them" mentality people have with their employer's leadership Interesting because "them" very much have an antagonistic mentality vs "us". "Them&
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1y ago
Sam Altman must be literally vibrating at the thoughts of tacking on ads at the end of a "persuasive" interaction about whatever. "... and remember to try new Oreo-flavored Pringles and tell them Gippity sent you with this 20
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>Why wouldn't you believe it? Lots of reasons, but here are a few: 1. The misspellings and grammar issues (used to) continue beyond emails into the websites, etc. 2. The grammar issues, magically, seem to mimic the the same grammar
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I have heard that theory from some cybersecurity experts online but have never seen it substantiated in any way (by interviewing some scammers, for example) and frankly don't believe it. The misspellings and grammatical errors (used to
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I am surprised no one mentioned using LLMs to spell and grammar check their emails and vibe-code bank landing-pages to continue a more polished version of scamming elderly people out of their life savings.
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>The out-of-context clip isn't a referendum on her artistry; it's just bait for people who never engaged with her actual work. I am not engaged with her actual work, but here is a not-out-of-context clip[0] of her live art from
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I don't normally get into this type of political debate but ... >Should Israel be allowed to attack terrorist organizations in Palestine? yes. I think actual terrorists should be eligible for being attacked anywhere. The real questi
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2y ago
Very nice and smooth! Do you have source for your demo?
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I think this is the way to think about it. Mine was a desktop application with no central server.
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I don't think the apps themselves are illegal any more than VLC is illegal. You could likely watch something on the app that is illegal depending on where you live.
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Interesting to hear. One big thing I had to address was the fact that she lives in a rural area with very slow internet access and I don't. So I built in and option for us both to select a movie and a time for the date and it would pre
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2y ago
I have! It was one of those "I should have moved when I had the chance" moments. But such is life as a developer.
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I dusted off an old app (2012 or so) that I wrote for me and my girlfriend who are in a long-distance relationship which I call "Date Night Movie Player". It needs updates and she mentioned that she missed using it. Basically it l
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2y ago
Also curious about what you find out. I also thought that the cool billionaire kids were using "private rooms"[0] now and dark pools were for poor boomer hundred-millionaires! :-) [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news&
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>operator overload abuse Array programming languages smugly enter the chat
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>security and user experience This is corporate speak for advertisements and telemetry
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>Fuck people that live in very rural areas! -Microsoft, apparently
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"The model used in the new study, called CheXzero, was developed in 2022 by a team at Stanford University using a data set of almost 400,000 chest x-rays of people from Boston with conditions such as pulmonary edema, an accumulation of
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>Plenty of schools in the US have kitchens and cook their foods from scratch... Well, plenty of schools in the US used to cook food from scratch! They even had awesome cookbooks provided by the US government![1] (btw, it includes the rec
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>The way I see it you only have two real choices: Unfortunately, due to the way politics and money work in the US, we have zero real choices... >1. Raise wages to match global increased productivity This is blocked by our two-party po
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IMHO it depends on the types of things you are recommending. If you have a good way of accurately and specifically textually classifying items it is hard to beat the performance of good old-fashioned embeddings and vector search/ANN. T
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