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by virgilp 6y ago
Actually I think this illustrates what is wrong in the idea of AI-generated code. If you feel uneasy about AI-generated binary code ("I want to be able to debug it if something goes wrong!") you should feel equally-uneasy about AI
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by virgilp 6y ago
So what DID we achieve 20 years ago? Like, what happened then that led to the claim of "human genome has been sequenced" and what is the additional progress that was made now?
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by virgilp 6y ago
> Give'em $1000 and they wont refuse Alternatively: free test + healthcare if you test positive; stiff fines + liable to be sued by contacts for damages if you refuse testing and later (in the next 3 weeks) turn out to be infected.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Hey - great work with materialize.io, I've always wanted to play more with it but life always got in the way so far :( One question I have for you is whether it would be appropriate for processing where you need to iterate (think e.g.
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by virgilp 6y ago
> the basis that maintaining actual consistency would be too expensive/complex/slow, which is frequently the case. Maintaining actual consistency is seldom more complex - the opposite is true, eventual consistency can lead to
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by virgilp 6y ago
materialize.io is literally timelydataflow/ differential dataflow... same product, developed by Frank McSherry. It's not "the other tool", it's the very same.
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's not that I can't get back into the account - it's just that I can't delete an old 2FA token that I lost. Because it asks for a code from the token that I'm trying to delete...
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's the opposite. I actually lost a 2FA token, got back into the account, added a new one - but I can't delete the old 2FA. You shouldn't ask for 2FA authentication of the same device that I'm deleting.... It'd be
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by virgilp 6y ago
Belgrade is pretty nice man; I didn't mean to imply Serbia is terrible - just that it has fallen behind. It used to be that Serbia was the neighbour we looked up to; nowadays... it just doesn't seem better anymore. Also - Buchares
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by virgilp 6y ago
Etrade does this, drives me nuts; I can't delete old 2FA devices because I no longer have them. Where's the security benefit in that???
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by virgilp 6y ago
I have one word for you: Russia. Now if you excuse me, I have to go jump out the window.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Romanian too. > If you want to see what would have happened without EU, look at Moldova. Heck - if you want to see what would have happened without EU, look all around: Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia. Serbia and Ukraine were miles ahead of us
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by virgilp 6y ago
> I'd probably still go on learning about and building software & hardware just for the fun of it. That's the thing - this is much easier to do when you're financially independent. If you have kids, and have to put th
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by virgilp 6y ago
Wait, so there's Keepass, KeepassX and KeepassXC? I understand the X is cross-platform (initially was linux-only) whereas presumably Keepass is win-only; but what's the "community fork" for? Why not improve KeepassX? An
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by virgilp 6y ago
They're not missing it, that is their point exactly: that relative numbers don't matter, absolute numbers do. Of course you no longer need 90% of programmers to write hardcore algorithms - we've evolved beyond that (and yes i
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by virgilp 6y ago
OTOH, it's a generally a bad idea to invest in a company when the primary owner & CEO looks at the stock price and tweets "LOL". I feel it'd be a rational decision to short TSLA now except that "markets can stay
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by virgilp 6y ago
Not free, but Araxis Merge is pretty good.
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by virgilp 6y ago
I mean, it's the same thing with startup advice. "We did X, Y, Z. Oh and we also got lucky". It's not that X, Y, Z is necessarily bad advice, just that obviously nobody really knows how to be successful with anything. Th
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's a depressing and really slow-paced movie.. one can appreciate that this is part of the message, but honestly I don't think many people will really enjoy it. Not saying it's a bad movie... it's just that it's
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by virgilp 6y ago
I think mine is still Black Cat, White Cat ( https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/comedy/black-cat-white-cat ). From the Romanian movies present there, I liked Aferim - https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/come
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by virgilp 6y ago
It's different here - for revenue from intellectual property rights in particular you do not need to be a business (you do need accounting & to submit an annual declaration to the revenue service; but you can do that as a regular p
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by virgilp 6y ago
I mean, yes you need to report revenues, but... do you need a company for that? Do e.g. all Finnish photographers on Shutterstock have a company, in order to receive payments?
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by virgilp 6y ago
But can't you sell your digital artwork without setting up business? Seems better than stickers (also, no shipping!). [*] Digital artwork = project logo in png format, free to use however they please. You can license the publicly-avail
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by virgilp 6y ago
Mind you, that was for a so-called "quality", printed paper. I don't even think it was a daily, I think it's a weekly "business" paper.
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by virgilp 6y ago
I think unfortunately journalists are trained to take phrases out of context so that they sound "sensational" / trigger emotional responses in the readers. You quickly find that out if give out interviews - you need to be ver
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's what I'm saying - if Figma wins (it's still a considerable if) - it's due to great execution, not some grand insight. I'm not dissing Figma, I'm disagreeing with the article about what makes it great.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Meh. Everybody knew that "design is not just for designers" for quite a while, Adobe made several failed attempts at "collaboration" workflows trying to solve exactly those kinds of problems. This is just post-hoc justif
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by virgilp 6y ago
You underestimate the ingenuity of some sites. Take this one: https://systemschimb.telekombanking.ro/login - enter a random user id, and behold the password input field: - all characters are separated (not one password fiel
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by virgilp 6y ago
"twitter sells phone numbers so Zoom must do the same" - really? Maybe not, because you know, they have actual legitimate revenue that doesn't rely on advertising. So it's not like they have the same incentives... Also,
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by virgilp 6y ago
> The other safety issue is related to hosts creating meetings that are meant to facilitate really horrible abuse. These hosts mostly come in from VPNs, using throwaway email addresses, create self-service orgs and host a handful of meet

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