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by tolmasky 2y ago
I think this is actually the security researcher's fault. If you read the small print, this kernel bug doesn't meet the Bug Bounty Qualification Criteria of being on an OS that Apple actually gives a shit about.
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by tolmasky 2y ago
There is also a secondary effect where more complex systems generate a bunch of surrounding materials: tutorials, videos, etc. It also creates job security for the people who learn it, as they have a necessary skill and responsibility in th
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by tolmasky 2y ago
I think this is a pretty clear misrepresentation. The entire point of those forum posts is that software engineers are angry at managers promising timelines that aren't connected to reality: they want the unpredictability of the task t
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by tolmasky 3y ago
"We couldn't figure out how to make a bunch of people buy this ugly thing unless they were already neck-deep in the ecosystem. For three years we tried to make it legitimately useful in its own right! Or at least somewhat attracti
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Is there a good explanation of u substitution (or any other integral stuff that makes use of the denominator) using non-Liebnitz notation? Is it just that ∂1 is actually ∂/∂1, and thus you can begin using ∂1 the way you would have used
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by tolmasky 3y ago
This is worse than my 365 month calendar since it still has that ugly 5-day “year end”. In my calendar, every month is exactly one day long, no exceptions. Leap years simply add an extra month.
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Perhaps the AGI correctly reasoned that the best (or easiest?) initial strike on humanity was to distract them with a never-ending story about OpenAI leadership that goes back and forth every day. Who needs nuclear codes when simply turning
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by tolmasky 3y ago
How is it different than someone making a funny video where they impersonate David Attenborough? Those aren’t generally considered disrespectful, right? Like, I get the potential scale is different. But this is some joke video, not someone
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Can someone with an API key try making a rectangle labeled "URL", and a bigger rectangle underneath it, and then see if it is smart enough to make a simple browser out of that?
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by tolmasky 3y ago
I can't tell if people who champion web components don't understand why the React model took off, or purposefully pretend to not know why since web components don't really solve most of the things people using React care abou
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by tolmasky 3y ago
These are great. It's unfortunate that if there's any minor bugs there's no way to really keep in sync though, for example the security issue mentioned in another comment in these comments. It would be cool if these examples
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by tolmasky 3y ago
The entire post is written in a “had they done this” format, and contrasted to things like charging for Twitter Blue. Clearly this is meant as “why didn’t they do this instead,” not “this is what they should do now.”
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by tolmasky 3y ago
It doesn’t have to do that, this is a way to get additional revenue. One of my points listed here is specifically that it is fully orthogonal to all existing revenue streams. My suggestion was not charge for edits and remove ads.
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by tolmasky 3y ago
The monetization scheme for Twitter seemed so obvious to me — just charge to edit tweets. Something like $1 for a “5 edit bundle”. I would have easily probably ended up spending more than $8/mo with that. Beyond being just plain bad id
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by tolmasky 3y ago
And yet Siri on it remains just as useful.
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by tolmasky 3y ago
If you take the consequentialist point of view ("The suffering you save must exceed the suffering you inflict"), then isn't this trivially ruled out by his own admission that "What’s clear is that when rulers enforce fam
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by tolmasky 3y ago
On one of my computers Xcode always seems to download... twice. I can't for the life of me figure out whether its doing some sort of "serial update" where if I miss a version in-between, it first downloads and installs that v
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by tolmasky 3y ago
The page suggests using Jitsi instead ( https://meet.jit.si/ ), which is apparently open source and can be self-hosted. I've never used it, just pointing at what the page suggests.
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by tolmasky 3y ago
It is a natural consequence of the services being bundled together, and with Apple not telling you what the cause is. The response from the person who says they used to work at Apple is informative: https://old.reddit.com/r&
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by tolmasky 3y ago
If you read the rest of the thread, its clear the entire account was locked. That's why they were told to get a new account. The expectation is not that he use one account for email and another for... new movies?
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by tolmasky 3y ago
No, it isn't true of any other provider, that's the whole point. If my HBO Max account detects a fraudulent charge, my completely unrelated email provider doesn't then irreversibly disable my email account and tell me to j
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by tolmasky 3y ago
If they disable your account, you're not going to get any new email. So if a website uses your email address for 2-factor-auth, then you are straight out of luck, as I'm sure they also use that email for any sort of account chan
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Forget the movies you lose, if your AppleID is disabled, you also lose: 1. All your emails if you use iCloud for your email, and thus potentially locking you out of any other sites that use email as a 2-factor-auth. 2. All your backups on i
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Something that doesn't also potentially destroy: 1. All your emails if you use iCloud for your email, and thus potentially locking you out of any other sites that use email as a 2-factor-auth. 2. All your backups on iCloud. 3. All your
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by tolmasky 3y ago
I am not HN, you'll find no comment of mine defending that (despite, for the record, Apple's system being less bad than this one, while still bad). NOW would be different because, again, this system is worse than Apple's ,
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Mozilla should call for Google's removal from the W3C over this implementation of Web Environment Integrity. "But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamenta
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by tolmasky 3y ago
I guess I just don't see this "insane level of fraud"(?) By this I mean that it doesn't really affect my experience on the web, even if I were to entertain the idea that it does, in fact, exist. When I think about my ann
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by tolmasky 3y ago
> a web that is populated by identified humans (and their authorised proxies!) is likely to be the "cleanest", most ideal web space we can see (a web full of sock puppets and link farms is not ideal). Depends on your definit
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Can't trackers change to using a credit-card-scheme-style "dynamic" tracking ID system (you know, the same way you can tell if a credit card is Visa or MasterCard)? For example, if instead of looking for "gclid", a
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by tolmasky 3y ago
> Remember the G4 Cube? Remember MobileMe? Remember Ping? I think it's weird to compare failed products within a company (and minor products at that) to failed companies. I think you may have not even listed some of the more notab

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