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by michaelt 10mo ago
> there has been ample code and visual art around to copy for decades, and people have, and they get away with it, and nothing bad happens Some genres of music make heavy use of 'samples' - tiny snippets of other recordings,
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by michaelt 10mo ago
As I understand it [1], usually if you try to cross the border declaring you intend to engage in sex work, they turn you away. Some combination of prudishness and concern about trafficking. For there to be a special sex worker visa is a sur
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Generally the idiom "like family" implies very close and durable bonds of friendship and loyalty. That you'd drive several hours to help them bury a body, if they asked. The idiomatic use is a much higher standard than litera
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by michaelt 10mo ago
I don't have any children myself, but as I understand it in the modern age: Your kid's smartphone can connect to home wifi, mobile data, public wifi, and friends' home wifi - so network filtering alone won't cut it. And
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Are we or are we not in a thread entitled "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work" ? :)
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by michaelt 10mo ago
> it feels like there's been a shift since Labour came into power. Historically this overbearing surveillance has been held back. I had hoped Labour would roll back the anti-protest legislation, snooper's charter, internet ce
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by michaelt 10mo ago
The thing is, a lot of meetings start with presenting evidence of a problem, then have some discussion of the problem and potential options, and only in the last 10 minutes do the proposed actions turn into firm decisions with names against
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by michaelt 10mo ago
> it obviously doesn't make sense if you think about it for more than five seconds. [...] It's just a refusal to accept the philosophical concept of rights. Or it's an attempt to reconcile the philosophical concept of ri
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by michaelt 10mo ago
You can find a bunch of articles by googling "never accept counter-offer" but they don't provide much in the way of hard data, it's mostly anecdotes. Some articles say your relationship with your employer is like your re
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by michaelt 10mo ago
> I don't know how we got to the point where we can build things with no guardrails and just expect the user to use it legally? Historically tools have been uncensored, yet also incredibly difficult and time-consuming to get good
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by michaelt 10mo ago
> But one, it is on the site, and two, how can the moderation team reasonably stop bad actors from downvoting it? In 2020, Dang said [1] > Voting ring detection has been one of HN's priorities for over 12 years: [...] > I
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by michaelt 10mo ago
The second secret to getting promoted is working at a company that's growing. If you're at a 50 employee company that grows to 250 employees there will be many empty team leader positions. And what you lack in hands-on managem
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by michaelt 10mo ago
To me having "a superposition of all opinions" sounds a lot like not having opinions.
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by michaelt 10mo ago
There are two giant loopholes in the statement "In general, I always draw and paint by hand and sometimes incorporate standard digital tools" The first is there can be 'non-general' cases, and this could be one of them
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by michaelt 10mo ago
You might enjoy reading the papers "Highway Hierarchies Hasten Exact Shortest Path Queries" [1] and "Exact Routing in Large Road Networks using Contraction Hierarchies" [2] if you're interested in hierarchical appro
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by michaelt 10mo ago
There was a brief period, from the fall of the Soviet Union to Bush's invasion of Iraq, where "rules-based international order" was not a joke, and in fact was taken pretty seriously by quite a lot of people. Democracy, fre
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Right but "Don't kidnap/assassinate the enemy leaders" is often a good policy even when nobody will enforce that rule on you by force . For example if your country is subject to a terror bombing campaign, it's very
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by michaelt 10mo ago
> The “read the data out with a super expensive microscope” remained. Is there any way to defeat that attack I wonder? Get your chip made with the latest TSMC process and get features so small nobody else, even superpowers and trillion
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by michaelt 10mo ago
I enjoyed this video, because one line of conventional thinking says if an attacker has access to your physical hardware, it's game over for security. And other parts of the tech industry envisage things like TPMs and Secure Boot prote
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Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story (2019)(platformsecuritysummit.com)
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by michaelt 10mo ago
According to [1] at one Belgian university 61.8% of students reached a milestone within 2 years (with 41.4% reaching it within 1 year) That's quite a high non-completion rate - but it's nowhere near 99%. [1] https://nie
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by michaelt 10mo ago
You might be right, but supporting drilling in the US means well paid jobs, and exports, at minimal costs. Invading another country, though? To create foreign jobs and increase imports? Not what you’d expect from Mr Tariffs imho.
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Is Trump really an oil guy? It’s his second term, and he doesn’t care about the GOP after him, so it’s not like he needs funds for the next election, or needs to deliver on the economy. And as I understand it he doesn’t have long term bonds
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by michaelt 10mo ago
In house catering is usually subject to strict cost controls. Hard to motivate people to work late with minimum bidder pizza.
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Unless you're thinking of huge online courses like Udacity/Coursera, I don't think that's really a thing? If it is, I'd be fascinated to learn more. I mean, the logistics would be pretty wild - even a large universi
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Seems a bit of a strange feature to even want on a product targeting the education market. In a classroom setting you don't really want students to be able to set fuse bits so the device can't be re-programmed. Presumably this i
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by michaelt 10mo ago
I'd wager the "Cohorts for programs with a thousand initial students had less than 10 graduates" statement is deceptive, if not outright false. Perhaps lifetimerubyist means "1000 students took the mandatory philosophy a
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by michaelt 10mo ago
BRB, raising a CVE complaining the OOM killer exists.
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by michaelt 10mo ago
Talking to inanimate objects is for 5-year-olds and the mentally ill.
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by michaelt 10mo ago
> The quote you gave is not the conclusion of the article. Did I say "conclusion" ? Sorry, I should have said the section just before the acknowledgements, where the conclusion would normally be, entitled "The bigger po

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