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by sethaurus 3y ago
The connection is about the different incentives between a tech company and its users — and the way a company will try to exert control against the users’ interests.
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by sethaurus 3y ago
The JVM has amazing, mature tooling, and a bunch of existing compile-to languages. If the goal is to do a productive exploration with some toys, that’s a good place to start.
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by sethaurus 3y ago
Tom7 our beloved. How might we make this creator publish more videos? Money? Is it money? Can we give him money somehow?
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by sethaurus 3y ago
What does "round-filed" mean?
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by sethaurus 3y ago
A hand-drawn graph can be a great tool for reasoning, because it only depicts the features we choose — everything else is imprecise, and it looks imprecise. For me, that's actually a better way of building a visual intuition for how
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by sethaurus 3y ago
What is a "balloon grab" in this context?
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by sethaurus 4y ago
In standard Australian English, this is a perfect rhyme.
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by sethaurus 4y ago
> I used to agree until I saw what has happened to biology in the last few years. I'm missing the context here — could you expand on what's happened to biology?
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by sethaurus 4y ago
At some point, we might need to accept that "mock" has become a generalised term which refers to many kinds of test-doubles. If it's being taught that way in universities and embodied that way in tooling, then the term has a
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by sethaurus 4y ago
I'm not surprised that google has cooks as employees — but it's surprising to know they were hiring a cook when they had at most 52 other employees!
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by sethaurus 4y ago
Sure, the web will one day die — and it will certainly change a lot before that day! But even so, would you stake a current native UI toolkit to last longer, and provide more value, before that day? There are good reasons to write truly nat
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by sethaurus 4y ago
With current models, it's often possible to exfiltrate the special token by asking the AI to repeat back its own input — and perhaps asking it to encode or paraphrase the input in a particular way, so as not to be stripped. This may ju
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by sethaurus 4y ago
I can't tell what's wrong with that — could you elaborate?
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by sethaurus 4y ago
> eh, electron. TFA doesn't seem to refer to electron at all. What's the connection here?
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by sethaurus 4y ago
Embeddable plugin systems are absolutely a goal! See this part of the blog post: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-1-0-fast-safe...
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by sethaurus 4y ago
Actually, the correct plural is "Dunnings-Kruger".
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by sethaurus 4y ago
> Honestly, Markdown needs to be killed with prejudice. So much wasted time and effort getting it to do what people need it to do. It seems to work pretty well as a human-editable format for rich text. Is there a different format you&#x2
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by sethaurus 4y ago
It would be great to see this technique applied to scenes which look much different in IR than the equivalent visible-spectrum monochrome. I'm thinking indoors, people wearing sunscreen etc. The results likely wouldn't resemble th
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by sethaurus 4y ago
Yes — and this possibility has been factored by the market into that $42 price. It's among the reasons why the stock isn't trading significantly lower.
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by sethaurus 5y ago
The concern is about phishing via URL spoofing. For example, a user might see a URL like `google.com@mycoolphishingsite.se` and believe that "google.com" is the domain. The warning is intended to point out that "mycoolphishin
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by sethaurus 5y ago
Lots of different things live on the Ethereum blockchain: there's ETH itself, which we might call "raw money", and then there are abstract tokens (of both the fungible and non-fungible sort). To make a programming analogy,
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by sethaurus 5y ago
Perhaps this is self-delusion on my part, but I've had no trouble integrating materialism/atheism with what you're describing — that kind of psychedelic panpsychism. They don't feel like competing claims.
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by sethaurus 5y ago
Let's focus on understanding and changing the policy rather than punishing individuals. Given IBM's large presence in the open source world, this is either a misunderstanding or a major policy problem.
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by sethaurus 5y ago
That's a matter for interpretation. Including the internal email message in the commit might not be received favourably by IBM.
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by sethaurus 6y ago
Could you expand on the distinction between "efficient" and "performant"? Sounds interesting.
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by sethaurus 6y ago
It’s been received wisdom until now that Google penalizes websites which behave differently when scraped by the Googlebot. Is that no longer the case?
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by sethaurus 6y ago
Could you elaborate on this? Are you saying that being unconcerned about how one appears to others is a sociopathic trait? Which aspect of the GP would make someone a "loser"?
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by sethaurus 6y ago
> "Google decided to arbitrarily ban a specific account among billions in order to target one of their employees." Nobody is claiming that. Malice is not the issue here; the issue is the effect of having an account banned witho
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by sethaurus 6y ago
> Shoot, they even rolled back some big privacy change in iOS 14 because Facebook complained about it. I must have missed that news — could you share a link?
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by sethaurus 6y ago
What would be your desired outcome from this?

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