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by shadowgovt 5mo ago
The problem is, unfortunately, those data lakes are in the category "safe until they aren't." Germany has some of the most restrictive data collection laws in the European sphere, for example, because they know that the court
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
The only silver lining I can see in this is that if they replace their existing tooling with AI integration, we might actually get search and confluence that works. I've lost count of how many times I search for a keyword and get no re
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
I soft of feel like every five years someone comes along and tries to re-invent cancellable threads and immediately arrives back at the same conclusion: the problem of what it means to "cancel" a thread is so domain-specific that
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
Between Brexit and the aging population, I don't think joining the rest of the world in poisoning the atmosphere for the future faster is going to improve the UK's situation. There are much, much bigger fish to fry than energy pol
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
Or be a lot uglier. See: Microsoft replacing its own API surfaces with binary-compatible representations to workaround companies like Adobe adding perf improvements like bypassing the kernel-provided kernel object constructors because it sa
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
No official reason given, so all the tech press is basically speculating (if someone finds a source that does a teardown, please share; I can't seem to locate one). I think my favorite piece of speculation is that it reflects an antici
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
General question because I'm ignorant of UK internal politics: are the Isles' energy prices just generally higher? There aren't any large sources of fossil fuels or natural gas that aren't offshore, right? And the coal
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
The terrorists that struck the World Trade Center targeted a building too. If we aren't going to have a military doctrine that cares about who's in the building, we will be treated the same by our enemies. I don't think we wa
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by shadowgovt 6mo ago
And fundamentally, this is aUS doctrine issue. The US is willing to strike targets in foreign soul with no boots-on-the-ground confirmation of target nature. It's how the Obama administration drone-struck a wedding before this and how
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
It's always seemed fundamentally flawed to me that the exchange laws are designed to prevent people benefitting from insider information but then the entire purpose of the stock exchange is to make money by leveraging information asymm
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Is it silly? Yes. But still... I am in love with the people who are obsessed with minutae. The world ultimately runs on prime who care. Thise obsessed with patterns are first to notice when they break. Sometimes, that matters. The first one
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
For what it's worth, the wall of text is extremely helpful. I, for one, learn mostly by text and whether or not an LLM generated this, the output is true it is well written and easy to follow. So long as it's also true I'm sa
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Using xcode does require paying Apple, unless you've gotten your hands on a free copy of the OS and/or free Apple hardware somehow.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Google still doesn't make you pay s dollar to write an app on their architecture (only to have it hosted in their store).
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
No because those cost more to maintain than the digital ones. Nobody is restoring the budget that got cut because the meters got cheaper.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
> Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution. Those groups of people are Google's paying customers. Google will, of course, defer to the ones who nee
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
So can it be breached by turning off networking and setting the date forward a couple days?
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Perhaps interesting here is that some of the things he said were definitely not defensible via "truth is an affirmative defense." But it's ultimately up to the jury, and they can also find him innocent because a reasonable pe
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
We are, of course, not privy to the jury's reasoning unless they choose to divulge it. Which is unfortunate, because we may never know if they concluded "Given who you've demonstrated yourself to be, your wife is justified in
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
This is a key insight. Most "rational actor" theories of human behavior actually only work in the large (where the average can dominate outlier behavior) and in systems where rational action is a positive feedback loop ("a fo
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
They are, but unlike fossil fuels, those dependencies go down over time (modulo the utility growth that makes demand for everything go up, of course). If you buy fossil fuel from a country that may not be an ally forever, your demand remain
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
One of the more interesting parts of the whole ordeal was officers getting on the witness stand and declaring that the lyrics that insinuated he had had sex with their wife were deeply traumatizing. People keep throwing around 'cuck&#x
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
> What more do you want? A solution that works, honestly. Because phone scams are so abundant now that people are ceasing to use phones.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
We do, in practice, impose all manner of limitation on free speech while still maintaining the sanctity of that right. Lying in a professional capacity is fraud and punishable even though it's "just words." Being wrong as an
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
I think we've reached a point where we're really turning our heads and squinting away from reality if we think that computing is a hobby that no longer poses danger to others. A person using their own machine can hack all manner o
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Code is speech, but installing an OS someone else wrote on hardware you own is not code. I think you're making a good argument for why the regulation should be at the network-connect level and not the OS-account level, though, if the r
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Conversely, you're an American and you want to change this, feel free to propose and pass an amendment that makes regulation of OS as a product the concern of the federal government, as opposed to (as per the 10th Amendment) a state go
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
You have made some fascinating assumptions about the person you are addressing. I recommend refraining from that in the future and instead asking why a fellow American takes a position other than the one you hold. Two guys built a website t
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
... which is a step in the money laundering process, so of course it would.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
"Software engineering" is one of the few large practices with 'engineering' in its name that has no mechanism for license granting and revocation for violation of professional standard. That's not what is happenin

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