rpdillon

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by rpdillon 7mo ago
I'm glad you're making this point. It's something that only people trained in combat would know, and it's very non-intuitive. But it has to do with reaction times, how quickly the person wielding the gun can pull the tri
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
Well, Google is keeping the fees and the ID requirements for devs, while also vastly shrinking the population that will be willing to get permission to sideload from Google, decimating much of F-Droid's reach. They are basically attack
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
Buried under a lot of complaints about fairness, Kagi mentions they are still using Google search results, just without authorization. > Because direct licensing isn't available to us on compatible terms, we - like many others - use
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
That's Gen X. Google's founders were both born in 1973 and Notch was born in 1979. Zuckerberg was born in '84, so he's solidly a millennial.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
And the police were wrong, which is why they're the culpable ones.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Apple does tend to drag their feet a bit, though. If I recall correctly, it took two years for them to add cut and paste to iOS.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
You're overthinking it. Programming is a tricky skill and takes a long time to get good at. Lots of people aren't good at it. AI helps them program anyway, and allows them to sometimes produce useful programs. That's it. It&#
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
I'm surprised that as a principal engineer, you view your greatest skill set as your expertise in programming. While that is certainly an enormous asset, I have never met a principal engineer that hadn't also mastered how to work
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
This mirrors my personal list very closely. I don't mind "it turns out" or "to be honest", but "just" and "should" I feel are often used to manipulate someone into agreeing.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Opening sentences: > Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6— Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
There's no way to deploy a system like the one you're describing without being abused for authoritarian overreach. It's simply a matter of time, and once it is deployed for authoritarian overreach, the only way back will be p
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Some very dodgy wording here. > Because direct licensing isn’t available to us on compatible terms, we - like many others - use third-party API providers for SERP-style results (SERP meaning search engine results page). These providers s
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Weird, I switched to DDG years ago, I used !g for a couple of years, but I don't really ever use Google anymore. I don't seem to struggle to find things, so I wonder what's up. Maybe I'm just training myself to be OK wit
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Wow, TIL. Thanks for mentioning this. I ran across this as I was researching the background: > The "beige box" era was largely the result of strict German workplace ergonomics standards (specifically the TUV and DIN standards)
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Not really. Services are provided on terms acceptable to both parties. This isn't about what's legal, it's about the terms of the service agreement.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Local software is categorically different that hosted software. You're too heavily discounting the effort to maintain, deploy, and scale a service like Slack.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I played a little bit and I felt like it was the opposite of what I'd remembered. I do like that the inaccessible tiles are faded somewhat so that I don't inadvertently try to match them.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
We've already ran this experiment with Zulip and Mattermost. Slack still won.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
This is the key point. We've already run the experiment where the code is free and all you need to do is host it yourself and people still didn't opt to do that work. I don't see how AI changes the situation.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
I use default keybindings, FWIW. But I agree that my ability to shape Emacs into exactly the tool I want with lisp is the main draw for me.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
It's an extremely dangerous line to cross, and it should be avoided if at all possible. At the same time, when no other options are available, it's better to be armed than not. I hope you never have to learn this first-hand.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
There's always a deadline, otherwise there is no incentive to remediate.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
When I read selfie, I was thinking of one of those motion-based selfies where it's really a short video. And from the video, you can extract those measurements. I'm assuming it wasn't extracted from the passport photo, but ra
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
I know that everyone wants to give me legal advice. Lawyers don't care about legal advice from engineers. That's the crux of the point I'm trying to make.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Not at all true. I haven't yet witnessed armed resistance to ICE, but it's in the cards, if the government wants to push. Given the number of veterans and folks that actually have skill with guns in the civilian populace, and the
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
I'm talking about what happens in reality, not what the "serving size" is. Gobs of folks order a footlong at Subway and eat it for their meal. As for nitpicking on calories: the Subway site is incredibly tough to navigate. Ju
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Upvoted; I think this is a case where we are genuinely focusing on different aspects, and I see your point. My concern is that laws are often too performative. There's probably a lot to discuss there, but I suspect we largely agree.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
The point was that all the regulation on assault weapons doesn't have a meaningful effect. At best, you could reduce gun violence by 4%. I wouldn't over-rotate on the comparison to foreign body objects: the point is, if you rely p
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
The plan is not coherent. Some items to consider: Who is verifying the documents? If the names have to match, what about people who change their names? What documents should they present to prove that that's their real name? How will t
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Pew does what they can: > In 2023, the most recent year for which the FBI has published data, handguns were involved in 53% of the 13,529 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available. Rifles – the category

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