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by neilv 1y ago
For an open source Android app for OpenStreetMap data, I like Organic Maps, and it normally works great with locally-cached maps. I've had better luck with it than with Google Maps or Apple Maps on phones. (Though, I should mention th
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by neilv 1y ago
When I had to implement "deidentification" for a kind of sensitive safety reporting, an LLM would've been a good way to augment the approaches I used. Today, if I had to do it, I'd probably throw multiple computer approa
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by neilv 1y ago
If I had money entrusted to Coinbase, I'd be concerned about: 1. The idea of them using AI coding tools in a forced way like this. (Meticulous code quality, and perfect understanding of every detail, are critical.) 2. The culture impl
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by neilv 1y ago
Every time someone mentions a good idea for interviews, I imagine the interview prep people adding it to the standard performance ritual. Then the signal is lost for the needle in a haystack who actually embodies what you sought to find. W
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by neilv 1y ago
> Not for a dozen lines here or there, even if it could be found and identified in a massive code base. That’s like quoting a paragraph of a book in another book, non infringing. It's potentially non-infringing in a book if you qu
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by neilv 1y ago
There's even a Wikipedia page now for The Onion's handling of mass shootings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
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by neilv 1y ago
> I don't think anyone who's not monetarily incentivize to pretend there are IP/Copyright issues actually thinks there are. Why do you think that about people who disagree with you? You're responding directly to so
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by neilv 1y ago
Huge difference, and companies recognized the difference, right up until "AI" hype.
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by neilv 1y ago
There is also IP taint when using "AI". We're just pretending that there's not. If someone came to you and said "good news: I memorized the code of all the open source projects in this space, and can regurgitate it
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by neilv 1y ago
Don't the companies in the headlines pay big bucks for people working on "AI"? Maybe they are paying big bucks for people who are actually very bad at their jobs? Why would the CEOs tolerate that? Do they think it's a p
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by neilv 1y ago
> Appreciate the story, but what's the hangup about naming these companies? 1. Social media today has strong mob behavior, which is one of the reasons I often default to not naming when you want to talk about a more general proble
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by neilv 1y ago
In a town of big-name universities, where people are constantly coming and going from all around the world, and the reality of students living and socializing heavily, in cramped conditions, often with little sleep... Covid still seems to b
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by neilv 1y ago
Less relevant, but reminds me of my all-time favorite grocery store LP encounter, near MIT. The chain was running this big promotion with lots of tear-open prize tickets that are either coupons or game board pieces, so I had been visiting
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by neilv 1y ago
I'm pretty sick of misguided/enthusiastic Loss Prevention people, and these digital systems amplify their hijinks. The most conspicuous one recently was at one upscale grocery chain within the last year. There was what I took to
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by neilv 1y ago
> To account for this influx of reviewers, Rotten Tomatoes has created a "Top Critic" designation reserved for established media outlets, such as The New York Times and The Atlantic. However, this label has no special bearing
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by neilv 1y ago
In Step 5, it's a bit of a "first, draw 3 circles, then draw the rest of the owl, but here's a picture of the space shuttle instead". Semantically, that example "DAG" graph looks like a data flow diagram (not a
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by neilv 1y ago
I wonder how much they will have to protect against recklessness of the e-bike owners? For example, against the end user sourcing substandard cells, and combining them in inadvisable ways. I don't have a good profile of e-bike owner b
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by neilv 1y ago
> It isn't just a simple crop; Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details. Unclear what "intelligently recover and refine" means here, and I&
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by neilv 1y ago
There are specific philosophies and missions behind various kinds of software for which you might have access to the source code. The most formalized and principled original one, was unfortunately named "free software". (Where RM
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by neilv 1y ago
Agreed that sometimes it makes sense to outsource, if Bob's App Factory is big and complex enough to actually need SSO, but isn't big enough to want to run it themselves. (I was thinking more F500, which is what I did a lot of SS
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by neilv 1y ago
No, I'm saying that you are making the advocacy mistake of using the term "free software".
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by neilv 1y ago
Calling it (edit: using the term) "free software" is a great example of utterly failing to promote your own principles, and stabbing the entire mission in the face. Let's try to repurpose an incredibly widely used pre-existi
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by neilv 1y ago
Flatpak is great for people who wish they were running Microsoft. Others can just run a distro for people who believe in open source software.
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by neilv 1y ago
> As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. And that should be treated as a massive liability, where one
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by neilv 1y ago
An IdP doesn't have to be on a VPN, no matter who operates it.
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by neilv 1y ago
> Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism for outsourcing the authentication for your website (or other product) to a third party identity provider, such as Google, Okta, Entra ID (Azure AD), PingFederate, etc. Or the IdP is administered b
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by neilv 1y ago
The dominant strategy right now might be to be skilled enough to do your job, much more effectively than "AI", but product-wise hop on the hype bandwagon of selling "AI" tools to people who are bad at their jobs.
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by neilv 1y ago
> Now, I grew up in a rural area of the southern US, and I had never been out of the South, but on Undernet, I met people in other states, other countries, even other continents! I made friends all over the world and learned a great dea
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by neilv 1y ago
No, I've absolutely seen that argument made online as justification for music and movie piracy, many times, for many years. People rationalizing aren't mental giants. Piracy is generally by people who want free stuff. Not by phi
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by neilv 1y ago
People like this, because people like free stuff, and like to rationalize getting free stuff. Occasionally, someone who likes free stuff styles themself a freedom fighter, though their values do not otherwise seem to extend beyond getting

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