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by theamk 1y ago
No driver is going to be smoking in Waymo car. (And if a passenger smokes, they'll be charged $100) I assume there are also industrial-strength cleaners during the downtime/refueling.
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by theamk 1y ago
Last Lyft I was in, the driver had some sort on incense burning. He had window open, but this still made me feel sick. Can't wait for Waymos to appear in my area.
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by theamk 1y ago
.. and if it does not have remote ID, in the future it might be shot on sight by an automatic system.
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by theamk 1y ago
I hope not, I love knowing when the bus comes, as well as being able to walk in the random direction in the unfamiliar location without worrying about being lost. Being able to point to a tree (or a flower) and knowing what is its name is a
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by theamk 1y ago
Been there, done that. Boring time in subway is totally not worth it, if you want to relax, take a walk, ideally next to the river. As for reading a book or a magazine - this only works for the most common topics. The internet brought up si
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by theamk 1y ago
Well, you gotta draw the line somewhere, right? You can ssh into all sort of weird places, like native windows machines, or routers which expose their own shell, and you cannot expect them to be as usable as the regular ones. The systems wi
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by theamk 1y ago
Don't see anything "tough" here. At least in academia, if PI takes credit for student's work and does not list them as co-author, it's considered widely unethical. The rules there are simple - someone contributed to
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by theamk 1y ago
In context of writing text, keyboard and text editor are inanimate tools because they cannot introduce text user did not come up with. Spellcheck and autocorrect can come up with new words, and so is often anthropomorphized, it's not 1
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by theamk 1y ago
But if you want a command-line option for hook, what are the alternatives? Force user to always create a wrapper script? that's just extra annoyance and if user is bad at quoting, they'll have the same problems with a script Disab
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by theamk 1y ago
So IMHO an right thing is to add "AI rewritten" label to your blog. hm.. I wonder where this kind of label should live? For a personal blog, putting it on every post seems redundant, as if author uses it, it's likely they use
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by theamk 1y ago
Nuance and complexity are a thing, but many of the GP's examples should be clearly AI labeled... > What if they give the AI a very detailed outline, constantly ask for rewrites and are ruthless in removing any facts they're not
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by theamk 1y ago
My answer is clear "yes" to most of those. Yes, machine translations are AI-generated content - I read foreign-language news sites which sometimes has machine translation articles and the quality stands out and not in a good way.
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by theamk 1y ago
Note that at least in python, you can use "shlex.quote" instead - it's in stdlib and does not need any extra tools. >>> import subprocess >>> import shlex >>> subprocess.run(['ssh
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by theamk 1y ago
parse commands from config file? command-line arguments for hooks? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239036
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by theamk 1y ago
I think "non trivial" and "slowly going insane" parts only happen if you don't have right tools, or not using POSIX-compatable system. In python you have "shlex.quote" and "shlex.join". In bash,
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by theamk 1y ago
I dunno, "mostly" normally means some large fraction, maybe 50% or 90% depending on the person.. Given that executing commands by itself is neither a bug nor a security vulnerability (those only occur from bad/lack-of quotin
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by theamk 1y ago
The idea is you have some 3rd-party app, which might accept a parameter and pass it to popen as-is, something like "--data-handler=command" In this case, current "popen" semantics - a single shell command - works pretty
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by theamk 1y ago
Not a very coherent article. .. is author's problem privacy or security? If it's privacy, why offer DNS-over-TLS as an alternative? It has exactly the same privacy properties. If it's security, then tl/dr and first secti
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by theamk 1y ago
Abstractions are not free either, so if you are creating this "standardized interface", the complexity price you pay is better be worth it. Often it's less effort to lean in and use all features of the service than to limit y
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by theamk 1y ago
That's just called "over time, some products become worse and more expensive" Every commercial company is free to charge whatever they want, it's not rent-seeking (unless there is a monopoly, but your argument is applies
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by theamk 1y ago
Unless you mean copyright / trade-secrets specifically, then IP laws don't really help SaaS that much. For example take Google Workspace - email, calendar, docs. Google has no particular patents for those, and I've never hear
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by theamk 1y ago
Most SaaS contribute to economic productivity though. I see the uptime of local services that our IT maintains, let's just say it's not good. By paying a monthly fee for Slack, we get a working communications system which much bet
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by theamk 1y ago
Until malware (viruses back then) came and data got lost. Until hard drive died on that server and turns out backups were broken for the last 5 years. Until someone tried to fix some (real or perceived) problem with the server and it sudden
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by theamk 1y ago
If this happens, I imagine some events would get "anonymous mode", where you don't get to go on-stage, but never have to tell anyone your name either. And major sport teams wanting to qualify a new player would have secret ra
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by theamk 1y ago
Any system which uses encodings, including Windows and Linux in non-utf8 locale.
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by theamk 1y ago
Yeah, the open-sourcing process seemed to have destroyed all documentation. There are still 3-rd party sites with copy of the docs, like https://docs.comment.workcanvas.com/ (full of dead links), but it seems the main site
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by theamk 1y ago
> The customer logs in to the billing interface ( which remains active for allowing users to update their CC in case of problems), he adds in his CC again AND pays the last invoice again. Then the next day he does a second chargeback. So
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by theamk 1y ago
There is always a need for very good engineers, and you never know when one will come up. As other posters said, if you get a bad hire (or even mediocre hire), it might be total negative - both because of negative contributions, but also be
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by theamk 1y ago
Lots (all?) old devices have input fuses, and often those are right next to the plug. So most of the mistakes will cause this fuse to blow (unless you recklessly short it, or drop a screwdriver in the unlucky spot) That said, even something
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by theamk 1y ago
Some places do run on 2x overhead, which means if company is paying $100/hour, that intern is taking $68k/year... Pretty normal in a lot of places.

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