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by saghm 5mo ago
This framing ignores the fact that most people who commit crimes like the ones you mention are men. A man encountered in one of those situations alone is a lot more likely to be a threat, so I'm not sure why you'd expect that a wo
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by saghm 5mo ago
I definitely was not aware of this when I was younger, but after years of learning to be a better listener and learn about experiences outside my own, my perception is that there are unfortunately quite a lot of situations that most men wou
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by saghm 5mo ago
At the cost of a traffic violation though?
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by saghm 5mo ago
As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1958/
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Priority Pickups: Skip the line with prioritized matching > Early Access: Be among the first to experience Waymo in new cities, as we expand. > Waymo Premier costs $29.99 per month and will be initially offered to select riders i
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by saghm 5mo ago
I imagine that Uber can also be somewhat sketchy but with a different risk profile (getting into the car with a stranger, often a man, and needing to trust that they'll drive you to the right location), which means that self-driving ta
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by saghm 5mo ago
> since you can't tell what should be removed, or more importantly, what can be removed Isn't that what dependency detection does? Whenever I'm not sure if something can be removed, I just try to remove it, and if it would
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by saghm 5mo ago
> We'll lose support from you guys a year before Apple! If only Apple put a fraction of its resources towards maintaining something like homebrew (or paying the people who do), maybe the situation would be different.
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by saghm 5mo ago
If anything, the waste would have arguably been putting people to work on a feature that needed to get removed in the first place. If there's any post-mortem to be done, it's "why did this get released in the first place, and
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by saghm 5mo ago
There's a whole flock of aquatic poultry flapping about, but at least now it's duck-free! Too bad about the swan, goose, loon, egret, and heron though
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Because it wasn't about "engineers should write 1M LOC per month of product code" it was "we want to scale automated porting of code to safe languages so that 1 engineer managing 1M LOC of automated conversion can w
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by saghm 5mo ago
I can't help but wonder if the causation is backwards here and the millions of lines of slop had more to do with the Github struggles than the reverse
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by saghm 5mo ago
> all drivers natively support secondary/primary writes/reads and topological changes. Expanding on that a bit, mongo drivers even have a shared specification of the state machine for monitoring topology changes[1] and algorith
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're referring to, but apparently years ago there were exploits bundling JAR files into GIFs to sneakily have them executed by the Java browser plugin: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by saghm 5mo ago
Those aren't exclusive. The hydrogen in the Hindenberg was a problem even if a spark was needed to ignite it.
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by saghm 5mo ago
This might shock you, but there are more precise numbers than "none" and "some". In fact, some of the ones that aren't "none" are even larger than others!
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by saghm 5mo ago
AI isn't the source of the problem (as you point out, bad management is a preexisting problem), but it exacerbates it significantly. I think it's still worthwhile to call out a new factor that's making an existing problem muc
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by saghm 5mo ago
Humans can't write code without bugs either, especially in languages like the one Linux is written in. It's not a binary though, either in terms of how involved the human is in crafting the output and how many bugs are in the code
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by saghm 5mo ago
It sounds like lawyers are just as likely to use this stuff stupidly as anyone else
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by saghm 5mo ago
Cynically, so that tech companies can get their power usage subsidized by the local population through their higher energy bills.
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by saghm 5mo ago
> No matter what the problem is, the solution will involve some form of machine learning, inference, or both, with massively-parallel processing that is probably (and unfortunately) centralized to some extent. I think the point people ar
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by saghm 5mo ago
And I'm tired of the "tired of 'built in Rust'" arguments because it also shouldn't matter if someone happens to describe their project that you didn't have to go out of your way to talk about in a way tha
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by saghm 5mo ago
The demographics I'm part of have trouble taking seriously people who yell at kids who live two blocks away when someone from one block away wanders onto the yard the kids are playing in.
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Israel has been deporting its African "refugees" since 2021; you're insisting we need more of them. Jews have unique experience of being on the receiving end of weaponized migration. What do they know that you're no
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by saghm 5mo ago
I would need more details to understand what they mean by that
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by saghm 5mo ago
> history is, as always, not just repeating, but practically plagiarizing itself Every time in US history that there's been an influx of immigrants, there were people spouting essentially identical arguments to the ones they're
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by saghm 5mo ago
Even if that's the case, I feel like accurately knowing which regulations you're in compliance with and not is would be kind of important from a risk management perspective. From a "maximize profits" perspective (which I
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by saghm 5mo ago
You cited three of the most prominent counterexamples to the common meme about Google killing their products as evidence of them extinguishing things. I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily, but I don't think you've dem
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by saghm 5mo ago
So then enforce the rule on the receiver side: people in your jurisdiction should have the right to be free from spam, and if you want to serve customers there, you need to comply. I'm pretty sure companies aren't going to opt out
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Because the messages are about your relationship with The Times, you are receiving them regardless of whether you are opted in to receive marketing emails from The New York Times. I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. C

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