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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> in this case, facial recognition tech was unreliable entirely because of the people running it. Wrong. In this case the facial recognition tech itself was arguably not unreliable. The human operators were the unreliable factor. The rec
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
What requires them to get approval from the FAA for something outside the FAA's jurisdiction?
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> I find them useful as I write code because they allow me to state my intention (in plain English), translate it to code, then compare statements and see how well I’ve achieved my goal. IMO this is exactly what unit tests should be used
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> All employer / employee relationships have this dynamic Wrong, no employer relies on a newly hired employee the way they rely on a senior knowledge silo'd engineer with a decade+ of domain knowledge which they are reluctant t
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
Exactly this. If you are a single point of failure knowledge silo, the business sees you as a liability since if you decide to quit, their business is then screwed. This is why turning yourself into a silo is making yourself disposable - it
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
Meaning your employer now has all the more reason to replace you as soon as an opportunity presents itself
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> No, you just make yourself disposable. You might be making yourself disposable specifically in the context of your original role which you are basically making redundant by documenting and automating everything - but trust me any sensi
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> It's true that Apple have a better track record of keeping data private, and there's been no Cambridge Analytics style atrocities You seem to be completely unaware of the multitude of data breaches and leaks that Apple has f
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> If you’re looking for a way to share logic between front-end and back-end code So... exactly like isomorphic/universal JavaScript? What exactly is the practical benefit in this, compared to say, JS functions shared by serialising
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
Most Kiwi accents I've heard noticeably pronounced other vowels as "i". e.g. "dick" instead of "deck", "tinnis" instead of "tennis"
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
Or if any of the students are from New Zealand
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> The interesting question to me is, why is it that they are literally the ONLY large tech company that is willing to offer me this tradeoff? Maybe other corporations consider it unethical to charge their customers a premium for a false
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> No. It is the domain. No one else in this business has a short pronounceable *mail.com Except for, oh, I don't know, maybe https://mail.com/ ?
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> Spam filtering is a a very difficult thing to do well and Google's implementation was very good, very advanced, and trained on huge amounts of data. Something a normal person could never do on their own server I'm sure most n
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
I prefer to think of it as wisdom is what you know intrinsically, education is what you have learned, intelligence is your capacity for learning
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
Every tech company I've worked at used Linux for servers as well, however that doesn't mean I'm ignorant of the huge number of (predominantly large enterprise) corporations relying on the Windows Server stack. Also I would ar
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> Actually, my memory is essentially that the IE team was doing decent work. Yes for a while there they were doing a great job of implementing Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish philosophy by intentionally avoiding web standard
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
Reddit is still accessible on mobile via browsers though, so even if Apple imposes rules on the native app it's easily worked around. AFAIK the discord webapp only works on desktop, so for iOS users wanting to access NSFW discords on t
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by wyqydsyq 5y ago
> I had to check that this wasn't an April fool's day post. Linux powers a large proportion of servers on the internet, and has done so for a long time now. The popularity of Git is a relatively recent phenomenon. Linux might b
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
I would argue requiring your whole team to learn a new framework-specific templating language and patterns is not simple, compared to using something that is plain JS/TS which the whole team already knows. It also complicates hiring, a
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
Pretty standard Microsoft strategy really. Once they decide they dominate a market they figure there's no reason to invest another cent into improving their product offering. See also: Internet Explorer
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
I really do not understand the appeal of Svelte, it seems to be making all the same horrendous mistakes as Vue (bad templating/DSL that shoehorns control flow and bindings into DOM representation, esoteric lifecycle hooks etc) and the
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
> using electron app for something available as a web service lol wut
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
Skype was always garbage software, even long before Microsoft bought it
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
What I would find really interesting is if someone used this exploit to hack into the accounts of Sakari staff and sabotaged their service, deleting all their infrastructure from their cloud hosting provider etc. I'm sure Sakari would
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
They intentionally created a system which resulted in a user being unintentionally shadow-banned. Creating a shadow-banning system isn't malicious. Creating a shadow-banning system that accidentally shadow-bans legitimate users is pret
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
Do they? I've never even heard it mentioned before other than in reference to controversies around them being dodgy. Maybe it's just not popular in my locale, but I've never heard of anyone using it or recommending it. By con
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the business had been able to pay money to Google to be able to check reviews before they went live and mark them as spam. I would be really surprised, as such a scheme existing without being exposed by
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
> but you don't accidentally shadow-ban someone Have you considered when the shadow-ban is triggered by an automated moderation system based on heuristics or ML which Google is known to use prolifically across their product range?
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by wyqydsyq 6y ago
> Google has no strong incentive to keep reviews honest Have you actually thought about this at all? Why on earth would ANYONE bother reading reviews that they know to be categorically fraudulent? Without keeping the reviews honest, at l

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