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by neilv 3mo ago
I thought the Guardian might decide not to show a photo of a corpse of someone probably with living friends and close relatives. Nope, they do it too, like the Daily Mail, but with a big yellow GUI control to reveal it, like a weird macabre
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by neilv 3mo ago
Is this a place Sony could differentiate from other platforms? Contractually require (and technologically support) that the servers are kept running for n years after the last sale, for example?
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by neilv 3mo ago
> This is a weird marketing strategy. They must feel free to do as they please since they know consumers are trapped. I've been on PlayStation family since PS2, and used to think I was married to it, with my game library and my pl
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by neilv 3mo ago
IKEA CORRAS FTW. https://www.neilvandyke.org/machine-learning/super-in-ikea-c...
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by neilv 3mo ago
That might be responding too narrowly to this objection. Then there's the question of singling out some subset of Debian users based on their country, for different behavior they presumably don't want and that is against their ind
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by neilv 3mo ago
I'm very sympathetic to Ukraine and the desire to demonstrate or speak out, but I don't see how this instance is very effective, and doing it has a significant cost to the integrity of Debian, as this argument says: > Russ All
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by neilv 3mo ago
Regarding "old beliefs", a distinction I'd like to make... My anecdotal impression is that early Internet overall was, on average, more enlightened and amiable than Internet today. Our earlier experience: Nobody knows you&#
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by neilv 3mo ago
> A lot of the group was great, but some friends I invited to the challenge had a bad time in the irc with transphobes and we all dropped out. That sucks, and the channel or network should do something about it. IRC is how I was friend
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by neilv 4mo ago
I'm saddened and concerned by these allegations of a deficit of integrity. I was very fortunate to attend Brown University for grad school, and consider it a great place. Why would many people who were also fortunate to attend there no
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by neilv 4mo ago
The police where I live are generally good, and I imagine that's the case many places. Treating police as the enemy, or a punching bag, is unfair and counterproductive. (I can't speak to any places that might have a lot of corrup
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by neilv 4mo ago
This could be a starting point for consulting a different human expert for a second opinion (e.g., specific questions to ask about), but I wouldn't put much trust in Claude alone on this. IME, on an almost daily basis, claude.ai and Cl
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by neilv 4mo ago
Yeah, and if you're early, like a few-person startup, you hopefully have someone who can do ops things as needed. When I was the one-person eng and ops departments for a few-person seed-stage startup, which already had a major customer
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by neilv 4mo ago
Codeberg runs open source Forgejo, and you could on-prem that too (for no license cost), if it suits your needs. GitLab is more powerful in some ways, but early startups might want to look at Forgejo first.
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by neilv 4mo ago
The article's theory is similar: > But I think they've decided that this is a price worth paying, because: [...] c) By destroying Sarah Wynn-Williams, they can terrorize all those thousands of bitter ex-employees into silence
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by neilv 4mo ago
Different people need different messages around this. For years, I read many online newspapers a day, as well as journalism trade publications. I also did a little low-key activism, during an earlier tech industry gold rush, when caring wa
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by neilv 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
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by neilv 4mo ago
KeePassXC might do what someone needs, and I really appreciate the work of its developers, but when advocating KeePassXC, I should also acknowledge that the "UX" is rough in parts: 1. It has lots of features and complexity, but do
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by neilv 4mo ago
I intended for the entire sentence to be in terms of the thinking of top leadership. And to gloss over how that improvement would actually happen. (Not knowing what they've currently done and want to do, but for example, guessing: pro
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by neilv 4mo ago
Pre-AI version: Oops, you laid off the higher-salaried people without having them train their replacements, so bring them back, long enough to do that. Now, that training[*] will be for both AI models and lower-salaried hires. Perhaps a sec
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by neilv 4mo ago
That sounds like a brilliant idea. I wonder whether they already thought of that, and are exempting from monitoring the roles most likely to generate "smoking gun" evidence.
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by neilv 4mo ago
> [...] you get a degree of viciousness, competitiveness, and steel-eyed execution I think there's a lot of truth to that. (Aside: Many manage without the viciousness part. It's not their fault their parents lined them up w
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by neilv 4mo ago
I want Anthropic to be the good guys. I think Anthropic should explain why they're doing this particular partnership.
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by neilv 4mo ago
It works with teams, when you have the authority to do something, but do a non-blocking check as a courtesy: "Heads-up: I plan to delete the old scratch volume at Tue 14:00 ET, unless anyone objects before then. (It only contains the
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by neilv 4mo ago
> The era of the standard behavioral interview (“Tell me about a time…”) is over; those answers are easily scripted by live-assist tools. Instead, organizations should introduce dynamic friction: sudden constraints, changes in project s
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by neilv 4mo ago
> When the earliest filters in your hiring process stop working, your organization begins to systematically select for candidates who are best at performing the hiring process, rather than those best equipped to do the job. Isn't
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by neilv 4mo ago
Wouldn't hurt to also use European DNS TLDs.
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by neilv 4mo ago
I didn't use this company, but there are some legitimate purposes for scraping. For example, at a startup a few years ago, one of the many technological things we needed to do was to monitor marketplaces for suspected counterfeit and
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by neilv 4mo ago
1. What happens when schools start hiring faculty with dissertations full of LLM output that's essentially the same thing as the plagiarism that this person is alleged to have done? 2. Well, at least it's an option in their back p
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by neilv 4mo ago
> In my opinion, the most useful next step is to contact Volkswagen support in a coordinated and technically precise way [...] Smartphone: Google Pixel Operating system: GrapheneOS I strongly recommend saying that the operating system
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by neilv 4mo ago
And not only crime. I think it's going to be a lot of people trying to hustle via mass-automated fake-human interaction -- whether it's sales, influencing/advertising, recruiting, dating, or whatever. And they're being

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