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by vovavili 2mo ago
Thank God for the Brave browser. For those disliking their built-in adblocker, there is a Manifest v2 opt-out specifically for uBlock if you need it.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
>Most stuff works pretty well in Europe Bold thing to say. t. European
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by vovavili 2mo ago
Leaving money on the table is never easy.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
I don't exactly see how these two statements are contradictory. Policy is about conflicting interests.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
This goes to show that the assertion that cookie banners are just "malicious compliance" isn't quite correct. These are significant trade-offs here.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
I am obviously referring to a scenario where tracking cookies would be highly beneficial to expanding the business, e.g. e-commerce.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
>it's an example of malicious compliance So how would you do ePrivacy Directive compliance/risk avoidance in a non-obnoxious way?
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by vovavili 2mo ago
A bit odd to have a 1.0 release without Windows support.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
I think his hope is that a either a fully automated superintelligent AI lawyer or something close that won't be as costly to guide would be infinitely more affordable than the current human lawyers.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
This particular comment was about "Oracle Java".
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by vovavili 2mo ago
>The second biggest use is Apache Spark/Kafka, but with LLMs now, you can pretty much re implement all of that functionality in pure C. Spark is written in Scala, precisely because distributed systems are best modelled as a set of p
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by vovavili 2mo ago
Then why are you not making it?
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by vovavili 2mo ago
I think what you're trying to say is that this article isn't at the highest level of epistemic certainty. That's not surprising for a given subject matter. The author explicitly acknowledges that - https://www.jsani
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by vovavili 2mo ago
Very honorable effort, but a lot of these seem to touch heavily regulated industries impeded by unwise or outdated policy no less than by the lack of clever engineering - medicine, education, urbanism, energy. I wonder if they've given
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by vovavili 2mo ago
>Your linked article is not very scientific. That's the whole point. Due to the touchiness of the subject matter, these kinds of topics would be quite difficult to discuss frankly in a politicized institution guarded by a peer revie
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by vovavili 2mo ago
>These days, a full-figure on a woman is considered attractive, but in the 1990s, being skinny was in vogue. This is usually based on a selective and wishful interpretation of historical data. The best argument I've found is here -
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by vovavili 2mo ago
That's the male equivalent of women asking why men care about boobs and body count. The answer is "evolved intuition", like it or not.
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by vovavili 2mo ago
His musings on Girard and Schmidt are high-grade wordcelism but I would be surprised if a Stanford philosophy graduate did not get extensive exposure to formal logic and philosophy of language.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
His interests are in early analytic philosophy, philosophy of language and formal logic. This niche is what created the foundations for both theoretical computer science and formal programming languages. This is kind of a reason why quite a
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by vovavili 3mo ago
Location: Netherlands, The Hague, CET Remote: Yes. Hybrid in The Hague/Amsterdam/Randstad also works. Willing to relocate: Open within the EU+EFTA for the right role. US/UK only with serious relocation support.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
>Janestreet PR team is downvoting. Like always, radio silence and just downvotes. You're being downvoted for having a needlessly confrontational underinformed hot take on a quant trading firm that is essentially a market maker.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
Engaging in direct open conflict in a sanitized environment like an office is shooting yourself in the foot. Different norms for different rooms.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
I thought I was the only one.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
Going out of your way to quit a job most people in tech dream of after months of serious calls to action is not mere signalling.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
>It's far more often that I hear "we interviewed someone we thought looked good and they couldn't even write a for loop, where are all the good engineers". Absolutely insane claim to make coming from the other side of
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by vovavili 3mo ago
Hacker News is way more innocent in that it's main purpose is to expose a narrow slice of highly technical and entrepreneurial people to YCombinator and companies that it funds. Of all the social media websites it employs the least amo
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by vovavili 3mo ago
I was thinking from a timeframe when redesign was introduced.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
Reddit redesign strikes me as a convenient excuse to enforce infinite scrolling by a company looking to IPO.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
If we take amateur level of understanding as a threshold, a sum of all of these concepts is not even a fraction of complexity required to understand a single non-trivial concept in mathematics.
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by vovavili 3mo ago
>the moat of cost to enter is already unfathomable At the moment.

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