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Georgia voter cancellation website gave out PII needed to cancel registration(apnews.com)
2 points by robmccoll 2y ago|0 comments
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by robmccoll 2y ago
If you use https://dexie.org/ on top of IndexDB, you can turn it into a fairly useful document store with secondary indices, an improved query building interface, and reactive queries. It's doing exactly what you would
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by robmccoll 2y ago
You wouldn't run this in the browser. On the frontend, this would be useful for Electron apps (which run an embedded Chromium for the UI and a local node server for business logic and interfacing with the operating system) on MacOS. On
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by robmccoll 2y ago
It's not fully homomorphic encryption. The compute is happening in the plain on the other side, and given the scale of models they are running, it's not likely that all of the data involved in a computation is happening inside a s
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by robmccoll 2y ago
That's becoming less the case. As Apple's advertising and services revenue grows and hardware sales slow, they have increasing incentive to mine your data the same as any company does. They already use quite a bit data on the loca
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by robmccoll 2y ago
This is it to me. The argument that we are different because we have a current state that includes more inputs and other kinds of inputs than (current model state + context) seems thin. You could just expand context to include current physi
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Yeah, it's half of that. Which oddly, makes it too slow.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
You could split the key a few ways if you don't want to trust that one of your stores won't be compromised https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing
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by robmccoll 3y ago
The closest setup off the top of my head might be something like meteor.js on top of mongo DB.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
That's the thing that would prevent me from buying a Vision Pro down the line. It's going to be an iOS-like walled garden experience. If it could run arbitrary macOS apps on device, it would be infinitely more useful (but probably
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Wouldn't you typically want to run that output through an RC (low pass resistor-capacitor) filter to average out the voltage and eliminate high frequency PWM noise? Is that built into the pico?
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by robmccoll 3y ago
I recently spent a few days hacking flow-based layouts and pages into a flex-box-based layout system, and I can confirm that layout and formatting is hard. Figuring out how and when to shift elements to the next page, especially when you ha
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by robmccoll 3y ago
I have terrible news about systems built on private health insurance (USA): it will still take 666 days to see a specialist, and you will need a referral from your PCP who may also decide they want to see you in person first. This may be it
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by robmccoll 3y ago
I just want a language where await is the default behavior and I have to specify when I want to capture a future as a value and do something with it later. Most of the time I want an emulation of a synchronous thread of execution even if it
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Couldn't you say that about any American news source, but maybe swap the three hyphenated last names for a brunette white man and a blonde white woman or something? That's just the state of our national conversation. Also this art
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by robmccoll 3y ago
"any format" seems to be pretty limited. Epoch time is unsupported.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
By that do you mean exposing a non-uniform memory hierarchy as separate addressable spaces (but with coherent views from each hardware thread) or something like thread-local scratch pads? Either way, C is equipped ok for that - at least as
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Kotlin compiles to the native architecture on non-JVM targets. It works just as well as using Swift on non-Apple targets, that is to say it's a bit of a pain development-wise but runs fine once you have your tool chain and interop code
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by robmccoll 3y ago
* Technically Apple forked WebKit from KHTML, but it's been 20 years and 10s of millions of lines of code since then. Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve created LLVM at UIUC. Chris was later hired by Apple who supported its development.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
I didn't create the tool, so I can't claim to know the author's intentions. To me, this would be very useful in a variety of circumstances: - the 15 minute video containing 3 minutes of useful information - tutorials that you
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by robmccoll 3y ago
I'd like clarification of whether politics is meant to cover matters of policy or strictly partisan politics and news about the lives of political figures. Surely regulatory policy with regards to technology, communications infrastruct
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Yes! I do the same. I serve my web applications from the same statically compiled service that serves the backend API. In CI, I run an npm build process then embed the output. Makes running a local test or demo instance a snap.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Someone should tell that to our government. Meanwhile we've (USA) been taking spending shortcuts and borrowing against our future to enable GDP growth over the same time period with no return in sight.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
One reason, but to be fair MBA types can have the same lack of empathy. Their interactions can turn into (actually kind one of the things the author complains about) treating people purely as capital and relationships as means to financial
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Have a friend that ran this. He said it was a blast - watching the sunrise, the time up in the mountains, and coming down out of them especially.
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by robmccoll 3y ago
I would say the average ultra runner is probably less hard on their body overall compared to someone training for / regularly running fast marathons (~3 hour and below). Both are probably running a lot of base milage at an easy pace. M
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Not OP, but they said that you pick up performance, not specifically in reading. The performance you gain is larger aggregate write throughput (and read generally - although reads that require spreading queries across shards and aggregating
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by robmccoll 3y ago
Good question - and one that tells me something. You're familiar with modern front-end development and that's something we can dig into. Why would you want to avoid full page refresh? When would I use a SPA versus more traditional
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by robmccoll 4y ago
The best interview question I've ever heard: Someone is sitting shopping online with their cursor hovering over "Add to Cart". From the moment they physically click on it to the moment the page refreshes, tell me everything y
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by robmccoll 4y ago
What I think a lot of people fail to consider (or are afraid to consider?) is the likelihood that we too are stochastic parrots.

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