strofcon

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by strofcon 5y ago
That's a great point and clarification, thanks!
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by strofcon 5y ago
Words should have meaningful usages though, yes? I mean, we let "literally" become a contranym, and broke an awful lot of conversations and literatary comprehension, yea?
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by strofcon 5y ago
Are we really trying to claim that sales people should have the same level of knowledge as power-users / developers / engineers who build such things? Perhaps I'm too young, but I've literally never know any such a sales
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by strofcon 5y ago
I've never understood "don't judge the past by today's standards." If today's standards indicate that someone's past behavior was dick-ish, then the fact that the standards have shifted does NOT imply that
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by strofcon 5y ago
I mean, you can have a strong distaste for scalpers, but it doesn't make this any more reasonable a thing to do. Granted, buyers have every right to say "nah, I'm out", which IMO they absolutely should do. I don't p
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by strofcon 5y ago
It's a slight difference, sure, but not a meaningful one. If you buy the product, and are subsequently disallowed by the original seller to do what you please with it, then you don't own it and are merely leasing it - at least for
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by strofcon 5y ago
But... they didn't change their name on the form. They literally just said "I'm still me, but I want this other file now, please." All company data was, in OPs scenario, made public to any and all authenticated users.
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by strofcon 5y ago
Except that's not at all what they did - they simply accessed files that had been made public by the service provider . To be able to login as BoBibbidyFooBar, and subsequently access ANY company's info in the system without cha
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by strofcon 5y ago
I mean, we can split hairs over the words to use, but ultimately "immoral and unethical things are being done by big companies that hold all your stuff". The sentiment is the same. What I'm getting at is that the things Googl
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by strofcon 5y ago
I agree we should do so! That said, we should discourage behavior that is absolutely guaranteed to be abusive in the future. We can call it speculation - that doesn't mean it's wrong. Power is the play, and companies will always b
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by strofcon 5y ago
And Google's entire Code of Conduct used to be "Don't Be Evil". Things change. Money drives all decisions, at all levels above the visceral. Unfortunately, historical precedent for any given business entity provides ab
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by strofcon 5y ago
Your whatboutism is profoundly unhelpful here. Yes, other companies are doing bad things, and they should be stopped. Doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean that Apple should be allowed to do something even worse.
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by strofcon 5y ago
Naysaying != skepticism.
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by strofcon 5y ago
I agree for the "hard" needs that are, quite literally, as universal as can be imagined. Sex, however, is not one of those. The very existence of asexual individuals who live out a long and happy life is a testament to this. There
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by strofcon 5y ago
"You can’t just shame tens of thousands of men into accepting a substandard life." I would challenge the "substandard life" assertion, as it's a framing issue. The biological need for sex is indeed great, I won&#x27
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by strofcon 5y ago
This seems an odd migration, as they're largely unrelated, yes?
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by strofcon 5y ago
Seems they're playing fast and loose with the word "credibility".
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by strofcon 6y ago
Very much this. Not to mention, "sorry, <XYZ> Health Insurance won't cover you because you show a slight genetic predisposition toward fingernail cancer. Good luck."
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by strofcon 6y ago
>> In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time towards making free shit for you. >That does not mean anyone is under an obligation to like i
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by strofcon 6y ago
Heh, that's how I took it too, glad I wasn't alone. :-)
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by strofcon 6y ago
Except that actual pandemics are demonstrable, predictable, and based in known science, yes?
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by strofcon 6y ago
By the abstract, it seems that the very same superintelligence we'd want to contain would itself be "something theoretically (and practically) infeasible." No?
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by strofcon 6y ago
I think they're using the "3P" version of "pivot", as in "Pause, Pivot, or Persevere". Pivot definitely seems to soft a word to describe what is, generally, exactly what you said - a full startover. At lea
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by strofcon 6y ago
This is a weird one for me... It's odd that we're proxying competency by way of intent. Would it make more sense to consider the actual actions of individuals? If I work on a problem with the intention to solve it, I've done
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by strofcon 6y ago
It seems worth noting that there's still been no mention of the ethics of building the pyramids, nor the rationality of doing so, nor the implications for the future, etc. I think that's more the point of the blog post.
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by strofcon 6y ago
Terribly true,and a great argument as to our need for philosophers in all eras. :-)
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by strofcon 6y ago
Fair points. I think it's worth noting though that while bottom-up invention creates the horse-drawn plow, philosophy is what attempts to answer the question of its rationality, morality, etc. I don't think the two have to be so d
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by strofcon 6y ago
"To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your ideas have to be both correct and novel. You can't publish papers saying things other people already know. You need to say things no one els
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by strofcon 6y ago
I'm hopeful that with it effectively being a KV store pointed at a "simple" object store (S3, GCS, etc), it will be dramatically simpler to manage than Jaeger, and much more performant. Backing Jaeger with Elasticsearch or Ca
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by strofcon 6y ago
Good question! Depends on the instrumentation libraries for sure, but in our Go services we've been using Jaeger protocol for our traces, and "sampling" at 100%, with negligible impact to request / response times. We spi

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