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by paulgb 3y ago
I went with Pulley after a Carta sales rep called me out of the blue, on a number they must have scraped (or bought from someone who scraped) from an SEC filing, ignoring the do-not-call registry.
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by paulgb 3y ago
As a general rule, if you aren’t paying for it, it’s probably crap. Paid sources are just better-incentivized and better funded to do real reporting. The traditional newspapers (like WSJ, NYT, WaPo) still do quality reporting. People tend t
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Building ColdFusion for the Web(thehistoryoftheweb.com)
92 points by paulgb 3y ago|79 comments
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by paulgb 3y ago
> This industry needs some regulation Are there cases of open source projects being careless or negligent that have caused harm that this would address? Aside from some unintentional vulnerabilities that have been found, it’s hard for me
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by paulgb 3y ago
> Nobody's going to move (back?) to "hook-and-loop," especially when the alternative rolls off the tongue a lot better. Cynically, I wonder if they intentionally chose an alternative that they know is a dud. They clearly
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by paulgb 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if with the rise of Uber Eats / Doordash, they were wanting to get out of the business of first-party deliveries anyway, and saw the wage increase as a final straw. I can't imagine that these companies
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by paulgb 3y ago
Jake Lazaroff’s CRDT intro: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts...
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by paulgb 3y ago
I used a WiFi smart switch and a USB thermometer to make a sous vide cooker. I plugged a slow cooker into the smart socket, put the thermometer in it, and wrote a program to turn the switch on/off depending on the temperature the therm
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by paulgb 3y ago
I get that for people trying to make a living off of their content, but for companies issuing a press release, nine times out of ten I’ll bounce before clicking it away.
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The OpenAI Assistant could use a Session Backend(driftingin.space)
7 points by paulgb 3y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 3y ago
AFAIK the players like AIM, MSN, ICQ didn’t cut off access to third party clients. Maybe they wanted to, but it was too onerous back then to force client software updates that they had to continue supporting reverse-engineered versions of t
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by paulgb 3y ago
Maybe in some small-/mid-size housing markets where rentals are not the main form of housing. In a city like NYC, the rental market is way too large for anyone to control it. A good example was during the pandemic when vacancies shot u
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by paulgb 3y ago
This effect only works if ownership is concentrated or there is otherwise a mechanism for collusion (the theory of collusion via Realpage is compelling to me). In a competitive market, nobody wants to leave _their own_ inventory vacant, bec
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by paulgb 3y ago
It seems like Mattermost is basically the same deal unless you use their “Test Push Notifications Service”, which they discourage using in production, no? “Same deal” in that you can either pay a per-user fee, or host the push server yourse
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by paulgb 3y ago
I'm actually impressed that their commitment to open source extends far enough to provide instructions for how to do this.
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by paulgb 3y ago
I don’t see how it would make a difference anyway; iMessage will still display the regular SMS messages, so iMessage users are still susceptible to spam. (I checked and as an iMessage user I had about 10 in the last month)
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Building ColdFusion for the web(thehistoryoftheweb.com)
3 points by paulgb 3y ago|0 comments
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by paulgb 3y ago
> In that case a reconnect logic would be necessary. But same applies to websockets. Arguably you’re even better off in the SSE case, because it specifies a reconnect mechanism that allows clients to reconnect without receiving duplicate
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by paulgb 3y ago
If an employee is paid (say) $8k/month, the difference between getting the best SaaS at $20/head or an almost-as-good SaaS at $4/month is $16, which is 0.2% of their salary. The $20/head SaaS seems 5x more expensive, b
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by paulgb 3y ago
It’s a joke but it’s also essentially how binary prediction markets work: you have two contracts, each of which resolves to $1 or $0 depending (oppositely) on whether X happens. You then solicit bids on both. When the sum of the offer price
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by paulgb 3y ago
> #2 Bitcoin has failed as a means of payment. This one kind of side-steps the actual problem, which is that Bitcoin needs to be a means of payment (at L1) to be sustainable once the block reward is decimated in a few halving cycles. Sat
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by paulgb 3y ago
If you create sockpuppets on a forum for the purpose of fraudulently establishing a fake identity to sell conference tickets, I don’t think you have an expectation of privacy with respect to server logs that establish that. Same as if you r
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by paulgb 3y ago
In general you are right, but as the readme says, this project was an experiment to try out the stack. The intended consumer of the repo is probably not someone who wants to run yet-another-chatgpt-clone, but someone who wants to poke at th
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by paulgb 3y ago
On Wall Street it is typical to get full salary for the non-compete period, but in some cases that may be a modest fraction of total compensation including bonus/other incentives.
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by paulgb 3y ago
> In addition to the jail time, both convicts had to forfeit multiple possessions related to their crimes, including bank accounts, several pieces of real estate, and cars. Sounds like the money was already spent.
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by paulgb 3y ago
Is there an alternative, though? Both Python3 and IPv6 both solve problems that would have been at least as painful to do incrementally, IMHO.
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by paulgb 3y ago
If we scope to the past year, Wasm’s garbage collector integration shipped in Chrome a few weeks back. It’s a solid step towards memory-managed languages running reasonably-efficiently in Wasm. There are still some unknowns to work out, but
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by paulgb 3y ago
A team used CT scans to read an ancient scroll preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius without unraveling it. https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/new-scans-of-herculaneum-... (Granted, as I understand it there was some AI
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by paulgb 3y ago
If you violate the TOS of a free service, it’s not on them to surgically split your account into “offending” and “non-offending” parts, especially if they reach out to you to try to work with you to remove the offending parts and you don’t
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by paulgb 3y ago
Sure, but if you go on vacation and don't check your email for two weeks, you can't really claim “no warning”. If two weeks isn’t sufficient notice because of vacation it’s fine to say so, but it’s not the same thing as “no warnin

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