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Review board faults Microsoft for 'cascade' of errors in China hack(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by munchler 3y ago|3 comments
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by munchler 3y ago
The independent Cyber Safety Review Board’s forthcoming report knocks the tech giant for shoddy cybersecurity practices, lax corporate culture and a deliberate lack of transparency
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by munchler 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I didn't know that either. I wouldn't even call it a "podcast" at that point, but I guess the definition is changing.
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by munchler 3y ago
You could be right, but (as the article says), trying to listen to a podcast on the vanilla YouTube app is extremely frustrating, since you can't play audio in the background. Is it still a podcast if you have to watch it like a video?
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by munchler 3y ago
> Google cited a statistic from Edison Research that said about 23 percent of podcast listeners in the US say YouTube is their primary podcast platform I assume this means YouTube Music, not plain YouTube? The article (and Google itself)
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by munchler 3y ago
> no autobiographical memory Can you clarify what that means? It seems like that would be an extreme amnesia, but perhaps I'm not understanding.
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by munchler 3y ago
I love Suzanne Vega. Her first, eponymous album is an all-time great, IMHO. It’s very fluky that Tom’s Diner and Luka were her two hits. She was both lucky and unlucky.
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by munchler 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I couldn't even get past this part: > Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format available to any project in the Hadoop ecosystem Nope and nope.
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Sure, let’s put the fox in charge of defending the hen house. He’s an expert on chickens and I’m sure he’s changed his ways!
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So because phones are useful, lock-in should be prohibited? I don’t think that’s how the law reads. Should we also prevent lock-in for car parts, because there are infinite places to go in cars?
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by munchler 3y ago
“Locking people in for cash” is a common business practice in tech and other industries. Try mounting a Nikon lens on a Canon camera, for example. You might not like it, but I’m not sure why Apple deserves special condemnation in this regar
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by munchler 3y ago
The world is moving away from imperative programming altogether, towards functional programming. Pretty much anything that can be done with control flow can be done with data flow instead, leaving fewer opportunities for error. Data flow is
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by munchler 3y ago
How do other telescopes avoid/deal with this problem? I don't recall the James Webb telescope having a similar issue, for example.
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No doubt. I also probably have a number of cancer cells in my body. They’re still abnormal cells, though. So, it may be normal to have some delusional thoughts, but delusional thoughts are not normal thoughts.
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The error rate for delusional thinking is way higher than the error rate for normal human thinking. That’s why we call it delusional.
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Delusional thinking is _common_, not normal. Just like cancer is common, but not normal.
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That’s true. Look at organized religion: it may provide a survival advantage, even when it’s based on false beliefs. However, murder can also be fruitful for some people, but I think we’d still call it dysfunctional.
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by munchler 3y ago
> there is nothing in the way in which delusional beliefs are developed, maintained, or defended that can be legitimately described as a dysfunctional process Seriously? Delusional thinking is a dysfunctional process almost by definition
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by munchler 3y ago
Would really like to hear your theory about how IQ loss causes lead poisoning.
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Agreed. I think this is where dependent types become useful, but that is a whole can of worms.
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But that's the true nature of division. Unless one can prove that the denominator is non-zero, then the computation is not well defined. Practically speaking, languages like Haskell and F# have a monadic syntax that makes this consider
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by munchler 3y ago
I appreciate this article. It's clear, easy to understand, and uses theory to propose practical improvements to FP. Some minor nitpicks: > In total functional programming ⊥ does not exist. That doesn't seem right. In total FP,
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by munchler 3y ago
> I think the main thing that I find compelling about shen is its type system, especially its sequent calculus system (for defining types in a way that would not be possible for most languages). That sounds interesting. Can you give an e
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Working without pay is the reddest of red flags in any company. It’s not even a business at that point - it’s a volunteer gig.
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There’s a scene at the end of the movie Fletch (1985) where Chevy Chase uses a plane ticket made out in another person’s name, and no one blinks an eye.
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Are people really paying $10/month to use GitHub Copilot on hobby projects?
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The basic problem addressed here is a code smell called "primitive obsession" [0]. Strange name, but worth knowing. [0]: https://medium.com/the-sixt-india-blog/primitive-obsession-c...
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by munchler 3y ago
I think long periods of time are experienced logarithmically, with a base of around 2. So the period from, say, 10 to 20 years is comparable to the period from 20 to 40 years, and then 40 to 80 years. The seasons really start to zoom by at
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> How do you create the concept of a singular time if your system spans the galaxy? Pretty sure that's ruled out by Special Relativity, no matter how popular Bitcoin becomes.
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by munchler 3y ago
Gotta disagree with you there. The whole point of a good cover is to put your own spin on the song. If it's just a note-for-note redo of the original, why bother? The best covers end up "owning" the song, and the original is

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