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by rectang 4mo ago
A great opportunity for selective enforcement!
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by rectang 4mo ago
I'm using VSCode dev containers, powered by Podman on a Mac. Most people would probably choose Docker over Podman but I'm weary of Docker and wanted to try something else. I would not consider myself an expert on containers but
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by rectang 4mo ago
About a week ago, I uninstalled Node from my laptop, which felt great. :) I'm trying to do all work in dev containers (or other sandboxes), limiting the blast radius if I'm unlucky enough to be hit by an exploit. The attackers ma
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by rectang 4mo ago
From the perspective that a company is an amoral profit-seeking automaton, it's not a "terrible system", it's a successful initiative to reduce compensation.
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by rectang 4mo ago
Opponents of gun control surely feel the same way about the Onion’s story.
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by rectang 4mo ago
> people need jobs to be happy The happiness of the aristocracy depends on the spectacle of miserable workers performing humiliating tasks.
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by rectang 4mo ago
> Just yesterday, flock helped police catch a dude "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin
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by rectang 4mo ago
> The proposed deal drew opposition from lawmakers and activists because Solvinity provides infrastructure for DigiD, the digital ID system Dutch citizens use to access sensitive medical, pension and tax information. Understandable th
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Dutch block US takeover of Solvinity as against public interest(reuters.com)
10 points by rectang 4mo ago|1 comments
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by rectang 4mo ago
I think the lesson from the airline industry is that while consumers will get angry about surcharges, pricing transparency is what really gets punished in the marketplace. There are enough consumers who will always buy the deceptively pric
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by rectang 4mo ago
I used to wait tables once upon a time and it was standard practice to add a fixed service charge for any large party in lieu of a tip. Have you really never encountered that?
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by rectang 4mo ago
Do you leave a negative review if they add the service charge but don't ask for a tip?
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by rectang 4mo ago
Companies who wish for more casual subscribers should support services (such as Apple App Store subscriptions) and anti-dark-pattern laws which reassure the public that unsubscribing will be easy. Then the complacency and other psychologica
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by rectang 4mo ago
I prefer the term "software developer" and that's what I use when I don't need the prestige of the term "software engineer". It's disadvantageous for organizations to do that with actual job titles, thoug
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by rectang 4mo ago
Even more nauseating than https://brainfuck.org
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by rectang 5mo ago
From what I hear[1], we should be relying on the fact that environmental disasters are bad for business in a true Scotsman "free market". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238025#48240301
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by rectang 5mo ago
The idea that being "bad for business" is a sufficient disincentive to dissuade commercial entities in a free market from harming and killing people is risible. Even if you eliminated the immunity shield for corporate leadership s
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by rectang 5mo ago
> It's Fender abusing the courts I think "BigCo abusing the courts" — or alternately, "courts are designed to facilitate abuse by the wealthy" — is the essence of this story. The case is dicey at best on the le
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by rectang 5mo ago
> the upshot is you never need to deal with the Rust community In the end, everything comes down to culture war.
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by rectang 5mo ago
This is basically a problem with Open Source hosted at Github , right? Because Github doesn't allow you to turn off PRs for people outside your organization. Since Github has been asked to change this policy since time immemorial and
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by rectang 5mo ago
If a guitar company were attempting to enforce IP rights on a new design instead of one from 75 years ago with a decades-old cottage industry of copycats large and small, this would be a different story. Small builders like LsL have the com
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Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars(guitarworld.com)
131 points by rectang 5mo ago|132 comments
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by rectang 5mo ago
Did Shutterstock come out money ahead? Is 35 million and the potential for future punishment a sufficient deterrent?
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by rectang 5mo ago
At least the title “The Third Hard Problem” is still appropriate regardless of whether you get the joke right.
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by rectang 5mo ago
Original source: Thiel’s Wall Street Journal essay: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-... https://www.csun.edu/~vcact00f/497CapStone/Peter%20Thiel_%20... The title i
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by rectang 5mo ago
> I still can’t work out why it wasn’t obvious from the start that UCS-2 would never be enough) Surely certain people did know, but those people weren't in a position to do anything about it. Specifically, there were surely peop
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by rectang 5mo ago
That's possible, and I hedged a bit with an "if I understand correctly" because it was unclear to me how reliable the "coal roller" assessment was. But if the bike rider's judgement was mistaken, the only conse
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by rectang 5mo ago
If I understand correctly, the trucker was set up to roll coal on other people, and only made an exception for this specific kid on a bike. It's not "unhinged" to stand up for others who have been targeted even while you w
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by rectang 5mo ago
I understand you to be implying that I shouldn't trust my perception that there's a meaningful difference in how much different models hallucinate. I will take that under advisement, but I am still interested in the answer to my
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by rectang 5mo ago
How does "outperform" translate to the propensity of an LLM to hallucinate?

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