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by oconnore 5y ago
You can imagine that the conversation went something like: “Hey, look at Cloudflare, should we reduce egress costs?” “Absolutely not, but let’s make a free tier change and hope that fewer people hassle us about that” It’s a signal that they
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by oconnore 5y ago
> the motion would significantly increase the cost of constructing housing in Los Angeles NIMBYs at it again.
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by oconnore 5y ago
This reminds me of David Mindell's work on situated autonomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0-tafxh7gc https://www.robotics.org/userAssets/riaUploads/file/20-OurRo... > The highes
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by oconnore 5y ago
It’s probably more efficient to use a fuel like methane as opposed to oil as a medium-long term storage, e.g. for turbines used to address peak power grid usage, or winter storms (especially as more homes electrify HVAC).
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by oconnore 5y ago
> Often an operational analytics DB (Clickhouse, CrateDB) might also be a solution This might be a bit off topic, but speaking of gaps in common observability tooling: is an OLAP database a common go-to for longer-timescale analytics (as
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by oconnore 5y ago
I was surprise that no one suggested truncating SHA-256 to 160 bits (same as for SHA2-256/224, or SHA2-512/256). The attacks on SHA-1 are not directly based on the length of the hash, they are based on weaknesses in the algorithm.
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by oconnore 5y ago
It cannot scale, but it is a useful tool for specific locations and problems. What does scale is using fire to fight fire -- prescribed burns, and allowing natural fires to burn while monitoring them for safety. In parallel, lots can be don
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by oconnore 5y ago
> Power users are a small share of users of knowledge management software, so it is difficult to build a system only for them In practice, knowledge management at companies is a specialization. There are <5% of employees that go aroun
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by oconnore 5y ago
It seems like there ought to be some recognition that these are business tools, and ought to be designed with power users in mind. Instead, "search" in B2B products is built with the same uber-minimalist UX as B2C search. Even ear
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by oconnore 5y ago
In some ways, I think privacy advocates could be shooting themselves in the foot here. I think that mainstream storage encryption (mainstream as in WhatsApp and Signal, as opposed to encrypting your NAS using linux commands) is very importa
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by oconnore 5y ago
If it's so easy to modify NeuralHashes, won't "CSAM networks" just rotate the hashes of their "collections"? If you can make an innocent picture collide with a CSAM picture, presumably you can also edit a CSAM
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by oconnore 5y ago
My understanding: SQLite: SQL -> SQLite C query engine -> POSIX Filesystem Absurd-SQL: SQL -> (WASM) SQLite C query engine -> "filesystem" shim code -> IndexedDB
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by oconnore 5y ago
Where were the managers? If you have to use company wide data analytics to know whether your employees are productive, you should fire your managers first. Then with better managers, those unproductive employees might start being challenged
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by oconnore 5y ago
Carbon neutral jet fuel exists (synthetic fuels from electrolysis, and/or biofuels), and could be scaled up. The issue is not “can we do this”, it’s “can we justify doing this economically”.
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by oconnore 5y ago
McKinsey’s fiduciary incentives are absolutely aligned with overcoming the major challenge of the 21st century — climate disaster is bad for business. Whether any specific individual consultant (out of 30,000 people) has the foresight to re
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by oconnore 5y ago
I think a major issue is that the viability of solutions is compared on a short term cost basis that ignores externalities. As an example: on a very short term basis, it is easier and cheaper to pile your trash in your basement, or to not b
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by oconnore 5y ago
I think the distinctions built into Myers-Briggs are a useful substrate for understanding your own tendencies better. As an example: some situations call for being very detail oriented (J), where some situations call for being big picture (
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by oconnore 5y ago
Jeff answered this here: https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads
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by oconnore 5y ago
Getting a collision with this approach doesn’t matter — the whole point is to loop if you do get a collision. The only issue is getting a long string of sequential collisions, which is highly unlikely.
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by oconnore 5y ago
I am usually very anti advertising, but I don’t understand the backlash here. If it’s done tastefully as you describe it’s basically just a hands free QR code. Rules: - opt in: nothing happens unless I click the “I saw something on a billbo
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by oconnore 5y ago
Each page load for this article is 485 KB data, but some of the other pages are more like 1.5 MB This blog has seen 14,000 views today, but some of the other pages are ~38-40k views So if you assume ~990KB average page size, 30k views, and
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by oconnore 6y ago
This feature is ready to ship, our data shows that over 99.2% of hikers correctly interpret our fence boundaries!
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by oconnore 6y ago
Nespresso pods for silicon sound great! I’m not a hardware engineer, I’m just tired of $800 “replace the entire main board” repairs when I broke my ‘H’ key.
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by oconnore 6y ago
Natural gas heating contributes significantly to climate change, and if you're in an area with significant renewable electric (or if you expect you will eventually over the lifetime of your system), you can lower your carbon footprint
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by oconnore 6y ago
It seems like the only way for carbon sequestration projects to succeed is to leverage cheap nuclear power. The winner of the XPrize competition [1] should just go to whoever figures out how to build a few gigawatts of nuclear capacity, and
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by oconnore 6y ago
(Fish doesn't make me 3x more productive, but...) I think a good analogy would be having sharp tools. If you don't have to exert yourself to do simple things, then menial tasks use less mental energy which you can save for your ac
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by oconnore 6y ago
It seems like you could probably just aim a typical camera at a potato and get enough sensor noise in the pixel data to be a perfectly fine RNG. I doubt anyone could hope to demonstrate a bit for bit match of any two pictures using a modern
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by oconnore 6y ago
I have this and have been unable to login since 2015 with no ability to recover my account (I know the password, but it's flagged as "unrecognized device"). I also can't turn it off or delete the account.
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by oconnore 6y ago
Congratulations! What are the next directions for the scripting language?
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by oconnore 6y ago
There seems to be a bit of irony citing whatwg in your attempt at shaming here —- the standard that was created to be a living document tracking what web developers and browser creators were implementing in the real world. I’m not sure ther

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