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by pradn 3y ago
If I had a database with articles (deleted or not), each with an ID, and knowing the ID range at each app server - and I want to roll a random non-deleted article: I'd have 1) a remote cache for deleted articles 2) the application serv
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Go ahead an publish it. "Be bold" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold I've written dozens of articles starting from a few sentences and slowly expanding it over the course of a few days. I
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Thank you, you write well - being able to transform objects in many contexts is super useful, it unlocks so much creativity.
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Huh, I had no idea about this distinction - quite clever.
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And quite crucially, Adobe generative AI is trained on their commercial stock photos so the copyright situation is much less risky.
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You basically need to allocate a whole developer’s worth of time to maintain end to end tests. If you’re lucky, they will also have time for your integration tests.
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Fast FPSs generally and instagib specifically have disappeared completely.
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MLB could offer a super pricy option to skip all the ads, but they wouldn’t because they can’t tell advertisers that their richest customers aren’t gonna be part of the audience. Advertising distorts the market for everyone.
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I am curious, why exactly is it so much more than turning left? Is it minute adjustments like in curling?
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It's a mixed bag, I think. Good things: * Tons of high quality small indie games that experiment with mood, story, genre. Think Cultist Simulator or Factorio. * Remasters and emulation bring the best of the past to the present. * New e
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There’s absolutely no need for a book length treatment for this problem, but the way ideas work in this society, they aren’t taken seriously unless there’s a single-topic book with a catchy title, with an attendant book store tour, podcast
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That's not true. The interest could possibly exceed the defense budget by the end of the decade. But not the whole budget.
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Google Podcasts seemed to source its feeds from more sources, maybe even the open internet, since podcasts are just RSS feeds, more or less. This led to a wider selection, like pirate streams with all the episodes of paywalled podcasts.
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Imagine an adversary country surveilling all the youth of another, or even just at elite schools, and being able to use that as blackmail as they age into the leadership class. Or maybe we just won’t care any more. We’ve recently had a US p
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Part of it seems to be that LLMs are used in a linear, tool-oriented way. You give them prompts, and it responds, in a linear fashion. Brains are always thinking and processing. What would happen if we designed an LLM system with the abilit
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How easy it is to access data is a dimension of privacy, too. When Facebook introduced the Timeline, it made it easy to jump to a year in the past. Before, you had to laboriously scroll back through all recent posts. Making my old embarrass
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It seems like any product named "X for Y" is terrible enterprise-y drivel. It means the project is part of some umbrella corp, which ofc means they can't possibly actually care about anything by profit, move slow, and are un-
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The UK has been trying to be closer to India to have something to show for having exited Brexit - closer trade ties would be a victory. This is with elections for the Tories looming, and with an Indian-origin PM, uniquely positioned to stre
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Biden is said to have mentioned this to Modi during the G20 as well. This was before the Trudeau announcement. The series of acrobatic leaps GP makes are something. https://www.ft.com/content/54721d57-fe1b-4d28-ab9b-a66
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Let's coin a new term for this, "adflation".
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The file picker on Windows should be thought of as more like a process than a function call. It has to 1) read the metadata of the current directory’s files 2) look up which icon to use for each 3) load the icon 3) call apps that may modify
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I’m totally with you. It has a generic art style, and with optimized settings, looks like goop. There’s never going to be a game that feels like how it feels teleporting through a whole act in D2. Everything loads instantly. And it keeps do
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> I Give her my old iPhone 7 and use FaceTime now, with auto answer setting turned on in the accessibility. I didn't know this feature existed. Quite thoughtful!
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It took me a little while to realize this. In Manhattan, I can get a pound of fresh pasta from Citarella for $6, their jarred tomato sauce for another $6 (quite enough for a pound of pasta), a lovely block of sufficient Parmesan for $3, eno
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We should take the security aspect of this more seriously. In a world where hardware manipulation is possible, from ATM skimmers to tampered routers, it's not nothing for only authenticated parts to function. As always, security has to
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It's not reasonable to expect human security token generation to be perfectly secure all the time. The system needs to be safe overall. The organization should have set an OrgPolicy on this entire project to prevent blanket sharing of
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Gmail does not cache email attachments so ticket attachments are always iffy at busy venues. I usually just screenshot the ticket QR code now so I have it no matter the network situation at a crowded event.
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We're always going to have situations with intermittent network connections. It's best to design for that from the first. An offline-first experience is good even if you have a good network connection: lower latency (read from dis
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I'm with you - a lot of them are, but too many are not. I personally use the NYT and FT news apps in the subway quite a bit. In terms of pain points, the biggest is Safari. It gets rid of website state pretty quickly. I have tons of di
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Hardly any app is designed for subway riders. If they were, we'd have widespread preloading (like half an hour of tweets pre-loaded), seamless delayed posting (sending a new post when the internet comes back online), and visibility int

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