remus

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by remus 1y ago
> To be clear, I appreciate the concept of an "Internet Archive", but the current organization / execution / management is absolutely atrocious. A pretty harsh take imo. I think they achieve a huge amount with a relat
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by remus 1y ago
This process usually goes: 1. "This XML library is way bigger than what I need, I'll write something more minimal for my use case" 2. write a library for whatever minimal subset you need 3. crash report comes in, realise you
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by remus 1y ago
They gained access to the Google account by stealing the verification code over the phone, but then they had easy access to other accounts (e.g. coinbase) because they had access to 2FA codes because Google authenticator was backed up to th
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by remus 1y ago
You're right, but the proportion of leasehold is still somewhat high (about 7% of houses in the UK). Kinda weird that it's still a thing. There's also a good scam going where leaseholders will try and persuade you to buy out
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by remus 1y ago
That's the equivalent of saying "just audit your cloud usage and remove stuff that's no longer used".
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by remus 1y ago
Imo this works well, especially in the podcast format, because it doesn't feel like they're trying to make every episode for every listener. You dip in on the espisodes that catch your curiosity so if you're listening there&#
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by remus 1y ago
> The man combined his hobby with his profession and is now retiring a millionaire. Worth noting that the £1.5 million valuation is in the ball park of what the building is worth on it's own. I think the parent's point is that
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by remus 1y ago
> I could easily see them filling the voids that US policy chaos is currently creating. More than that, I think China would be mad not to step into the vacuum the US is creating with it's isolationist policies. For years US aid has
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by remus 1y ago
That's a reasonable trade-off to make for some people, no? There's plenty of work to be done where you can cope with the occasional runtime error and less then bleeding edge performance, especially if that then means wins in other
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by remus 1y ago
> [some] compiled languages were already doing on PCs running at 10 MHz within the constraints of 640 KB Many compiled languages are very slow to compile however, especially for large projects, C++ and rust being the usual examples.
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by remus 1y ago
We'll often do design reviews in figma, that usually means a few people looking at the same doc and potentially a few people making tweaks at the same time. Usually in separate bits of the doc at the same time.
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by remus 1y ago
Immediate follow up questions from the tax man, and then shortly afterwards the police "who is this guy? where is the invoice? what is his phone number?"
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by remus 1y ago
Not to stick up for the search in the app store, but I don't think it is necessarily that straightforward, particularly where there is money to be made by gaming the ranking.
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by remus 1y ago
> And yet people install ad blockers and defend their freedom to not participate in this because they don't want to be annoyed by ads. I think this is a pretty different scenario. Here the user and the news website are talking direc
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by remus 1y ago
The solution to 3 seems fairly straightforward: user requests content and passes it to llm to summarise.
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by remus 1y ago
For me, the point is that the person who has put in the work then has some rights to decide how that information is accessed and re-used. I think it is a reaosnable position for someone to hold that they want individuals to be able to freel
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by remus 1y ago
When I said "I think it's a reasonable stance" I meant as in "I think it's a reasonable stance for someone to take, though I don't personally hold that view".
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by remus 1y ago
> No one really cared about bot scraping to this degree before AI scraping for training purposes became a concern. This is fearmongering by Cloudflare for website maintainers who haven't figured out how to adapt to the AI era so the
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by remus 1y ago
> The no-crawl directives don't really make sense when I'm doing research and want my tool of choice to be able to pull from any relevant source. If you are the source I think they could make plenty of sense. As an example, I r
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by remus 1y ago
> Tesla has developed FSD basically for free, because people pay for software that isn't there yet, and Tesla doesn't waste money on expensive hardware. In financial terms you could call that a liability, and you might reasonab
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by remus 1y ago
This is overly broad, no? You can limit your passkey to a single device but it's not an inherent limitation.
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by remus 1y ago
Because water is pretty dense, you could in theory get a lot of energy from a relatively small tidal power installation which could be an advantage in some circumstances.
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by remus 1y ago
It seems like Fillipo has been working quite closely with people running existing ct logs to try and reduce the requirements for running a log, so I'd assume he has a fairly realistic handle on the requirements. Do you have a reason to
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by remus 1y ago
That's really nice. I hope you don't mind, but I run this website https://climbing-history.org/ and have borrowed your idea, except for climbers who have passed away.
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by remus 1y ago
An interesting article, but I disagree with the first sentence. > The basic promise of a query optimizer is that it picks the “optimal” query plan. This is kind of true, but the optimiser has to do all this with very tight constraints on
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by remus 1y ago
Trying to be more charitable, I would say that it's not so much that people don't like reading and writing but that they are saturated with it. Reading is a chore because, in a typical corporate job, you have to do so much of it a
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by remus 1y ago
> Every part of the house depreciates without maintenance. At some point the house will depreciate and the lot will be worth less than it would be if the house was already demolished. That really depends on the market. There are areas ne
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by remus 1y ago
It was a funny experience going to buy a used car with my partner a few years ago. Being a little naive I'd assumed being a cash buyer was a plus as they'd guarantee a quick sale, but as soon as the salesman realised he wasn'
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by remus 1y ago
> Google tried to tackle this with notification channels, but the onus falls on the developer to actually use them honestly. No company trying to draw attention back to their app with advertisement notifications will willingly name a not
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Tesla's Robotaxi Dream is facing Reality(bloomberg.com)
6 points by remus 1y ago|1 comments

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