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by tptacek 2mo ago
This is smart. It's Magic Wormhole but for generalized connectivity, not just file transfer.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
You know you both have been locked in this unproductive 2-person thread for days now right?
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by tptacek 2mo ago
My problem here isn't Blackstone (unless we're talking about housing, where anti-Blackstone slopulism will set me off, because I'm a housing activist, IDGAF about PE), it's that people have a weirdly high opinion of pre-
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by tptacek 2mo ago
It creates a parser differential; two different components of the system can treat the same string as different hostnames. Things that have trusted hostnames, or privileged/admin hostnames that are screened out, or SSRF filters all dep
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Super reasonable comment. Totally see how you got there.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
I'm sure it would be enjoyable to find someone to argue with who would take the other side of "vulnerabilities are bad" but I can't be that person for you, sorry.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Right so the premise here is that somewhere high atop 345 Park Avenue a Blackstone executive is twirling his mustache while saying "gamify the gravesites". Seems implausible. Ancestry was not a good company to begin with (you know
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by tptacek 2mo ago
I don't think the claim will bear out that LLM-generated text fares more poorly on comprehensibility tests than those of the median literate speaker. I understand the aesthetic arguments against it, and largely agree, but the technic
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Oh, yeah, for sure, I'm making confident assertions exclusively about American rental norms. I have no idea if corporate property management in Europe is better or worse than independent building owners. All I know is that renting is
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by tptacek 2mo ago
The second one is... Ancestry? They're Blackstoning Ancestry.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
The bar they set was "barely speaks English". The bar I set was "significantly higher quality than the median literate native speaker". The bar you're setting is expert use of metaphors, restrained use of bullets an
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by tptacek 2mo ago
I've never once gotten a security deposit back from a mom-and-pop landlord without forcing the issue legally, and I did an informal poll of acquaintances last year and we had never even heard of that happening. Unlike mom-and-pops, c
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by tptacek 2mo ago
That's not what I'm doing, but if you want me to, I'll bite, because Blackstone does more for housing than activists do (if you measure housing outcomes in terms of how many people end up housed, as opposed to whether or not
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by tptacek 2mo ago
There is if you're a software developer!
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by tptacek 2mo ago
The observation here is basically a corollary to the idea that people experience loss outcomes differently than gain outcomes. It's not complicated or fuzzy.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
That's in fact not what they said, though.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Just Google "property manager" "data leak".
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by tptacek 2mo ago
You'd much rather rent from someone like Beam Living than a mom-and-pop operator that owns a small apartment building. Things will get fixed, and you'll get most of your security deposit back.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
LLMs write samey English that is of significantly higher quality than the median literate native speaker. There's a difference between obnoxious writing and bad writing, and when you claim LLMs can "barely speak English" you&
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by tptacek 2mo ago
The record scratch for me here was the idea that people can choose to be unsure instead of angry. People hate being unsure. Neurochemistry prefers anger to uncertainty. People get angry about being unsure. We feel anger in large part as o
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Beam Living manages giant high-rise housing developments in New York City. It's not a mom-and-pop problem space, unless you're for some reason opposed to density.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Yeah, you're totally fine.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
I mean, that's true, and I'm not saying there's anything misleading about the post, just that this is true of basically all the companies that do this. All I'm saying is that there isn't a meaningful Blackstone hook
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by tptacek 2mo ago
You mean the Blackstone namedrop? I had the same reaction. Beam is an internal division of Blackstone, for whatever that's worth, but I don't think there's a news hook about Blackstone here. This is, like, every property ma
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Beam Living is just the property management company that runs buildings Blackstone owns in New York City. There are thousands of companies like this all over the country and if you poke hard at any of them you will find stuff like this. The
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by tptacek 2mo ago
I don't know what to tell you. I bounce off 80% of the AI stories on the front page too, and I have the same frustration. But the change that's happening now to our field is profound . It sucks that the conversation we're ha
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by tptacek 2mo ago
That's what GLP-1s do: they make it trivial to eat healthily.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
Yes, and the todo app is for making sure you have the most basic understanding required to hold it right.
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by tptacek 2mo ago
It's fucking weird and I think we're not talking about it enough .
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by tptacek 2mo ago
I'm not sure CISA ever did anything material about this problem, or was likely to in the future.

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