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by snorkel 4y ago
Agree. Try looking up travel passport renewal on Google: The first entire page of search results are ads and SEO scammers that charge high fees to fill in a passport application form all disguised as government affiliated services. The actu
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by snorkel 4y ago
I’m also wondering how others are able get long form responses from chatgpt > 100 lines. The “please continue” prompt often messes up the output and isn’t a clean continuation. I suppose I ought to ask chatgpt …
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by snorkel 4y ago
… and yet it’s extremely misleading for ChatGPT to guessing urls that don’t exist when asked for references! I had the same happen when asking it a series of questions about laws and policies: it cited a policy I hadn’t heard of, so I aske
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by snorkel 4y ago
Well put. Lawyers are like referees to ensure a legal contest followed the rules. Everyone wants guilty villains to end up in jail, but if the villain is tried in a biased and unruly proceeding then the villain’s sentence can be overturned.
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by snorkel 4y ago
They’re called balloons. Just say balloons. Why is nobody saying balloons?
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by snorkel 4y ago
ASP! bah! Perl was all we needed!! Kids these days with the Reacts and Angulars messing up a perfectly fine cyber space that wasn’t broken! “HTML over the wire” hah! Where did all the Netscape buttons go?
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by snorkel 4y ago
ChatGPT is cool and all, but this breathless hype is starting to feel like “blockchain will take over everything” hype from a few years back. Shiny new toy hype.
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by snorkel 4y ago
That outage was limited to Route 53 DNS record editing and not DNS lookups.
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by snorkel 4y ago
Cpp offers thread safety but rust insists on it.
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by snorkel 4y ago
It’s powerful, compact, fast, solid, and reliable … and unlike the majority of other database engines, it doesn’t include an opinionated client/server front end welded onto it
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by snorkel 4y ago
This is the 21st-century version of writing 8008135 on a digital led calculator
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by snorkel 4y ago
… and the “improve butt” macro.
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by snorkel 4y ago
Partly IT but “network” to them means the entire operation including equipment, personnel, passengers, and cargo. Every flight requires a full legal rested crew, ground operations staff, etc. Because so many crews are in the wrong city at t
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by snorkel 4y ago
Sounds like the mania over Pokemon flashing induced seizures
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by snorkel 4y ago
If we were to modernize that "Health: Excellent (for sitting in front of a screen all day)"
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by snorkel 4y ago
10 years is OK, as long as there’s career progression, and the more recent roles have accomplishments that align directly to the new role that’s being applied for. Example: a 10 year tenure that began as a sys admin and grew into an AI dire
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by snorkel 4y ago
Based on the price card posted on the website, assuming there’s 4000 active paying customers each paying $300/month, that gets you to $14M/year
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by snorkel 4y ago
This has some obvious rough edges but still it's a harbinger of things to come. Seems this was trained on recordings of Jobs' on-stage voice rather than his casual conversation voice. The rough edges in this will be smoothed out o
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by snorkel 4y ago
Buying your own fleet of dedicated servers seems like a smart move in the short term, but then five years from now you’ll get someone on the team insisting that they need the latest greatest GPU to run their jobs. Cloud providers give you t
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by snorkel 4y ago
I hate being obligated to file tax returns every year. Why are we all obligated to do extra accounting and legal research work every year just to settle a tax bill? It’d make more sense to only file a return if you disagree with whatever am
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by snorkel 4y ago
The microwave was relatively new back then, but it was so useful that everyone was willing to save up for one. Sewing machines and Atari 800 … not so much. Atari 2600 was worth the expense except for Pac Man and E.T. This was some years bef
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by snorkel 4y ago
(Which is also the title of a great documentary on Atari on Amazon Prime video)
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by snorkel 4y ago
Mobile games today seem to have Atari’s “easy to learn, difficult to master” design philosophy.
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by snorkel 4y ago
When I first learned OOP from the dry examples like Shape is the base class of Circle and Triangle, and so on … I just didn’t appreciate why that was much better than the flat imperative style of plain old C and retreated back to the comfor
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by snorkel 4y ago
It’s good advice to not only learn about the tools you’re told to use but also learn about the tools that many others are using. Try to be full-stack versatile rather than just really good at one tool in the much larger process.
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by snorkel 4y ago
This! There’s no public safety need for licensing barbers, florists, and other non-critical trades. In these situations it’s all about raising barriers of entry to limit competition.
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by snorkel 4y ago
Correct, a database feature can't prevent errant developers from posting customer credit card numbers on Twitter either, but compliance auditors won't accept "We don't bother encrypting data because it's pointless!&
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by snorkel 4y ago
Glad it has graphics! Always the best part of BASIC
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by snorkel 4y ago
This seems more applicable for the SaaS hosting model where the database service is managed by a 3rd party. So the use case is "I trust your SaaS service is compliant with my legal obligations to protect my customer data, but it'd
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by snorkel 4y ago
Correct. It's not homomorphic encryption, but rather more like TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) except that MongoDB service isn't decrypting the data. This is essentially client-side encryption (at the driver) and without server-

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