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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Choose a complex base password + a memorizable _algorithm_ that combines (eg) domain names with the base password. That satisfies all of your requirements, and it's not super difficult to create an algorithm that is easy to perform men
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> used such an odd slice of the city I not only can't get picked up, it doesn't GO any where I go. It's been a month and a half since they've covered almost the entire city except FiDi/Union Square (and Twin Peak
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I don't share GP's cynicism, but I think the argument would be that none of those people are "similarly powerful" to the Clintons.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The first time I read about this, I got a strong feeling of Ellisonian existential dread.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> WebTorrent Desktop This is kind of amusing
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Maximizing profits often requires minimizing the welfare of others - for example through exploitative labor practices. I've had a long, albeit shallow, exposure to EA, and my model of altruism has roughly matched up with it for ev
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I was expecting some allusion to _why_ you think ETG is damaging. For a consequentialist, the baseline logic is straightforward: what do you think the pitfalls are? Or is your issue with consequentialism itself? The latter would seem to rej
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
What a bizarre complaint. Are you under the impression that normal search engines only return "accurate" results? Why would an "AI for search engines" magically gin up a consistent and reliable way of determining accurac
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I've seen an example of this. The fork is less active than the original, but I wouldn't call it a failure. Rather, it was a successful experiment with a negative result. The original forum was the most high-quality discussion foru
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I feel almost exactly the same way as you. I've flitted around the research/applied research boundary for ML for the last decade+, so I write plenty of Python. I enjoy the way Python gets out of my way so I can focus on interesti
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I admittedly haven't been at Google for a long while, but they were headcount-constrained the entire time I was there.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yea, I feel like there's a big cargo cult element to the claims of carrier skins being crapware by default. I remember the moment I realized that the moto x (first post-Google moto phone) and the contemporary galaxy s both had solid ad
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Huh, I just switched out my s10e after a few years and I never had this issue. It didn't even occur to me that the face-detection method had changed.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
You're not familiar with Henry Ford and his reputation? People whose personality solely consists of embarrassingly irrational hatred of Musk are as cringeworthy as those who worship him.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> I feel like those assertions are more socially-founded opinions than technically-backed arguments You think the complaints about rickety, unintuitive syntax are "socially founded"? I can't think of another language that
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> If Google is the creme de la creme of software engineering companies, full of absolute geniuses, why can't they think of a product This question seems to answer itself? Engineering skills are not product skills, and Google kinda s
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Because tech went through an enormous boom during Covid, and everyone was bottlenexked by headcount
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The degree of correlation varies; for some cos it even runs the other direction. Web ads are such a critical part of commerce that the correlation for a co like Google is extremely strong.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Primarily because it's become infinitely easier to avoid. I don't think I've printed much beyond sheet music in the last decade, and even that was trivially replaceable by a small tablet in situations where I didn't have
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
It also goes out if its way to mention ways in which you can still be tracked (employer, isp, etc). This salacious headline is nonsense: Google employees joked internally about facts that the product clearly provides to users.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I remember having issues with locking when going to Muir Woods, though I don't remember the details. I think one time years ago I just left it unlocked for our whole home (not my most responsible move)
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Tell me you know nothing about water policy in CA without telling me you know nothing about water policy in CA. Almond exports (revenue <$11B) use as much water as the cities of LA and SF combined (GDP ~$1T). Has it occurred to you to wo
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I'm surprised to hear this. It seems like the point is clearly to allow existing Dvorak (desktop) users to avoid switching formats when they switch devices. It shouldn't matter whether Dvorak is optimal for typing on a phone.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I suppose I haven't noticed that myself. Though I spend less time on hn than I used to, and the consensus on Apple used to be dramatically more positive, so it's possibly that colors my perception
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The body horror extends to humans too: https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/06/cat2613.jpg
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I doubt it. All of bigtech gets the same deranged treatment: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. It was a weird moment when I found myself defending fb on hn more often than I criticized them (I think they're atrocious), but the comments
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> one thing is for certain; Apple doesn't treat privacy as a human right. If you can live with that, then more power to you. You're inferring that the commenter deduced this solely from the new (incorrect) info. It seems a lot
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I don't understand. Holding directly-contradictory beliefs sounds a lot more like "mutilating reality" to me.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yea, related effects are well-established in politics: "elite" voters (esp as measured by education) are more coherent and thus more extremist, while the average voter is all over the map because they're not as interested in
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> You really think they didn't consider doing the work where the cloak sat? We're talking about the British deciding where to store other cultures' artifacts? What makes you think a sober look at the quality of conservatio

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