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by tobyjsullivan 2y ago
They seem to admit as much in Table 1 which indicates this model is not capable of "clean topology". Somewhat annoyingly, they do not discuss topology anywhere else in the paper (at least, I could not find the word "topology&
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by tobyjsullivan 2y ago
> In May, two judges on the High Court said he could have a full hearing on whether he would be discriminated against in the U.S. because he is a foreign national. A hearing on the issue of Assange's free speech rights had been sche
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by tobyjsullivan 2y ago
As written, yes. I suppose I meant there’s no correlation in one direction. Perhaps I should have avoided a technically-specific term such as “correlation”. It seems inappropriate for an anecdotal observation.
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by tobyjsullivan 2y ago
Not really a story but this is what I've learned having made this move more than once: - There's an important difference between being earning less and being paid unfairly. It's easy to work for less as long as it's enou
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by tobyjsullivan 2y ago
I’d be curious to hear an anecdote about a single software patent that benefited society at large. For example, I agree it would be very interesting and arguably valuable to have a public document describing how Amazon built S3. Unfortunate
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
I thought I read it in the article but I may have unconsciously extrapolated from and/or misread this part: “I came across this wonderful analysis by Positive Security[0] who focused on urlscan.io and used canary tokens to detect poten
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
The suggestion (in both the article and the parent) is that the platforms themselves are submitting URLs. For example, if I send a link in Discord[0] DM, it might show the recipient a message like “warning: this link is malicious”. How does
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Oh, thanks. OSI has been around much longer than I expected. This post[0] dives into who coined the term (spoiler: it predates OSI by a long, long time), but it’s reasonable that OSI popularized it alongside their specific definition. [0]
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
OSI seem like a privately organized special interest group. What authority do they have to define the term “open source”?
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
I don’t know about California but that’s legal where I live. Vehicles on opposite sides of a 4-way stop can enter simultaneously if both are going straight.
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
People should find company cultures that match their work styles. That's the best way to allow people with similar work styles to work together. There can never be one true corporate policy to rule them all. That said, I agree with mos
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
It feels like I can’t read a comment thread, Reddit post, etc. anymore without someone accusing someone else of posting ChatGPT content. The accusations are almost always baseless in my limited experience. Reading this, I can’t help but w
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
I struggle to imagine a scenario where employees would unionize despite already feeling like they are treated fairly. The union/employer relationship is inherently hostile. The whole idea is that unionized employees can threaten produc
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Where are you setting the bar for something to be commonly accessible? Only about 60% of the world’s population has reliable access to clean drinking water. 18% of people own a car. Compared to those numbers, 20% of people flying seems down
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
No doubt it’s a loss leader to some degree but, in practice, very, very few customers will have sustained request rates of 60 requests per minute. Their actual usage averaged across all users will be a tiny fraction of that. For users that
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
You’re thinking of a time when only “computer geeks” could install and run the software of their choice. When every office had fleets of IT admins to install the pre-approved applications people needed for their day-to-day. Back then, learn
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
If there’s a shortage of developers who understand the language, then the team cannot properly understand the application (as per TFA). If nobody can understand the application, it cannot be modified. If an application cannot be modified, i
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
I’d be curious to know how we’re defining “overpaying” here. These companies have effectively accrued 50+ years of technical debt (they could have migrated off COBOL decades ago). Meanwhile, based on my limited experience with these industr
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Canva is not a diagraming tool. It’s a visual design tool with a very different user base. Their asset library is massive with millions, maybe tens of millions, of images including both photos and vector graphics. One of the more annoying p
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
If memory serves correctly, signing certificates are issued to developers and signing is done locally on the build machine. Apple cannot deny signing on a per-app basis. They could revoke a developer’s certificate perhaps, but that’s someth
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
You may be seeing the ads but you’re likely still blocking the tracking/targeting. Disable targeted advertising on any platform that allows it and you’ll see the lowest form of generic click bait junk ads. Twitter used to allow this an
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Grocery stores sell shelf space, particularly prime positioning, and that’s a practice that predates the internet. Add to that the fact that most websites sell ad space as a primary or secondary revenue generator. Yes, Amazon is a middleman
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Imagine what the exact same FTC would be saying if Amazon exerted control over which ads were displayed based on what converted to more product sales (and thus revenue for Amazon). Advocating for a less equal ads marketplace seems like such
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
The most valuable step in learning git is having the right mental model: it's all graphs. This tool gets shared a lot and it feels appropriate here. It visualizes the underlying git model and the effects of various commands. https:&#x
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
> A VC which is a serial idiot will eventually run out of money. This is not really true as VCs are not the sources of the money they invest. VCs raise money from their backers and there really is a (virtually) infinite amount of money a
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Not sure how relevant that is. Anyone who does anything impressive will always be dependent on their support network. It is unfortunate that the most driven, intelligent person won't accomplish much if they don't have the network.
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
That's exactly what people said about IE over 20 years ago. History has proven this reasoning untrue. Web isn't going anywhere. If there's an opportunity to build something 10x better than Chrome, it'll be shipped.
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
This looks fantastic for a dedicated code/terminal monitor (or spreadsheets). The scroll refresh rate could be a bit disorienting for mouse-scrolling but would be a non-issue for keyboard-based scroll such as in vim.
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
Seems fixable at the standards level. The spec could define `loading="lazy"` as a (strong) hint for the client, but not a rule. Meanwhile, clients should allow disabling lazy loading. (The same way a valid client can disable Javas
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by tobyjsullivan 3y ago
I'm of quite the opposite opinion. Within reason (importantly), I believe any public service, which is also managed by an anonymous, decentralized community, ought to be under test constantly and by anyone. What's the alternative,

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