prepperpotts

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by prepperpotts 6y ago
My productivity has skyrocketed after our company moved remote, I think in large part because my home monitor is good and my office monitor was garbage. Staring at blurry text all day messes with your brain a lot more than you realize.
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
This is sad but also extremely true. At my company, Zoom was suddenly rolled out en masse to everyone, despite the fact that we are a technology company and should know better.
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
True. Cost of living has spiked a lot in tech hubs, too, but devs are usually on the upper tier of the income curve.
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
Definitely agree with the latter part here about execs, but I feel like anxiety around compensation doesn't tie back to material needs as much as to the extent to which people measure their self-worth by compensation. Years ago, these
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
It's not like Amazon is bad at AI. The problem they're solving for is legitimately hard, which is why it's so frustrating that it's been put in production in a way that can really harm people.
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
if you're removing off-topic comments and spam, you're already moderating. see also: doxxing, child pornography, etc.
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
no one denies that voter fraud is possible. the more important question is whether voter fraud is a serious threat to the voting process, and there's no evidence of this. collecting ballots from the mailboxes of dead people is not ex
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
sorry, i totally missed those. thank you!
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
truly wild that the fight over whether social media platforms should be held liable for speech happens the one time they actually do make a feeble attempt at moderation.
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Donald Trump is starting a messy fight with the entire internet(theverge.com)
29 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|30 comments
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The world of bug bounty hunters(builtin.com)
22 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|1 comments
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
Considering the market share of iPhone in this demographic, it's inexcusable not to correct for this — even if you disagree with Apple's decision on this.
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Why everyone won't stop talking about ps5 and Xbox series x storage(gizmodo.com)
1 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|0 comments
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
I've definitely spent a lot of time in standups that are effectively pure micromanage-y accountability plays — what are you working on today. Those were a huge waste of time. In the instances where people could actually help me out, th
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Open-source workflows helped intuit cut back on duplicate work(builtin.com)
27 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|0 comments
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
yeah, it doesn't necessarily seem like a lot for those affected. that said, an upper band of $50k for damages feels like it could be enough to motivate content moderation orgs to take this stuff more seriously?
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Facebook will pay $52M in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD(theverge.com)
37 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|4 comments
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 are being remastered for PS4, Xbox One, and PC(theverge.com)
1 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|0 comments
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
one interesting, counterintuitive argument i've seen on how to prevent this is in lawrence lessig's book, "republic, lost" about the us congress. his take is that public servants actually don't make enough money, wh
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
this is very similar to scandinavian cultures. in comparison, american work culture feels extremely centered around social interactions.
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
"Although hackers need physical access to a Windows or Linux computer to exploit the flaws, they could theoretically gain access to all data in about five minutes even if the laptop is locked, password protected, and has an encrypted h
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
although i'm a home owner as of fairly recently, this feels like a bit of a necessary correction. people owning multiple homes drives up prices for everyone else.
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Cookies, Chaos and the Browser: Meet Lou Montulli [from 2018](blogs.gartner.com)
1 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|0 comments
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The do's and don'ts of database design(builtin.com)
19 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|0 comments
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by prepperpotts 6y ago
Interesting. The concerns about facial recognition definitely make a lot of sense.
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Microsoft can’t get privacy bill passed in its home state. Is trying elsewhere(protocol.com)
5 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|3 comments
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Differential privacy anonymizes data sets with deliberately noisy data(builtin.com)
16 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|1 comments
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Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die(builtin.com)
616 points by prepperpotts 6y ago|466 comments